Safe Computing on a Mac - Waccamaw Mac Club Computer Safety Presentation

Friday, November 2, 2012 I will be doing a presentation entitled "Safe Computing on a Mac" at a meeting of the Waccamaw Mac club.  The club meets under the auspices of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute hosted by Coastal Carolina University in their Litchfield SC location at 160 Willbrook Blvd.  I will be using a Powerpoint presentation which contains many hyperlinks to pertinent information on the Internet.

I have uploaded the presentation to Slideshare.  Here is a link to the presentation:

http://www.slideshare.net/JimWhite/computer-safety-on-a-mac

NOTE: For the hyperlinks to work, you must be in "full screen" mode while looking at the slides.  To put the slideshow into "full screen" mode, look at the bottom of the first slide.  You will see a gray horizontal bar with left and right arrowheads on it.  At the far right of that bar are four arrows in a square indicating that if you click here it will make the window larger.  Left clicking it will put you in full screen mode.  Once you are in full screen mode, you can use the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard to go forward and backward through the presentation.

Computer Safety Class Socastee Library 10/27/2012

For those who attended (and anyone else who might be interested) here is a link to the Powerpoint presentation.  Please note that there are plenty of hyperlinks on the slides that will take you, when you click on them, to additional information on the topic.

NOTE: For the hyperlinks to work, you must be in "full screen" mode while looking at the slides.  To put the slideshow into "full screen" mode, look at the bottom of the first slide.  You will see a gray horizontal bar with left and right arrowheads on it.  At the far right of that bar are four arrows in a square indicating that if you click here it will make the window larger.  Left clicking it will put you in full screen mode.  Once you are in full screen mode, you can use the right and left arrow keys on your keyboard to go forward and backward through the presentation.

Here is the link to the slides.  Click on it:   Computer Safety

Apple's New Offerings

Wow!  A fantastic bundle of new products!  Here they are in brief:

1. A new generation of iMacs - an "all in one" desktop computer just 5mm (two tenths of an inch) at the edge with an incredible glare reduced high definition screen, see http://www.apple.com/imac/design/

2. The iPad mini - a new (additional) size with a 7.9 inch display that you can hold in one hand.  Runs all the apps that the current size runs but is less expensive and more convenient, see http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini/overview/

3. The fourth generation of the standard size iPad, still with a retina display but now twice as fast, see http://www.apple.com/ipad/overview/

4. A new 13" Retina display MacBook Pro - see http://www.apple.com/mac/

Neat Things You Can Do On the Internet Updated

For the folks that were in our Internet class yesterday at the Socastee Library, you will remember that the slide presentation had lots of broken links in it.  My apologies, but they are now fixed.  You can either click on the link in my original post or for convenience, I'll post it again here:

http://www.slideshare.net/JimWhite/neat-useful-things-to-do-on-the-internet

Again, sorry for the inconvenience.

I would appreciate it if you would leave a comment to let me know you have been here.  You can do so be clicking on the word "Comments" to the right of my name at the very bottom of this post.  You could also ask me questions there about the class or the slides or anything on the slides and I will try to answer you in a following comment.

Neat Things You Can Do On the Internet

On 3/22/2012 Shirley and I will be teaching a new class at the Socastee Library in Horry County SC.  The title of the class is "Neat Things You Can Do On the Internet".  I have uploaded the PowerPoint presentation for the class to Slideshare.  You can find it at

http://www.slideshare.net/JimWhite/neat-useful-things-to-do-on-the-internet

Many folks in our (ahem...) somewhat older generation wonder how we can spend as much time online as we do.  In a two hour trek driving back from Charleston a few weeks ago we began brainstorming a list of all the activities we engage in online and I "wrote" them down on my iPhone as Shirley was driving.  We were amazed at the size and scope of the list and decided to turn it into a class that would answer the question and give folks the opportunity to learn how we do what we do.  I created the PowerPoint presentation to use in the class and included many many hyperlinks that will take you to the sites we use.  95% of them are sites we have directly used ourselves, the other 5% are related to the same topics.

Following is a list of all the topics,  Most have multiple sub topics in the slideshow where all have multiple hyperlinks.

Category/Slide Title

Reference Sites

Find Entertainment/Buy Tickets

Real Estate Research

Health Research

Household Hints Decorating Ideas Appliance Repair

Read Magazines & Newspapers

Download and Read Books for Free

Horry County Online Services

Shop for New or Used Car

Travel (Air, Rail, Bus, Cruise)

Video - Search for and Play Video Clips on Youtube

Podcasts (Internet Radio) Find and Play or Download

Research Gardening Issues

Education on All Levels

Hunt & Apply For a Job

Shop and Buy Used Items

Shop for New Goods

Find a Church

Communicate (text, voice and video)

Share Pictures With Friends and Relatives

Weather for Anywhere on Demand

Track Packages from UPS, FedEx, USPS

Social Media

Community Involvement

News on Demand

Find Lost $Money$