00:14:52 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: 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 00:17:39 Tom Trottier: nice image 00:20:36 Tom Trottier: Is there a web version of the Forum where you can search or browse? 00:20:39 E O'Driscoll: FYI - I've been leaving the OPCUG poster at various rec centres, libraries, bulletin boards around town. 00:21:00 Tom Trottier: Reacted to "FYI - I've been leaving the OPCUG poster at various rec centres, libraries, bulletin boards around town." with ❤️ 00:21:14 Stew Bruce: Reacted to "FYI - I've been leaving the OPCUG poster at various rec centres, libraries, bulletin boards around town." with 👍 00:22:21 Tom Trottier: WhatsApp can ring 00:22:50 Tom Trottier: audio or video 00:22:54 Tom Trottier: or chat 00:23:01 Carol Pearson: Facebook 00:25:28 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Replying to "Is there a web version of the Forum where you can search or browse?" Yes, browse to groups.google.com 00:25:32 Tom Trottier: Fongo has a desktop app for phone numbers 00:25:55 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Replying to "FYI - I've been leaving the OPCUG poster at various rec centres, libraries, bulletin boards around town." Thanks! 00:26:15 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Fongo has a desktop app for phone numbers" https://www.fongo.com/services/fongo-works/devices/fongo-works-companion-app/ 00:26:49 Tom Trottier: I use WhatsApp to talk to India, Poland, Zimbabwe, .... 00:27:47 Tom Trottier: On phone, WhatsApp stays on in the background 00:29:29 Tom Trottier: https://www.lifewire.com/free-sip-providers-3426672 00:29:57 Tom Trottier: Replying to "https://www.lifewire.com/free-sip-providers-3426672" Free 00:32:28 Tom Trottier: You seem to need a gmail account for Groups 00:33:45 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Digital information Website - Digitimes https://www.digitimes.com/index.asp 00:35:03 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Flightradar24 https://www.flightradar24.com/ 00:35:49 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Flightradar24 https://www.flightradar24.com/" Can you follow Netandyahoo? 00:37:16 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Robtech https://www.youtube.com/@Robtech 00:38:45 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: What’s the best registry cleaner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpqXJsYhHhc https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2461833/does-microsoft-have-a-software-that-cleans-repairs 00:40:41 E O'Driscoll: Interesting if one could follow monarchs in real time. I don't think it's possible currently (for the public). 00:41:10 Tom Trottier: Small PC reviews: https://www.servethehome.com/tag/tinyminimicro/ 00:42:02 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: 5 CHEAP Phones That Will Still Be Supported in 2032 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0671O_pDi0 00:45:53 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: RIP Microsoft Publisher https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/microsoft-publisher-will-no-longer-be-supported-after-october-2026 Affinity Page Layout https://www.affinity.studio/page-layout-software Scribus https://www.scribus.net/ 00:46:25 Natalie: Website that lists end of life dates for many devices: 00:46:27 Natalie: https://endoflife.date/tags/device 00:47:04 jenn faubert: boo! ms publisher is a great program 00:48:32 Natalie: Replying to "https://endoflife.date/tags/device" Before I chose a new phone, II used their list of Samsung phones to choose one that wasn't going to be obsolete sooner than later: https://endoflife.date/samsung-mobile 00:49:06 Tom Trottier: Replying to "5 CHEAP Phones That Will Still Be Supported in 2032 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0671O_pDi0" The five phones: #5 Nothing Phone 4A #4 Samsung Galaxy A37 5G #3 Samsung Galaxy S25 FE #2 Google Pixel 9a #1 Google Pixel 10a 00:49:26 Tom Trottier: Replying to "https://endoflife.date/tags/device" @Natalie The five phones: #5 Nothing Phone 4A #4 Samsung Galaxy A37 5G #3 Samsung Galaxy S25 FE #2 Google Pixel 9a #1 Google Pixel 10a 00:51:10 Tom Trottier: I've used Scribus, no publisher import, powerful, can continue stories at later pages 00:52:38 Tom Trottier: What does OPCUG use? 00:53:21 KWG: I’m looking for a good substitute as well 00:54:57 