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(BUSSLINE is the term for the complex multifunctional circuitry on a computer motherboard, a
PC’s heart.)
Your technology helper for almost 40 years.
Vol. 114 No. 3
Newsletter of the Central Florida Computer Society, Inc. [Non-Profit, 501(c)3]
March 2014
Facebook, How to Get started Safely
Sunday, March 16: Many people do not use Facebook for several reasons. Many are extremely concerned about their privacy and fearful of sharing information with the wrong people. Most of these people are
not aware of how they can enjoy Facebook and limit
their vulnerabilities and exposure. Hewie Poplock will
show the many favorable uses
of Facebook, and how you can
connect easily to many old and
new friends and places. He will
also show how to use Facebook’s settings to protect your
information, while enjoying the
service. He will show you how
Hewie Poplock
you can be a “lurker” or be active and yet be safe.
The Inside Stories:
3. Presidential Column
4,5. CFCS Details, phone numbers, Member Renewal
4. Musings by Stan
6. Using Surveys, by H. Poplock
7. View of History
This presentation is aimed at those not using Facebook.
However, those who do use it will gain some insights
and will update their settings knowledge, as well as be
helpful to those around them who have been hesitant to
join Facebook.
12. Create a Link in Word
Earlier on the same day of each presentation, the
WINDOWS Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting is
held. The WinSIG always meets at 12:30 pm, and is
hosted by Hewie Poplock, former president of both
CFCS and FACUG, and author of Hewie’s Views and
Reviews. Hewie will start at 12:30, just before the CFCS
General Meeting. If you use or plan to use Windows,
these discussions, demonstrations, and Q&A sessions will
be of immense value to you. Geared to intermediate level
Windows users, tips, tricks, and information on all versions of Windows are discussed. An e-newsletter is sent
22. Helpline: Numbers to call for
help
(Continued on page 2)
15. WAZE Travel & Routing
20. Case Conversion in Word
23. Calendar for the next few
months
24. NEW Directions to the
monthly general meeting
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periodically with meeting information and links discussed
at the meeting. You need not attend both meetings, but
many members do. Non members are always welcome.
Sign up for the free e-newsletter at cfcs.org .
Sunday’s Windows SIG topics:
* How I changed Hard drives & up & running quickly &
easily
* How I determined which driver caused a Blue Screen
of Death (BSoD)
* Windows 7 & 8 Tips about Memory Dump Files
* Tweaks available in Ultimate Windows Tweaker for
Windows 8.1
* Some Things that Every Windows PC Owner Must
Do
* Windows Sysinternals
Bring your questions about Windows or any computer
questions to be fielded by a room full of computer enthusiasts. The questions will be answered during the
Windows SIG or during the "Askit Baskit" portion of
the main meeting. We even have a few lurking Mac
owners, and when we turn off the lights to better view
the presentations, you may notice the glow of numerous
iPods in the crowd. CFCS was the first to put the ‘YOU’
in USER-friendly!
Don’t forget to list your items for sale on CFCS’ new
SIG!
Officially classified as a Special Interest Group (SIG)
chaired by Mike Ungerman (whose brainchild it is),
OUR NEW sig is actually a new Google Group email
feature that will allow members (only) to post any items
they may have for sale or items that they would like to
purchase or trade. Similar to the existing CFCS TechSIG and CFCS iSIG groups, members of the group may
send an email to the group address, and it will be sent
out to other members either as an immediate email or as
a daily digest of emails from that day.
Membership in the group is limited to CFCS members
only, so we won't be getting spam listings. Any members desiring to take advantage of an offer or request
will be doing so between themselves. CFCS is not a party to the transaction, nor a mediator if there is a dispute
over an item or payment. There are no restrictions as to
what a member may post to sell, so perhaps it's time to
clear out that garage, back room, attic, etc. You can
even announce a garage sale if you want to get rid of a
lot of stuff!
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To join the group, click or enter this URL into your
browser:
http://groups.google.com/group/cfcs_forsale_wanted?hl= en
OUR OTHER SPECIAL
INTEREST GROUPS (SIG)
The ACCESS, MS OFFICE, and SECURITY SIGs
meet conjointly on the second Wednesday of each
month from 7 to 9 pm at the New Horizons Learning
Center at 1221 Lee Rd. Arvin Meyer, a Microsoft MVP
(Most Venerated Professional), leads the SIG. http://
groups. yahoo.com/group/cfcs-access This is a combination of three separate SIGs which now meet conjointly.
The VIRTUAL DIGITAL PHOTO & VIDEO SIG
lead has been assumed by Hewie Poplock and and it
meets on the 3rd Wednesday of every month,* by invitation. To register go to https://apcug.ilinc.com/perl/ilinc/lms/
event.pl
Choose Virtual Photo SIG.
The TECH DISCUSSION SIG meets on the fourth
Tuesday of each month* from 7 to 9 pm at the World
Gourmet Restaurant, 800 E. Altamonte Dr. (436) SIG
leader is Vice President Stan Wallner.
