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3. s too much to explain A Pioneer s Second Act The last example is not as ancient but I have never heard of anyone else using it In the early days of PC s before Lotus 1 2 3 there was VisiCalc a prototypical spreadsheet designed by Dan Bricklin It was one of the foundations of the desktop computer revolution Years after VisiCalc Dan developed ListGarden an application that lets web designers convert website entries into RSS feeds I found it because I was looking for exactly that type of utility and it was literally the only one that I could find I have been using it for years and I know that it is time to move to a CMS that will handle news feeds but here again there is a lot of work to make that transition It s on my to do list But for now ListGarden does the job and I appreciate it being available I have searched in vain to find anyone else using it so I guess I am a leftover All of this is not to say that I don t keep up with new things I m writ ing this article on a dual monitor system using Office 10 and saving the document to Dropbox I keep notes these days in OneNote And I am learning Access for my database management But the old software still works well enough for now So I Il hang onto Agenda for now and wait for the next version the end of the story My First Steps in Windows 8 By Tom Kuklinski President Computer Users of Erie PA January 2013 issue Horizons www cuerie com t
4. Italian AleK 20 11 2012 1 00 Polish Hightower 30 10 2012 1 00 Polish Strony internetowe Krakow 26 10 2012 1 00 Romanian Jaff Oprea Nicolae 13 12 2012 1 01 Russian Dmitry Yerokhin 12 12 2012 1 01 Simplified Chinese Simplified Chinese qzwqzw 28 10 2012 1 00 Spanish Spanish a Marcelo Camacho 15 11 2012 1 00 0 27 10 2012 1 00 sxml lt Filename gt Traditional Chinese The following actions and events are currently supported by LastActivityView other pesky irritants mak e Run EXE file EXE file run directly by the user or by another software service running in the ing it popular among his background huge and loyal user base In his spare time Nir per sonally maintains his web site and updates his soft ware aS well as creates new utilities software a reboot One of his newest titles LastActivity View has caught the attention of computer technicians fo rensic experts hobbyists and others who really want to know what has really been running on a comput er and when the computer was accessed Select file in open save dialog box The user selected the specified filename from the standard Save Open dialog box of Windows Open file or folder The user opened the specified filename from Windows Explorer or from another e View Folder in Explorer The user viewed the specified folder in Windows Explorer Software Installation The
5. Review Voyager S3 Drive Dock By George Harding Treasurer Tucson Computer Society AZ February 2013 issue eJournal www aztcs org Georgehardingsbd at earthlink net If you have a desktop computer and have had to change or add a new hard drive you know what a task that is Getting to the insides of the computer is the first challenge mine is under the desk so I have to disconnect all the cables and move the computer out where I can work on it Then you have to fish around and remove the old drive mount and connect the new one and then put everything back together The voyager S3 Drive Dock saves you a lot of time and effort It re quires a SATA drive and attaches to your computer with USB 3 0 You insert your drive in the dock turn the dock on and you are in business It appears in Explorer as just another drive and can be used as any other drive Using it to back up the system is really convenient Just start your backup software select the destination and go What could be easier Since the computer connection is USB you can swap drives in the dock without having to turn the computer off just plug and play While the dock is useful for a desktop it s even better for a laptop To replace the hard drive in a laptop means opening the base removing tiny screws and then installing the replacement Again the dock is a breeze to use with a laptop You are simply adding a hard drive in stead of replacing one The box c
6. tile or app All of these bars are dynamic and change depending on the focal point of Window 8 Sof Figure 6 App Menu A couple of other important points that have perplexed various users Windows 8 was originally designed for the computer to not normally Shutdown and therefore would not be turned off Most modern devic es tables smartphones etc run using very low power processors so they can run for 10 hours without being connected to power plus they also go to sleep very easily to conserve battery Many people fromthe desktop laptop world are used to turning their computers off periodically and will want to continue to do Shutdowns To accom plish this simply go to the Charms bar Settings Power From here you can shut down or restart the computer Another frequent question is how to close a Windows 8 app Desktop apps close in the normal manner by clicking the x in the upper right corner of the window Most Windows 8 apps are designed to run in the background at all times much like an iPad etc Since Windows 8 apps don t have an x in the upper right corner to close the app you close the app by taking the cursor to the top edge of the screen where the cursor will change to a hand Now click and drag to the bottom of the screen This will close the app In future articles I will cover various shortcuts and tips for making Windows 8 even easier the end of the story What does that ico
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8. 2 Click box to insert or remove a checkmark to agree to a setting option service etc Caution When downloading in stalling or updating software etc pay attention to any boxes with checkmarks Read the text to make sure you re not signing up subscribing to receive email advertisements or to download a free and possibly a problematic application or unsus pected viruses AR Editing Tools Cut scissors Copy two pages Paste paper on clipboard B Paste Font text Color Change text font color How First select the text and then click the dropdown triangle bottom right once to see color swatches select your color by moving the mouse arrow down and click amm T Once on your color selection When done deselect unselect the text by clicking the text box area once Email Reply A single arrow to the left Click it to reply to the sender of the email you received It aa a will insert email address subject and include the original message Next type your reply message Email Reply All A double arrow to the left Same as Reply but it sends your message to all those who also re ceived the original message from the sender all emails listed in the To and CC sections If you only want the sender to see your re sponse make sure you select Reply not Reply All Note If you re ceived an attachment in the original email Reply will not resend the attachment Email Forward Click to forw
