August 2014 User Friendly
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1. THE LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER IN THIS ISSUE August General Meeting July General Meeting Report Nomination Committee From Your Editor smartphone Workshop Report SW Technology and Computer Conference Cash Flow Welcome All Scheduled Presentations General Meeting Snack Schedule Calendar Members Helping Members Officers Directors amp Leaders To Update Windows 8 Basics amp Beyond SIG Report Laughing Out Loud Membership Information Map Directions User Friendly O O NDN e o o o A 10 1 12 16 18 19 20 South West Technology and Computer Conference Photo Contest Winner Volume 31 Issue 8 August 2014 Member of P aA An International apecug Association of Technology amp Computer User Groups AUGUST GENERAL MEETING ARE MODERN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES EASIER TO LEARN Speaker Ray Toal PhD Loyola Marymount University he last few years have seen an explosion in the number of online coding tutorials courses and workshops as well as campaigns to get more people to write code At the same time many universities have made curricular chang es to broaden their audiences in programming courses These initiatives are motivated by several factors including the availability of careers in the computing industry and the idea that computational thinking can benefit everyone re gardless of career But programming is a skill that requires effortful study so any u2. 2015 Editor s note Don t be afraid to run for an office You will get help and support from those who have served in the past ur AUGUST 2014 USER FRIENDLY THE LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PACE 3 FROM YOUR EDITOR SMARTPHONE WORKSHOP 1 havi tted Venice High REPORT Bee Pe fede ANTOG y ea g By Stephanie Nordlinger LACS and from the caption on the photo of the students who toured the Google Venice facilities in the Leah Clark ERGS July issue of User Friendly page 6 We were all he second meeting of the new greatly impressed with all of these students Smartphone Workshop met on July 7 The emphasis of this session was on Android phones and tablets Many of the examples pertain to the Samsung Galaxy 54 or S5 Locking and Unlocking Your Phone You should lock your phone whenever you put it away in a pocket or purse etc to save l tN battery power or connection time and to n l avoid accidently making phone calls Your phone will still ring or vibrate when it s locked Set it up so it can be locked remotely or only opens if you use a PIN or gesture so it Almost everything in it has been written or is useless to a thief submitted by LACS members Since this is our newsletter I would like to have more of our members contribute to it If you have anything you would like to share just send it to me editor at lacspc org Jef This issue of User Friendly is a little different Locking your phone w
3. Use Wi Fi when possible to keep your bills because they are nice but down and to let you phone when you are out because you are Author side your carriers range You need to add Unknown your smartphone to your local network or to another WiFi system If you can t connect to WiFi you can connect to 3G or 4G networks but you may have limited usage It s nice to be important but it s more im portant to be nice Author Unknown Continued on Page 4 PAGE 4 SMARTPHONE WORKSHOP REPORT Continued from page 3 Putting Contacts on Your Phone Gmail directly by syncing with Gmail online Outlook or other programs Create and import a CVS comma separated values file The same contacts database is used by several different programs on your phone email Text Messaging and Instant Mes saging You can add edit and delete etc your contacts The book recommends changing and adding contacts on your computer or on your online account since typing will be easier and more accurate Then export or sync the two databases To Create or Put Email Accounts on Your Smartphone Gmail Click on the Gmail icon To set up an email account when opening Email for the first time tap Email on the Apps screen Be sure to have your user name and password handy before you start Enter the email address and password Tap next for a private email account such as GoogleMail or tap Manual Setup for a company email a
4. comparison between four cloud storage services providing us with objective information for selecting which one s to use He compared Microsoft s Sky Drive Google Drive Box and iCloud Each cloud storage service has different fea tures so for the complete audio and slides of Francis s detailed presentations go to www lacspc org and click on Podcasts There is not enough space here to relate all of his valuable information You can use free cloud storage to protect your self from losing data and to synchronize data files between a server farm a group of net worked servers that are housed in one location and multiple computers smartphones and tab lets You probably already have a cloud storage account if you use Gmail or any of Microsoft s online email services Here is a very short description of each service Microsoft s One Drive e Can access files remotely from any Internet connected web browser e Can upload and download entire folders but not as easily as the other services e Can view and edit documents and photos on line Google Drive e Great online viewing and editing e Easy to upload folders most user friendly e Protects from inadvertently editing the original copies of data files Box e The most feature rich cloud storage system e Great online viewing and editing e Can upload and download entire folders of files e Most advanced system for businesses and privacy USER FRIEND
5. doesn t involve the OS like email or browsing while the tool runs in the back ground Unless you specify the logpath DISM will generate a log file in the directory windir logs DISM dism log For most of us windir is C Windows It is not as long as the sfc log file but not much can be gleaned from it In my case most of the space of the log file was in what appeared to be Chinese If you are lucky the output will appear as follows The restore operation completed successfully The component store corruption was repaired The operation completed successfully In my case none of the tools I have men tioned corrected the problem and I had al ready spent all too many hours trying again and again with small tweaks in the methods It was time to face the bad news that my W8 1 was not going to be healed and more drastic action was necessary Before I was going to do radical surgery I thought it would be best to have a way to un wind things if the next attempt went wildly awry One option was to use the built in W8 x Recovery Media Creator The easiest way to access the RMC is to do a search on Create a recovery drive It will open the RMC and there are just a few simple steps to follow A USB drive is best to use and you are warned that it will wipe out anything else on the Continued on Page 14 PAGE 14 TO UPDATE WINDOWS 8 Continued from page 13 drive and dedicate it to the recovery image which should be a bootable