This SIG is a non-structured, open conversational group
for CFCS members, that has no specific topic or speaker, but is simply a round table discussion. It is not an
advanced group, but a place for people to come and discuss various tech subjects, such as new products and
technologies, hardware, software, web-related, etc.
Bring in articles from magazines, newsletters, unusual
problems/situations that have arisen, questions, etc. Also, new or ailing devices or notebook pc's are welcome,
either for "show and tell" or discussion or demo of situations.
A screen and projector are available, but not always
there. If you want it to demo something, please E-mail:
tech-sig@cfcs.org a day or 2 ahead.
Another feature of this SIG is the Tech-SIG Yahoo
Group mail. We now have 64 people communicating
through this, with tips and tricks, "Ask-It Basket" type
questions, etc. Also, a second, on-line VIRTUAL meet-
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ing of the TechSIG is being experimented with on the
second Tuesday of each month. Co-hosted by Mike Ungerman and Stan Wallner, it may attract a long distance
audience. Stay tuned to the e-Blast for times and details
- it is not yet permanently scheduled, but will be announced in the e-BLAST and on theTech-SIG Yahoo
Group mail. If you are not on that list and want to
be, please E-mail: tech-sig@cfcs.org
The iSIG meets on the third Monday of each month
at 7:00 PM at Florida United Safety Council,
1505 East Colonial Drive, Orlando FL 32803. This
building is located across from the Publix on Colonial
Drive in the Colonialtown section of downtown Orlando. They have secured WiFi, and vending machines are
available. The iSIG meetings cover the products that use
the iOS, which includes the iPhone, iPad, and
iPod Touch. This is a combined effort of the Central
Florida Computer Society http:// www.cfcs.org and the
Florida Macintosh Users Group http:// www.flmug.com.
Other groups are invited to participate. Attendees are
consumers, developers, consultants, and publishers, who
find common interests and discuss how to handle topics
from both the consumer & the developer perspectives.
The SIG leader is Sean Kane, Certified Apple Technical
Coordinator, long-time Mac and iOS user, and a technologist and consultant to The Walt Disney Company.
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From the
President’s
Desk
By President
Jack Pearson
We have procured a place to hold our future General
Meetings.
We will continue to meet at Orlando Day Care Center
for the April Meeting, after that there may be a change
of Meeting Location.
Hewie Poplock is our New Program Chairman & has
been appointed to the BOD.
All SIGS are operating well; look at the list and plan to
attend some of the SIG meetings during the month .
The Recycle Bin
If you have any Questions please contact me at
by Stan Wallner,
President Emeritus, CFCS
superj25@hotmail.com or 407-8807339
Stan, a CFCS member since 1984, has
served in many offices over the years,
and is now Vice President. Separately,
he is a local IT consultant, "“PC Doctors Make House Calls," offering his
services on-site, at your office or home
- for PC and Laptop Upgrades, WiFi,
Networks, Virus & Spyware removal,
Troubleshooting both hardware & software, at reasonable rates (discounts for CFCS members!). You can contact him at smwallner@yahoo.com
or 407-862-2669.
Jack Pearson – President CFCS
Recycling is a MOST important issue regarding our environment, and can't be over-emphasized! It is an area
that is changing frequently, so check for this column
regularly! When there are changes, we will print them.
Meanwhile, check the website at cfcs.org for the column
as it ran in the last issue of the BUSSLINE.
Thank you help
Sanford store is located at 1617 WP Ball Blvd. in the
Marketplace of Seminole Town Center (407-6887627). Near Target; between Bright Now Dental &
Firehouse Subs
Apopka store is in Victoria Plaza, at 1087 W. Orange
Blossom Trail. (407-814-3935) This is just past the 429,
in the same Plaza as the Harbor Freight. Both open 97 Mon.-Sat. Closed Sundays
5% discount on most non-sale items for CFCS members,
and 10% on service for CFCS members
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By Stan
Wallner,
CFCS Vice
President
Musings
by Stan
March, 2014
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
Membership renewal invoices will be e-mailed from treasurer@cfcs.org approximately thirty (30) days prior to your
membership expiration. Invoices will be snail mailed to
members for whom there is no e-mail address in the membership database and to those members whose e-mail was
returned to treasurer@cfcs.org for any reason. Please help
us by adding this address to your contacts list and setting
your spam filter to let our message get to your inbox. We do
not share your e-mail address with others (We hate that
too!), but it is necessary for full participation in the Society,
including receiving your newsletter.
Members will be requested to renew their membership by
paying dues on time. Dues may be paid by cash or check at
the meeting, by PayPal at http://www.cfcs.org/membership/
membership.php or by mailing a check to:
CFCS
Address: PO Box 520084,
Longwood, FL 32752
If you do not receive a renewal invoice, lose it or have questions about your dues and or membership status, please
inquire at the sign-in table or send an e-mail to: treasurer@cfcs.org.
Our Communications Skills - Getting Better With Technology? - OR, "I Could Have Phoned You But I Chose
Not To..."
