Victoria Computer Club

Please come to the Computer Club Picnic Wednesday, Aug 11 from 1 to 3pm

Please RSVP to events@VictoriaComputerClub.org by Monday August 9 to enable the organizers to estimate the required provisions.

The picnic location is Craigflower-Kosapsom Park, at Gorge Rd. and Admirals,

Please bring your chairs and lunch for yourselves. As a result of COVID the picnic food this year is not potluck. The club, however, will supply soda, cake, plates and cutlery.

Plan to attend and meet with your fellow club enthusiasts!

July 14 – Evernote Basics for 2021 & OneNote
July 21 – Linux #10
July 28 – Email 101 & ProtonMail

9am -11am each Wednesday morning.  Register on the day before using the links below.

Here is the link to the slide show...

Here is a link to today’s slides on scams

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eHcHXt8_xgDKlo6B9kuxgTJP7Ys3bIXO/view?usp=sharing

Zoom Best Practises – March 9, 2021  by Dorothy Cushway

1. Join 15 minutes before, that way the host can let you in from the waiting room. Sometimes if you arrive late, the meetings are locked, and you are out of luck.
2. Make sure you have the meeting ID and Passcode  or the email handy.
3. Make sure you have lighting in front of your face, not behind as you do not want to be in the dark on the screen.
4. If using a virtual background, test before attending  a meeting – some devices cannot handle it.  As well, do not use moving virtual backgrounds, they are very distracting.
5. Check your video and sound when you are joining .
6. Tilt your screen-mounted webcam so you see your face rather than top of head or chin.  Each device is different if you are using a webcam on a PC, Laptop webcam, tablet, or phone.
7. If you have your video on and are eating, texting, leaving your desk, turn your video off.
8. Mute yourself always to stop background noise, phones ringing, dogs barking.  Many times, a host Mutes you – please do not unmute.  Other times all meetings are muted at the beginning, as well as turning off the video.
9. Use chat if you do not have a microphone or there is noise.
10. You do not need a webcam to join a Zoom meeting  – you can just watch and use chat as needed.
11. Turn your cell phone to vibrate.
12. Raise hand in the REACTIONS button on the bottom bar when appropriate.
13. Do not monopolize the meeting on non relevant questions to the topic being discussed.
14. To hide all the people who only have their names without a picture, right click your picture.
15. Make sure you put your full name – and sometimes the city if you are attending a zoom meeting   in the US.  Sometimes add your title if you are an Executive member of a club.

First Install the Zoom app from https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting , or the app store for your device

Three  Ways to Join  Zoom Meetings

1. If you have your own personal Zoom FREE account – sign in to https://zoom.us/signin prior to the meeting, then click JOIN and enter  the meeting ID and passcode  as required
2. or Click on the LINK supplied in an email or on a calendar entry – sometimes this takes you to the BROWSER version of Zoom or tries to install Zoom on your device.

Here is the link to the Windows 10 tips presentation given March 4 2021 by Dorothy and George.

Here are the links to the two videos by Hewie Poplock that we showed,

Part 1: https://youtu.be/VHSTTluqShA

Part 2: https://youtu.be/mX0hnAeVddY

Club membership provides many benefits, including social, technical, and educational.  During the pandemic these benefits continue, transformed by using video conferencing.

Here are the slides of the presentation given Feb 11th 2021

Here are the slides for the browser password managers presented Feb 4th by George and Dorothy