6. efficacy You can also click on View detailed infor mation but I don t find it helps that much as most of what goes on is kept under covers I think Microsoft should recognize that their newest OS has problems and in fact may be quite fragile in an important aspect One last problem that I encountered had me spinning my wheels for quite some time The first time I set up Outlook to connect to my gmail it was as simple as supplying my gmail address and password and Outlook connected within seconds When I chose to refresh my OS as I mentioned Office was still intact and oper ating After the refresh no matter what port and security settings and either choosing IMAP or POPS I could not make it connect Over a peri od of time I began to be suspicious that maybe it was something outside of the refresh I remembered that I had received an email from Google suggesting that I turn on 2 step also called 2 factor Verification also call Au thentication for added security This requires not only a password but another type of identi fication which can be an email voice message or text message I did some research and final ly I hit upon the solution that in fact some ap plications will fail when the 2 step is enabled Outlook is one of them If you find yourself in this quagmire then the way out is once you sign in with your Google account go to the Tab App specific pass words and generate an Outlook specific pass word w
7. view At the meeting we looked at a scheme with vertical scroll bars used by many websites to keep you on their site such as the Timeline feature in Facebook They do that with a long elevator button when you first go to the page Then as you scroll down the page thinking you are getting to the end Facebook adds more content to the bottom of the page and the elevator bar moves back up Magic Tricks Exposed Are you the kind of person who has to know how that magic trick is done David Copper field levitation illusion Or one of David Blaine s tricks such as when he takes a bite out of a solid coin Now do you really want to know how that trick is done vs enjoying the wow effect of the illusion Well if you have to know we looked at a website that reveals all www secrets explained com The homepage has a list of famous magicians a video of their famous magic tricks and how the magician actually did the trick At the meeting we showed a video of Dynamo s bus levitation trick where Dynamo rides all over London while holding onto the bus with the palm of his hand resting on the side of the roof of the double decker bus How did he do that Go to www secrets explained com and find out ur PAGE 18 USER FRIENDLY ADVERTISING RATES Business Card Member 10 Business card 15 Half Page 35 Third Page 25 Full Page 50 Two page spread 100 Brief 4 lines 1 column inch non commer cial computer relat
8. EN ONE LITTLE ATTACHMENT CAN IT 2 O V6 PANDORAS INBOX Courtesy of and thank you to Dave Coverly speedbump Submitted by Mark Presky Compatible Gracefully accepts errone ous data from any source Computer analyst to programmer You start coding I ll go find out what they want Computer and car salesmen differ in that the latter knows when they are lying Computer programmers do it byte by byte Computer programmers don t byte they just nibble a bit TO BE HONEST MR JOBS THE LAST TIME AN APPLE CAUSED SO MUCH EXCITEMENT AROUND HERE INVOLVED ADAM EVE AND A SNAKE AUGUST 2014 USER FRIENDLY THE LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 19 LACS MEMBERSHIP In addition to monthly general INFORMATION meetings MENDEL enjoy these special benefits Annual membership Dues Monthly printed Newsletter Reg ular 40 User Friendly We publish your Family Associate l2 article submissions or free Students 18 classified ads to buy or sell your Contributing 50 computer items Supporter 18 Get help by phone from Benefactor 100 Members who are Quick Consultants listed in User A subscription to User Friendly is Friendly included with membership Get help by e mail by using our Associate members are people LACSLIST Yahoo Group Mail who live in the same household or List Simply address your e mail work for the same company as a questions to regular member they do not lacs
9. Hymanson Jack Koonan Lee Polak William Rickles Judith Sakahara Masashi Sakahara Sei Shohara Robert Swarthe Linda Williams Contributor Welcome to LACS Elliot 534 00 534 00 60 00 269 28 50 08 35 78 415 14 118 86 Ida AUGUST 2014 GENERAL MEETING PRESENTATIONS By Maurice Stephenson Program Chair e Tuesday August 12 2014 Dr Ray Toal Loyola Marymount University Are Modern Programing Languages Easier to Learn e Tuesday September 9 2014 TBA e Tuesday October 14 2014 TBA While we urge you to mark your calendars now changes are certainly possible so please watch your e mail If you have ideas for other topics and speakers please contact Maurice Stephenson our GENERAL MEETING SNACK SCHEDULE By Sylvia Davis LACS Here is the snack schedule for 2014 Plan ahead August Q through S T through Z plus H A through C D through G Holiday Party All LACS provides hot coffee decaf too tea and co coa Please participate by bringing finger food treats such as fresh fruit veggies nuts cook ies brownies and the like Bottled water and soft drinks reg amp diet are appreciated too september October November December Remember to pick up your remainders and serving pieces at the end of the meeting FIX YOUR PC FOR FREE Jim McKnight has an open offer to all LACS members to diagnose repair disinfect or up grade member s PC s for free There are cer
10. LY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 iCloud e Most complicated to install and use e Cannot upload and download entire folders of data files Can store photos only if the files are re named to something like docx or xlsx ur LACS NOMINATION COMMITTEE By Stephanie Nordlinger LACS President have appointed the following members to serve on this year s Nominating Committee Maurice Stephenson Chair Mary Chiu Joe Falcon Charles Mahan and Hedy Zhang Members are encouraged to contact the Chair or any of the members of the committee to indi cate their interest in running for President Vice President Secretary Treasurer or a two year directorship beginning January 1 2015 There are three open directorship positions Maurice can be contacted at vp lacspc org The other members email and phone numbers are in the roster The committee will recruit candidates during early August The candidates need to provide a photo and a brief about 100 words statement of their backgrounds and why they are running for the particular office to Leah Clark User Friendly Editor before August 20 They will be included in the September issue Additional nominations can be made at the September general meeting Voting by ballot is between the September general meeting and the Friday before the Oc tober general meeting The winners will be an nounced at that meeting and will take office on January 1