I've recently heard an amazing statistic - over 80% of 12
to 18 year olds have Smart Phones!We've all seen the
cartoons and U-Tube things where a number of teens (or
older) are at a restaurant texting away, and the punch
line is that they are texting to each other, rather than
talking to each other! And, the 300 or more texts PER
DAY that some kids do!
We all know that Texting, Facebook, Twitter, and
EMail are gaining in usage, but there is growing concern
that the changes in how we communicate with each other
is not really improving things at all.
The quote "I Could Have Phoned Y ou But I Chose Not
To ..."is from a standup bit by Jerry Seinfeld on the recent 2nd "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" show. He
went on for some length about this as is his forte, very
amusing and wryly as I am sure you can imagine. I wish
I had taken some notes! His point was that every Text,
Tweet, that one gets is a result of the sender saying "I
Membership Cards: A new membership postcard with
the membership card included for the next year will be distributed at the meeting following your renewal. The Cards
will be mailed to those members who request same by email to treasurer@cfcs.org.
Could Have Phoned You But I Chose Not To ..."which is
really quite scary.
Just a few days after this show, the 3/3/14 Orlando Sentinel had a very interesting front page article by Kate
Santich: "Dating in The Digital Age - Well, It's Complicated." (On-line at goo.gl/wL3BGV.) It discussed how
much things have changed, using Apps, Facebook , etc.,
to meet people, how marriage and kids are being postponed, etc.
What really struck me was the following:
"And, it turns out, there are more singles to explore than
ever.
A third of the U.S. adult population is now uncoupled,
the largest percentage ever, and in Central Florida singles are the majority. Fifty-four percent of Metro Orlando's 1.8 million adults are single, divorced, widowed
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Board of Directors
THE CENTRAL FLORIDA COMPUTER SOCIETY is a char itable,
scientific and educational, nonprofit organization, founded in 1976 and
incorporated in 1982 to encourage interest in the operation and development
of computers through meetings with free exchange of information and
educational endeavors.
Newsletter: The CFCS Newsletter © 2008 is the official newsletter of the
Central Florida Computer Society, Inc. It is published every month by
CFCS for the purpose of keeping members and others informed of
computer-related news and activities of the Society. Circulation: 25,000.
THE CFCS Mailing Address:
CFCS
PO Box 520084, Longwood, FL 32752
President
Jack Pearson
407-880-7339
president@cfcs.org
Vice Pres.
Stan Wallner
407-862-2669
vicepresident@cfcs.org
Secretary
Bess MacConnell 407-252-5624
secretary@cfcs.org
Treasurer
Don VanDemark
treasurer@cfcs.org
Director 1
Tom Ault
407– 247-9165
dir1@cfcs.org
Director 2
Ted Goodwin
407-894-1180
dir2@cfcs.org
Director 3
Forrest Cheek
407/629-4139
dir3@cfcs.org
Newsletter Editor
Robert Black
407-421-4213
editor@cfcs.org
President Emeritus
Stan Wallner
407-327-3810
presidentemeritus@cfcs.org
SIG Chair
Ken Larrabee
407-365-2660
sigs@cfcs.org
Membership: CFCS member ship includes participation in the Society' s
activities and subscription to this Newsletter.
Annual Dues Schedule:
Individual ……………………….$
Extra family member ..…….…..
Student (Full time)………………
Corporate membership……..…..
*Includes free business card ad
25
15
15
100*
Members are responsible for sending a change-of-address notification
(including e-mail) to:
membership@cfcs.org.
Gifts to CFCS are welcome, and because of the Society's nonprofit tax
status, are tax deductible.
Meetings: CFCS meets each month on the 3r d Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at
the location described on page 24.. Guests and the general public are invited
to attend. Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within the Society meet regularly.
See Special Interest Groups listings on pages 6 & 7.
CFCS Web site:
Chairpersons and Coordinators
Special Interest Groups
APCUG
Ken Larrabee
Hewie Poplock
407-365-2660 sigs@cfcs.org
apcug@cfcs.org
Education
(Open)
(e-mail only)
FACUG
Arvin Meyer
Hardware Manager
Helpline Volunteers
Arvin Meyer
Griff Moore
407-327-3810 hardware@cfcs.org
(e-mail only) helpline@cfcs.org
Membership
Photographer
Don VanDemark
Robert Black
membership@cfcs.org
407-421-4213) photographer@cfcs.org
Program Coordinator
Hewie Poplock
(e-mail only)
programs@cfcs.org
Reviews (S/W & Books)
Mike Ungerman
(e-mail only)
reviews@cfcs.org
Webmaster
Cheryl Wilson
(e-mail only)
webmaster@cfcs.org
www.cfcs.org
facug@cfcs.org
Newsletter Committee
Editorial: Articles for publication in the CFCS Newsletter should be
emailed to the Editor at: editor@cfcs.org. Please use Microsoft Word
format, Times New Roman font, 12 point, if possible. The deadline for
submitting articles is the first of each month.
