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Facing Screens 

Christy and Joe welcome callers, Cheryl, Carolyn, and Robert.

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  1. Cheryl fights for her right to admin Facebook.
  2. Carolyn wonders about adding a second monitor to her Windows 10 Machine. We talk about multiple displays on Linux and Mac
  3.  Robert looks for a Print Screen shortcut.

“The Third Half of Studio C-5”

“The Disgruntled Member Scenario” 

“Lord Almighty, You Don’t Want to Call Facebook”

“If One Way Doesn’t Work…Do It Another Way” 

“If You Know How To Do That…You Are Probably NOT Listening to This Show”

“I Think That Is Something I’m Going to Forget” 

“Welcome Facebook Follies”

“I Think We Solved A Bunch of Problems this Week…and Created A Whole Nest of New Ones” 

 

 

 

 

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Telegram

In the future their will be a great article in Wired about Telegram messenger.

2FA

Two Factor Authentication. A confirmation beyond username/password often a code sent to a phone or device.

Win+P

Shortcut to control what is displayed on multiple monitor setups for Windows users

Twitch

The online grandstand for spectators of online game play

Win+SHIFT+S

Print screen dialogue for Windows users. 

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Cloud Prospecting 

Christy and Joe welcome 2 callers, Katie (not Cindy) and Bette.  along with iOS 15 even on the iPhone 6s

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  1. Katie wonders about EPIK breach who got what information how. We talk about out the parts of the internet come together to make a website or service available on the Internet.
  2. Bette has decided that she needs to put an app on her iPhone. We also tell her how to take an app off…just in case.

“What do we say before every update? BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP”

“Domains, Servers, and Hosts” 

“It’s Like Whack-A-Mole

“You Need Four Things To Be On the Web. Well,  Really Three” 

“Do You Remember Popsicle Sticks?”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Facetime

Video calling previously only on iOS products.

Epik

Network Attached Storage. One or more hard drives or storage devices are connected and accessible by a network. More on TechTerms

AWS

Amazon Web Service allows folks to host their content on the internet. Where most of the “cloud” (a term for the computer resources on the internet) lives.

DOX

Short for Documented. When a person’s personal information such as home address and phone is published on the web. Usually unwanted, often illegal. It is almost always against the terms of use of the service used to publish. 

Side Loading

Getting apps on a phone or protected device outside of the official channel or store for the device. 

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Treasure Hunt 

Christy and Joe welcome callers Robin, Tom, and Robin again

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  1. Robin looks for buried treasure in OneDrive and discovers Save As and Recent Files
  2. Tom calls about the USB shapes and standards
  3. Robin wants to move photos to her iPhone

“I have a lot of questions.”
“Well, we have lot of radio”

“Defaults Are Evil” 

“I Always Like to Blame Marketing”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


On Prem

Also, on-premises is the opposite of on-line or cloud storage and computing. The programs or storage are located on the same site as the user. More at Wikipedia

NAS

Network Attached Storage. One or more hard drives or storage devices are connected and accessible by a network. More on TechTerms

AirDrop

An in person way of sharing files between iPhone users using WiFi and Bluetooth. More at Apple

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Thanks for the Memories  

Christy and Joe welcome callers Robin, Naomi, and Tom. 

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  1. Robin and evacuating tub of photos into the cloud
     
  2. Naomi sorts out Memory and Storage requirements.
     
  3. Tom and stump the Tech call about docks and monitor connections
     

“Sounds Like A Good Job for a Intern”

“Remember Not to Look Into The Light” 

“Time to Take Windows 10 to the Gym”

“Good News-You Don’t Have a Choice” 

“Going Shopping in the Future”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Cloud Storage

Keeping data on-line via the internet on some other computer, such as Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Apple’s iCloud, and Dropbox

PowerShell

A command line text interface that controls the Windows operating system

GUI

Graphical User Interface screen based operating system that uses icons, windows, a screen cursor and a mouse.

Optical Drives

CDs and DVDs along with Blu-Ray that uses lasers to read and sometimes write data on a disk.

Recovery Point

On Windows systems a file that saves the machines settings (a snapshot) which allows a roll back of updates and damage to a working state in the past

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Third Half of
Studio C-5 

Christy and Joe welcome callers Cheryl, Carolyn, and Robert

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  1. Cheryl and Facebook Follies
     
  2. Caroline adds a third display
     
  3. Robert Print Screen key wrestling
     

“Third Half of Studio C-5”

“I Don’t Want to Weaponize Battle Born Tech” 

“We Will Light Candles, Say Prayers, and Do Some Celtic Rituals”

“Welcome to Facebook Follies” 

“If One Way Doesn’t Work, Try Another Way”

“Print Screen is the Orphan of the Windows Command Keys” 

 

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Telegram

You can send message with Telegram App, but Telegrams via Western Union ended in 2006.

2FA (Two Factor Authentication)

Two factor authentication requires to sources of information (such as a password and a code via text) to gain access to a service.

Splitter

A video cable that mirrors or duplicates a screen display. Same information on both screens.

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Measuring the Web

Christy and Joe welcome callers Katie, and Bette.

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  1. Katie asks about the Epic security breach.
     
  2. Bette isn’t sure about putting apps on her phone.
     

“Audio Hesitant”

 

“Remember Popsicle Sticks?” 

 

“Four Things You Need to Get A Website Up…Well, Three.”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


FaceTime

A chat app on the Apple iOS that recently allowed Android users to participate by opening a link on their phone’s Chrome browser sent by an iOS Facetime user. No App is available for Android at this time. More at howtogeek

Anonymous

A group of hacktivists (computer using activists) that are informally link together for cyberattacks against government, organizations, or companies exposing activities the disapproved by the group.

Epik

A Internet Service company that hosts internet services that other providers decline to serve due to their controversial or harmful content. Ron Monster is CEO

Registar

A provider of the “human name” for websites which are aliases for groups of numbers that specify a server where the website is stored.

DNS

Domain Name service, the “yellow pages” that keeps track of all the website names registered by Registars and the actual IP addresses they point to.

Side Load

Putting apps on your device without using the official store or procedures of the phone’s operating system provider.

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