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12. a copy of the YouTube video can be saved to your hard drive Getting the Most Out of Your Vertical Scroll Bars Moving through lengthy on screen files or web sites can be a pain We often find ourselves scrolling up and down while things are moving too fast to really see what s in your current view and it s entirely possible to accidentally fly right by entire sections Some may be surprised to discover that there s more to the vertical scroll bar than just grab bing the button and quickly dragging it here and there Following are vertical scroll bar fea tures demonstrated at the meeting Se ee ee ee ee ee ee T Click here to scroll up one screen e Dragto scroll throughthe document Vertical location show relative positionindocument e Sizeofbuttonindicates how much of the documentis i visible rT l BP SF ee eS I ee eee eee ee ee ee ee ed USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 17 At the top and bottom of the vertical scroll bar are two arrow buttons Click the top ar row button to scroll up one line and click the bottom arrow button to scroll down one line The location of the elevator button gives you an idea where the screen view you are looking at is located in relation to the entre document length Clicking on the scroll bar above the elevator button moves the window up one screen view and clicking below moves the window down one screen
13. ad or Android screen Christopher covered a few of the operations to ensure your screen stays clean and germ free as well www cooper product com Elliott Stern Protecting Your Computer Backup Elliott is a member of LACS and is the chief computer nerd at Maestro Computing PEVCE Do you use the plug and pray then walk away method of computer ownership Elliott showed how to perfect your computer backup Elliott gave a similar presentation at LACS s April General Meeting www pcmaestro com Bruce Aronson Personal Time Management with Outlook 2013 Bruce is a trainer a training developer and a demand learning video de signer He offered ideas for managing your time setting priorities and what works and doesn t work Judy Taylour Creating a Free Website with FREE Weebly Advertising Your Group with a Tackk flyer Judy showed how Weebly makes it easy to 7 choose themes and domain names Website to upload photos to add text from Word to se lect fonts to create a members only page to add contact information to add and re order pages and to update meeting notices etc Continued on Page 7 AUGUST 2014 S W Technology and Computer Conference Continued from page 6 Tackk is used to design one page flyers and to connect them to social media www weebly com www tackk cpm Damian Giannunzio iolo technologies iolo offers more tools for a Happy Windows Operat ing System Unique feat
14. c count After that follow the on screen instruc tions to complete the setup To set up another email account click on email in then tap Manage accounts gt After the presentation Stephanie showed a YouTube video comparing the Samsung S4 with the 55 Many tips and instructions can be viewed on YouTube The next Smartphone Workshop will be on Monday August 4 2014 in room 335 on the Bundy Campus Paula Van Berkom will speak on Apple devices There will be a Q amp A on all kinds of phones There will be no September meeting due to Labor Day ur l Galaxy S54 The Missing Manual pp 5 393 395 2 Id pp 5 393 395 3 Id pp 80 86 4 Samsung Sm G900F User Manual p 80 USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 SOUTH WEST TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER CONFERENCE By Leah Clark Allan Greenberg Gilbert Ialongo Cora Kamerman Stephanie Nordlinger Charlotte Semple and Paula Van Berkom Compiled by Leah Clark LACS Editor N members from LACS at tended the Conference held at the Kellogg West Conference Center at Cal Poly Pomona from June 17 29 Everyone had an en joyable weekend at this beautiful and peace ful location The setting the accommodations the food and the price are all you can ask for The weather couldn t have been better no smog and not too hot The very congenial group was ready to share tips and stories The aa sessions and 6 general pr
15. ce Continued from page 5 altitude etc She showed us how to take selfies using remote on the ear bud how to take a burst of pictures and tips for moving photos to your computer www tvcug org Ellis D Miner Family Search Family Tree These sites offer a free online way to record your family history Family age iii Search search is a search engine with i billions of genealogical rec PY arniyeee com ords This presentation outlined the primary features of Family Tree including procedures for registering and using the free program www familysearch com www familytree com Jim Glass Smartphone Photo Tips Smart phone cameras have come a long way in the past few years When you go to a conference you see very few people with a real camera almost everyone is using their phone These are some of the tips Jim gave on how to make the most out of your smartphone s camera Clean the lens witha soft cloth Turn off the flash Have the subject facing the light Set the camera to take the pic ture after clicking www gsclub org Judy Taylour Data Privacy This presenta tion was designed to give us some knowledge about data privacy and some tools to help you keep your data private Many of them are free or low cost and once you set them up they become sec ond nature Judy gave a similar presentation at LACS s January General Meeting www scvcomputerclub org Orv Beach and Jason Ryker Linux Winning Pretty Much Every
16. cessful self publishing author www forgottenhollywood com SESSIONS Bob Gostischa Avast Protect Yourself Your Computer and Your Identity It s com mon wisdom that avoiding suspicious web based con tent and especially dodgy websites will keep you safe on the Internet Unfortunately that sort of information is old and outdated technology Internet security protecting both your computer and your identity can however be demystified This presentation focused on normal computer users rather than IT geeks www avast com Wil Wakely Easy Desktop Easy Desktop replaces the Windows desktop with a menu system as op posed to the thumbnail picture Icon system Attendees learned how to eliminate desktop clutter organize their programs and reduce computer frustra tions especially with Win8 www scgsd org avast be free Cheryl Wester Tips amp Tricks for iDevices The vivacious Cheryl did a fabu lous job demonstrating some tips and tricks for our devices and Androids She showed us ways to i save battery power Go to www theswcc org to see instructions Use air plane mode to charge twice as fast Google Maps can be used off line She demonstrated passcode lock She showed us how to talk to Siri For instance she asked what flights are above me It gave us what planes were over head and a chart of each plane s flight Continued on Page 6 PAGE 6 S W Technology and Computer Conferen