Articles by authors other than directors of CFCS and the Newsletter staff do
not necessarily reflect the policies or sanction of the Society. Unless
otherwise indicated, articles in the CFCS Newsletter may be reprinted in
newsletters of other nonprofit organizations, without permission, provided
credit is given.
This issue was created using Microsoft Office
2013 Edition. ◙
education@cfcs.org
2003 and MS Publisher
Interested in making a difference?
Then volunteer with CFCS! The programs
and benefits that members receive would not
exist without members also volunteering.
There are vacancies for a Program Chair/
Coordinator, Education Chair and Advertising
Chair. Please contact Jack Pearson, if you
have any questions, comments, or suggestions. president@cfcs.org
Editor: Robert Black
Associate Editor:
Proofreader: CFCS BoD
CFCS Newsletter Advertising
Computer ready rates, for one time insertion, Electronic Edition:
Full Page
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Quarter Page
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Half Page
125.00
Business Card 25.00
Advertising deadline: the first day of month of issue. Electronic copy is
required.
All ad copy and correspondence should be sent by email to: advertising@cfcs.org
*Annual Rates, Paid in Advance, for 12 insertions
Full Page
$1200
Quarter Page
$450
Half Page
750
Business Card
150
CFCS is associated with both
International & Florida User Group Associations:
www.apcug.net
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or separated, according to the latest census figures.
"We're on totally new ground — not only historically but
anthropologically," says Justin Garcia, an evolutionary
biologist and researcher at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. "We don't know of any other species that
has so many single adults. Humans are moving in and
out of relationships in totally new ways." "
Well, I wish I had more time (and space) to pursue this,
because it seems quite ominous to me. I have 2 grandkids, 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 years old, and both know how to
use their parents iPhones - view pictures, swipe, pinch,
start WMV's, etc. Very adorable, but I have to wonder if
this all might not be less than beneficial as they get older.
Worth considering and discussing, I think.
Agree?
-------------------------------------------------------Stan, a CFCS member since 1984, has served in many offices over the years, and is now Vice President. Separately, he
is a local IT consultant, "PC Doctors Make House Calls," offering his services on-site, at your office or home, for PC and
Laptop Upgrades, WiFi, Networks, Virus & Spyware Removal,
Troubleshooting both hardware & software, at reasonable
rates (with discounts for CFCS members!). You can reach him
at smwallner@gmail.com or 407-862-2669.
Using Surveys
By Hewie Poplock
I have always felt that a survey was a great way to find
out information. A survey for planning an event gives
you a good idea of what attendees might be expecting if
they spend time or money to attend. After an event, a
meeting, or a presentation, a survey can help gauge the
success, the true thoughts of the attendees, and the direction for the next one.
The questions in a survey need to be well thought out.
The items to cover, the type of questions, and the number of questions need to be determined by the makeup of
your respondents. There are several types of questions
and many people do not like to have to write their answers. They want to choose from a list. If your group is
that way, leave one text box available for comments, but
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make the other questions include several options. The
options can be a choice of only one or checking several
from a list.
The art of creating surveys is in the wording of the questions. Be sure that your questions are explained well and
the answers will give you meaningful results. I recently
created a survey that contained several questions. For
some of the desired information, I separated two similar
items. Once I started to get responses, I realized that the
data was conflicting, and had I made them one question,
I would have had valuable information. The two questions did not give me results needed to make it useful.
Spend time composing your questions and possible responses. Make sure that your directions are clear. If you
use a sliding scale and ask the respondents to choose a
point between two responses, such as “low to high” or
“not important to very important”, decide how many
items will be in the scale and explain the meaning of
each level. You might use 3 levels, 5 levels or even 10,
but explain what each might mean to the survey taker.
Plan your survey prior to the event or meeting. Have it
ready at its conclusion. You might tie an incentive to filling out the form, such as a drawing, a promise of the results being posted or emailed, etc. If some of the attendees are not computer or web savvy, have printed
forms available as well.
For years, I used Survey Monkey https://
www.surveymonkey.com/ to create surveys. While they
do offer a free service, it is quite limited unless you pay a
monthly subscription fee. There are several other free
choices. They include
Google Forms http://www.google.com/drive/apps.html
Typeform http://www.typeform.com/
SurveyPlanet https://www.surveyplanet.com/
Soorvey http://soorvey.com/en/
One of my favorite websites, MakeUseOf, posted a great
article about these services which listed the features of
each. http://bit.ly/1lsHn42 Their advice is “When creating an online survey, just remember to keep it short and
to the point. If it’s too long, users may be discouraged
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from completing it. If it isn’t focused, you may not gain
much good out of it.”
I recently used Google Forms to create a survey for the
first time. I was quite impressed with the ease of creation
and the quality of the report that it generates.
