Monthly Meetings
OUR NEXT MEETING
All meetings are free and open to the public
The next meeting is on Tuesday, March 6th at 7:00 PM in Multi-Use Room 3 at the Fort Collins Senior Center
At The March meeting you will have the opportunity to learn about two different topics. The first topic is a brief discussion of what you need to do to challenge an invalid PayPal© transaction.
The second topic will give you some insight in how your computer can be used for video entertainment. Selected video streaming services will be reviewed. Most people think of YouTube when "video streaming" is mentioned. Today, however, there are many other similar and/or competing services—some of the more well-known names are Netflix© for movies and Hulu© for TV. Amazon is also in this market, starting at the beginning of 2011, and Wal Mart started a service about mid-2011. There are services that provide free access to videos and services that charge a fee (and some services provide both choices, with more content available with the subscriptions). You CAN (yes, you really can) have fun with your computer!
Odds and Ends of Computer and Technology News—February 2012
Google's Broken Promise
"In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today [January 24, 2012] that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them. So much for the Google we signed up for." [effective March 1, 2012]
Connect to http://gizmodo.com/5878987/its-official-google-is-evil-now for more information.
Connect to http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Hide_From_Google for one opinion on what to do about this situation.
Century Link Usage Caps Start This Month
Connect to http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CenturyLink-is-Imposing-Usage-Caps-117116 for more information.
Other ISP Usage Caps
Connect to http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-threats-to-the-golden-age-of-the-internet/3024, item 4 for a table of usage caps from other ISPs.
Usage caps are one of ten "Threats to the Golden Age of the Internet" discussed in this article.
"Network in a Box"?
Have you heard of Office 365? Is this the future of the "Cloud"? Connect to http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-manager/office-365-and-the-future-of-cloud/7244?tag=bos-vw-three;bos-i3 for one man's forecast.
Are you satisfied with the quality of MP3 music?
There is at least one very vocal person who is not. Connect to http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/why-neil-young-hates-mp3-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ to find out why.
ASK YOUR QUESTION
Our Monthly Meetings provide an open forum for questions on PC hardware and software, or anything digital, from your mobile phone to your music player. We welcome all questions, whether you are a beginner or an expert.
PAST MEETING PRESENTATIONS
Presentation material from selected past meetings is available on the Meeting Presentations page.
You will find information on such topics as eReaders, backup techniques, burning CDs and DVDs—and much more.
PAST MEETING TOPICS
You really are invited to our meetings. The meeting topics are prepared for the general public. They are NOT just for the PhD computer scientist. Would you like to know what kinds of topics are presented at our meetings? Check out this list of Past Meetings Topics.