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1. July 12 Jobs Networking and jobs search Contact Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags ne Go to DACS Community Forum htto forum dacs org for job listings SIG News amp Events Linux Provides Help in installing and maintaining the Linux operating system Also of interest to Apple owners using OS X Contact Dave Mawdsley linuxsig dacs org Meets 3 Wednesday 7 30 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting Sep 19 Mobile Devices Focuses on smartphones tablets and e read ers of all makes and models Contact Richard Corzo and Jim Scheef Mobilesig dacs org Meets 4 Thursday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting July 26 PC Maintenance Review of PC hardware and OpSys maintenance and use Contact Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags net Go to DACS Community Forum http forum dacs orgl Server Explores Back Office server and client applica tions including Win NT Servers and MS Outlook SIG is on hiatus and presently merged into the Drupal SIG Contact Jim Scheef jscheef teleAprksys com or go to the DACS Community Forum http www dacs org fo rum within the Members only area Web Design and DTP Learn about Adobe software for web graphics and desktop publishing Contact Annette van Ommeren avo annagraphics com Meets 3 Tuesday 7 9 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting July 17 Apple At our June meeting we finally got to take a look at the new i2. could sync the information as well Once the Palm PDA and its successor were finally put to rest I continued to use the program between my desktop laptop and netbook The encrypted file containing the data was easily copied between them purchased the original iPhone and one of the first apps that I added was the 10S version of eWallet I could sync it with my PC version via Wi Fi So once again I was now able to carry a program with me to access my passwords anytime I was com fortable knowing that it had an encrypted file with a rather long password to access the file I have since added an iPad2 to the equation and upgraded to the iPhone 4s using eWallet on both There are many password manager programs available Obviously the main reason that I use the eWallet is that I have been using it for 12 years However there are other reasons The biggest is that I can have it on all of my devices especially on my iPhone amp my iPad which I have with me at all times The data is protected with 256 bit AES FIPS 197 encryption eWallet is currently available for PCs running Windows 7 Vista or XP If you yfi Review Aricie oo Fares PRY Ranta gumadl cons Ses Paar LHL pe Le a ES 8 July 2012 are a Mac user you need OS X There are versions for the Apple iPhone iPad and iPod touch RIM BlackBerry Android phones the Kindle Fire tablet and Win dows Mobile You need to check the ver sion number to be sure i
3. then waited for code in the pop up window to run that would cause the behavior seen by the questioner Something that came up but we did not discuss is that cookies and scripts are not the same Cookies are small strings of data that are stored and retrieved by your browser under the direction of a website http www dacs org script Cookies are not programs and cannot execute code Their primary purpose is to save data between browsing sessions aka tracking In the context of this discussion scripts are small programs almost always written in JavaScript that execute within your browser Scripts from websites are supposed to be limited in what they can do by the browser s sandbox but this limitation can be removed when you give them permission to run Such permission can come from a misleading question on a webpage Remember never expect bad people to tell the truth QO Has anyone tried installing the new Windows 8 Release Preview Released May 31st I tried it ona Gateway laptop and the sound does not work A Others reported smooth installs with good sound support After the meeting the questioner reported that a device driver downloaded from the Creative website creative com installed and now the sound card 1s working The driver was listed under Windows Vista which implied support for Win 7 Q A follow up on Win 8 has anyone been able to get the Mail app to work A I reported success with t
4. with a USB cable The DCIM camera folder should show up in a removable drive from which you can copy the photos Going the other direction there should be another folder on the device where you can save pictures from your computer On my Nook this folder is called My Files Pictures Interestingly one of our members found that her An droid phone did not show up when connected to her laptop Hopefully she will figure out if a driver or syncing application is needed to make that happen Each manu facturer of Android devices customizes Android to their liking so there is no single standard for this Visit the Support site for your mobile device to find out how your device can exchange files with a PC July 2012 9 Ask DACS June 2012 Moderated and reported by Jim Scheef Meetings The role of moderator is to try to guide the discussion to a likely W WELCOME QUESTIONS FROM the floor at the start of our General solution to the problem In addition members who are not able to attend the General meeting may submit questions to askdacs dacs org We will ask the question for you and post the reply in dacs doc and on dacs org Please provide as much information as possible since we can t probe during the session QO When I shut down my computer there is always a Microsoft update waiting to install I finally realized it was the same update each time and it was failing each time Has anyone else had this problem The update is