Fascinating
View of History
Google Offers 60 Million
Pages of Old Newspapers
By Ira Wilsker
WEBSITES:
http://news.google.com/newspapers
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
While I am not a fan of the Google search engine, and
avoid the common expression, "Google It", I continue to
be impressed by the many services offered, mostly for
free, by Google. One free Google service that I have
recently used is its free library consisting of over 60 million scanned newspaper pages from newspapers all over
the world. The menu of available scanned newspapers is
at news.google.com/newspapers, which has newspapers
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as old as from the 19th century. While Google has discontinued the digital scanning of old newspapers, those
papers already scanned are still available.
Unfortunately, none of our local newspapers were included in this massive Google undertaking, but using
Google's well known mastery of search technology, it is
reasonably simple to search these 60 million newspaper
pages for content. As a quick test of the Google newspaper search capabilities, I entered the term "Beaumont,
Tex" in the Google News search box, and then selected
"Search Archive"; Google reported 8,630 newspaper
pages with a tagline of "Beaumont, Tex". Reading just a
few of the search results displayed provided interesting
historical accounts of events in Beaumont. One very
cute result, which was included in dozens of the results,
was the nationally syndicated "Pet Doctor" column,
which had a byline, "Address questions to: Dr. T. M. Eagle, 2570 N. 11th Street, Beaumont, Tex. 77703." The
first of several "Pet Doctor" columns I read were published in the "Reading (PA) Eagle" in 1973.
Other historical newspaper reports about Beaumont included contemporary reporting of the racial tensions and
violence that took place in Beaumont in the 1950s. A
news report published in the Sarasota (FL) Journal on
January 30, 1957, described three racially motivated
bombings that occurred, one of which damaged St.
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Michael's Orthodox Church. The article went on to explain that these bombings were among the racial animus
that wracked the area following the federal court ordered
integration of Lamar State College of Technology the
previous September (1956), and the fact that the public
schools in Beaumont were still segregated. Among
those interviewed in this story were Reverend Mr.
Eugene Dickey, pastor of the Highland Avenue Baptist Church, who stated, "(these bombings are) just a
preview of things to come if the racial question gets
any worse." Reverend Dickey then urged the Beaumont City Council to take a stand on the issue.
Changing my search term to "Port Arthur, Tex"
yielded 7,860 news stories about Port Arthur. One
of the first stories displayed in those search results
was a page from the April 4, 1969, Reading (PA)
Eagle. This story described a Port Arthur court case
heard by Justice of the Peace Bud Emmons, who
fined 10 Cornell University students $100 each for
skinny dipping at a nearby beach; all 10 plead guilty
to charges of indecent exposure and vagrancy. The
JP was quoted as saying to the Cornell students,
"We're paying $50,000 a year to keep this beach going, and we're going to keep it respectable. The hippies are not going to take it over as long as I'm here."
In another Port Arthur story, published in the Pittsburgh (PA) Press on Christmas Eve, 1937, the yacht
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"Santa Claus",
which is actually
a
houseboat
named
"Texas
Girl" 51 weeks a
year, sailed on
December 23 on
its annual Christmas
voyage
through the bayous and marshes
of
Southeast
Texas and Louisiana. Carrying
a load of toys,
the "Santa Claus"
is sponsored by
the
executives
and foremen of
an unnamed oil
company. Called
in the article "a
substitute
for
Saint Nicholas
and his reindeer", this annual cruise delivers toys to
about 400 children every year.
In another feature about Port Arthur, attributed by
Google as "The Sun", but actually published in "The
Star", serving Grand Coulee, Washington and the Grand
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Coulee Dam area, dated Thursday, July 30, 1959,
Port Arthur is listed in the "Americana" column
as a "City to See." Under an almost undecipherable photo of Port Arthur is the caption, "Founded
at the behest of "brownies" by a gentleman railroad builder and backed by a legend including an
Indian princess by the name of Kisselpoo, Port
Arthur, Texas, remains even in this day a unique
city." The story under the photo explains the history and economy of Port Arthur, starting with
Arthur Stillwell ending his railroad at what is
now Port Arthur. Stillwell explained his reasons
for stopping his railroad at Port Arthur on the
legend of Princess Kisselpoo, who ran off with
her lover the night before her arranged marriage
to another man. The moon goddess was so angered, that she caused a great hurricane upon
Lake Sabine, which destroyed the Indian village.
The moon goddess also decreed that the lake
(Sabine) should disappear from the earth, a decree that continues into modern times since rivers
deposit silt into the lake, filling it up. the article
goes on to describe Port Arthur as an industrial
center with a population near 100,000, and how it is the
"City that Oils the World." Being one of the world's major oil ports, Port Arthur has foreign consulates in the
city.
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One historical gem garnered from the above newspaper
page was the enlightening fact that "The Star" newspaper
has a three digit phone number, 350, and costs $3.00 per
year for a subscription. Reflecting the telephone technology of the day, possibly including some manually
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two burn victims had been admitted to a
Beaumont hospital.
It is not necessary to search for individual
stories or topics, as complete newspapers
can be easily read on Google. In addition
to contemporary and detailed accounts of
historical events, the advertisements in old
newspapers can be both educational and
entertaining.
