By Bruce Preston As of April 8th, 2014, Microsoft will cease all support of the Windows XP operating system at the SP3 level, having discontinued support for SP2 some time ago. Microsoft is also discontinuing support for Office 2003. This means that there will no longer be 'Critical Updates" … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2014
Apple TV, Airplay – Apple SIG Jan. ’14
By Richard Corzo In January I was able to demo the Apple TV in the Resource Center as follow-up to my presentation on the Apple ecosystem at the general meeting. This little box connects to your high-definition TV and home Wi-Fi network to give you access to a couple of dozen "channels" or apps, … [Read more...]
Jay Ferron – Windows 8.1
Date: Tuesday, February 4th, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium By Bruce Preston In the beginning there was DOS and it was 'good enough', if you were willing to deal with the nuances of the command line interface. There were various releases – 1.1 bumped diskette capacity from … [Read more...]
February 2014 Newsletter
Board of Directors Minutes Meeting Preview Meeting Review Ask DACS XP: The End Is Near. What are you doing about it? by Bruce Preston … [Read more...]
Apple Ecosystem—with Richard Corzo, Jan 2014
By Frank Kromer How appropriate the name for the January presentation. Apple Ecosystem, as presented by Richard Corzo, says it all. Richard began with the Apple TV ($99) and the Apple feature known as Airplay. This device, when connected to an HDTV, can share content through iTunes between a … [Read more...]
Board of Directors Meeting 1/8/14
Called to Order: 7:17 PM Attending: Richard Corzo, Jim Scheef, Lisa Leifels, Bert Goff, Dick Gingras, Dave Green, Richard Teasdale, Bruce Preston, Andy Woodruff Minutes of Last Meeting Accepted with revision: New Business #3: "Bert offered to look into options." Change to :"Bert offered to … [Read more...]
Digital Imaging SIG
Discusses digital cameras, retouching and printing using various programs. Contact: Ken Graff, 203-648-9747. Meets on last Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at the DACS Resource Center. DACS Community Forum: http://forum.dacs.org/ … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, December 2013
Q – I received a call the other night from a man with a deep Indian accent who claimed to be a technician from Microsoft. He said that my computer was “virus stricken” and was offering to help me fix it. He asked that I go to a website and once there, a window popped up asking permission to install … [Read more...]