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General Discussion / Re: Good, safe site for doing program updates
« on: November 14, 2020, 07:35:24 AM »
Hi Dick,
For updating Irfanview, I trust the following two sites, among others
Fosshub:  https://www.fosshub.com/IrfanView.html?dwl=iview456_x64_setup.exe
Major Geeks:  https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/irfanview_64.html
Ralph Sutter

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General Discussion / Re: Lenovo Yoga C940-Backlit Keys?
« on: November 09, 2020, 07:54:02 AM »
Hi Dick,
Though the specs indicate that the keys are backlit, they are not.
Ralph Sutter

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Hello All,

Here are my Notes for the SLO Bytes Photo Group that met on 11/08/2020

TOPIC: Images Dominated by a Single Color; photos with a single prominent color (Second Installment).

The meeting took place via Zoom

Ralph Sutter opened the meeting, calling attention to the Links Page of the Photography web site, https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html

Sutter then showed close-up images of common items with a single prominent color; a palm tree trunk, rain clouds, expresso accessories and details of watercolors.

Alan Raul followed, offering shots of his annual persimmon harvest. Orange dominated his selections.

Kaye Raul chose the local piers at Pismo Beach and Port San Luis as well as some dramatic sky photos.

John Waller started out close to home, focusing on flowers and emerging grasses before venturing farther afield to water features.

Doug Depue continued to spotlight nuances of color. He sparked a lengthy discussion when he asked if it would be appropriate for him to share some of his voluminous photo library built over many years. The consensus of the other group members was that while it would be ok to offer a limited number of items from the past, we would prefer to see current images, perhaps contrasting his photographer's eye as it evolved over time.

Ralph made the point shared by several others that while we often use software to alter what comes out of our cameras, Sutter's goal is to capture a memorable moment in time. That may require nothing more than pressing the shutter at the right time and place with no post-production necessary.

Bob Ward shared a series of photos taken many years ago of the last sawmill in California. Bob captured images of a mill near Shaver Lake, its machinery and the support building in the community that it created.

Our last meeting of 2020 will take place on Sunday, December 13th, 2020@ 2:00 pm
The topic will be Shadows; one step behind. The meeting will take place via Zoom

A Zoom invitation will be e-mailed to Photo Group members shortly before the meeting.

See the Links page for tutorials and other resources

Ralph Sutter

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General Discussion / Lenovo Yoga C940
« on: November 06, 2020, 10:43:51 AM »
Hello All,
I just purchased a Lenovo C940 touchscreen laptop from BestBuy for $1,199 plus tax.
See https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-yoga-c940-2-in-1-14-4k-ultra-hd-touch-screen-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-512gb-ssd-32gb-optane-mica/6369421.p
This will be a Christmas gift.
It incorporates many of the features of my current Lenovo X1 Yoga at about half the price.
Relevant specs for the new machine  (For a more exhaustive list see https://www.fullbean.com/computer/yogac940.jpg)
Screen Resolution:  3840 x 2160 (4K)
Processor:  10th gen Intel i7 1.3ghz
Screen Size:  14"
Memory:  16Gb
Storage:  512Gb SSD with Optane Accelerator
2-in-1 Design
Fingerprint reader
Stylus
Headphone Jack
Number of USB 3.0 Type A Ports 1
Number of Thunderbolt 3 Ports 2

Features lacking
No card reader
Only 1 USB 3.0 Type A Port
No Ethernet Jack

All in all, I think that it will more than meet the needs of the person to whom I will gift it.
Ralph Sutter




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General Discussion / APCUG PUSH Articles Available
« on: October 29, 2020, 06:29:40 PM »
Hello All,
I just finished uploading the most recent batch of PUSH articles to the SLO Bytes web site.
They come from our parent organization, APCUG courtesy of Judy Taylour.
Their official purpose is to provide APCUG Newsletter Editors with interesting filler material to insert in each club's monthly publication.
I never use them in that way, opting to make all of the articles available on SLO Bytes' web site for our members' perusal.

View the most recent articles at https://www.slobytes.org/push/1120/index.html
All of the articles are available in one very large file at https://www.slobytes.org/push/index.html
There is a table of all articles listed by month at https://www.slobytes.org/push/push-condensed.html

Ralph Sutter

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Hello All,

I put together a tutorial showing the various options that one has when pasting content from another source into a Word document. 
View it at https://www.fullbean.com/tutorials/word-paste/word-paste.html

Ralph Sutter

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Hello All,
This is a slightly modified repost of Judy Taylour's APCUG Announcement
Ralph Sutter

The first event is the APCUG Virtual Technology Conference taking place on 11/07/2020 at 10:00 – 12:00 PT

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyBhdmShItmWdwHozf_qO1T6j0U6pDhnxLzHssCbI2gBgeQw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Registration closes at 11:59 PM ET on November 6.
•   Download the current version of Zoom: https://zoom.us/download
•   Information about the presentations plus presenter bios: https://apcug2.org/ 
•   More info: virtualconferences@apcug.org
 