5. 97 1518 203 797 8682 203 910 6605 203 416 6642 860 567 9586 203 648 9176 203 431 2920 days 860 355 0034 203 733 2805 914 232 0149 rcorzo dacs org dgreen dacs org dkwashnak dacs org lleifels dacs org plibert dacs org relimbaugh dacs org bpreston dacs org jscheef dacs org etalian dacs org avanommeren dacs org Directors Notes Cont from page 2 e Gene Barlow is offering a webinar presentation on Acronis products We ve had him present in the past but he no longer makes presenta tions in person 3 Open positions e The membership chairperson greeter position is still open 4 Jim has loaded membership data into Drupal CiviCRM and has been working on sending group e mails Annette said the emails are ending up in her Spam folder Jim offered to do another test using the info Dacs org email address There is an effort by one of our members Mike Kaltchnee to send out a survey to the DACS membership to see if there is any interest in joining a hackerspace in Danbury Jim said he would be able to send the email out from the membership database We would like to find a way to send out the survey so that we can easily find out how many DACS members are interested in joining a Danbury Hackerspace 5 Member Mike Kaltschnee is con tinuing to plan a hackerspace or makerspace for Danbury He held a second planning meeting on June 4 in the Resource Center Andy Woo druff atten
6. C allowing for the viewing a remote desktop and thus interacting with what s on the computer or server FreeNX has a server version meant for the remote computer or server and a client version for computer or server at the user end FreeNX has advantages of speed and uses secure con nections piggybacked on SSH It appears however that the application is mostly a Linux tool but it is available for various distributions such as Debian Ubuntu DEBs CentOS RPMs Fedora Red Hat RPMs FreeBSD Gentoo and Suse RPMs Jim indicated that the configurations were complicated but once set they worked well He was able to demonstrate FreeNX by connecting to a remote com puter that was running Fedora On June 6th and 7th Friday Saturday was in Char lotte NC to participate at the Southeast LinuxFest held at the Blake Hotel My focus was mainly to listen and ask questions at the Friday presentations relating to the database mySQL administration security etc though stayed with mosily the easier of the topics that more closely affected my own mySQL structures The Saturday sessions ranged over many topics in volving Linux IT jobs Internet security the conversion wrinkles as those with IPv6 replacing IPv4 addressing such as 192 168 2 1 The related discussions and ques tions were useful At the LinuxFest on Saturday was a morning key note given by Robin Miller Using Linux to Boost Your IT Career who encouraged all involved with I
7. July 2012 Volume 23 Issue 7 2 00 i P a Co a FaF j 1 i i l j A L 5 a 1 i A Ms Te al ae Nas ji Next Meeting Come to the Microsoft Store at the Danbury Fair Mall Directors Notes meeting of your board of directors was held on Wednesday June 13 2012 The meeting was called to order at 7 15 PM Attending were Richard Corzo Drew Kwashnak Lisa Leifels Jim Scheef Eliza beth Talian Annette van Ommeren Andy Woodruff Guest Charlie Bovaird The Minutes of Previous Meeting were accepted Treasurer s Report Balance on hand 5 1 12 5 852 90 INCOME Dues 282 66 Bank Interest M Total Income 282 91 EXPENSES Resource Center Phone 76 24 Resource Center Security 79 60 Newsletter Printing 85 00 Newsletter Postage 48 75 Renewal Letters Postage 18 72 Total Expenses 308 31 Balance on hand 5 31 12 5 827 50 Membership Report added after meeting Meeting date 4 3 12 5 1 12 6 5 12 APR MAY JUNE Paying members 138 138 131 w email addresses 130 129 122 New members 2 0 1 NL printed 100 100 100 NL mailed 76 75 74 NL mailed memb 56 55 55 NL mailed other 6 6 6 NL mailed free lib 14 14 14 General Meetings Apr Mike Kaltschnee Tablets May State of Internet Patrick June Artificial Intelligence Preston IN THIS ISSUE Directors NOTES HELPLINE PREVIEW MICROSOFT AT THE MALL REVIEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM SUITE PROFESSIONAL 2012 Sic NEws am
