Yay! I found an old email that helped me. Some advice on getting your computer data back on a newer computer.

Just saying...

I found an old email that helped me. My hard drive went south on me, but The Place downtown helped me save it. Thank you, The Place!

Ah! This altered art is by Vicci at the moon stars paper blog.

Anyway, I have been busy putting programs back ON my next computer lately. This was mostly pretty easy this time, as I have all most of my programs in the same location.

Also, I had unlimited email on my Yahoo mail account. Thank goodness! Unfortunately, for a while I only had the titles of those messages. Then this week I was able to open them and use them.

It is a mystery to me where the message insides (actual messages) have been all this time.

On the good side, because of a program called BackBlaze, I was able to get back my photos and other research.

Note to others: make sure when you have a problem, you go to BackBlaze and start a retrieval. Do NOT request another hard drive backup of your computer, because BackBlaze will back up what is THERE on your hard drive. 

If you do not have anything on the hard drive any more, or are working from another computer, you could lose your original backup from the old one in favor of the almost-empty hard drive of the new one. Just saying.

I could have made this mistake, but was lucky and didn't. My advice to anyone (including myself) is to just be careful and push the right button is all I am saying.

I used MyOtherDrive before, but that site did not work so well with Macs. I was not able to access some of my files because of that.

Now all Mac computers have access to "The Cloud" and also to a service called Time Machine, which I may eventually switch to. But for now, BackBlaze is doing great for me.

Not my computer... zoom? Hmmm. photo by dmealiffe on Flickr

Anyway, now I can update the BGAMUG site, and did that today. I like having things back to normal! Have you ever had your computer go down? I miss mine when I don't have it! And now I'm happy to have my computer back.

Betsyanne
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club
Bowling Green, Kentucky

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Some more helpful sites:
The Place at beautiful Fountain Square, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Yahoo
BackBlaze
MyOtherDrive

And leave a comment too. I would love that.

You can see the original of the Altair photo at the Fotopedia site.

Your personal invitation to join the BGAMUG Blog and the BGAMUG Facebook page.

THIS IS YOUR PERSONAL INVITATION TO JOIN THE BGAMUG BLOG - AND FACEBOOK PAGE.

I am going to send an invitation out to join this blog, and to join our Facebook group for anyone in the club who wants to join. I will put it in an email (if I already know you pretty well in the BGAMUG Computer Club) or in the newsletter (for people I want to get to know soon!)

But for now, you can join by following the instructions here.

You can join by subscribing by email or in a reader. These choices are at the left here on the blog site. Here is what they look like: (except for the tools symbol at the right of each; these are my symbols for being in "edit" mode).

This is a screen shot of the section you want to find.

If you are subscribed to Google, you can also join with Google Friend Connect. Scroll down a bit further, and you will see the button to use for this.

 When you are connected, it's more easy to find other blogs you like, make friends with other readers, get computer tips and ideas, and get the blog postings and/or Facebook news delivered right to you in your email inbox. You can adjust when you get your messages in your privacy or account settings too.

AND TO LINK UP TO FACEBOOK:

#1: Get a Facebook account (easy - - just go to Facebook.com and sign up...)
#2. Edit your privacy settings (pretty easy - - go to your Privacy Settings area)

This is what mine looks like:

Just scroll down with the arrow by "home" to fix the Privacy settings for yourself.

#3. Be a Friend of the BGAMUG Facebook group. (After you sign up...) You just hit the "Like" button for this. Here is an example of a page you can "Like" (I am not a member, but to "Like" the BGAMUG Facebook group, you can now see where the "Like" button is - it's at the right side of your screen, underneath your name.)

 See you soon - all over, I hope!

Questions? Just call me (members) or email me (anyone) and I will step you through it. I would love to have more online members of both sites.

Betsy S.
Webmaster and Moderator
The BGAMUG Blog
BGAMUG on Facebook (the BGAMUG Facebook Group)
The BGAMUG website - for the BGAMUG Computer Club, Bowling Green, KY.

PPS It is perfectly OK for fans or prior members to sign up too, or computer users from anywhere.

Our BGAMUG Membership meeting for May 2012

Hi, all!

I liked our meeting. We had a few of our officers there, and had some new visitors too.

Jeri told us about her favorite apps for her iPod. I can't wait to check them out. I think there will be more than a few members who will decide they want to try out an iPhone or iPad this year. Many of the apps can be used on an iPod and iPhone too, plus your computer, I found out.

I took lots of notes, and plan to try out some of the apps for myself soon.

I enjoyed the Geneology SIG (Special Interest Group) too. My next step for this group will be to make a couple of Research Folders so I can be better organized while looking up names.

Our next meeting will be on June 26th. Joe E. will be talking about voice commands for computers. Sounds interesting!

Thanks for a wonderful meeting, Jeri.

We missed everyone who could not make it. See you next time!

Betsy S.
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club
Our website
Our Facebook page

In praise of backups! And when the BGAMUG News will be posted online.

Hi, fellow computer users plus BGAMUG friends and members.

The newest BGAMUG News is out. I would direct you to the web page, but I need to redo my website connection which I will do next week.

I have been replacing programs all week and then some. And some I had to completely replace.

So don't worry... if you are a member, you have your newsletter via email. And I will post the latest newsletter online at the website asap, as soon as everything is back in order.

Thank goodness for backups. I have been able to do most everything, with one exception. Corel Draw, one of my favorite programs, is no longer available for Mac, unless you put another program on your computer that runs Windows. I am not sure I want to do that or not.

So... I am using Illustrator for now. All the buttons are in different places. Ack! But it is a good program and I already have it.

So... be looking for your May newsletter, BGAMUG members and fans, on the site or with a link sometime next week. I hope you have a great week on your computer.

E. Sheppard Webmaster, 2012 The BGAMUG Computer Club.

Checking in - my new iPad, and changing technology

Hi, all!

I am writing this short posting on my iPad. It replaces a notebook computer that I used to use at the Pots Place downtown when I was there.

Today is Second Saturday and I am trying this new iPad out. I added a keyboard from RocketFish that uses the iPad inside of it, so I can use a regular typewriter keyboard on it. This saves me a LOT of time, since my tapping skills aren't as good as my TYPING skills.

One thing I have noticed is that I need to insert the paragraph symbol or all my type mixes up together. When I do my Blogger blog on my regular computer, I have a choice of whether or not to use html.

I will have to find out how to insert photos here next.

But it's fun to be able to do a posting on the fly.

I have a feeling using an iPhone will be different too. There is always a learning curve!

Betsyanne BGAMUG Webmaster, 2012

PS See you at the next BGAMUG meeting, Tuesday, May 22nd, at 6:30. Find out more at the BGAMUG site here:

http://www.bgamug.org/

Like the BGAMUG Computer Club Facebook page

You are invited to join the BGAMUG Computer Club on Facebook. 

Like The BGAMUG Computer Club Facebook Page. to receive fun computer cartoons, notices of club meetings, reviews, neat computer links and tips, information about new gadgets for your computer, and more.

Just go here and Like this Facebook page: The BGAMUG Computer Club Facebook Page. There are 43 members right now. Become #44.


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See you here - and there!

Betsyanne

BGAMUG Webmaster, 2012
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