By Richard Corzo In April we discussed the Heartbleed vulnerability discovered in the OpenSSL code that many websites and some devices use to provide secure web connections. The vulnerability can allow access to sensitive data stored in the memory of the compromised server or device. It turns … [Read more...]
May 2014 Newsletter
Board of Directors Minutes Meeting Preview Meeting Review Ask DACS President's File … [Read more...]
Upgrading a Hard Drive to an SSD – Apple SIG April ’14
In April I talked about my recent project to replace the hard drive in my MacBook Pro with a solid-state drive (SSD). My objective was two-fold: to increase the storage capacity, since I had only 10 GB free space on my hard drive, and to gain a speed improvement from using the SSD, which uses flash … [Read more...]
Digital Magazines, Books, Offline Maps – Apple SIG March ’14
By Richard Corzo March's topic was digital magazines, books, and offline maps. Apple sells magazines in the App Store that show up in the Newsstand app on your iPad or iPhone, but those are the only two places you can read them. Zinio is a seller of digital magazines which has been around for … [Read more...]
March 2014 Meeting Review: Xbox One and the Termination of Windows XP Support
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...]
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...]
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...]
March 2014 Newsletter
Board of Directors Minutes Meeting Preview Meeting Review Ask DACS Watching YouTube on Your TV by Richard Corzo Meet the SIG: Mobile Devices and Windows 8 SIG by Jim Scheef … [Read more...]
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