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10. 8 upgrade disc It would not start I received an error It said that I had no autoexec dll file I could not get the upgrade to work So then I went to another version of Windows for upgrade I decided to convert a Windows XP Home Edition to Windows 8 I inserted the disc and received the exact same error This was confusing to me I did not have any more options for converting a previous Windows version without fixing my old versions Since this was an upgrade of Windows 8 I decided to try installation without a previous Windows version to see what would happen I inserted the Windows 8 disc and proceeded with an installation Windows 8 seemed to install After a while the process completed and I had Windows 8 running WOW This was not an upgrade but a new install from the Upgrade disc I just installed the 64 bit version I decided to look around this new version of Windows I was impressed It certainly is different It was exciting for me to see this new look of Windows 8 I decided to try to change the background Windows told me I first must Activate this installa tion I pulled out the Product Key and typed in the required numbers and letters This version would not Activate because the Product Key is for an upgrade So much for that However this installation of Win dows 8 continued to work with the exception of a few areas So I decided to start from scratch I made a new installation of Win dows XP Professional Now I tried to
11. and a CD ROM with instructions and a version of Acronis software The procedure for a desktop is to clone your hard drive to the SSD with the Acronis software Then you reboot from the SSD The hard drive can be used as storage for data and applications as usual Anoth er approach is to install operating system software to the SSD and boot from it For a laptop the procedure is somewhat different You first remove the internal hard drive and install in its place the SSD The internal hard drive is mounted in the supplied drive enclosure and attached to the laptop with the USB cable You clone the hard drive as before I had a few difficulties with these installations First I tried the desk top approach but the Acronis software would not clone the hard disk to the SSD The latter was grayed out in the destination choices so I took the alternate approach and loaded Windows 8 to the SSD and was able to boot to it In the case of the laptop I was not easily able to remove the internal hard drive so I gave up on that approach Kingston s Tech Support will be helping to solve my difficulties more later The HyperX is a well put together kit and should be usable by most anyone The instructions are very clear with pictures each step of the way The Acronis software is reliable Kingston About Kingston HyperX SSD Vendor Kingston www kingston com Price 275 203 Amazon 240GB 3K SSD the end of the stor 11
12. listed including date time description file names path on the hard drive and other information Every boot shutdown crash and other event was also duly recorded In addition to simply displaying a huge file with all of my computing activities LastActivityView also has the power to provide additional information for many of the items listed LastActivityView also can display de tailed information about program interactions and conflicts that caused software and hardware crashes The actual program file itself is tiny only about 100k in size and requires no installation It is totally portable and can be run from any Windows connected device The LastActivityView program an exe file is one of only three components included in the 64k ZIP compressed eT eer ian file download ema Options Help ed from Nir h a OHA I also copied the files to the USB flash drive that I always have on my car keychain so I can use it whenever and wherever needed According to the included readme txt file LastActivityView is a tool for Windows operating system that collects information from various sources on a running system and displays a log of actions made by the user and events occurred on this computer The activity displayed by LastActivityView includes Running exe file Opening open save dialog box Opening file folder from Explorer or other soft ware software installation system shutdown start application or sys tem crash
13. more familiar with it I will not go into further detail in this short article Instead I am sav ing that up in a future article However I must tell you that as I contin ue to use Windows 8 I am feeling comfortable with it and have good feelings about it I will tell you that later Stay tuned the end of the story Windows 8 The Basics By Howard Lewis Program Coordinator Midland Computer Club MI January 2013 issue Bits and Bytes Newsletter http mcc apcug org lewis3ha at chartermi net With Microsoft s release of Windows 8 there are a number of signifi cant changes in the interface Many people say that this is the biggest difference in the Windows interface since the release of Windows 95 in 1995 which is forever in the world of technology Part of the ra tionale for the change in the interface is to make a consistent interface between PCs laptops tablets smartphones etc With this article I will introduce some of the major concepts in the Windows 8 interface and will delve into some of the basic usage issues Knowing that many of the current applications are desktop specific Microsoft has two different types of interfaces built into Windows 8 The primary interface is the Start screen which is shown when Win dows 8 is first started Figure 1 SOF FSD DBavecw 4 Figure 1 Windows Start Screen Continued on page 8 Continued from page 7 The Start screen contains Tiles which will l
14. network connection disconnection and more The file created by LastActivityView can be quickly exported in a variety of formats that can be utilized by a variety of other programs that can read csv tab delimited xml or html formatted information A simple copy and paste can also place information in other programs such as an Excel spreadsheet For those who may wish to customize the execution of LastActivityView several command line options are available but most users will find that simply running the file without any additional commands will provide comprehensive and useful in formation Filename Soft the other Action Time fe 5 18 2013 12 06 41 AM two items in fe 5 17 2013 10 12 37 PM the ZIP file are E15 17 2013 10 12 37 pm fe 5 17 2013 10 12 37 PM a small fe 5 17 2013 10 12 19 PM readme txt 5 17 2013 10 05 21 PM file with sim G 5 17 2013 10 05 21 PM Description User Logoff Windows Installer Started Windows Installer Ended Windows Installer Ended Windows Installer Started n Open file or folder Documents library ms Open file or folder 0517 13 xlsx j 5 17 2013 10 05 21 PM Select file in open save 051713 xlsx ple instructions 5 17 2013 19 05 03 pm Open file or folder 0515 13 xlsx and other in L 5 17 2013 10 04 58 PM Open file or folder XLSTART Ein 5 17 2013 10 04 58 PM ES UbitMenu 4_UK xlam formation and 5 17 2013 9 36 07 PM Open file or folder Software Installation
