Genealogy is the study of your family tree, i.e history on a personal scale. It helps satisfy a deep need to understand how we fit into the broader world around us. For those unfamiliar with genealogy, here is a good summary of its benefits to you.
The Genealogy group at the Victoria Computer Club has been fortunate to have excellent teachers, but attendance has waned recently. Murray Strome (wmstrome@yahoo.com) has a few questions for those interested: Continue reading
Here is the link to eResources A-Z that Kate and Melissa talked about today, May 24th. You will notice that Yowza is a service still to be developed <grin>.
Feedback from the audience:
Compare that to http://gvpl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2014-GVPL-branch-map-lo.pdf
The Greater Victoria Public Library is one of Canada’s most-used and well-loved library systems. Kate Rutherford will talk about all the wonderful resources you have at your fingertips with your library card. Learn about what GVPL lends (books, magazines, DVDs/blu-rays, cd’s — even museum, art gallery and recreation centre passes) and what digital services you get access to (free ebooks, online newspapers/magazines, streaming movies, downloadable audiobooks and more). Continue reading
Recently I used Macrium Reflect, free edition, to back-up a member’s whole computer before upgrading it to Windows 10 with a fresh install. After a couple of weeks, the member could not find his photos on the new Windows. So I used Macrium Reflect to recover the lost files.
Each week we hear from members phoned by scammers trying to rip them off. Instead, come out to April’s monthly presentation, and learn from BBB expert Rosalind Scott how to Protect Yourself from the Top Ten Scams, Frauds and Things to Watch For in 2016, Rosalind is President and CEO of the Vancouver Island Better Business Bureau. The list includes the most reported scams and suspicious activities of 2015, as well as consumer tips on how to protect yourself from becoming a victim of fraud.
FREE 2016 Spring Virtual Technology Conference (VTC)
Here are the slide contents from the Windows 10 Features Class given April 15th.
Windows 10 is an Operating System for computers, tablets, Xbox game consoles and phones, all running Windows with a similar user interface.
Phones and tablets, being touch sensitive, require icons the size of at least your fingertip. Touch sensitive screens on PCs can take advantage of these changes in Windows. Continue reading
Notes from April 11th Seniors SIG
Surfing the Web
Rick Weatherhead prepared a very good introduction to different email viewers, including
Click here or copy the following link to your browsers address bar:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByyQh_36_5b4WEV6OXlEeDd3Xzg/view?usp=sharing
Google sheets are the swiss army knife of computing.
Spreadsheets are still the first step most people will take into real problem programming. I agree with Mike James on that. Work in the cloud, add forms entry, a query language, community extensions and an API and you have a very powerful tool for data analysis, graphing, and prediction. Lets explore, and see how far we get.
As promised, here’s a link to the presentation viewable online via Google Presentations.
And here are a couple great links to Twitter tutorials – the GVPL recommends these two sites, GCF LearnFree and Techboomers, to patrons because they have a wealth of tutorials on a variety of different topics. Here are the links to their respective Twitter tutorials:
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/twitter101 and https://techboomers.com/p/twitter
Answers to two questions that came up during the presentation:
The GVPL does have a program feedback form on our website, if your group members would like to give GVPL some feedback on the demo.
