Monday, October 29, 2012

Your Smart Phone in an Emergency


This is reposted with permission from Paula Johnson Hinkel's Facebook Posting:
"Keep all of your electronic devices plugged in to charge so they are at 100% when the power goes off.

Tips for conserve power for your phone:

Turn the phone off when you can. (Some people forget they can actually turn the phone OFF and then turn it back on at scheduled intervals.)

Change your voicemail message to let people know you are all right but you're trying to conserve power. Ask them to leave a message and you will call them back at (time). Better yet, have one person designated as your point of contact and direct your calls to that person.

If you need to send email(s), turn the phone on but use airplane mode. After all your emails have been written, turn the phone off airplane mode, send the emails you have drafted, and then turn the airplane mode back on.

Turn down the brightness on your phone.

Use texting instead of phoning.

No playing Angry Birds, slots or Farmville! :)

And it's too late now, but think about getting a supplemental charger (or two) to have when you'll be away from an electrical plug-in (airplane), or for an emergency.

What other tricks have you learned to conserve power for your phone?"



My hint is to turn off the Wireless if you are away from home or where there is any wireless connection.  The iPhone seems to keep looking for the Wireless connection and loses battery power quicker. Any other suggestions?

A follow up to the original post suggested  that you should unplug all the devices once they are charged. This is to prevent damage if there is a surge in power.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Thanks for the neat links, Jerry, and Jeri!

The meeting this week went well. We talked about the Christmas Party, and found out some things about the CCleaner free app that cleans Windows computers.

Here is something that our VP sent via email today.

APCUG, which the BGAMUG Computer Club belongs to, has a YouTube Channel!

You can go there and see some great videos.

Here is that link he sent via email: http://www.youtube.com/apcugvideos.

I went to this page today and looked at the titles. Our President, Jerry S., has a video about using Family Search.org for Genealogy Research here.

There are videos about digital photos, conferences, user group meetings as a vendor, Linux, Virtual Tech Conferences, and How to Register for an APCUG Virtual Conference.

Neat! I look forward to trying these.

Here is Jeri's presentation video and her slides:



Also, Jeri would like to post this link from MakeUseOf here on the blog today:

Getting a New Computer or Reinstalling Windows - Make a List of your License Keys.

Later!

-Betsy

E. Sheppard
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club.

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PS If you are a member, send a link to this blog to other members and suggest they join up so they can get this blog too.

Thanks!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

A quick reminder... our next meeting is this Tuesday, October 23rd.

A quick reminder...


Our next BGAMUG meeting is this Tuesday at 6:30. A pre-meeting Genealogy Interest Group meeting will also happen at 5:45.

Do you live in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area? Come and visit.

To see a map to the meeting, just visit the Bowling Green BGAMUG Computer Club website and scroll down.

E. Sheppard
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Our October 2012 Newsletter is on the site, more.

Attention everyone!
New Orleans Newsboys - by Lewis Wickes Hine at the Wikimedia.org site.



















The October 2012 Newsletter is now online. You can download it here:

The BGAMUG Newsletter Archive Page.

I think you will like it. It is a PDF file.

There are articles in it this month about the upcoming Christmas party, new iPhones and Androids (Jeri is going to talk about apps for these and how to use them soon), what to do if your phone is getting slow, and what to do before calling support.

Other articles include Wi-Fi on the Road, our Kroger Report, an Election Update, and when the Christmas Party is this year, including rules for the White Elephant Gift Exchange.

There is space on the newsletter to advertise you or your business too, just check out the ads already there and see Page 8 for Rates.

Visitors to our next meeting, there is a map there to help you find our location.

Board members, I just noticed that the next month's Board meeting will NOT be in person, but will instead be either cancelled OR an electronic one.

See you at our October meeting, which is on October 23rd (next Tuesday).

Thanks for all your hard work again, Sharon! She's our Newsletter Editor.

Later,
Betsy S.
Webmaster 2012


Friday, October 12, 2012

Be a Blogger! Here is Step One - and Two.

Have you ever wanted to be a blogger?

Photo credit: woodleywonderworks on Flickr.















There are some pretty successful bloggers out there. Have you dreamed of making money or having a huge readership?

Or maybe you just want a personal blog  - - maybe even with your photos added.

It's easier than you think.

Maybe you keep a diary at home. Having a blog can be just as easy. Updating can be once a week, or even more often.

It's fun to post photos there, during or even after a vacation.

You can join the free Blogger service or get your own web page and put a Wordpress blog on it.

It's fun! And not too hard either.

BGAMUG Club members, if you would like to have a blog, just call me and I'll help you out with advice.

I can also just be here at the end of a phone if you are a do-it-yourselfer and you have a question.

Have a great week!

B. Sheppard
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club
Bowling Green, Kentucky


PS When you get a blog, you can "advertise" it for free by Pinging it at Pingler and Feedburner. Feedburner has lots of tools you can use to get signups for your blog too. It's fun to learn what you can add to your blog too.

PPS Then you can go to Google Webmaster Tools to make your blog even better.








BGAMUG Computer Club members, do you have a favorite hobby online or something you would like to write about? Just let me know and I will put you on this blog as a contributor. Thanks!

And here is our website (a map to the meeting is there) - plus our Facebook page. See you there!

Monday, October 8, 2012

Welcome new BGAMUG Computer Club members and guests...

This photo is from Georgy90 at the Wikimedia.org website.















About our BGAMUG Computer Club
The BGAMUG Computer Club helps its members and the public learn more about computing and personal computers. They also help people who do not have computers get them.

The BGAMUG Computer club meets on the 4th Tuesday of every month except December.

Our next meeting is October 23rd. Guests are always welcome. The meeting starts at 6:30 and is located at Building F at the Bowling Green Technical College.

The group also has a newsletter that comes out every month. You can go here to see that latest issues and also back issues.

The Genealogy Special Interest Group
We will have a Genealogy Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting first for anyone who is interested. It begins at 5:45.

I have gone to many of these meetings. We learn about how to search for your family tree, how to use a census, how to access birth and death records, sites online, and much more.

The BGAMUG Computer Club meeting follows.

What is being discussed at the October meeting
This month we will be hearing about CCleaner, a clean-up program for Windows computers, that is free. He will have hands-on training so that anyone who wants to use this program can use it.

Joe E. from Western Kentucky Computers will be the speaker. He has a website here.

We have a cash drawing plus a prize drawing too.

A reminder: if you are not a member, you can come to the meeting as a guest.  We love to have new guests.

All for now,

Betsy Sheppard
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club
Bowling Green, Kentucky

And here is our website (a map to the meeting is there) - plus our Facebook page. See you there!




Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Some photos from the recent Auction meeting

I took many more photos than this of the latest BGAMUG meeting. But I did get a few that turned out.

Here they are:
A really nice laptop for auction.
A really neat house made of matchsticks.
Desktop computers at the auction.
 
The Free Stuff Table.





























Unfortunately, the matchstick house was not for sale. I did hear some people saying that it would have been a good addition to the auction!

 I have a feeling that this auction event will be even bigger next year. I know I will be saving things for it.

E. Sheppard
Webmaster, 2012
The BGAMUG Computer Club.

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