00:10:52 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see 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 00:16:23 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: My top utilities in order of importance or frequency of use: Total Commander file manager (https://www.ghisler.com/) Microsoft PowerToys (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xp89dcgq3k6vld?hl=en-us&gl=US) Snagit screen capture program (https://www.techsmith.com/snagit/) UniGetUI update manager (https://www.marticliment.com/unigetui/) CCleaner "crap cleaner" (https://www.ccleaner.com/) 00:16:44 Stew Bruce: 1 Patch my PC 00:16:50 Lynda Buske: CCleaner 00:17:01 JosΓ© Costa: Notepad 00:17:02 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): FreeFileSync 00:17:17 Stew Bruce: 2 Glasswire 00:17:29 Daniel Byrne, Ottawa: Send Anywhere 00:17:36 Steve Parker: Everything 00:17:41 Bob Herres: My most used app is: Greenshot . (screen Capture Program ... It was was finally updated and renewed just last week 00:17:42 Tristan: Disk Clean-up 00:17:42 Daniel Byrne, Ottawa: CC Cleaner 00:17:56 Stew Bruce: 3 Wireless Network watcher 00:19:15 Serge-Γ‰rik: Keepass / Glary Utilities / 00:19:22 Keith: wordpad 00:19:22 Eldon Gaw: maybe top 25? 00:19:42 Stew Bruce: 4 Camo Studio (with Zoom) 00:19:59 Harvey Hope: draw.io, also known as diagrams.net, is a free, open-source, web-based diagramming application used for creating, editing, and collaborating on various types of diagrams. 00:20:00 Stew Bruce: 5 LibreOffice 00:22:59 Harvey Hope: CapsLock Indicator utility shows whether caps lock is ON/OFF 00:23:35 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Question just received by E-mail - What's the best utility to download videos from YouTube? 00:24:02 Lynda Buske: Replying to "Question just receiv..." I use Snagit 00:24:05 Steve Parker: Media Human 00:25:44 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Disabling CapsLock Install PowerToys: search for Microsoft PowerToys in the Microsoft Store https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/keyboard-manager 00:26:14 bea: really useful 00:26:21 Stew Bruce: 6 Brave browser 00:26:48 Bob Herres: Cool I love the concept of reusing, remapping Unused Keys ! πŸ’—βœ… 00:28:48 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Instapaper https://www.instapaper.com/ https://www.instapaper.com/save https://www.instapaper.com/apps 00:29:06 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Pocket export page: Visit https://getpocket.com/export 00:33:58 Bob Herres: Replying to "Pocket export page: ..." Thank you Instapaper Very Interesting πŸ’— 00:34:08 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Tutorials on Instapaper https://www.instapaper.com/help https://lazysnail.net/en/how-i-optimized-my-learning-time-with-instapaper/ https://www.instapaper.com/help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbd7Rkn83g8 https://www.screencastsonline.com/tutorials/utilities/instapaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X06MnZTPoD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GWpjEAtw04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3c99XcoqGs https://thenextweb.com/news/deep-dive-into-instapaper-how-to-use-it-and-tips-for-power-users http://www.markwk.com/article-tracking-with-instapaper.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQQFCr31890 00:34:40 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Up Here https://www.uphere.ca/ 00:45:48 Tom Trottier: How does TRIM affect file storage & recovery? 00:46:18 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Recovering data from a flash drive https://www.cleverfiles.com/data-recovery-software.html https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva https://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm 00:46:41 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Recovering data from..." with πŸ‘ 00:46:49 Tom Trottier: Samsung USB keys come with a recovery program 00:47:09 Tom Trottier: A little card with a link to download 00:56:07 Tom Trottier: Perplexity: "There is currently no consumer software that disregards the logical page index in order to physically read trimmed pages from typical USB flash drives or SSDs, because access to raw NAND pages (outside of the logical address mapping managed by the device controller) is not exposed by standard USB or SATA interfaces" 00:56:08 E O'Driscoll: Bundling unwanted software...Microsoft for example. 00:56:42 Tom Trottier: So, state actor only with hardware disassembly.... 01:02:09 Bob Herres: Great Alan -Thank you - I can never find Control Panel when I need it! .. So I have it "pinned to the Task Bar" Now it's always quick and easy to find :-) 01:03:55 Tom Trottier: Is that Windows 10? 01:04:12 Stew Bruce: My control panel is pinned to the taskbar 01:04:56 E O'Driscoll: Reacted to "Great Alan -Thank yo..." with πŸ‘ 01:05:07 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Removing backgrounds in photos https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20210623_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20220831_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20231206_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20231220_PowerPoint.pdf https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/remove-background Adobe Express in the Microsoft Store 01:06:14 Tom Trottier: What is the background replaced with? 01:06:48 Tom Trottier: How handle transparency with JPGs? 01:08:49 Carol Pearson: you removed the background, how do you drop it onto another background 01:09:52 Steve Parker: how does it do with hair? 01:09:57 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): The output PNG file has a transparent background 01:10:26 Lynda Buske: Replying to "you removed the back..." You have to use a photo editing program and insert it into another image. PSX is good. 01:11:02 Eldon Gaw: I just used that tonight before the meeting and I was SOOOOO impressed and it was on my phone!!! with a picture my daughter had sent to me from Calgary 01:15:04 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: PlugShare https://www.plugshare.com/ 01:17:54 Bob Herres: Thank you Everyone! Lots of interesting content! πŸ‘ βœ…πŸ’— 01:18:02 Natalie: Are membership dues back in place? 01:18:07 Serge-Γ‰rik: Thanks everyone. 01:18:15 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Replying to "Thanks everyone." Nope! 01:18:21 E O'Driscoll: Another great session. Thanks to all presenters. 01:18:25 Sherida Harris: Thank you all. 01:18:38 Svetlana Kolozsvari: Thank you everyone. 01:18:41 Allison: Thank you! Great info tonight. 01:19:17 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Replying to "Are membership dues ..." The Board has waived renewal fees for all existing members for the year. 01:19:46 Natalie: Replying to "Are membership dues ..." Thanks. My renewal date is now, so wasn't sure. 01:20:36 Natalie: Replying to "Are membership dues ..." Does the date remain the same, and due then next year? 01:20:51 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): All members - No need to renew UNTIL you receive a renewal notice. Watch the newsletter for info. on any future BOD decisions. 01:21:14 Natalie: Replying to "All members - No nee..." πŸ‘ 01:21:57 Stew Bruce: G'night folks. Great time this evening 01:22:02 E O'Driscoll: Good night!