17. copy For further details I suggest the article in Windows Se crets April 10 2014 by Fred Langa entitled Emergency repair disks for Windows Part 1 and there is also a Part II I purchased a brand new 2TB USB drive to use with RMC The recovery image only took up about 15GB of the drive but the rest of the drive could not be used I always preached that backups are worthless and what really counts are restores So I tested the recovery image The first problem was that I could not make it boot from the external drive even though I went to great lengths to change the UEFI settings this is the new BIOS At this point I disregarded my advice about being sure of the restore partly because if I felt if I pushed too hard I may make even a greater mess In retrospect it was a mistake because I never could get the image recog nized by the recovery manager which you will find by selecting the Settings Charm Change PC Settings Advanced Startup I also made a USB thumb drive recovery image with RMC and I had the same problems This turned into another big time sink as I spent hours and hours with reboots UEFI changes and various other tweaks I never resolved this problem It would have been nice if I had a series of backup images and I could go back to restor ing a pre corruption image However I had put my faith in the several built inW8 x back up and recovery choices without resorting to 3 4 party applications I recomme
18. davecae Leah Clark Flectronic Editor Karl Springer Photographer Nilan Kincaid Indexer 0000e Leah Clark Proof Readers Virginia Ford stephanie Nordlinger Jim McKnight and Charlotte Semple FREE Earn 3 months of free membership for every new member you bring in Los Angeles Computer Society 11664 NATIONAL BLVD 343 LOS ANGELES CA 90064 3802 Voice mail 310 398 0366 Web site DIRECTIONS TO GENERAL MEETING From the North Take Sepulveda Blvd SOUTH to W 80th St Turn WEST right and go about one mile to Emerson Ave Turn SOUTH left and go one long block to W 80th Place Fellowship Hall is on the Northwest corner of Emerson and W 80th Place From the South East or West Take Manchester Ave to Emerson Ave Turn North and go about eight blocks to W 80th Place Fellowship Hall is on the Northwest corner of Emerson and W 80th Place There is plenty of street parking and a small parking lot West of the church Westchester United Methodist Church 8065 Emerson Avenue Los Angeles CA 90045 HOLYCRGSS PL http www lacspc or Q MARYMOUNT TLA N UNIVERSITY REGIS wy Seren Ta a Yast st paspa are SEP LVE JA MAAMA Aende f RAS Nei ES RN eu E ETE
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20. ere were some applications that were not functioning and a link to the list was put on the desktop with an icon I was hoping I could now use this refreshed stage to once again go forward and I started with the W8 1 up grade The upgrade is quite long to download and install and literally takes hours even witha relatively fast broadband connection The W8 1 failed and it failed again and again after trying all of the various fixes I had tried when I was running W8 1 It proved to be another black hole of time Well at least I had made the USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 15 recovery drive which should allow me to go back to the original setup because there I had all my applications working and maybe Microsoft would address this problem searches on the Internet showed any number of others were also in this update quagmire I already had problems with the recovery im age and I had put it aside but now I had to get real serious It seriously didn t help because no matter what combination of tweaks and other changes I could never get the recovery image recognized Weeks had now gone by and too much time had been dumped into this upgrade waste land To add to the pressure was a recent up date W8 2 to the W8 1 upgrade According to Microsoft Updates including security up dates starting patch Tuesday in June 2014 and beyond will require this update to be in stalled I interpret this to
21. es if you are comfortable running from the Command Line that will pro vide additional information To do so the cmd exe must be run with Administrator Rights The easiest way to do this is to doa search for cmd and when it appears right click with the mouse and select Run as administra tor The utility to run is called the Windows Resource Checker and it Scans the integrity of all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions If you run sfc you will see the options I suggest first running sfc VERIFYONLY to see the sta tus but it will not do any repairs To attempt re pairs run sfc SCANNOW option switches are not case sensitive which will scan the integrity of all protected system files and repairs the files if possible This tool is available in Windows 7 Here is what it will look like in the cmd window If there is unfortunately a problem there will also be a message to inspect the log file C WINDOWS system32 gt sfc scannow Beginning system scan This process will take some time Beginning verification phase of system scan Verification 100 complete Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them Details are included in the CBS Log windir Logs CBS CBS log For example C Windows Logs CBS CBS log Note that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing scenarios Unfortunately the log file created may have
22. esentations were informative and well presented A choice of one of four topics was had at each time slot Emphasis now seems to be oriented toward phones tablets and gadgets This year there were fewer vendors physical ly at the Expo We must adapt with the times Continued on Page 5 AUGUST 2014 S W Technology and Computer Conference Continued from page 4 We thank the many sponsors who offered dis count certificates and door prizes most of which could be downloaded from their websites Some of our members won door prizes The conference handbook with the lists of sponsors sessions groups attending etc as well as the photo con test pictures submitted and the winners is at www theswcc org PowerPoints from some of the presentations are also posted Take a look Following is a short summary of the available ses sions in order of presentation After the conference several members explored the Cal Poly Pomona Campus They viewed the Japanese garden rose garden the duck and tur tle pond and creek They saw cattle sheep and various crops They also shopped in their Farm store and nursery GENERAL PRESENTATIONS Cheryl Wester Presents Applian Cheryl is the Program Chair for the Temecula Valley Comput er Club and is Technical Support for Applian Technologies They provides AN software for capturing online video oo and audio www applian com no Judith Delgado Age related Macular Degen eration Judi