Somewhat at random, I
opened
the
Lawrence,
Kansas,
"Jeffersonian Gazette", dated April 3,
1899. Will Spalding, a haberdasher, was
selling all wool, elegant men's suits for
$5.90, $7.50, and $10. C. J. Eriksen was
selling gasoline powered kitchen stoves
along with a variety of other household
items and furniture. Ober's, a men's store
had a pair of ads for men's suits and boy's
clothing that were clearly in competition
with Will Spalding's offerings. Ober's was
offering, "Absolute ALL WOOL MATE-
rung "party lines", the five reporters for The Star have
phone numbers of 37, 531-R, 971-J, 1122-R1, and 3281.
Other area communities are well represented in this historical treasure trove of old newspaper archives. Searching for 'Nederland, Tex" and clicking the "Search Archive" button displayed 1080 news stories. Many of the
news stories were about one of Nederland's favorite
sons, Tex Ritter. Several of these stories were obituaries
from around the world citing his birth in Nederland, and
details about his career. Other Nederland stories included a tanker-train wreck in Nederland, reported in the
Sunday, January 13, 1974, Victoria (TX) Advocate. Another Nederland story published in the Victoria Advocate on March 22, 2000, was on Billy Neal, "Texas'
Longest Tenured Police Chief", which described his 40
years as the Nederland police chief; originally he was a
school teacher in Vidor, and a truck driver, who never
thought that he would make a career of law enforcement.
Another Nederland news story was published in the Toledo (OH) Blade, on November 30, 1952, describing a
horrific refinery explosion at the Pure Oil refinery. "All
ambulances from Beaumont, Port Arthur, Nederland,
and Port Neches were called." At the time of the report,
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RIAL, satin piped, perfect fitting, and best of workmanship, brown and gray cheviots. Equal of any other $9
suit in town. Your choice of patterns, $6.50." Ober's ad
on the same page for boy's clothing gives a strong indication of clothing styles and fashions of the day (1899),
"75 Knee Pant Suits in Vestee, reefers, and Double
breasted cuts, fancy braided collars for the little fellows.
Regular $3.00 and $3.50 Suits, on sale for $2.00 and
$2.50. You can't afford to miss this opportunity." the
price of groceries listed under the heading "Local Markets" shows how much prices have changed over the
past 115 years: wheat, 63 cents (bushel); corn 35 cents;
oats 25 cents; hay, 7.00; potatoes, 65 cents (bushel); butter, 15 cents per pound; eggs 8 1/3 cents per dozen;
chickens, 6 1/2 cents; steers $3.50 - $4.50; cows, $2.50 $3.50, and hogs, $3.00 - $3.40.
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Google is not alone in digitizing old newspapers; the
Library of Congress is copying thousands of old newspapers, including a wide selection of old Texas newspapers.
These can be viewed at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers. Newspapers local to this area,
from as far back as 1904, are available on this website,
and worthy of viewing.
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dues to CFCS simply by making computer
related purchases at Smart Guys Computers.
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Seeing these contemporary news accounts of the past are educational, enlightening, and entertaining. Anyone interested in history and culture will find these old newspapers an outstanding resource.
Create a link within a Word Document
by Hewie Poplock
A member of my user group asked, "How do you put a web address into a link? I get a dialog with all sorts of choices, but none to just make it a link!"
If you just want to include a link in Word, type in the complete link. After you enter it, hit the space bar and Word
will make it a link. However, if you have a phrase
or a sentence that you
want to use as a link to a
website, here are the
steps.
With the Word document
open, highlight the word,
phrase or sentence.
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When you right
mouse click you will
get a menu of choices.
Highlight the line that says “Hyperlink…”
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Click for the Link Dialog box
In the address box, type or paste in the Link address (URL
and click ok.
You will now have the desired link.
That’s it.
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WAZE Travel and
Routing Information
on Your Smart Device
by Ira Wilsker
WEBSITES:
https://www.waze.com
https://play.google.com/store/apps/
details?id=com.waze
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wazesocial-gps-traffic/id323229106?mt=8
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?
appid=f07f83eb-a8a4-49fd-8946c67a9349e062
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze
http://www.haaretz.com/
business/.premium-1.529478
Over the past several weeks, I have taken several out-oftown road trips. On these trips I used a novel free smart
phone app for routing and traffic information called
Waze (waze.com). There are an abundance of apps that
function with the integral GPS built into almost all smart
devices, including smart phones and tablets. Available
for most smart devices with an appropriate wireless internet connection (cellular or Wi-Fi) running Android,
iOS (Apple devices), Windows Mobile, Symbian, and
Blackberry powered devices, Waze provides much more
current routing and road related information than most
other competitive apps.
For those who may drive outside the U.S., Waze is multinational in scope, and offers real-time traffic information on an international scale. According to Wikipedia, "As of 2013 Waze has a complete base map for the
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United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Israel (claimed to be the
best map for that country), South Africa, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Panama, but the company has plans to
complete maps for other countries in Europe and elsewhere."