8. KB2659262 on Windows XP A The first suggestion was to boot in safe mode from the F8 boot options menu Then go to the Windows Updates website and let it scan the machine It will note the missing update realize you already have it on disk and offer to install it What we failed to mention at the meeting was to use safe mode with networking After the meeting the member reported finding a manual method to install updates Back in normal mode and querying KB265962 at http answers microsoft com I found Method 3 Install updates manually and then check if it helps To install updates manually by follow the steps mentioned below a Go to http www microsoft com download en default aspx b Search for the updates using KB article number for the update c Download and install it The update installed Q In the new version of Picasa and in MSN I can t enter any text in the login dialog window It s as if the windows are disabled I can click a link for help on the dialog and I can Close the dialog I just can t enter any text This is on a laptop running Windows XP What s 10 July 2012 wrong A One member asked if the window can Q gt be moved to the side to see if there is another dialog hidden behind the login window I asked if the title bar on the problem window turns dark blue 1 e the window gets focus focus means the window that is on top you can only type into th
9. Pad One of our members brought his in and compared it to the original iPad and iPad 2 he previously owned He felt it was definitely worth the upgrade for the new Retina display He was able to show his iPad screen on our projector since he brought a dock connector to VGA adapter With that the iPad makes a good demo machine An iPhone owner of just a few months started to wonder if he had made the right decision in getting the iPhone instead of an iPad He seemed to really appre ciate the large display and started to think he should have gotten an iPad along with a regular phone that just made phone calls He wouldn t have trouble selling his current iPhone See gazelle com for example who will buy your used Apple devices The wrinkle would be the early termination fee from his cell phone carrier Linux June Meeting at the DACS Resource Center Next Linux SIG meeting September 19th at 7 30 PM DCS Our session this evening looked first at three widely differing topics Recording Live Audio from the Internet Using Audacity FreeNX a Remote Desktop Tool and Report on the happenings at Southeast LinuxFest in Charlotte NC gave a short presentation Recording Live Audio from the Internet Using Audacity that detailed how to create an Ogg Vorbis audio file using Audacity from a live Internet sound stream My presentation was with slides but I d forgotten an audio patch cable needed so the live demo I d planned did
10. T to broaden their backgrounds to include Linux skills The closing session All Grown Up Linux at 21 was given by Steven J Vaughan Nichols who looked at where Linux has come to after 21 years Linux is on the rise everywhere be ing already strong in embedded devices and servers Parties on Friday and Saturday nights offered some free drinks sponsored by opensource com Eucalyptus and Google along with extended discussions on any thing related to the LinuxFest Finally at our Linux SIG showed some photos of the underground features of the Luray Caverns that I d stopped to see on my two day drive back home through the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia After the presentations discussions led to specific computer items involving the configurations Unity on Ubuntu 12 04 We invite new participants and DACS members to our sessions geared for the beginner intermediate or http www dacs org DCS advanced users Topics and discussions are motivated by those attending and cover hardware and software problems that members may have with their comput ers Our members tend to have presentations or demos to show off on their own laptop computers Bring your old laptop Perhaps it could use Ubuntu or Fedora in Stalled free for a great replacement or addition to your existing system Our Linux SIG will not meet during July and August but we ll be back on September 19th We hope to see you then Mobile Devices With an iPho
11. all users from beginner to advanced Amazon sells System Suite 12 Profes sional for 49 99 delivered There is a 20 upgrade or competitive upgrade coupon that comes with the program so your net low cost will be 29 99 Avanquest provides unlimited support for registered products You can also check the User s manual and online help included within the program menu for answers to many common issues Email amp Phone sup port is available if you cannot resolve your questions Bart Kostow is a member of the Thousand Oaks PC Club CA www topcc org spatter roadrunner com His article is distributed for reprint by user groups Directors Notes Cont from page 3 of the Sharepoint team they could be emailed a link Lync 2010 can be down loaded from the Microsoft com portal which can be accessed from the SharePoint team site New Business Ahmad is resuming his duties as copy editor after Richard Teasdale filled in last month during his ab sence As always newsletter submis sions should go to dacseditor dacs org 2 We ll plan on making a DACS poster and pamphlets available at the Robotics and Beyond http www robotics andbeyond com summer camp in July and August 3 Richard wanted to see if Patrick could document what is done to pub licize the general meetings so that a backup person could step in when necessary 4 Richard suggested we explain on our website how the DACS member ship cha