23. f the results from using different types of paper www klassicspecialties com Thomas Ford Soundrop Tom is the VP for Marketing and Communica gt tions for Soundrop Soundrop lets you UYNDROP discover share and experience music instantly by taking the original concept of the jukebox and bringing it to any web enabled device and smartphone It s easy to use and works inside Spotify s new App Finder www soundrop fm USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 7 Greg Skalka Online Group Deals amp Other Savings Everyone likes to save money and Greg showed us how to do that with group deal sites something that has become very popular and successful He described how you can celebrate your birth day with freebies and discounts He men tioned Groupon LivingSocial smart cards Travel Zoo Entertainment book and dis counted gift cards and more www uchug org Always Win Using the Del Gato Method Bruce showed tricks anyone can compelling presentations He said P to design first the part everyone A templates master pages fonts mistakes eve ryone makes with graphics and making ani Bruce Aronson Power Point So That You use to make more engaging and skips He discussed backgrounds layouts mations and transitions work for you Jim Glass and Cheryl Wester Dueling Phones iPhone vs Android Cheryl iPhone Jim An at T droid and they both love their e phones This was a m
24. flags such as e Emails or websites with poor spelling or grammar from a legitimate sounding company e A special sounding email such as from the IRS or your bank with your refund directions not addressed with your name Instead the email starts with a generic greeting such as Hello or Dear Bank Customer e The email is full of promises to reward you Or with a threat that something bad will hap pen if you don t act immediately e Email from your bank stating your account has been hacked and you need to respond immediately to stop any further monetary loss e Request for personal information such as social Security number birthdate etc How to record and save videos from YouTube You see a great YouTube video and you want to play it when you don t have an internet connec tion such as when flying across country or ona boat trip What s the best way to record an YouTube video and then play it back There are many different websites that offer this Continued on Page 17 AUGUST 2014 Basics amp Beyond SIG Report Continued on Page 16 service for free or a small fee such as savedeo com KeepVid com ScreenCast o Matic com downloadhelper net and xvis ervicethief sourceforge net At the meeting we demonstrated using the free service at Ssavedeo com Basically you copy the YouTube video URL for a particular video then paste in to the Savedeo download field then click the download button Then
25. hich you will use in place of your gmail password Do a search for Google 2 step Ver ification or go to the site www google com landing step and it will lead your through the process The popularity of Windows 8 is hurt by the sudden break of the lineage from previous versions while users perceive few benefits As for me I feel Microsoft has rearranged the deck chairs while failing WINDOWS 8 to make this version 7 unsinkable ur USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 BASICS AND BEYOND SIG REPORT By Kim Stocksdale LACS here were 13 attendees at the July 14 Basics and Beyond SIG held at the Santa Monica College Bundy campus Topics included How to Spot Fake Emails and Fake Websites How to record and save videos from YouTube Getting the most out of your vertical Scroll Bars Magic Tricks Exposed How to Spot Fake Emails and Fake Web sites So you get an email from Bank of America re questing you verify your account password Or you get an email from the IRS stating you over paid your taxes and are due a 873 refund just click this link to start the refund process Do you do it or not These are examples of phishing whose schemers want money or identifying information that can lead to sources of money At the meeting we showed different examples of phishing emails and fake websites and the red flags that can help detect what are fake and what are not Red
26. ill prevent someone from getting into your stuff using your phone without your permission running up charges or running down your battery To save bat tery life you may set the phone to automatical ly turn off after a specified time Be kind whenever possible Itis always pos To lock your phone give the sible Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama Power Button on the upper Today I bent the truth to be kind and Ihave right one firm press Holding no regrets for I am far surer of what is kind this button down brings up a than I am of what is true Robert Brault menu where you can put it in Airplane mode set it to vi brate restart or power off or mute the sound Choose one and click OK If you haven t any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble Bob Hope To unlock the phone press the Power Button Never look down on anyone unless you re or the Home Key When the main screen helping him up Jesse Jackson comes up make a swiping motion to the left or right If you have set a PIN or gesture you have to input that by looking for the Lock screen tab This gives you choices for unlock Today give a stranger one of your smiles It ing your device To remotely lock your might be the only sunshine he sees all day screen after your device is stolen get an app Quoted in P S I Love You from the Google Play Store Treat everyone with politeness even those Using WiFi who are rude to you not
27. iott 310 670 1544 310 670 1544 10 00 AM 10 00 PM 52 Semple Charlotte 310 398 5052 NA 10 00 AM 5 00 PM 53 Beckman Loling 310 471 7893 N A 10 00 AM 6 00 PM 55 Strate Steve 310 450 7478 N A 9 00 AM 5 00 PM 56 McKnight Jim 310 823 7829 310 823 7829 8 00 AM 7 00 PM 57 Ialongo Gilbert 310 641 7906 N A 9 00 AM 5 00 PM 58 Schneir Jerry 310 451 4140 310 451 4140 9 00 AM 10 00 PM 59 Van Berkom Paula 310 398 6734 N A 9 00 AM 5 00 PM 60 Johnson Carol 310 372 8535 310 372 8535 10 00 AM 9 00PM It would be nice if more members volunteered to help other members After all that s what LACS is all about We need helpers for some of the newer technologies with which members may be struggling That would include Windows 8 1 Linux Apple and any Windows Apple and Android devices As noted above you will not be commit ted to any specific time We hope to hear from YOU AUGUST 2014 Title President Vice President secretary Treasurer Deputy Treasurer Director Director Director Director Director Director Director APCUG Rep Car Pools Changes Corporate Counsel CCSC Computer Lab Hospitality Chair Asist Hospitality Chair Membership Database Newsletter Editor Program Chair Publicity Quick Consultants USER FRIENDLY THE LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 11 OFFICERS DIRECTORS AND LEADERS Name stephanie Nordlinger 2014 Maurice Stephenson 2014 Lee Freehling 2014 Charlotte