With the motto, "Waze. Outsmarting Traffic, Together",
Waze describes itself as, "Get the best route, every day,
with real–time help from other drivers. Waze is the
world's largest community-based traffic and navigation
app. Join other drivers in your area who share real-time
traffic and road info, saving everyone time and gas money on their daily commute." With millions of users
(Yahoo! reported over 50 million users in mid-2013),
Waze utilizes real-time information from users who have
opened the Waze app on their smart devices. Waze
anonymously, continuously, and transparently reports
location, speed, and other information to a centralized
server, which in turn almost instantly compiles and displays this shared information on other Waze equipped
smart devices in the same user selected area. For privacy and security reashttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?
ui=2&ik=f7b152f0d5&view=att&th=144aa882d9a33ef3
&attid=0.1&disp=safe&zwons, by default, the Waze
configuration utilizes a user chosen screen name and avatar on the remote screens, and does not publically display any other personally identifiable user information.
While several other route mapping apps simply display
traffic conditions as a colored line on a map, typically
green indicating that traffic is moving fast, yellow indicates slowed traffic, and red indicating major traffic
slowdowns or stoppage, Waze utilizes a different approach. Since the Waze app on the users' devices are
continuously reporting speed and location, based on GPS
information, accurate traffic information is displayed
along with a wide assortment of other helpful and useful
information. According to the Waze website, this difference between Waze and the other GPS based routing
apps is, "Get alerted before you approach police, accidents, road hazards or traffic jams, all shared by other
drivers in real-time. It's like a personal heads-up from a
few million of your friends on the road."
For safety reasons, if Waze is used by the driver of a vehicle, the text input function is disabled once a destina-
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tion is entered or selected
off of a saved list. The
driver can still be informed
of upcoming traffic, hazards, and other reports, as
well as audio turn-by-turn
directions, without having
to physically handle the
device. There is an option
button displayed where a
passenger can enable the
text based data entry process while the vehicle is in
motion. In addition to the
passive information on
speed and other road information provided by the
app itself, a passenger can
actively contribute to the
community of Waze users
by using a simple icon
based method of sharing
road reports. These passenger entered road reports
take the current location,
as automatically provided
by the GPS, along with
manually entered information on accidents, traffic congestion and delays, disabled vehicles, speed traps,
and other road hazards, which immediately show up on
all other Waze connected devices in the area. In addition to road related information, users can also enter gas
station prices observed on their route, which will be displayed to others driving through the same area. Waze
says on its website, "By working together to report prices at the pump, Waze drivers can always save some gas
money."
Too many of us have had to deal with outdated maps on
our GPS or smart devices. While some newer freestanding GPS devices offer free quarterly updating of
maps, many still charge substantial fees to purchase map
updates. When using an internet based mapping service,
it is often difficult (or impossible) for the user to either
determine the age of the map displayed, or to enter map
corrections, both of which may undermine the confidence of the user in the accuracy of the maps displayed.
What is unusual about the maps displayed on Waze is
that they are community edited; Waze has an active
community of map editors who work continuously to
improve and update the maps displayed by the Waze
app. Map corrections and updates are constantly incorporated in the Waze display, down to the neighborhood
level. These same community map editors also continuously improve the routing utility incorporated into the
Waze app. Waze has made it as easy for any of the millions of users to submit suspected map errors or better
routing information to the editors as it is to enter a road
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played. I selected to send my
daughter a private text message which included a Waze
generated unique URL, which
when opened in her browser,
displayed my real-time location and ETA, which was continuously updated in her
browser. This same function
can also serve to notify someone who is going to be met or
picked up by the Waze user of
the expected time of arrival.
hazard; a single click on the appropriate icon, along with
an appropriate comment, immediately sends the information to the map editors. For example, earlier today,
while returning from Houston (my wife was driving), I
submitted two suggested changes: the first was a suggested routing correction to my home address, submitting a shorter and faster route; the second was the location of a newly opened gas station.
While the information from users is anonymously displayed on the Waze display, using a moniker rather than
a real name, users can also optionally select to send
Waze information to selected individuals, or to post it on
social networks, such as Facebook. On a recent out of
town trip to visit a daughter and her family, I chose to
provide her with a real-time web link that would display
my current location and "ETA" (Estimated Time of Arrival). Since my wife was at the wheel at the time, it was
safe for me to do the appropriate messaging. Clicking
on the icon on the bottom-left corner of my screen, I selected the "notify" function, which presented me with a
comprehensive list of messaging utilities; text messaging, email, Facebook, and several other modes were dis-
The posting of travel information to Facebook can be
useful if a group is trying to
arrange a get-together of some
type, and all of the participants can be kept apprised of
the others' locations and arrival times. While Waze supports posting of current location information to social networking services, such as Facebook, for security reasons, I cannot recommend this practice. Even if the social media post is only directed to friends, not all friends
may be honest and trustworthy. Posting that a user is a
distance away from home, and will not be returning for a
lengthy period of time, opens that user's home to possible break-in and burglary, as the perpetrators will know
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media outlets, mostly TV stations, for their use in broadcasting current local traffic information. Utilized by
several New York and New Jersey TV stations, the
Waze feed is also employed (as of June 2013) by over
25 other U.S. TV stations, as well as foreign TV stations, including one in Rio de Janeiro.
