Boot-up
These were the suggestions from last time that you came up with …
Password Manager [Aelfryn]
Creating and updating a website [Martin]
Google settings [Paul]
Facebook settings [Me ???]
Windows settings [Don]
Backups (and archiving) [Stella]
Labels (next session) [David]
Photos – organisation and folders (finding) and editing [Toni]
Video-editing [Toni]
Building an internet browsing computer using Linux from an old laptop [David – Digital Projects maybe]
Have I forgotten any? Send me any further suggestions.
Charging your phone overnight
News
Not much …
Facebook execs deny knowing anything!
YouTube video-streaming in Europe may be curtailed due to EU Copyright legislation.
Google runs into “problems” with use of health data.
Black Friday, Voucher Codes, etc. etc.
… anything else???
Labels
You need a printer! If you’re using an iPad/iPhone – you need a printer that supports AirPrint.
Sorry … nothing I could try out for Android tablets, or phones – does anyone want to research this?
Finding a solution that works on every machine is challenging. Using Google suite the best bet – Contacts, Sheets and Docs with an add-on from Avery.
Start with Contacts. If you don’t use gmail for contacts, go to the Contacts in your eMail application – you need to Export chosen Contacts as a .csv file.
So for Google (gmail) – go to contacts.google.com …
You also need to add the Avery Label “add-on” to Google Docs
– docs.google.com
Then in Google Sheets (sheets.google.com), you Import the .csv file
Back to Google Docs and choose new merge from Avery Label Merge Add-on …
Select the Avery Product Code – L7160 – 21 labels is a pretty good starting point …
… and then the .csv file you want to merge …
Select the fields that you want to print from the panel on the right-hand side of the Google Docs screen …
… and then Merge at the bottom of the Panel. A message should appear telling you that a new document Avery_L7160 has been created, and it should look something like this …
… which you should then be able to print – once you’ve loaded the Label Printer Paper!
Also a demo of using Label Printer for iPad/iPhone.
Here’s a good summary of how to do it in Word, Pages (Mac) and Google Docs
… rambling and sometimes random at that
Onliner Spambot.
Christine raised the issue of a scam that we discussed at the meeting on 25th October – Sextortion! We discussed the Have I been Pwned website at that time, and she tried her email address at the meeting. Two possible hacks of her credentials were identified by the site – LinkedIn and Onliner Spambot.
This latter seemed a bit curious and I promised to investigate.
It appears that it’s huge database of hacked email addresses, most of them obtained from previous security breaches. So for Christine, the two are quite possibly connected – LinkedIn as the source of the Onliner Sp[ambot database entry. You can read more about it in these two articles …
Huffington Post – https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/enormous-spambot-discovered-in-possession-of-over-711-million-email-addresses_uk_59a6c7e7e4b063ae34da5139
and Lastpass – https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/08/onliner-spambot-actually-need-know.html/
What do you need to do; luckily probably nothing as most of the sources in the database did not have passwords, just email addresses, so the worst you should expect is spam! However, a review of your passwords is recommended and perhaps consider using a Password Manager – which is a topic we’ll look at again, soon.