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29. mean that if you don t apply it you will not get any more up dates including security updates and without it you might as well call your copy W8 XP There is a Knowledge Base article KB2919355 that explains the update It was time to face three realities 1 I was go ing to have to do a complete reinstall of Win dows and lose all the applications and other installations 2 I could no longer rely on the built in Windows backups and I purchased the Acronis True Image 2014 to make disk im ages 3 I had spent much too much time try ing to patch existing configurations whereas the shorter path would have to been to go to the recovery sooner After the recovery and rebuild Iam maybe back to where I once was I say maybe be cause all is not perfect especially as regards to the update process which was the original reason I went to all the trouble The Update Fixer screen capture that I first showed was taken after I did the recovery rebuild all up dates and all upgrades It is the most recent rendition of my laptop s configuration As you can see there seem to be some problems with the upgrade processor In the above case I ran it again a few times and I got exactly the same result each time Apparently problems persist and I fear it is just a matter of time before I am faced with the same situation It is Continued on page 16 PAGE 16 TO UPDATE WINDOWS 8 Continued from page 15 still worth running even if I doubt its
30. mputer Society NOTICE The columns reviews and other expressions of opinion in User Friendly are the opinions of the writers and not necessarily those of the Los Angeles Computer Society LACS became a California non profit corporation on July 17 1991 The Editor of User Friendly will accept contributions of any suitable length from members Articles should be sent to the Editor editor at lacspc org as plain text in the body of an e mail message or as a Word document The deadline for submitting articles is the 18th of the month The Editor asks that articles be submitted UNFORMATTED PAGE 12 TO UPDATE WINDOWS 8 By Allan S Greenberg LACS is hard to understand after so many itera tions of operating systems why they aren t completely robust In fact I don t remember even in the days of DOS that I had to complete ly wipe out everything including the OS appli cations and all other installations and start over from scratch My intention here is to dis cuss the numerous steps I went through and what I learned along the way which may be useful to a Windows 8 x user when faced with a recalcitrant operating system Here is a little background to set the stage I was quite happy with my new laptop which I had for less than a year I only was forced into getting my new laptop because my Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 with 2GB of memory could not keep up with some stream ing Internet functions I decided to get a lapto
31. n call a person whose number is listed next to it Or you may use a Helper s e mail address found in your LACS Roster We hope that you find this free service useful If you are experienced in a particular program or topic please volunteer to be a consultant To volunteer for this list or to make corrections please e mail editor at lacspc org or call Leah Clark at 310 677 2792 More Quick Consultants are always needed You may decline or postpone a call if it comes at the wrong time America Online 20 Anti Malware 56 Digital Imaging Editing 50 58 Digital Photography 50 58 Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Genealogy 20 34 Hardware 55 56 iPhone iPad iPod 59 LA FreeNet 24 Lotus Word Pro Approach 56 Open Office 60 Mozilla Firefox Thunderbird 56 Picasa 58 MS Excel 59 Quicken 20 MS Word 9 53 QuickBooks 52 MS Outlook 59 20 Viruses 46 MS Outlook Express 59 Visual Basic 57 MS PowerPoint 59 Websites 57 MS Publisher 2 52 Win XP Vista 56 60 WordPerfect 20 No Name Daytime Phone Eves Weekends From To 2 Mercer Bob 310 837 5648 310 837 5648 9 00 AM 10 00 PM 9 Hershman Irv 310 397 9453 310 397 9453 11 00 AM 11 00PM 20 Nordlinger Stephanie 323 299 3244 323 299 3244 5 00 PM 10 00 PM 24 Springer Karl 424 646 3410 424 646 3410 10 00 AM 10 00 PM 34 Clark Leah 310 677 2792 310 677 2792 9 00 AM 5 00 PM 46 Martin Todd 818 766 1151 818 766 1151 10 00 AM 10 00 PM 50 Silverstein Ell
32. nd not count ing on the built in tools Although it was too late for my present situation I ended up pur chasing the Acronis True Image 2014 applica tion to create backup images after I finished the lengthy work of completely rebuilding the laptop Before I completely wiped everything out and returned the laptop to the factory defaults as fresh as the day it arrived I had the possibility to return to an intermediate state As far as my data files I had copies automatically sent to the second hard drive because I had turned on a feature of W8 x called File History The USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 feature makes copies of files from Libraries Desktop Contacts Favorites and OneDrive if enabled It also time and date stamps files and creates multiple copies which it will retain for a period of time depending on user settings Before upgrading fromW68 0 to W8 1 I had made a custom recovery image as differentiat ed from the supposedly bootable complete re covery image I had already mentioned The utility that will Refresh your PC without affect ing your files is found by selecting the Set tings Charm Change PC Settings Update and recovery Recovery where it is the first of the 3 recovery options Below is the screen for the application Update and recovery 2 Refresh your PC without affecting your fles lf your PC isn t running well you can refresh it witho
33. ndertaking to get anyone to pro gram should have some basis for helping people to learn the craft This talk will look at what learnable program ming is based heavily on the work of Bret Victor and will discuss how many modern programming languages are or are not helpful in making programming easier to learn more fun and more useful ay Toal is Professor of Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1986 and is currently serving as direc tor of the Computer Science program He received his PhD from UCLA in 1993 His current research interests are in programming language design compilers APIs and soft ware engineering He has consulted for a number of com panies in the Los Angeles area including Citysearch CityGrid Medaxis Friendbuy Handmade Mobile M GO and DataPop Tuesday August 12 2014 7 9 PM Fellowship Hall 8065 Emerson Ave Westchester 90045 An informal Computer Forum meets from 6 00 to 6 50 P M to answer individual questions All are welcome After the meeting some members may meet at Dinah s Family Restaurant at Sepulveda and Centinela More info at http www lacspc org or at 310 398 0366 PAGE 2 JULY GENERAL MEETING REPORT By Leah Clark LACS Editor Cloud Storage Systems Compared hen our scheduled presenter became ill we were lucky to have a skype presentation by Francis Chao from the APCUG Speakers Bureau He gave us a detailed