12. ded the two planning meet ings and has offered his thoughts on the possible integration of the hackerspace group into DACS Andy suggested that we form a steering committee to gather additional infor mation and make a recommendation to the board Richard Andy Jim and Drew volunteered to be on the steer ing committee Andy Woodruff 203 744 9588 awoodruff dacs org Committees NEWSLETTER Ahmad Asgharian dacseditor dacs org PROGRAM vpoprograms dacs org WEB MASTERS Richard Corzo rcorzo dacs org 203 797 1518 Annette van Ommeren avanommeren dacs org 914 232 0149 MARKETING AND PR Patrick Libert or dacs org APCUG LIAISON Patrick Libert olibert dacs org MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR Charles Bovaird aam mags net RESOURCE CENTER 203 748 4330 WEB SITE http www dacs org HelpLine Our former telephone HelpLine has been replaced by our web based DACS Community Forum at http forum dacs org We have topic specific forums where DACS members can post questions Questions may be answered by SIG leaders or other DACS members If none of the categories fit your question just post it to the Ask DACS forum 6 We have a one year subscription with Microsoft Office 365 The portal is https portal microsoftonline com and our SharePoint Team site is https dacs sharepoint com Most of the board members have logged into the Team site Forum Access SIG ASP Net and C VB Net SIG Digital Imaging SIG Content Management Syst
13. e asking if I want to cancel a script or to continue waiting Is there some way I can speed up this process The browser is Firefox A Complex sites like the New York Times or a large shopping site like J Crew typically use scripts from many other locations as part of their overall website These scripts do things like authenticate your login display or change graphic images track your progress through the site build your shopping cart display advertising based on information gathered from current or previous tracking and more every day In Firefox you can control which sites are allowed to run scripts using an extension called No Script noscript net Using NoScript you could determine from where the problem script is coming and tell NoScript that scripts from that site are untrusted Your browser will then ignore all scripts coming from that site As an example I use NoScript to ignore anything coming from DoubleClick Once this is in effect the J Crew site will no longer hang waiting for that problem script The downside to this is that the script in question may be needed for the site to function correctly and marking a domain as untrusted is global and affects all web sites that use scripts from that domain During the discussion a member tested the J Crew site and received a message about a blocked pop up window If a script were to open a pop up window which was blocked by the browser or some other means and
14. e one window that has focus when you click on one of the text boxes on the form The member said it does not This would indicate that the dialog cannot get focus Another suggestion was to use the Alt Tab key combination to cycle through all open windows This might uncover a window that is hidden or minimized that is causing the problem The fact that one item on the dialog help was clickable while everything else was inactive seems very unusual What does it mean when someone says that there are security issues with Adobe Flash Flash is used on many websites to display active or animated content When it does this it 1s executing a script or Flash program on your computer Since Flash executes most often from within your browser aka plug in add on extension it should be confined to the browser s sandbox where it has limited access to your computer Unfortunately there are many vulnerabilities security holes that malicious code can exploit to gain full access to everything on your machine As these security problems are discovered Adobe tries to patch Flash Microsoft tries to patch Windows and the anti virus anti malware people try to DCS improve their defenses This is why it is SO important that you do your part and ensure that you keep everything up to date QO When I go to several websites J Crew a catalog clothing store is an example the site seems to hang until I get an error messag
