A LAST UPDATE FROM THE FIELD?

MBUG November General Meeting
WEDNESDAY, November 8, 2017 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Hilltop Park Center
871 Jessie Street, Monterey
FREE to MBUG Members and the General Public

As we gather for what may well be the final official general meeting of MBUG-PC, we are fortunate to have one of our outstanding contributors return as the featured speaker. Mike Wecker, owner of Carmel Computers, will lead our discussion at the November general meeting to update us on common computer software and operating issues that are faced by users at all levels of experience, including preventing ransomware intrusion, using various backup techniques, and restoring from an “image” file.

Wecker has been a frequent speaker at MBUG and always provides a valuable and interesting question-and-answer session, presenting problems currently faced by his customers and discussing solutions and strategies. His open-ended approach allows audience members to give their input, so come prepared with your questions! If you want to present questions in advance for the meeting, contact Mike at mwecker@carmelcomputers.com.

Wecker has been operating Carmel Computers in Carmel Valley since April 1999, providing software and hardware sales and repairs and training. Prior to that, he worked with Linda Sandidge at Central Coast Computers in Carmel from 1997-1999, doing sales and tech work, and before that, he was the purchasing manager at PC People from 1994-1997. Always a person with many community activities, he is also the regular Drummer for Paper Wing Theatre.

Originally from Georgia, Mike has spent most of his life in Pacific Grove, Monterey, and Marina, and since 1999, in Cachagua in upper Carmel Valley.

Presenting Travel Picture Programs and Presentations with PowerPoint

MBUG March General Meeting
WEDNESDAY, March 8, 2017 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Hilltop Park Center
871 Jessie Street, Monterey
FREE to MBUG Members and the General Public

At our general meeting on March 8, long-time MBUG member Dan Presser will treat us to another colorful presentation of one of his travel adventure trips. This time he will give us a look at Going on Safari in Botswana.

Presser will also go over the process he uses to manage his trip photographs and put together slide shows, including the use of Microsoft’s PowerPoint application for the final product.

Presser is the owner of FourWinds Travel in Carmel, California, and has been organizing and leading tour groups for over twenty years to many interesting and exotic places, including Botswana, Uganda, around the tip of South America, and the jungles of Borneo, and in July, he will explore Mongolia. He has provided many enjoyable trip reviews to MBUG over the years, and here is your chance to share in another adventure!

To ask questions or get information in advance, contact Dan Presser at info@fourwindstravel.com.

BEYOND THE BASICS

MBUG January General Meeting
WEDNESDAY, January 11, 2017 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Hilltop Park Center
871 Jessie Street, Monterey
FREE to MBUG Members and the General Public

Start the year off right by learning how to “unshare” your life with Microsoft. Star Reierson, owner (now retired) of Computer Power since 1984, will guide us through some of the ways to deactivate Microsoft’s tendency to collect data on your every move.

She will show you how to turn off Cortana—are you using it?—and discuss alternatives to One Drive, Microsoft’s on-line storage that competes with Google Drive and Apple Cloud, among others. Who knew that the “sync settings,” buried in the privacy section of Microsoft’s sixteen screens of setup routine defaults means “send all data regarding my preferences to Microsoft’s servers?”

Reierson’s talk will be based on a news story published in Network World by Howard Wen (October 31, 2016) titled “The Paranoid User’s Guide to Win 10 Privacy.”

If you have questions that you would like addressed in advance of the MBUG general meeting, please email Reierson at star@computerpowerstar.com.