34. p that would not go out of date after only a couple of years I pur chased a Samsung 17 inch laptop with a top of the line Intel i7 16GB of memory and two 650GB internal drives plus all the other bells and whistles that could be crammed into the form factor It came with Windows 8 0 W8 0 which of course was a pain but I configured it with a Windows 7 Startup Menu Start Menu 8 from IObit and mostly ignored the Metro interface I was basically running W8 0 but it looked like W7 0 I was happy with the speed and respon siveness of the computer and even better when I discovered by accident that if I pressed the Samsung start button to turn it off and pressed it again to turn it on the system starts up within seconds Since practically no docu mentation was provided I discovered this purely by stumbling around as were so many other functions of the hardware as well as the W8 0 OS I updated to W8 1 when it became available but nothing materially changed That was until one day I saw there were mes sages with updates pending I tried download ing the updates but they would not install The error message tried to track down was incon clusive and basically told me to run the diag nostic program Control Panel System and USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 security Fix problems with Windows Up date Iran this any number of times but al ways received the same result that there we
35. re some problems that could not be fixed Here is what the Windows Update fix looks like if it is successful Troubleshooting has completed The troubleshooter made some changes to your system Try attempting the task you were trying to do before Problems found Potential Windows Update Database error detected 0x800 0490 Fixed Windows Update components must be repaired Fixed gt Close the troubleshooter gt Explore additional options View detailed information When I was deep in my original problem with the updates not installing the results with the Update Fix were not as good as it appears above There were about four line items and two were unable to be fixed while it claimed it fixed two others So I had to try look elswhere I tried cleaning out the Registry CCleaner running antivirus deep scans Avast Premium malware scans Malwarebytes and some Sam sung utilities that were automatically installed as part of what could easily be called bloat ware Still the errors remained I put aside the problem for a week or so hoping that maybe it was something in the Microsoft updates But with the updates labeled as Critical I was looking at possibly more severe problems with security risk I decided that some action was imperative or soon I would be as exposed as one of my now dormant XP computers Continued on Page 13 AUGUST 2014 TO UPDATE WINDOWS 8 Continued from page 12 There are a few utiliti
36. tain limitations to Jim s offer so see the details by clicking the Fix my PC for Free link at Www jimopi net Non members can wisely invest in a one year LACS membership 40 00 and Jim will fix your PC problem too AUGUST 2014 USER FRIENDLY THE LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 9 AUGUST 2014 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Smartphone Workshop 7 00 PM Basics amp Beyond SIG General Meeting 1 00 PM Board Meeting The Digital Photo SIG won t meet in August for a vacation Calendar is subject to change Check your e mail or with the SIG leader before attending a meeting SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS SIGs Basics amp Beyond SIG Kim Stocksdale 310 720 0603 and Mon 7 PM SMC Bundy Campus Digital Photo SIG Nancy Cattell 310 452 2130 Elliot Silverstein 310 670 1544 4th Mon 7 PM SMC Bundy Campus Smartphone Workshop stephanie Nordlinger 323 299 3244 Ist Mon 7 PM SMC Bundy Campus ADDRESSES Fellowship Hall 8065 Emerson Ave Westchester 90045 Dinah s Family Restaurant 6521 Sepulveda Blvd LA 90045 on Sepulveda just S of Centinela SMC Bundy Campus 3171 S Bundy Drive LA 90066 1 2 block S of Airport Avenue PAGE 10 USER FRIENDLY THE LOS ANCELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 MEMBERS HELPING MEMBERS LACS members volunteer to help other members solve hardware anc software problems by telephone during the hours listed below Select the topic from the list and the
37. th is Executive Director of the Dis covery Eye Foundation Judy described the types of AMD the symptoms treat ments and possible preventative measures New technology is available to detect AMD at early stages If you notice any symptoms see your doctor immediately www amd org Ask the Gurus A panel Jim Glass Terry Curri er Wil Wakely Charlotte Semple and Jim Sand ers and the audience answered questions They were about email ISIS wallet Android social media sandboxes Google calendar Adobe Flash Java blocking ads Roboform apps antimalware and more Star Party On Friday evening Kevin Kawai set up his large 11 inch mirror Celestron Tele scope and showed how to orient it It was excit ing to see Saturn with its rings Mars other celes tial bodies It was a beautiful warm evening for outdoor fellowship USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 5 Matt Mardini Wolverine Wolverine has new products to offer us Some of them are SNaP Slides Negatives and Photos digital converter wireless audio outdoor speakers flash memory storage plus optical technologies that do amazing things www wolverinemdata com Manny Pacheco Self Publishing Six Things You Need To Know Manny is the author of Forgotton Hollywood Forgotten Histo ry stories of seldom told tales of old Holly wood and has a weekly radio show He told us things we need to know to become a suc
38. thing Orv is the Training Chair for the Southern California Linux Expo and is a system ad A aw ministrator for St Jude Medical in Sylmar GIMP the free open source Photoshop alternative which works on all of the OS plat forms was discussed www socallinuxexpo or Jerry Moore Is There a Chromebook In Your Future Jerry is the Webmaster and Co Systems Administrator for the 800 member Laguna Woods Village PC Club Chromebooks were built for what s commonly known as Googleware but they will support any soft USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2014 ware that will run inside the Chrome web browser Jerry gave a live demonstration of the Samsung Google Chromebook and his expe riences after one year using this de vice It is inexpensive and light weight You can read email surf the web watch Netflix movies and use Google Docs or Office 365 It has Flick er and Picasa You can listen to music read news on line and you can have remote access to your desktop www thepcclub org Christopher Cooper How To Care For Your Tablet and Other Electronic Devices Christopher is the founder of Cooper Product a manufacturer COOPER e H PRODUCT of mobile device accessories in Northridge CA Once the revolu tion of electronic tablets hit the market many tablet users discovered smudges and finger prints on their iPad or Android screens and began to wonder How do I clean my iP