15. ems Drupal SIG Linux Linux SIG Mac and 1Phone iPad iPod touch Apple SIG PC maintenance PC Maintenance SIG Smartphones amp Tablets Mobile Devices SIG Virtual machine software Virtual Computing SIG Web Site Design SIG Windows SIG Topic Microsoft Access NET Programming Digital cameras scanners image processing 7 Bruce Preston has requested a so lution to holding remote SIG meetings like the MS Access SIG Elizabeth said that Bruce used AnyMeeting for the June meeting Richard recommended trying to use Lync at the July Microsoft Access SIG since it s free and he thought it could do every thing that Bruce needed If there are Desktop publishing and website design Access SIG members that are not part Windows Directors Notes Cont on page 5 July 2012 3 http www dacs org Meeting Preview Microsoft Retail Store Meet Us at the Mall By Richard Corzo Microsoft retail store http content microsoftstore com store de tail Danbury CT opening up in the Danbury Fair Mall on June 23rd DACS members and visitors will get our very own intro duction to the store at our next general meeting on July 3rd Being that it s sum mer this will be anice break from our usual meeting Instead of the Danbury Hospital auditorium we will be meeting right in the store If you ve been to an Apple store you know how successful they are at show casing their products in a retail environ ment Microsoft wou
16. he Mail app tO A both with Exchange server and regular IMAP accounts Setting for Win 8 Metro style apps are found by moving the mouse to the lower right corner of the screen to make the settings bar pop out Clicking the gear then opens additional settings I installed Google Chrome and it keeps asking me to make it the default browser Normally I click the Internet Explorer e icon to go online I made Chrome the default browser but Internet Explorer still opens The default browser is the one that opens when you click on a shortcut on your desktop click a link in an email or any time you indicate that you want to open web content but http www dacs org do not specify the browser The e icon specifically opens Internet Explorer whether it is the default browser or not just like clicking the Chrome icon that red green yellow beach ball always opens Chrome of course if there is only one browser installed as Internet Explorer is the only browser in a new Windows installation Q Can I copy all the programs and data from one disk to a new hard disk and then boot from the new disk A This is best done using one of the many disk cloning utilities Acronis True Image acronis com is one product mentioned at the meeting DACS members can purchase this product at a discount through User Group Relations ugr com which is run by Gene Barlow a former speaker at DACS general meetings Disclaimer A
17. ith the individual parts of the program there is an easier way Just select S YSTEM SUITE Professional SS is http www dacs org One Click Fix All and SS will do the rest Another way is to select One Fix Wizards of which there are three one for each seg ment of the program Optimize Security and Fix amp Maintain and run them selectively There is a lot of flexibility in how you may use this pro gram Working in the back ground you have Active Intel ligence Technology which continuously silently and au tomatically monitors and fixes all your PC problems It tracks hard drive status available disk space hard drive fragmenta tion registry errors excess temp tiles startup applications and more Regular use of Active Intelli gence reduces start up times improves read write performance and prevents data loss by identifying hard drive problems before they happen What s new in this version e Patent pending PC Analyzer Technol ogy Identifies why your PC is slow 400 Faster Registry Repair Fixes reg istry problems and optimizes Windows e Program Optimizer Speeds program launch and response by fixing slow downs System Suite will completely Optimize Protect and Fix amp Maintain your computer effortlessly and silently in the background while you work I have used it for many years and find it to be one of the essential programs that I use with my computers I recommend this program for
18. ld similarly like to I YOU HAVEN T heard there is a Meeting Review Mirah Sora Ti showcase their products and provide sup port to their customers Microsoft is just starting to expand its retail store presence into the Northeast Two stores have re cently opened in New Jersey but the Danbury store will be the first in New En 3 gland It will even open before a planned store in White Plains NY so Danbury is on the cutting edge Paul Orvis is in charge of Community Development amp Events at the forthcoming Danbury store He indi cates that we will start with an overview of the store and a look forward into Windows 8 and integration into the various compo nents in the months ahead Paul expects to have a trainer lead this technology inte Bruce Preston Artificial Intelligence By Richard Corzo TOUR JUNE STH general meeting Ai was time to learn a little about computer science Inspired by last year s IBM Watson Jeopardy challenge longtime DACS member Access SIG leader and past presenter Bruce Preston laid out the path that led us to the current state of artificial intelligence How can a machine mimic the responses of a human He started out by explaining electrical circuits and how they can represent the Os and Is in a digital computer Special cir cuits representing ANDs and ORs lay the foundation for representing logic in a com puter and for building some basic arith metic operatio