15. of files between closely situated within a few centimeters devices This interface may be instrumental in allowing you to use your device as a wallet in the future Once you ve decided to buy a tablet the next thing is to evaluate the Performance Capacity and Ports of the most interesting offerings in the market Usually there will be a few that meet most of your crite ria At that point it becomes a matter of value capability for dollars Good luck ithe end of the story m Living in the Past Computing in a Software Museum John Davey Workshop Leader Cascading Style Sheets Workshop Philadelphia Area Computer Society www pacsnet org http pacs css blogspot com mail at jadavey net It was at a recent meeting of my computer user group that it hit me I do my computing in a museum It s not my hardware My printers from several presidential admin istrations ago and parts from 286 and 386 laptops have all been deliv ered to the local recycler Ditto that 19 inch CRT monster Though I did keep the Leading Edge Model D that started me off you never know when you will need a fallback No I m talking about software It was at the PHP session The topic was email and the session leader was talking about scripting an HTML email message He threw in the suggestion to include a fallback version in case a subscriber was using an email client that did not display HTML It was as if he was talking about writin
16. specified software has been installed or updated System Started The computer has been started System Shutdown The system has been shut down directly by the user or by a software that initiated Resumed from sleep The computer has been resumed from sleep mode Network Connected Network connected after previously disconnected Network Disconnected Network has been disconnected Software Crash The specified software has been crashed Software stopped responding hang The specified software stopped responding e Blue Screen Blue screen event has been occurred on the system e User Logon The user logged on to the system reboot User Logoff The user logged off from the system This even might caused by a software that initiated a e Restore Point Created Restore point has been created by Windows operating system e Windows Installer Started e Windows Installer Ended Continuea on page 4 Continued from page 3 Windows users may be passively aware that their computers save extensive but often invisible files about what they have run LastAc tivityView has the capability to read these historical files and display additional information about many of the computer s activities On my primary computer this record starts on the day it was manufac tured and documents everything that I have done since I first powered it on after removing it from its box Every piece of software that I ever installed or uninstalled is
17. that desktop program it was easier just to leave them there So every December I crank up the Palm Desktop program to retrieve my old addresses for the holidays From the Days of DOS I go even farther back with my diary program It s not even a Win dows application Lotus again comes into play The story is that Mitch Kapor the mind behind 1 2 3 had a habit of keeping notes on slips of paper Looking for a way to organize information the way spread sheets organized numbers he had Lotus develop a personal infor mation manager called Agenda running in DOS Agenda was my kind of program It was a free form database with calendaring functions and organization on the fly I could create pro jects enter notes set up due dates and track completions I bought the first version from an online auction for a Boston PBS station back when I used CompuServe for access pre internet of course I bought a 2400 bps modem at that same auction to upgrade from a 1200 model The second version of Agenda came out in 1992 and that was the end of development When Lotus developed SmartSuite for Windows it bought an organizer called yup Organizer It just wasn t the same For whatever reason I can t find a program that works my way as Agenda does These days I have to run it in DOSBox People coming by my desk want to know what website I am using or whether the program would work for them I just tell them to find something else It
18. this point I want to jump ahead to Part II Reference and look over the section on filters Chapter 17 GIMP comes loaded with all kinds of nifty tools to use to transform an image The authors state that while some of the tools are not strictly filters they are included in this chap ter because they are included under the program s Filter menu The breakdown by category also follows the menu listing blur en hance distorts light and shadow edge detect generic combine artis tic decor map and render I ve often been at a loss when it comes to figuring out how many of the gizmos under the Filters menu work Sometimes I just want to know how to use a particular tool sometimes I need to know why I would want to Whether you just want to apply corrective measures or transform an image into an artistic rendition the tools are part of GIMP and suggested uses are detailed in these pages 12 _ From the Exec VP Editor s desk AA PA F z i Required reading What Has Your Computer Been Doing Free Utility Shows All by Ira Wlsker PAGE 3 Performance Capacity Ports Tablet discriminators by Phil Sorrentino PAGE 5 Living in the Past Computing in a Software Museum _ by John Davey PAGE 6 My First Steps in Windows 8 by Tom Kuklinski PAGE 7 Windows 8 The Basics by Howard Lewis PAGE 7 What does that icon mean by Veronica Valero PAGE 9 Review Kingston HyperX SSD by George H
19. world Use the information WizTree pro vides to quickly locate and remove space hogs from your hard drive WizTree obtains information by directly scanning the the MFT file so it can only work with local directly attached drives formatted with the NTFS file system It won t work with network drives substituted drives or non NTFS formatted drives We may add support for other drive types in the future if there s enough demand File Options A P Drive NTFS Drive G SF TestFiles v san eT mae Space Used Space Free _ Donate ee va ES fre ise WiztTree v1 0 Scan complete in 0 27 seconds 2012 Antibody Software www antibody software com Help us make WizTree better Tree View Top 1000 Largest Files About Folder Percent of Parent Files Folders Modified Attribute G 100 0 T 5 364 266 11 28 2012 4 08 19 PM J 5 Music Files 48 4 91 11 28 2012 4 20 30 PM 3 65 Office Files 22 0 22 11 28 2012 4 20 30 PM B Video Files 19 8 11 24 2012 11 21 37 AM 05 Photos 4 3 42 11 14 2012 3 35 23 PM B misc 2 1 11 28 2012 4 20 30 PM 65 Graphics 1 2 11 28 2012 4 20 30 PM por 1 0 11 28 2012 4 20 30 PM 11 Files in G 0 4 2 16 2012 1 14 27 PM 3 G5 Dev Files 0 4 11 13 2012 10 56 09 AM 8 SExtend 0 1 11 19 2012 10 26 03 AM 3 8 Private 0 0 9 25 2012 9 45 54 AM B Database Files 0 0 11 13 2012 10 56 18 AM B Flash 0 0 7 24 2012 5 50 59 PM 5 System Volume Inform