39. to first be extracted which is straight forward but unless you have a Microsoft OS programmer s insight it is not only of little practical use but it is very long I think the only hope is that there is a clean bill of health or that it found problems and corrected them In either case I recom mend running it again to see if it is consistent Going back to the W8 x Update Fix if it doesn t work it might generate an error code If you track it down online you might be directed to run the Deployment Image Servicing and Man agement DISM tool This is also run from an USER FRIENDLY THE Los ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER PAGE 13 elevated cmd window and is more compli cated than sfc As with most command line tools dism will generate a brief utiliza tion list Here is how dism also available in Windows 7 describes itself DISM enumerates installs uninstalls config ures and updates features and packages in Windows images The commands that are available depend on the image being service and whether the image is offline or running More detail about the tool is on the Microsoft site The recommended execution is DISM exe Online Cleanup image Restorehealth It takes a fair amount of time for this tool to run If your computer is set to sleep or hiber nate after a certain amount of time the utility will probably fail The easiest work around is to try and do something else on your comput er which
40. to contain the image Typically you will want to use an external USB drive and if this drive comes up with the letter F you can create a directory such as F refresh June 31 2014 To direct the image to this directory you will enter recimg setcurrent f refresh June 31 2014 To create the custom image enter recimg createimage f refresh June 31 2014 Do not leave spaces in the directory name as recimg will interpret it as options and not run The pro cess can take quite some time and as before I suggest keeping your computer awake while you can perform some browsing or emails I have experienced a number of times that the image creation failed and I just restarted the process Make sure there is sufficient space on the destination drive and you may want to close down any active applications and even discon nect from the Internet and not do anything more than move the mouse to make sure the comput er doesn t go into sleep or hibernate If you want to know which custom image will be in use enter recimg showcurrent After it runs you will see something like the following P GLOBALROOT device harddisk3 partition refresh June 31 2014 Reclmg Operation completed successfully Do not be confused because it does not have the drive letter but uses a symbolic link When I used the refresh it did in fact roll back my OS to W8 0 from W8 1 and a number of ap plications were preserved including Microsoft Office 2010 Th
41. uch re quested presentation from SW 2013 Bob Gostischa Avast So You Got a New Computer Now What A new computer is wonderful but can be a source of real frustra tion Turning this new addition into something that will make your life easier is what this presentation was all about It included fea tures and benefits of Avast s free antivirus program removing pre installed unwanted unneeded programs 2l programs that should be on every computer and Android and tablet safety amp protection recommenda tions www avast com Francis Chao Transitioning Between Win XP 7 and 8 1 Francis has given many presentations via the Speakers Bureau to member groups Francis presentation showed the small but important changes be tween the various versions of Windows to help you make your leap from one to another He discussed many features of Windows 8 1 www aztcs org www gsbug apcug org Www windowsusers org uF PAGE 8 CASH FLOW Junel7 2014 July 21 2014 USER FRIENDLY THE LOS ANGELES COMPUTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Charlotte Semple Treasurer LACS Current Total Liquid Assets Bank of America Checking 13 945 42 Gross Receipts Member Dues Total Gross Receipts Expenses Fellowship Hall Rental May User Friendly MiFi Expense Welcome Chair Expenses Total Expenses Net Surplus WELCOME ALL Gene Jacobs Data Base Manager LACS New Members 0 Renewals 11 Heidi Feingersh Joe Falcon Irene
42. ures reach ing deep into your PC can help O iolo make sure Internet settings are correct unwanted files are removed your regis try is clutter free and optimized and your drives are healthy www iolo com Terry Currier Faststone viewer amp organizer Terry is now vice president of WINNERS WINdows usERS FastStone image browser converter and editor sup SEHE port all graphic formats They are akd friendly fast free and an alternative for Photoshop Elements They have a nice array of features such as image viewing management comparison red eye removal emailing resiz ing cropping color adjustments musical slideshow and much more www windowsuseers org Jim Glass To App or Not To App That s the Question Topics presented were what is an App what is a Widget how to find them and how to decide if they are safe Both Apple and Android Apps were discussed www gsclub org ry 5 gJ Fa H y Ce a s es oo 26 Boor 88 an areca te Be v lt 4 uce D Se tag o Gp zg se a ga SS 6 ae an Don Baker Klassic Specialties Latest on Printers Don ex plained the current KUMERA TST ATES development trends and marketing scenarios of several printer manufacturers He told us how the changes will be affecting customers like us He also explained how to select media for your inkjet printers what you should look for in pho to papers and how they differ Don showed sam ples of some o
43. ut losing your photos music videos and files Windows Update other personal files Get started File History Ree Remove everything and reinstall Windows if you want to recycle your PC or start over completely you can reset it to its factory settings Get started Advanced startup Start up from a device or disc such as a USB drive or DVD change your PC s firmware settings change Windows startup settings or restore Windows from a system image This will restart your PC Restart now The Refresh choice will use a custom refresh image if you set the location of the image with the command line tool recimg exe which you run from an elevated cmd window Otherwise it will use a default image There is a fair amount of information when recimg exe is entered There is an important distinction between re covery and refresh Recovery will take back your computer to an original state using OS files either from a hidden partition on your hard drive or from a DVD It will not preserve any applications or data and personal files A refresh will take back your OS to a previous state without touching your data or personal files and it may even preserve some or most of Continued on Page 15 AUGUST 2014 TO UPDATE WINDOWS 8 Continued from page 14 your applications The benefit of recimg exe is that it will create a custom recovery image This means you can create any number of images by setting a direc tory
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