TRACK 1
SESSION 1
 
Navigating the Post-COVID-19 Era
Ron Brown, Program Coordinator, Silvercom Computer & Technology Club
 
SESSION 2
 
Staying Safe and Secure
Bob Gostischa, Avast Evangelist
 
TRACK 2
SESSION 1
 
How Technology Has Changed the Way We Listen to Music
Ray Baxter, Acting President, APCUG
 
TRACK 2
SESSION 2
 
Chris and Jim Guld, GeeksOnTour
Learn with Geeks on Tour, they are Geeks Who Teach
This VTC presentation is a virtual stop on their book tour
 
SESSION 3
 
2020 Annual Meeting
Please join us at APCUG’s annual meeting to learn about what is happening with APCUG. There will be reports by various officers and committee chairs as well as information about the 2021 election and 2020 contest winners. There will be a Q&A session after the meeting, please bring your questions.
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Workshops
 
PASSWORD MANAGER WORKSHOP
Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJj8gRAuTz72aqohp-OzMGdZHKWka_ByVtLZZA1fEOpl9G_g/viewform
 
Part 3 - October 29, 2020 - Tweaking Bitwarden
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LINUX WORKSHOPS
Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7Jk6wnWyAWm04JWCP9sAoKZro0Plz5TsBeLIVN8CLPE1UNQ/viewform
 
Part 1 - October 28, 2020 - A General Introduction
Part 2 - November 18, 2020 - Getting and Installing Linux
Part 3 - December 2, 2020 - Distros and Desktops
Part 4 - December 16, 2020 - Software, Applications, and Package Management
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HOME AUTOMATION WORKSHOPS
Register at http://bit.ly/3fRTYwC
 
Part 3 - November 11, 2020 - Lights, doorbells, locks, and cameras
Part 4 - December 9, 2020 - Doing it myself vs. Having it done
 



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TOPIC: Images dominated by a single color.   The meeting took place via Zoom

Ralph Sutter opened the meeting, calling attention to the Links Page; https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html of the Photography web site.

Sutter continued with closeups of plants and familiar objects along with fog shrouded images of boats on Morro Bay.

Doug DePue offered a lesson in color theory distinguishing between tint, hue and shade.  See the Links Page; https://www.slobytes.org/digital/links.html  for his sources

Kaye Raul chose images of a puzzle, rusting farm equipment and fields of squash.

Alan Raul showed night shots of the Pismo Beach redevelopment project, moored kayaks and pumpkins

John Waller used the Photoshop Object Selection Tool; https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/object-selection-tool/  to enhance his images

NEXT MEETING: Sunday, November 8th, 2020@ 2:00 pm
The topic is Images Dominated by a Single Color (Again).  The meeting will take place via Zoom

A Zoom invitation will be e-mailed to Photo Group members shortly before the meeting.
The final meeting of the year will take place on December 13th

Ralph Sutter



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Hello All,
Raspberry Pi Imager allows the user, with one click, to format an SD card for use in a Raspberry Pi computer, greatly simplifying what might be a multi step process with many opportunities for errors.

This open source freeware tool is available in PC, Mac and Linux versions
Download it from  https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-imager-imaging-utility/

Ralph Sutter

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General Discussion / Photo Group Notes for Meeting of 9/13/2020
« on: September 18, 2020, 08:41:00 AM »
Here are my Notes for the SLO Bytes Photo Group meeting of 09/13/2020   

TOPIC: Artistic Growth Three; Learn a new skill for use inside or outside the camera and present it to the group. The meeting took place via Zoom

Ralph Sutter opened the meeting, calling attention to the Links Page of the Photography web site.
Two articles were added for the September meeting. They are
  Open HEIC Files in Windows 10; https://www.slobytes.org/digital/heic.html and
  Wi-Fi Photo Transfer; https://fullbean.com/tutorials/WiFi%20Photo%20Transfer.mp4 
  Download images from an iPhone to a PC wirelessly
Program suggested by Alan Raul, tutorial by Ralph Sutter
   Also on YouTube at https://youtu.be/lIKo3PzThTw

Next Sutter shared a series of images featuring blossoms of fruits and vegetables. Ralph explained that he used Irfanview to insert titles. He controlled the order in which Irfanview displayed the images by opening an image in that program and then clicking on File/Thumbnails/Options/Sort Thumbnails/By name (natural/logic order).

Alan Raul showed his results of long exposures of running water at Waller Park in Santa Maria. A typical exposure for these shots were ISO 64, 10 seconds at f/22. He used a Variable ND (Neutral Density) filter with his 35mm f/2.8 Sony lens to get the desired effect. He use the following web site as a guide on how to set up his Sony mirrorless camera.
https://alphauniverse.com/stories/set-up-your-camera-for-long-exposures/

Stanford Brown followed introducing CopyTrans HEIC for Windows
https://www.copytrans.net/copytransheic/

John Waller demonstrated a new tool in Adobe Photoshop, the Object Selection Tool, useful for quickly selecting part of an image for further manipulation. John then showed the results of his low light tests with varying speed and aperture settings and different lenses.