Provided that a driver is not distracted by its use, the free
Waze app is an outstanding resource. Waze also asks
that the app be used to monitor daily commutes, in addition to longer trips, so that others may get the enhanced
benefit of a greater knowledge base of road information.
Over the past several weeks, I have used Waze on my
smart phone rather than Google Maps and the other road
routing apps that I have installed. Waze uses the de-
that no one is home and no one is likely to be home for
a foreseeable time.
The Waze app has a most interesting history; originally
invented in Israel in 2008 by a small group of developers as, "a GPS-based geographical navigation application program for smart phones with GPS support and
display screens which provides turn-by-turn information
and user-submitted travel times and route details, downloading location-dependent information over the mobile
telephone network." Waze was recognized by the 2013
Mobile World Congress as the "Best Overall Mobile
App", beating out several better known apps such as
Dropbox. The original company, Waze Mobile, was
acquired by Google in mid-2013 for the princely sum of
$1.3 billion, after being approached by other prominent
internet giants, including Facebook. According to contemporary news accounts, "As part of the deal signed,
each of Waze’s 100 employees will receive an average
of about $1.2 million, which represents the largest payout to employees in the history of Israeli high
tech." (source: haaretz.com, June 13, 2013).
While the Waze app is totally free to download and use,
its business model is funded in a variety of ways. Waze
offers advertisers an opportunity to place a very small,
unobtrusive icon on a given location, which may encourage Waze users to patronize that location. Waze
also sells its aggregate traffic conditions and reports to
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vice's GPS to determine the current
location, and then offers a simple
search function to ascertain the destination. In using Waze I have entered,
street addresses, the names of restaurants, and hotel names, with the integral search function rapidly calculating a route to the chosen destination.
While on the road I used Waze to find
the best gas prices, avoid major traffic
congestion, and other road hazards.
Since Waze is free, and will run on
almost any appropriately equipped
smart device, regardless of operating
system, I can wholeheartedly recommend it to travelers for both local and
long distance driving.
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Case Conversion in Word
By Hewie Poplock
A member of my user group asked “How do you change an all caps sentence to normal leading cap and lower case in
Word?”
Here is the answer. You have a document or a paragraph that you have pasted in your document this is in all caps.
Although I have always used a 3rd party software that I would copy the paragraph and paste it into the other program,
I then had it do a case conversion and did a copy & paste back. Mike's question forced me to figure out how to do it
within Word. It is easy.
First, we have the document with all caps.
In the ribbon, Find the Change Case dropdown.
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Highlight the sentence/paragraph(s) in question. Make the
choice from the dropdown menu. In this situation, we are
choosing "Sentence case."
Your selection is now changed. Be sure to save before closing.
Your change is complete.
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HelpLine
HelpLine is a free service to members of CFCS only. The following volunteers have offered to field questions by phone or via email with software and hardware problems listed below. Please be considerate of the volunteer you are calling.
As a free service, you should not be asked to pay for help or be solicited for products or services. If anything to the
contrary occurs, please contact the HelpLine coordinator immediately. Their names will be removed from the list.
Additional volunteers are needed in some existing categories and for new categories. If you are interested, please contact the
HelpLine coordinator at e-mail: helpline@cfcs.org
Please Note - This is a service for CFCS MEMBERS ONLY
Digital Photography & Video
Ken Larrabee
407 365-2660
anytime
KLarrabee@cfl.rr.com
DOS
Stan Wallner
407-862-2669
smwallner@yahoo.com
5 pm-7 pm
407-365-2660
Stan Wallner
407-862-2669
smwallner@yahoo.com
MS ACCESS
Arvin Meyer, MVP 407-327-3810
Access-sig@cfcs.org
anytime
5 pm-7 pm
7 pm - 9 pm
MS Office Products:
MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and Access
Doug Gabbard
(e-mail only)
Dougga@gmail.com
Security
Arvin Meyer
407-327-3810
Access-sig@cfcs.org
Networking - Home or Office
Doug Gabbard
e-mail only
Dougga@gmail.com
SQL-Server
Arvin Meyer
Access-sig@cfcs.org
Windows
Hewie Poplock
hewie@hewie.net
407-327-3810
407-362-7824 5 pm-7 pm
Kris Hestad
321-459-2755
kris.hestad@surfdogs.com
Kris Hestad
321-459-2755
kris.hestad@surfdogs.com
Hardware
Ken Larrabee
HelpLine Listings
WinZip
Arvin Meyer
407-327-3810
Access-sig@cfcs.org
Wireless Routers
Kris Hestad
321-459-2755
kris.hestad@surfdogs.com
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