20. Depending on how many scripts are running inside your tabs moving them to OneTab can also speed up your com puter by reducing the CPU load We have also had reports that this also contributes to your computer resuming from sleep more quickly More Features OneTab lets you easily export and import your tabs as a list of URLs You can also create a web page from your list of tabs so that you can easily share your tabs with other people other comput ers or with your smartphone or tablet You can drag and drop tabs in your OneTab list to reorder them You can also hold down the Ctrl or Cmd key while restoring tabs and they will remain in your OneTab list meaning you can use OneTab as a way of quickly launching a set of commonly used tabs OneTab supports retina displays Note that OneTab is designed to leave in place any pinned tabs you have You will not lose your list of tabs if you accidentally close the OneTab window if your browser crashes or if restart your computer May 2013 Update we ve just released a new version of OneTab with lots of new features including a right click menu named tab groups starred and locked tab groups web site exclusions and much more Thank you for all of your feature suggestions We are working on more features so please keep the feedback coming To install OneTab into Google Chrome go to http www one tab com Works as advertised free PJK What Has Your Computer Bee
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22. a little straightening and a lot of exposure adjustments The tutorial that starts off Chapter 2 Enhancing Badly Taken Photo graphs addresses both of these issues and more Just perfect The directions are clear accurate and broken down into easy to follow steps There are plenty of accompanying screen shots of dialogs and example images The tutorial provides basic instructions more de tailed amp In depth coverage comes in later chapters for cropping straightening and restoring perspective Correcting exposure and col or balance comes next How to remove a distracting object from the image add sharpness and correct for red eye follows The section on the pros and cons of resizing an image or image layer also includes a nice discussion of resolution and printing hard copy The shear tool is explained However the authors do mention that it is rarely useful All images seem to need a bit of tweaking of the brightness contrast and hue and so there is an explanation of how to use the levels color balance and curves tools Once again the step by step instructions are easy to understand and follow The authors of this book do an admirable job of covering the subjects that you expect to find in books of this flavor But this book actually does present Everything GIMP Whether you are interested in that obscure rarely used feature or are looking for the theory behind the process it is touched upon between these covers At
23. age up or page down or 2 next window or view or 3 previous window or view Triangles amp Vs Down or Up 1 click to scroll down or up or 2 click to see a dropdown menu and make a selection Triangles amp Vs Left or Right Can mean 1 Play audio or video 2 Click to scroll left or right 3 click to go backward or forward or 4 click to see more options etc Doubles Triangles amp double Vs Left or Right 1 Takes you to the beginning or the end 2 Fast back or Fast forward or 3 Previous or next section selection or song etc Back button and forward buttons When pointing left click it to go to the previous webpage s or window When pointing to the right click it to take you back where you were It s like flipping back and forth through a book or magazine It remembers where you ve been Microsoft Windows Start button four square Ej icon Click to see Microsoft s Start Menu XP ay 5 Vista Windows 7 or Start Page Windows 8 i Note Some keyboards have a Windows Start key to the side of the Spacebar press once to open the Start Menu or Start Page Continued on page 10 Continued from page 9 Apple s Finder Square Smile Icon on a Mac Found on the left side of the Dock this icon is your virtual filing system like Window s Library My Docu ments Click it to access your storage folders Docu ments Pictures Music Movies D
24. ard the email to one or more people It will insert the subject and include origi nal message You will need to enter the email addresses and then type your reply message Note If you received an attachment in the original email Forward will include the attach ment unless you changed the default the end of the stor Review Kingston HyperX SSD By George Harding Treasurer Tucson Computer Society AZ February 2013 issue eJournal www aztcs org Georgehardingsbd at earthlink net SSD s are a wonderful addition to the hardware library of storage devices They are small have no moving parts and are much faster than other storage media On the down side they are more expensive than other media and storage sizes are smaller than what is easily available in other media The speed advantage is one that can be capi talized on to load one s operating system faster You can use your hard drive to hold and access your applications and data or you can use the SSD for some applications those that take longer to load I received a very nice 240 GB unit for review I had tried a couple of other SSDs but had problems of one sort or another with them The Kingston unit comes complete with what you need to install it in either your desktop or your laptop The box contains the SSD a nifty screwdriver suitable for either Phil lips or slotted screw heads a drive enclosure a 3 5 mounting brack et a USB cable a SATA drive cable
25. arding PAGE 11 Review Voyager S3 Drive Dock by George Harding PAGE 11 Review The Book of GIMP A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything by Iris Yoffa PAGE 12 I will not be at the June 16 2013 Sunday 2013 PACC meeting Vishnu will be presiding PJK Please confirm your e mail address so the PACC TALK notification can go out to let you know the newsletter is at the PACC web site ready to download Thank you PJK IMPORTANT NOTICE The PACC web site is working You are again able to get your copy of PACC TALK there Zf you have a problem with viewing it with Adobe Reader use another PDF reader such as Nitro to view the PACC TALK PACC Web Site http pacc apcug org For those who would like to ponder The Physiology of Vision optical illusions the screen to printer process and color theory ap pendix A would be your cup of tea Appendix B provides Tips and Hints for many of the exercises included at the end of the chapters If 630 pages of GIMP aren t enough for you Appendix C offers addi tional resources Appendix D is titled Frequently Asked Questions about GIMP and is just that Appendix E provides installation help for GNU Linux and UNIX Windows and Mac OS X Appendix F covers batch processing of images If you want to learn how to use a robust image editing application and are willing to invest the time effort and practice required to do so this is the book for you The quality and quanti
