By Richard Teasdale The main topic of the evening at the DACS General Meeting for March 2014 was Microsoft's new entertainment offering, the Xbox One. Staff members from the Microsoft store in the Danbury Fair Mall described and demonstrated the product. Although somewhat unstructured, the … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2014
April 2014 Newsletter
Board of Directors Minutes Meeting Preview Meeting Review Ask DACS … [Read more...]
Android – Jeff Postolowski
Date: Tuesday, April 1st, 7 p.m. Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium By Richard Corzo Apple came out with the iPhone in 2007. It was a phone, iPod music player, and mobile Internet browser in a single device, with a large touch screen but no numeric keypad or keyboard. Nokia and many other … [Read more...]
Watching YouTube on Your TV
We’ve all watched YouTube videos on our computers, whether it was on youtube.com, or a video embedded in another site’s web page. Sometimes you run across videos that you might actually like to sit back and watch on your large-screen TV rather than on your computer or even smaller-screened mobile … [Read more...]
Board of Directors Meeting 3/5/14
Called to Order: 7:15 Attending: Richard Corzo, Dick Gingras, Lisa Leifels, Bruce Preston, Bill Saturno, Jim Scheef, Richard Teasdale, Andy Woodruff Guest: Charles Bovaird Minutes of Last Meeting: Accepted. Treasurer’s Report for February, 2014 Balance on hand … [Read more...]
YouTube, TiVo – Mobile SIG March ’14
By Richard Corzo In March I brought in my TiVo to demonstrate how to watch YouTube videos on your TV as described in my newsletter article. I had the TiVo connected to a display monitor with an HDMI cable to simulate the connection to an HDTV. The TiVo is just one example of a device (in this … [Read more...]
CMS – Basics & More, March 2014
Gone are the days when a website could get away using simple static HTML code. With the ever increasing use of ‘alternate media’ websites now need to be responsive for a good viewer experience. They also need to be dynamic, easily managed (often by multiple contributors), SEO optimized, and … [Read more...]
Ask DACS, February 2014
Q – I noticed recently that FT Downloader is running on my WinXP machine. The search results on Google gave a mixed opinion on whether it is malware or something from Microsoft. A – Jay Ferron, our speaker for the evening, said that FT Downloader (ftdownloader.com) is a download manager that comes … [Read more...]