Creating a "magazine" – 25 Oct 2018

Boot-up
Meeting – 11th October. Ted Richards was the Convenor of the Group that day looked at Family History software – any questions or issues arising?
Changes to Thought grazing – https://thoughtgrazing.org
Logging in to Thought grazing – any problems or issues.
Password: Ca3rdyddU3A
Sextortion!!!!
Email scam threatens to show you watching pornography to your friends
An old scam with a new “flavour”

How safe are you online? 10 Questions to ask yourself
Another Facebook security breach
What to do if your Facebook account has been hacked
Google gets itself into trouble too by not telling users of a security hole and kills off Google+
The Brave browser – follow-up
also The best secure browser

News

Apple and Samsung fined for slowing-down older smartphones
Deleting your search history if you use Google
Fake review factories on Facebook
How to spot a fake five-star review on Amazon
Creating a magazine using Feedly, Pocket and Flipboard
Public article will follow – “Creating a Lightroom magazine”
Curating the web
Step 1 – create a Feedly account
Step 2 – select websites you want to get an RSS feed from [What is an RSS feed?] Step 3 – check periodically to see what has “popped-up” in your feed reader.
[NB You can also download an app for your phone or tablet for Feedly] Saving for another day, or for off-line reading (bookmarking+)
Step 1 – create a Pocket account
Step 2 – save to Pocket from your browser (perhaps using a browser extension), or from a feedly sharing icon
Step 3 – tag your articles, and read at your leisure, or when you want to
[NB You can also download an app for your phone or tablet for Pocket] Creating a magazine to share with others
Step 1 – create a Flipboard account
Step 2 – create a Magazine, and decide whether to make it Private or Public
Step 3 – add articles to your magazine from Pocket, or from your web browser
[NB You can also download an app for your phone or tablet for Flipboard]

Online buying and selling; Fb still in the news and meeting notes – 12th April 2018

Issues
  1. You can recall a message in Gmail for a limited time after you’ve sent it – as long as you’re using the browser version or the Gmail app; will not work with email clients, such as Outlook, or Apple Mac Mail.
  2. Problems with Spam from BTinternet – investigated; could not find anything specifically that is a current problem.
  3. How do you clone Mac – if you want to rebuild your system; resolved and answer given to Renee
  4. Topics for the future
  • Cookies and internet history – managing them
  • Buying a new system; transferring your old system to a new one on a Windows PC. This has been covered for the Mac in response to Renee viz. cloning.
News
What do you use different forms of storage for?
  • Internal hard disk drive
  • External hard drive
  • Solid-state drive
  • USB Memory Sticks, and Memory Cards (SD Cards, Compact Flash)
… and then there’s …
  • Cloud storage
Topics

Facebook issues and meeting notes – 22nd March 2018

Issues
  • apart from getting onto Forum (see later) and the Broadband readings
News
  • Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
  • How to make yourself safe(r) on Facebook
  • Another RSS Reader hits the dust – Digg dies
Broadband speed tests
Thought grazing and U3A Forum – demonstration
            https://thoughtgrazing.org/
Next meeting – 12th April
Meetings on 10th and 24th May – facilitator for these meetings