26. ation 11 2 2012 10 11 04 AM SRECYCLE BIN 10 26 2012 8 22 47 PM 5 Private Files 11 19 2012 4 33 59 PM m N A un oOo KF NO OWW ON Onelab Save up to 95 memory and reduce tab clutter in Google Chrome e C fi Before 1981 MB memory www bDECCOUK new Y ised ve 95 memory reduction After only 99 MB memory used How it works Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list When you need to access the tabs again you can either restore them individually or all at once When your tabs are in the OneTab list you will save up to 95 of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome Privacy assurance We take your privacy seriously Your tab URLs are never transmitted or disclosed to either the OneTab developers or any other party and icons for tab URL domains are generated by Google The only exception to this is if you intentionally click on our share as a web page feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the share as a web page button How do you make money OneTab is free of charge and is not de signed to make money It was created because we badly needed it for our own use and we wanted to share it with the world Additional Benefits
27. aunch Windows 8 specific apps One of the unique things about these tiles is that they can be live In other words if you have a weather app running in Windows 8 the current temperature for a specific location will be displayed live The same will be true of stock sports scores news etc The interface is designed for a touch interface but can easily be navigated with a keyboard and mouse The second interface is the Desktop screen Figure 2 The Desktop screen looks and is very much like the very familiar Windows 7 interface The one major difference is that the Start menu is missing replaced by the Start screen Figure 2 Windows 8 Desktop Screen Almost all applications that have run under Windows versions since Windows XP will run in this mode Most current Windows users will feel very much like they are working in Windows XP Vista or Win dows 7 At this point I probably spend 80 of my time in the Desk top The default Start screen tiles include a tile lower left Tile in Fig ure 1 to directly access Desktop mode for easy access Any Windows applications not designed for Windows 8 will automatically run in Desktop mode The major changes and focus of this article is the Start screen Those who are familiar with smartphones and using a touch device will probably have no problem navigating the Start screen interface The problem is for those of us who are desktop or laptop centric If you are using a mouse the key
28. focal points should be the corners of the screen Both the upper right and lower right corners bring up what is called the Charms bar Figure 3 and it will be located on the right side of the screen This bar includes Search Share Start Devices and Settings All of these things were incorporated into the Start menu on previous versions of Windows The Charms bar is available from both the Start screen and the Desktop Fig 3 Charms Bar The upper left corner brings up the App Switcher bar Figure 4 This bar will be located on the left side of the screen The App Switcher displays all apps that are currently running in either the Start screen or the Desktop and makes it easy to switch between various apps The lower left corner will allow you to switch between the Desktop and Start screens The App Switcher is only available from the Start screen Fig 4 App Switcher When you are on the Start screen or in a Windows 8 app there are two other bars of interest one at the top of the screen and one at the bot tom One or both of these bars will appear when you right click in an app or on a tile Both of these bars are app Tile specific but in certain apps the top bar is called the Places bar Figure 5 and the bottom one is referred to as the App Menu Figure 6 Figure 5 Places The Places bar allows you to specify information specific to an app whereas the App Menu allows you to specify certain properties for a
29. from the tablet This is one method of getting your entertainment media pictures and vide os on to or off of the tablet This is how you can get the pictures or videos that you captured with your tablet s camera into your picture collection on your computer Again at this time Apple unfortunate ly has not included a USB connection on any of its iPad devices alt hough they do provide a 30 pin dock connector that may be used to connect to a computer Another valuable port found on some tablets is a micro HDMI port With this interface the tablet can directly show video picture and sound on any TV with an HDMI input which is found on almost every new flat panel TV Again at this time Apple unfortunately has not included a micro HDMI port on any of its iPad devices alt hough they do provide a 30 pin dock connector that may be used to output video Two other interface connections should be considered as ports alt hough they are not obvious when you look at the hardware These are Wi Fi and Bluetooth neither of which has a hardware connection because both of these are wireless interfaces These interfaces allow the tablet to interact with other devices that subscribe to the Wi Fi and Bluetooth wireless standards And finally although few tablets incor porate this let s not forget about NFC Near Field Communications This wireless interface has many uses but may only end up on smartphones NFC will allow easy transfer
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31. g a webpage for someone who might be using Netscape Navigator 4 but I actually use an email program that does not dis play HTML pages at least not with my setup Not surprisingly I was the only one in the group And that got me thinking about how many software relics that I use at home and even at work and that I actually reinstall every time I buy a new computer Mail from Another Era The email client goes back to the 90 s Java was a hot new platform and OS 2 was competing with Windows as a PC operating system that s a whole nother story A developer built an email client in Java so that it could run on any operating system It was called JStreet Mailer and it was perfect for people like me who dual booted between OS s I made it my email program As good an idea as it was it did not take off The developer ceased working on the mailer but he was generous enough to release the source to some volunteer coders They maintained it for a while as Polarbar Mailer The last update was somewhere around 2003 It is a very well thought out program but needless to say the feature set is behind the times And frankly under Windows 7 it freezes up regularly I still use it every day though At this point I have so many addresses and folders of saved emails that the task of migrating to a new program is too daunting to consider New Data Old Base My database program is even older Back in the DOS days when Lo tus was it
