00:08:34 Chris Taylor (President): Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:16:27 Stew Bruce: 👍 00:16:33 Chris Taylor (President): AI images with Bing/DALL*E3 https://www.bing.com/create 00:16:54 Lynda: You are so sweet Bob! 00:19:31 Tom Trottier: Dali 3.... 00:19:35 Chris Taylor (President): AI "confidently wrong" Windows Intelligence, ComputerWorld, 2023-10-04 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3707969/microsoft-copilot.html 00:20:19 Lynda: Every time I asked for a picture of a woman, she ended up looking like a model. Couldn't get an ordinary looking woman as you can with men. 00:21:05 Bob Herres: Thank you Alan... Diesel says your did an excellent job highlighting our Photo Expert Celebrity! 00:21:49 Chris Taylor (President): Book review by AI assistant https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/09/llm-summary-of-my-book-beyond-fear.html 00:23:34 Chris Taylor (President): Power options in Windows 8.1 https://opcug.ca/Articles/1505.pdf 00:24:14 Stew Bruce: If the book was written 20 tears ago, could the Ai have read the reviews of the book since publishing for it's review? 00:25:02 Chris Taylor (President): Stew - I sure it had access to all those as well as the text of the book. But it managed to string together things in a cohesive batch. 00:25:27 Tom Trottier: Alan, you're an icon! 00:25:59 Chris Taylor (President): Extending battery life https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-extend-battery-lifespan-battery-charge-threshold/ Accubattery https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery Kill-a-watt at The Cabin Depot (just one place it is available) https://www.thecabindepot.ca/products/kill-a-watt Monitor charge current via a USB meter (just one place you can get these) https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=usb+tester&s=price-asc-rank More info on batteries https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries 00:27:12 Tom Trottier: Ditto any device with Li-ion batteries 00:28:29 Jeff "JEFFRO" Dubois: Alan, try using the 3rd party software TileIconifier. 00:30:56 E O'Driscoll: Good reminder not to charge too high. 00:34:36 Jeff "JEFFRO" Dubois: This is the link to TileIconifier… https://github.com/Jonno12345/TileIconifier/releases 00:34:47 Tom Trottier: Green bars very fashionable... 00:36:58 Tom Trottier: PowetToil... 00:39:08 Tom Trottier: Also, don't scan nirsoft utils 00:41:59 Tom Trottier: Dall-E thinks you have more hair... 00:42:20 Natalie: Were there issues reported for any other anti-virus programs? Just noticed that the PowerToys update is waiting to be installed on my computer. 00:43:11 Natalie: Thanks! 00:45:54 Chris Taylor (President): Free software https://www.pcworld.com/article/2091349/the-best-open-source-tools-at-a-glance.html 00:46:27 Chris Taylor (President): Zamzar - online file conversion https://www.zamzar.com 00:47:28 Tom Trottier: Alas, does not support Framework IV :( 00:48:58 Chris Taylor (President): Lots of good & useful tools at Tinywow.com https://tinywow.com 00:49:27 Chris Taylor (President): Cyder https://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/pitches/cyder https://www.getcyder.com/ 00:51:16 Tom Trottier: Well, it's not pointless.... 00:52:32 Natalie: I wonder if Robert Herjavec was serious about suing the company about the name (his company is called Cyderes). 00:54:22 Tom Trottier: One note re PC Mover, it does reset Libraries from Z:, my default, to C: 00:54:38 Chris Taylor (President): PC Manager download https://pcmanager.microsoft.com/en-US 00:56:42 E O'Driscoll: Can you remind me if Dalle E is free? 00:57:12 KW-G: Same question as E O'Driscoll. What about Dall E3? 00:58:15 Brigitte Lord / Webmaster, Newsletter: microsoft publisher 00:58:36 Alan German (Treasurer): Thanks Brigitte (Newsletter Editor) 01:00:40 E O'Driscoll: Thanks re Dall 3! 01:01:00 Michelle Faber: Thank you. Nice session. 01:02:36 E O'Driscoll: Also - that gobbledygook in the corrupt wp file: is that called machine-readable characters? 01:03:06 KW-G: @Brigitte - Microsoft publisher or Microsoft Designer? The latter....? 01:03:35 E O'Driscoll: Thanks 01:05:54 Stew Bruce: For Mobile Users, apparently Samsung is right on the cusp of releasing Android 14 for eligible devices and Apple's iOS 17.1 is imminent as well. Lots of potential for problems Wheee! 01:06:39 KW-G: @ Stew. I received notification on my Google Pixel 6 that Android 14 is available for downlooad 01:07:21 Stew Bruce: @K , Yup Pixels are always first. 01:08:22 Carol Pearson: what is google pixel? 01:08:48 Natalie: My Samsung phone had the automatic update today. 01:08:59 Tristan: The Pixel https://store.google.com/ca/category/phones?hl=en-GB 01:09:13 Carol Pearson: where do they sell them never see them advertised 01:09:47 Serge-Érik: To fix Office files, including Excel, try DataNumen Office Repair (https://www.datanumen.com/office-repair/), which is free for personal use. 01:09:51 KW-G: @ Carol I got my Pixel 6 at Costco 01:10:07 Carol Pearson: Reacted to "@ Carol I got my P..." with 👍 01:11:46 Tristan: Apparently for Pixel 8 they will provide updates for 7 years. 01:12:35 Michelle Faber: Good night. 01:12:55 Stew Bruce: My wife recently received a brace for her knee which was 3D printed from an iPhone scan. 01:13:24 Bill: Thanks everyone. Interesting evening. 01:16:14 Carol Pearson: thanks 01:16:17 E O'Driscoll: Another great night. 01:16:25 Ed Morawski: good meeting! 01:16:26 Bob Herres: 👌😁🥰