19. n t work However showed that the recording process is easy Once the ogg file has been created there are some simple utilities to convert it to a wav file and then convert that to an mp3 file The advantage of the methodology presented was that the recording contains no additional noise added to the original stream The program Audacity allows some terrific editing such as cut and paste as what might be expected with SIG notes Cont on page 9 http www dacs org July 2012 Danbury Area Computer Society 4 Macintosh 7 00 PM Richard Corzo macsig dacs org MS ACCESS 7 00 9 00 P M Bruce Preston n dacs org Drupal Jim Scheef 860 355 0034 Board of Directors Web Design Annette van Ommeren 914 232 0149 DACS DOC Deadline 7 00 PM Digital Imaging Ken Graff 203 775 6667 Mobile Devices Richard Corzo Jim Scheef mobilesig dacs org http www dacs org DNCS July 2012 7 Safe Computing How to remember your passwords with eWallet by iLium Software by Hewie Poplock AM A PASSWORD nut I try to have almost every program website email ddress etc use a unique password That makes it difficult to remember them Way back in 2000 I found a program to keep track of all of my passwords and account numbers in an encrypted file I carried a Palm PDA in those days The program was eWallet by iLium Software with a version for both my Palm and my PC I
20. ne or iPad you have two ways to get photos off the device Traditionally the first way this required connecting the device to your PC or Mac On a Mac the iPhone iPad would show up in iPhoto as acamera You would then import all or just selected photos into an event in iPhoto Ona PC you should get a dialog that lets you choose whether to open the device s camera folder in Windows Explorer or whatever Windows photo applications you have installed On any digital camera you should find a folder named DCIM that contains the photos If you are using a photo application you should be able to import the photos from the camera Windows Live Photo Gal lery htto photogallery live com is a good one to try if you don t already have one The second way of transferring photos off an iPhone iPad to the PC or Mac is to use a Wi Fi connection and wirelessly send your photos to PhotoStream so that they appear on your other Apple devices and your com puters with iCloud installed iCloud is built into OS X Lion on a Mac http www apple com icloud setup mac html but on a Windows machine it must be down loaded and installed http www apple com icloud setup pc html Going the other direction to get photos onto your iPhone iPad you would use the Photos tab in iTunes to choose the photos you want on your Apple mobile device With an Android device getting photos off and on the device generally involves connecting the device to your computer
21. ning properly This is the first time I encountered an installation problem with SS The installation CD comes with two bonus programs AutoSave Essen tials and Power Desk 8 Standard Avanquest sells AutoSave Essentials and Power Desk Pro for 39 95 each I installed Power Desk 8 Standard but not AutoSave as I have plenty of backup software already Power Desk is an augmented Windows File Manager I have used it for years and highly recommend it I also noticed that the SS now comes with a license for 5 PCs that will work with all ver sions of Windows XP and Windows 7 Opening SS I saw a new program inter face page that was improved over that of version 11 One of my favorite parts of SS is System Recovery where you may create a System Restore Point and a Checkpoint in the event you have a problem and have to go back I was pleasantly surprised to find that the restore point creation was much faster than in the prior version I can not tell you how many times I have used this feature to recover from a major prob lem I have used the included anti virus anti malware spyware and firewall in the past and have found them to work very well A part of SS that I especially like is the Registry Cleaner which has been excellent in the past and has never created a prob lem for me Another feature I like is to view Problems that SS has found and selec tively determine which one to fix If you are a person who does not wish to fiddle w
22. ns Bruce gave us a little computer history explaining the term bug originated with a World War II era computer that was en countering errors They literally found a moth in a relay of the computer that was causing the problem and thus had to de bug the computer to get it working again One challenge was reducing the size 4 July 2012 and increasing the speed of computers as the first ones filled entire large rooms Vacuum tubes were replaced by transis tors and then integrated circuits Eventu ally an entire processor fit on one chip The next hurdle was software The ear liest programs were hard wired into the computer but that was replaced by pro grams stored in the computer s memory The simplest programs are a series of in structions but more complex programs are built using reusable components Algo rithms are designed to perform a particular complex task such as searching for a par ticular string in some text British mathematician Alan Turing de vised a test for artificial intelligence With out seeing them if a judge cannot distin guish a human s answers from a computer s then the computer is deemed to have artificial intelligence Two more developments were needed toward this goal The first was natural lan guage processing of which the Eliza pro DCS gration overview Paul will also introduce Mike Walters who is their Business Devel opment Specialist and Paul will cover thei