32. hed by a feisty software engineer Nir Sofer on his website at www nirsoft net Nir personally writes all of his own software in his spare time and makes it available to all for free Many of his utilities are given the highest rat ings by a variety of web services and computer pub lications all of his software is free of advertising and Actions Events List Command Line Options stext lt Filename gt Save the actions and events list into a regular text file Istab lt Filename gt Save the actions and events list into a tab delimited text file scomma lt Filename gt Save the actions and events list into a comma delimited text file csv stabular lt Filename gt Save the actions and events list into a tabular text file shtml lt Filename gt Save the actions and events list into HTML file Horizontal sverhtml lt Filename gt Save the actions and events list into HTML file Vertical Save the actions and events list into XML file Language Translated By Date Version Arabic Fomam5 23 02 2013 1 01 Brazilian Portuguese SoftDownload 24 10 2012 1 00 Czech Lukas Misieek 30 11 2012 1 00 Dutch Jan Verheijen 14 12 2012 1 01 French Micka l S 27 10 2012 1 00 French Netbew 26 02 2013 1 01 German Latino auf WinTotal de 17 03 2013 1 01 Greek EaiUoco Eadoadaphaco 24 10 2012 1 00 Hungarian Kiss D nes Laszlo 17 12 2012 1 01
33. install Windows 8 Pro Upgrade No good This Windows 8 said I must have Service Pack 3 installed Okay I have come this far so I downloaded and installed the Service Pack 3 to Windows XP Professional Finally I said this must be what this upgrade wants Viola Windows 8 Pro began to install The instal lation completed and I activated the product Windows 8 Pro is finally up and running Now to spend some time looking around If you are a Windows user now then this version will look foreign to you It is quite different in its layout Upon first glance Windows 8 has two faces One face is composed of rectangles and small squares This is the foreign side of Windows 8 Then there is the side that looks familiar It appears like a typical Win dows desktop however it does not have a Start Button or a true Taskbar as I knew it Navigating around the screen was different I quickly learned that different keys and certain areas of the screen would do different things to Windows 8 Now what do I do I soon found a friend I also have to tell you that I am doing this from a lap top and not a touch screen device I have a keyboard and mouse or trackpad The friend is the WINDOWS KEY on my keyboard This KEY is really Key to getting around Windows 8 I began to experi ment and learned how to navigate I learned where things are placed in this new version Believe me it is different but yet felt similar As I continued to use Windows 8 I became
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35. kuklinski at gmail com I know you were breathless in waiting for Microsoft s release of its newest Version of Windows It is simply called Windows 8 It is now here for you to use and enjoy Are you familiar with it In this article I hope to give you a little insight into it Microsoft offers Windows 8 as a download for only 39 95 This is actually an upgrade You will need to have a previous version of Win dows in order to upgrade The versions that qualify are Windows XP Vista and Windows 7 If you do not want to download this upgrade then you can order the disc for 69 95 I purchased the disc version of the upgrade It is Windows 8 Pro In the box are One disc for 32 bit and one disc for 64 bit installation Also in the box is a paper credit card size Product Key for Activation The packaging is tasteful clean and simple One more card contained the instructions for installation It simply showed three steps 1 Insert disc 2 Follow the steps and 3 Enter your key It also gave instructions in Getting around with a touch screen or a mouse Again clean and simple instructions So I did as instructed I first made a complete backup of my Windows 7 I did this just in case I wanted to go back to it if I did not like Win dows 8 Once you go to Windows 8 as an upgrade you cannot reverse this process You will have to reinstall your previous version if you want it back After I made the backup of Windows 7 I inserted the Windows
36. me In your Internet browser clicking this icon once takes you back to your home website the website page that first appears when you open your Internet b browser Cogwheel or Tool image Tools Settings Preferences or Options Click to customize or adjust the settings features of the application Word Outlook Mac Mail iTunes Apps etc or ser vices Online email such as Gmail Comcast DropBox Skype Pando ra online banking etc Menu Click to see a dropdown menu of options This icon is replacing the menu bars on several browsers webmail appli cations and tablet and smartphone apps 10 Undo My favorite button It un does the last thing you ie did 1 Brings back what you accidently deleted or lost 2 Deletes what you just typed 3 Removes formatting that you decided not to do bold font style color etc 4 Removes any changes you just made resized a picture added color added boarders etc Note On some applications when you keep clicking it you will sequentially remove previous actions Redo It puts back what the Undo button removed Refresh Usually found in Internet browsers and other applications This icon lets you update changes on s webpages where content is constantly changing such as stock market prices news items weather updates etc click the Re fresh icon to update Caution Refresh looks similar to the Redo icon Checkmark 1 Click to accept changes
