Mapping, Google and geocaching and meeting notes – 10th May 2018

Ocado
Quick hints:

  • Getting short cuts for documents on your Desktop – Go into File Explorer, find the document you want to create a Shortcut for, single click on that document, right click, select Create Shortcut.
  • Format painter in Word. It’s the paintbrush in the home menu. Highlight the area of text that shows the format you want to copy. click on format painter. Highlight the area of text you want to copy the format to.
  • Bullets – highlight the text that you would like to add bullets for. Click on the bullets in the Home menu – about half way along in the top row.
  • Disabling touch pad – on a Lenovo machine press F6. Only works for that session.

News:

  • Windows 10 update
  • Google launches
  • Broadband speeds

Google maps

  • Getting coordinates – go into Google Maps. click on where you want to get the coords for. Rich click. Go down to What’s here? A box will appear at the bottom that includes the coordinates. These coords are often not in the format you want for your SatNav so have to be converted. A good website for doing coordinates conversion is: http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi
  • https://www.google.com/mymaps – this website appears to allow you to plan routes, whereas the https://www.google.co.uk/maps/ site does not
  • Saves to Google Drive – the route you plan seems to save to Google drive.
  • Saving as KML file – this seems to be the only format you can save a route in and not the ‘.gpx’ format that is often used. There is probably a way to convert KML file to a GPX file somewhere.

GPS
Geocaching

Online buying and selling; Fb still in the news and meeting notes – 12th April 2018

Issues
  1. You can recall a message in Gmail for a limited time after you’ve sent it – as long as you’re using the browser version or the Gmail app; will not work with email clients, such as Outlook, or Apple Mac Mail.
  2. Problems with Spam from BTinternet – investigated; could not find anything specifically that is a current problem.
  3. How do you clone Mac – if you want to rebuild your system; resolved and answer given to Renee
  4. Topics for the future
  • Cookies and internet history – managing them
  • Buying a new system; transferring your old system to a new one on a Windows PC. This has been covered for the Mac in response to Renee viz. cloning.
News
What do you use different forms of storage for?
  • Internal hard disk drive
  • External hard drive
  • Solid-state drive
  • USB Memory Sticks, and Memory Cards (SD Cards, Compact Flash)
… and then there’s …
  • Cloud storage
Topics