23. ords Once you have found the password that you need either close or lock the program so that you must type the password to retrieve another Otherwise why encrypt or protect your passwords eWallet is available for download or purchase at http www iliumsoft com ewallet the iTunes App Store or the An droid Market Hew Porock is an APCUG director This article appeared in Hewie s Views amp Reviews http www hewie net and is dis tributed for reprint by user groups Select options below forthe type of password you d like to create end then chek Generate Password Password Length 12 Allowed Characters ters r Memory Aid Aid y Mid None C Mnemonic Sentence E _ Pronounceable C Dictonary Es Generated Password I irvine dirfioke Edn Feds Rata Horna Field Walia Cari acm Pindehe een SET Leer Farr cpr Eee oo Farmar cya ede LMJ botiri eee dey ere oer at ors mien tre Ley poe rep ee ees http www dacs org SIG Notes Cont from page 6 a text document but using audio files instead Once the audio files have been saved could then create a simple header announcing the recording details at the beginning of them The repackaged recordings would then be put on my pocket music player Jim Ritterbusch then demonstrated FreeNX a Re mote Desktop Tool webpage at hitp freenx berlios de The application is similar in functionality to Virtual Network Computing VN
24. p NOTES JULY CALENDAR Oona ua RA A Ww N REMEMBER OUR PASSWORDS Ask DACS Bucky MILAM CARTOON p j D gt S FUTURE EVENTS 2 July 2012 Apr May June Seat Count 40 45 22 Members Signed In a2 37 22 visitors signed in 6 8 0 L Old Business General meetings e July 3 Microsoft Retail Store Pre view Richard Corzo Review Elizabeth e August 7 Robotics and Beyond Paul Chayka amp Mike Morrissey e September 4 Tom Schonder of Google Google Apps Gmail Google Calendar Google Sites and Google Docs Google Voice and Google Plus e October 2 Dave Marra Apple s new desktop operating system OS X Mountain Lion which will be available in July 2 Possible future topics e Cloud storage services Dropbox box net Skydrive Mozy Carbonite YouSendIt etc proposed by Drew This would be a comparison of functionality and platforms supported i e Windows Mac Linux smartphones etc Jim and Richard would help with the smartphone support Richard set up a thread on the DACS forum Drew said he may be available to do this presentation in November or December e Presentation on Facebook Jim suggested having someone talk about how to configure the security privacy issues what does Like ac complish the difference between a group and a page e Online Learning focusing on personal enrichment courses rather than academic An example would be the offerings of Linda com Annette said
25. r Community Theater and its availability to any organization in the region For the next stage of the presentation they will break the meeting up in to smaller groups and then rotate stations between the various product categories within the store business computers laptops tab lets slates Windows phones Cloud ser vices Xbox and gaming etc If there are specific topics you d like them to address please let DACS info dacs org know so we can pass this on to the store and they can be sure to accomplish anything you need addressed by their team After the small group presentations we will regroup at the end to recap and you ll have an opportunity to ask any final ques tions about Microsoft its products and the store This will be an exciting evening for DACS Invite your friends colleagues and neighbors as this will be a good way to introduce them to DACS and the store at the same time The Microsoft store is located on the mall upper level to the left of Kay Jewel ers close to the center atrium Go to www dacs org for a map and directions gram was an example She gave answers and posed questions that mimicked those of a psychoanalyst The second develop ment was rules based systems IBM s Deep Blue was a rules based system that was eventually able to beat a human chess champion Combining natural language process ing with a rules based system IBM devel oped the Watson computing system which was able