37. n Doing Free Utility Shows All by Ira Wilsker Member Golden Triangle PC Club TX Columnist The Examiner Beaumont TX Radio Show Host Mondays 6 7pm CT KLVI com WEBSITES http www nirsoft net http www nirsoft net utils computer_activity_view html https www techsupportalert com content nifty way find out what your windows computer has been doing htm Many of us have encountered frustrations with our computers Sometimes it appears that running programs crash or otherwise cease functioning without explanation On older computers most notorious ly those running Windows XP a cryptic Blue Screen of Death BSOD sometimes appears when there is a crash of some type often displaying nonsensical error codes that require extensive research to decode Some suspicious computer users believe that oth ers are accessing their computer running unauthorized software or malware Other wary users may find it interesting seeing what other people may have done on a particular computer and what programs they may have run what documents were viewed and when what time the computer was booted and shut down If a computer was infected by malware it may often be of great interest to see what was being run on the computer at the time of infestation and even identify the malware and its payload This and more can be readily displayed by a tiny free utility LastActivityView LastActivityView is one of dozens of small free utilities publis
38. n mean By Veronica Valero Member Golden Gate Computer Society CA one on one computer tutoring though her business Computer Tutor of Marin March 2013 Issue GGCS newsletter www ComputerTutorMarin com www ggcs org editor at ggcs org When I took a recent airline trip to attend a family wedding I planned to rely on mass transit during our visit to Seattle But I almost didn t get out of the airport because I didn t correctly interpret airport icons on signs leading to the light rail transport I recognized familiar symbols for men s and women s restrooms fol lowed light rail symbols down several corridors and two escalators and boarded the rail train But it never left the airport Turns out I boarded an internal rail system not the Seattle light rail as pointed out by kind passengers when we asked how to pay This situation is no different for computer users These last few years the computer software industry has removed or hidden text driven drop down menus and replaced them with a plethora of icons that somehow magically users are supposed to interpret Hovering over an icon may reveal the answer but this method wastes time A little computer history In 1983 Apple Computers Inc launched Lisa the first personal computer with a graphic interface and its fa mous mouse the point and click device that revolutionized the com puter industry At that time commands were generated by keystrokes and our memories Fo
39. o the best test for performance is to try out the tablet yourself while doing some of the things that you intend for the tablet like web surfing displaying pictures and videos or playing a game try Angry Birds for fun Many tablets can be taken for a test drive at the big box stores like Best Buy and Office Depot So much for Performance now for Capacity The Capacity of a tablet is typically the amount of solid state memory the tablet provides It is basically the data storage component of the tablet which currently ranges from about 1GB to 64GB This storage is space that is availa ble for your Apps software programs and data used by the Apps Today capable tablets usually have from 8GB to 32GB of memory Many Android tablets and Microsoft s Surface also include a mi croSD slot for extending the memory capacity Currently the SDHC standard has been implemented in the microSD hardware allowing for up to 32GB of added memory capacity At this time Apple unfortu nately has not included a memory expansion slot on any of its iPad devices although they do sell a model with 64GB of memory Ports refers to the availability of interface connections provided by the tablet This is the way your tablet interacts with your other devices Some tablets include a micro mini or standard size USB connector The USB interface allows the tablet to be connected to a computer desktop or laptop in order to move files to and
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41. omes with a brief User Manual the dock itself which has a slot for a 2 5 drive and a hinged flap for a 3 5 drive a power cord and transformer and a USB 3 0 cable that is backward compatible with USB 2 0 The dock itself has a power button which supplies power to the SA TA drive an activity LED which also serves to show when power is on and a drive eject button No drivers are required This is a handy solution to having an additional hard drive easily accessible with the ability to swap out multiple drives for either your desktop or your laptop About Voyager S3 Drive Dock Vendor Newer Tech www newertech com Price 35 the end of the story Review The Book of GIMP A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything By Iris Yoffa Member Tucson Computer Society Arizona February 2013 issue eJournal www aztcs org Irisonthego at gmail com This hefty volume claims to be your THE BOOK O source of information and guidance to nearly everything GIMP And indeed at first glance at the Contents in Detail the book does seem to meet the chal TA lenge of the sub title s boast The Book of GIMP is divided into three sections Learning GIMP Refer ence and Appendices I jumped into 3 Part 1 Chapter 2 Photograph retouch ing The sample image used reminded me of a potentially interesting pic my sister took with her cell phone on a recent visit I had grabbed a copy of her image with the idea of apply ing
42. ownloads applica tions etc ee Delete Trash Recycle Select your Ea Gare oe document email item or text and then click this icon to delete it Sometimes to permanently delete the item such as documents and emails you need to empty the Delete Trash or Recycling folder Note In some applications the X and Don t images circle with line through also means Cancel Search Magnifying Glass Found in Internet browsers at websites in your computer in applications etc Click once _in the text box and type key word s and then click the magnifying glass icon or the Go Search or Find text to __ locate word s or topics ete Q search i ocument J or reduce Clicking this icon generally increases or decreases the font and image size i 100 Zoom Magnifying Glass in out Looks like a search but usually has the word Zoom 100 or plus and minus signs Click to enlarge New Browser Tab To open a new win dow while keeping the current window accessible click the Tab the icon with the plus sign or the blank tab to the right of an existing tab This action lets you have your webmail in one tab your Google com webpage in another while you open another tab to do shopping researching or watching Youtube com etc To delete a Tab Without closing the browser hover the mouse over the tab and click the X to close just that tab UN Tools Help House Ho