Kaye Raul used Aurora HD https://skylum.com/aurorahdr with .raw files to improve shadow detail in images taken at Waller Park.

NEXT MEETING: Sunday, October 11th, 2020@ 2:00 pm
The topic is Images Dominated by a Single Color. The meeting will take place via Zoom
A Zoom invitation will be e-mailed to Photo Group members shortly before the meeting.
The meeting schedule for the remainder of 2020 is as follows
   November 8th
   December 13th

Ralph Sutter

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Hello All,
A webcam captures both a live feed and a slide show of the bridge replacement in Arroyo Grande, CA
View it at https://video-monitoring.com/construction/granitecon-bridge-st/slideshow.htm
Ralph Sutter

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General Discussion / Re: Record Zoom Session without Host Enabling It
« on: August 24, 2020, 10:27:43 AM »
Hello Again,
I added a video to illustrate how I used the open-source program, OBS, to do a video screen capture of a Zoom session.
View it at https://www.fullbean.com/tutorials/obs.mp4
and on YouTube at https://youtu.be/uNO7jC6X__E

A better solution is to record the session directly with Zoom.  However, if the Host has not enabled that feature or has not enabled screen recording for participants, OBS offers a work-around

Ralph Sutter

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General Discussion / Record Zoom Session without Host Enabling It
« on: August 23, 2020, 02:34:54 PM »
Hello All,
Zoom allows the host to record the Zoom session.  Host may also authorize participants to record session.
If host doesn't enable recording by other participants, a participant can still record the session by using a screen capture program outside of Zoom.

Not all screen capture programs work for this purpose.  One that does is the open source freeware program, OBS.  It is available in versions for PCs, Macs and Linux machines.  Download it from https://obsproject.com/

OBS is a sophisticated program with capabilities that extend far beyond simple screen capture.  To set up screen capture, you must launch OBS with Zoom already running or Zoom won't detect your webcam.

Here is the setup in OBS

Launch OBS
At the bottom of the screen, you will see various tabs.  Find Sources tab
Click the + symbol under Sources and select Display Capture
Click OK
Click OK a second time
Do not click Enable Preview.
If you inadvertently checked it, you will see many nested screens, one inside another.
Put your cursor on the largest of these nested screens, right click and uncheck Enable Preview
On the right side of the Display Capture, you will see an eyeball and a lock.
The eyeball must be white in order for Display Capture to be active.  If it is dark, it is disabled. (Think Photoshop Layers)

Before you begin Screen Capture, choose where the recording will be saved.
Do this by clicking on Settings on the Controls tab (extreme lower right of screen). 
Go to Settings/Output/Recording/Recording Path and browse to the desired Save location.

To begin screen capture, click Start Recording on the Controls tab
Click on the Zoom session, minimizing the OBS, minimizing the OBS program if necessary.
To stop recording, return to OBS and on the Controls tab, click Stop Recording

OBS will save the recording at the location that you selected earlier.
Set that location

The image below shows the settings for Zoom within OBS.

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General Discussion / APCUG Webinar on Home Automation by Bill James
« on: August 20, 2020, 08:08:53 AM »
Hello All,
Bill James of SLO Bytes' parent organization, APCUG will offer a free webinar via Zoom.  It consists of four parts

  September 9, 2020 – Why do I need it?
  October 14, 2020 – Where do I start?
  November 11, 2020 – Lights, doorbells, locks, and cameras
  December 9, 2020 – Doing it myself vs. Having it done

You only need to register once.
We will use the same passcode encrypted Zoom Join Meeting link for each workshop.
Please do not give the link to anyone; everyone needs to register by completing at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehQt_aRFj8YItG4tWFPVSzv4byHbcFRIqTtF8ssX_vuoFu3Q/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1

You will receive a reminder before each workshop, the link is included.
If you participated in previous APCUG webinars, you might notice that the Zoom credentials to join the session are identical to those of all previous APCUG Zoom sessions

Ralph Sutter

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Hello All,
This is a re-posting of an announcement that I received from Judy Taylour of APCUG
You will need Zoom credentials in order to join the session.
E-mail me, ralph@rsutter.com for that information. 
Ralph Sutter

Session 4 of the Windows 10 Getting to Know Windows from An Insiders Point of View workshop featuring Edge is this Wednesday, August 12. If you did not register for the Home Automation workshops, this is your last reminder email.
 
Edge is now a Chromium-based browser. It brings a lot of new features to the table. We will explore Edge and find out if it is the best browser.
 
Moderator: Bill James, APCUG Advisor, Region 8
 
                                                              9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET
Your Thumbnail Picture
•       We would like to see your first and last name on your thumbnail picture. If it is Gramps, Sandy’s iPad, or a phone number, etc., after you enter the workshop, please click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner of your thumbnail and Rename yourself OR right-click on your thumbnail > Rename.
Please go to http://www.zoom.us/download to download version 5.2.0 for the device you use to attend the meeting.

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