26. rge will show up ona DACS members PayPal account The meeting adjourned at 9 15 PM Bruce Preston Do you have a burning computer question but can t make it to the meeting or just never seem to get your hand up in time Email your inquiry to Jim Scheef the answer guy at askdacs dacs org and your question will be taken up atAsk DACS at the next meeting July 2012 5 6 July 2012 Special Interest Groups SIG NOTES July 2012 Access Designs and implements solutions using Microsoft Access database management software Contact Bruce Preston 203 431 2920 boreston dacs org Meets on 2 Tuesday 7p m by virtual connection Next meeting July 10 check Website for technical details Apple Focuses on all aspects of the Mac and iPhone operating systems Contact Richard Corzo macsig dacs org Meets 1 t Thursday 7 p m at DACS Resource Center Next Meeting July 5 Digital Imaging All about digital cameras retouching and printing using various programs Contact Ken Graff at 203 775 6667 graffxx gmail com Meets last Wednesday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting July 25 Drupal Covers all things on Drupal the open source content management system CMS Contact Jim Scheef scheef dacs org Meets on the second Thursday at 7 00 p m at the DACS Resource Center or go to the DACS Community Forum hito www dacs org forun within the Members only area Next meeting
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30. t works on your device The PC version is 20 amp the oth ers are 10 each Only one license is needed for both the iPad amp iPhone You can try the PC version free for 30 days amp then it stops working unless you buy it Although the program manages your passwords well it has other features that may not be included in other programs in the same category They include Live Fields which enables you to jump to websites or dial phone numbers with just a tap Auto Pass brings up the webpage and fills in the username and password for you There is Smart Copy to quickly grab info for on line forms and PassBuilder that generates passwords for you if you want real security using unique pass words You can import data from some other programs using the Import Wizard eWallet stores your info ina file called a wallet You can have more than one wallet Each wal let contains categories and stores your information using cards in which you designate its category Cards can be printed as well as the entire wallet I use the search ability a lot It Lowercase Letters 2 2 E Uppercase Letters 4 2 E Numbers 0 9 E Punctuation searches the entire wallet for the letters that you type wherever they appear so finding an item is easy and quick Whether you use eWallet or another password management program do not au tomatically open the program at boot up This would allow anyone to be able to see or use your passw
31. that Udemy com has courses on a number of topics Harvard and MIT have teamed up to offer free online courses Elizabeth will continue to investigate this topic and try to find a speaker by emailing some of these companies directly e Jeff Robbins Drupal expert Andy has contacted him Jeff is interested in doing a presentation but is not able to commit to a date at this time Andy will follow up again in August e Bruce was going to investigate a former colleague who runs a private educational program for unemployed underemployed IT professionals Directors Notes Cont on page 3 DCS plibert dacs org Membership Information dacs doc ISSN 1084 6573 is published monthly by the Danbury Area Computer Society 27 Ole Musket Lane Danbury CT 06810 8232 Annual subscription rates 45 to regular members 30 electronic access in cluded in dues Postmaster Send address changes to Danbury Area Computer Society Inc 4 Gregory Street Danbury CT 06810 4430 Editorial Committee Ahmad Asgharian Allan Ostergren Managing Editor Production Editor Contributors Charles Bovaird Richard Corzo Richard DiFranco Drew Kwashnak John Lansdale Rob Limbaugh Bruce Preston Jim Scheef Joseph Tobin Annette van Ommeren DACS its officers and directors assume no li ability for damages arising out of the publica tion or non publication of any article advertise ment or other item in this newsletter The edito
32. to compete with Jeopardy con testants last year As a final example Bruce along with iPhone owner Richard Corzo demonstrated the Siri assistant on the iPhone It com bines speech recognition with no prior training to recognize the iPhone user s voice with a rules based engine located on some Internet based servers It had no trouble answering who won the Super Bowl in some particular year The audience made a few suggestions as to what to ask Siri and unfortunately Siri heard them all at once but picked one of them to provide an answer It s amazing to think how far we have come And we should give Bruce a special thank you for moving his presentation up a month to replace our original June speaker who couldn t make it http www dacs org Software Review System Suite Professional 2012 By Bart Koslow a comprehensive utility program that will tune up and repair your PC and provide malware virus spyware and firewall protec tion Unlike most programs to day it comes with a printed manual of 174 pages that guides you through the many aspects of the software I already had SS version 2011 installed on my com puter SS removes prior ver sions before installing the lat est one When I first installed SS Net Defense which is the firewall did not install After three back and forth emails with Avanquest support and three differ ing attempts to re install it I finally got ev erything up and run
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