43. r example to bold text using the PC WordStar word processor you pressed the Command Ctrl key then P and then B to tell the com puter to begin bolding when printing Next you typed the text To stop bolding you repeated the above keystrokes If you forgot to stop bolding you wouldn t know until you printed the document because computers were not yet WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get until Apple entered the scene Apple Computer changed the command driven way of computing that required you to memorize many exact commands We can still use these key based commands common ones for Macs Apple and PCs include To save a document Press and hold the Ctrl key then press the S key and release for the Mac press the Command key in place of the Ctrl key To print Ctrl P To copy Ctrl C To paste Ctrl V To cut Ctrl X To undo Ctrl Z Unfortunately the current computer trend toward turning all text into symbols has gone too far Keeping up with all the new imagery is counter productive and frus trating to many This move toward iconography has moved to our phones smart phones iPads tablets readers and many electronic gadgets My experience at the airport demonstrates how this trend is infiltrating our world To help you survive the next stage of the computer symbol ic evolution below are common cross platform cross application sym bols Memorize these icons and you may just survive the dawning of th
44. re ARM Nvidia Apple Intel and AMD Apple CPUs are found in the iPad and CPUs from the other manufacturers are found in the Android and Windows 8 tablets There are at least two high performance CPU chips being used in the latest tablets the Nvid ia quad core Tegra 3 in Android tablets and the Apple A5X in the latest iPad The performance of both of these tablets is breathtaking But keep in mind not all tablets have the latest processors CPU performance can be determined by running benchmark tests Benchmark test data is rarely available but sometimes it can be found in reviews done by a magazine or other organization Benchmark tests attempt to measure performance by running typically very lengthy and very complicated programs to see how long it takes to complete the task There are many different benchmarks and when many different benchmark tests are run on a group of processors the results may not always be conclusive CPUs are sometimes fast in certain computa tional areas and not so fast in other areas like data transfer To really evaluate a CPU with a benchmark test the benchmark test should be as close to the eventual use of the processor as possible but this is not always easy to specify Benchmark tests that involve a user such as testing a game on a tablet are even more difficult to use because playing and observing a game may be very subjective especially if it involves the screen display and input from the game player S
45. s own company they developed the 1 2 3 spreadsheet When the transition to Windows came along they purchased a great word processor called Ami Pro and renamed it Word Pro And they pur chased a database program called Approach It was a relational DB not flat file and it was a good one They put these together with some other programs and marketed the package as SmartSuite They had both OS 2 and Windows versions so this one was also perfect for dual booting Then came Microsoft Office enough said The last version of Smart Suite was released around 2002 I bought that update for about 35 from a vendor at a computer show Approach itself was worth many times that amount I used it to learn how to design and build databases I did one for my passwords and another for our user group s attend ance sheets and I still use them both The program may be behind the times but it works so I hang in there again it s too much of an ef fort to move A Pre App App Then there is my address book I had forgotten this one until I went to do my Christmas cards I had a Palm III that I bought used from a guy back when Palm was the thing It came with a nice desktop application that synched with the Palm and made it easy to enter information in either place You could also beam information between devices remember that The original Near Field Communications The Palm itself has long been retired but there were so many contacts in
46. s versions like FroYo Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean or Microsoft s Windows 8 Pro or RT And then with the number of tablets and Operating Systems the choice can really get difficult But another way to help you make the final choice may be just to look at Performance Capaci ty and Ports Performance is a measure of how fast the device is and how well it accomplishes the desired task Capacity is a measure of how much you can do with this device And Ports is a measure of how well the device will interact interface with the outside world Tablet performance is very hard to measure and quantify but you really know when you don t have enough When you do have plenty of performance it is hard to ascribe the quality to any one thing spe cifically But usually we look at the speed of the CPU However performance is very closely tied to the memory features so perfor mance may involve the memory speed as well as the CPU speed Performance of the tablet CPU is measured in GHz and currently good performance tablets clock in at around 1GHz Because tablets are typically touchscreen devices the first thing we do to ascertain performance is to try to control the operation with our finger flicks and swipes Objects should move when flicked and actions should take place when the screen is tapped If there is any lag it is immedi ately noticed There are many different CPU processors used in tablets Some of the manufacturers a
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48. ty of the content is outstanding The Contents in Detail and extensive index make it easy to find help with whatever questions or GIMP challenges that con front you About The Book of GIMP A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything Authors Olivier Lecarme Karine Delvare Publisher No Starch Press http nostarch com gimp ISBN 13 978 1593273835 Price 49 95 26 34 Amazon com the end of the stor MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FOR PACC Please print in CAPS OCP FINO Nveuecnstseatpur ne sapaascqeae E EEE E INTERES T Sewsapaacenaseus ape emesanncuecentaheeossaneonnenmmatepieiannatiaanariane S RECOMMENDED BY PACC MEMBER cc ceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Dues 25 per year Make your check out to PACC and send it with your application to Treasurer PACC 216 Cashmere Court Cranberry Twp PA 16066 CUNEO icvcscwccdunsccncseseussctssasdscevecbioscaseeesstaetstusscissesdsaiucesvesescscecev CULT C PACC HELP LINE Help is available to PACC members on various computer topics by contacting one of those listed below It is recommended that the initial contact with any of these experts should be made via the PACC WEB SITE In this way others can benefit from the questions and responses Be courteous and call only during the listed times NAME COMPUTER AREA PHONE TIME Agrawala Vishnu Hardware 724 553 8051 3 6 00 pm Cutrara Phil Geoworks 766 0274 Fisher Bill Cobol Word Perfect 367 8996 7 9 00pm Konecny P Windows DOS 6
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