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Computer tools GetHuman – Free tools that help you talk and write to companies and government agencies https://gethuman.com FilePizza - Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser https://file.pizza SunCalc - Interactive map for calculating/visualizing the sun’s position at a specific location and time https://www.suncalc.org JustDeleteMe - Direct links to delete your account from a number of web services https://justdeleteme.xyz/en Cover Your Tracks - Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting https://coveryourtracks.eff.org PDF24 Tools - PDF tools that make you more productive both online and offline. https://tools.pdf24.org/en/ Namech_k - Check the availability of a username or domain name within seconds https://namechk.com 00:55:21 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: TinEye – Reverse Image Search https://tineye.com Cobalt Tools - Helps you save anything from your favorite websites https://cobalt.tools photex.shop – Edit/remove text in a picture/headshot generator https://photex.shop privnote - Send notes that will self-destruct after being read https://privnote.com 00:56:44 Tom Trottier: Stellarium will do like suncalc for all astronomical objects 00:56:48 E O'Driscoll: About Publisher: how serious is the risk of continuing to use it without updates? Could Publisher be fenced-off (no updates from anywhere) and used indefinitely (assuming it doesn't have bugs. 00:58:15 Tom Trottier: If you are worried about Publisher security, turn off internet access for the program in firewall. Windows Firewall Control makes it easy. 00:58:28 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: Replying to "About Publisher: how serious is the risk of continuing to use it without updates? Could Publisher be fenced-off (no updates from anywhere) and used indefinitely (assuming it doesn't have bugs." Personally, I would continue to use Publisher for as long as it would function. I think the risks are very low. I would not accept other people's PUB files on the theory that - at some point - a vulnerability might be found that could be triggered by a malicious PUB file 00:58:45 Tom Trottier: Replying to "If you are worried about Publisher security, turn off internet access for the program in firewall. Windows Firewall Control makes it easy." I've done this for my Office 2007 programs 00:58:51 Brigitte: Reacted to If you are worried a... with "👍" 01:00:51 David Odynski: DPCUG Meeting tomorrow night Thursday Oct.8 at 7pm All welcome 834 9209 6183 p/w 124327 The topic is alternative power sources 01:04:14 Tom Trottier: Use https://www.operationprivacy.com like JustDeleteMe 01:06:44 Michelle Faber: Thanks 01:06:52 Chris Taylor, President, OPCUG: spamcop.net 01:07:14 Michelle Faber: Good night 01:07:16 Eldon Gaw: Is there anyone in the club with w]experience using connecting issues trying to connect to a VPN connection that was woirking properly and then one day it just quite being able toi cnnect error code seems to be 629 01:07:49 Tom Trottier: Email validation: https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/email-security/dmarc-dkim-spf/ 01:12:09 Tom Trottier: Also code words for phone calls, esp Jail... 01:16:21 Tom Trottier: Ask chatGPT.... 01:18:04 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Stellarium will do like suncalc for all astronomical objects" Your own planetarium 01:18:12 Jocelyn Doire: There are font editor that let create/modify fonts, but I never heard something that would let you change the colour. 01:18:57 Serge-Érik: Here is what I am trying to reproduce in Word: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/603200943867447469/ 01:20:39 Tom Trottier: A normal font editor treats a letter as one monochrome outline; to give parts of a letter different colours, the glyph must be split into separate layers/shapes and saved in a colour-font format such as OpenType COLRv0/COLRv1 or SVG. 01:20:56 Eldon Gaw: Thank You Alan 01:21:18 Tom Trottier: eg fontCreator, fontLab, Glyphs 01:21:23 Stew Bruce: Replying to "Here is what I am tr..." Wow. 01:22:59 Tom Trottier: Replying to "There are font editor that let create/modify fonts, but I never heard something that would let you change the colour." Try fontCreator, fontLab, Glyphs 01:23:18 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Here is what I am trying to reproduce in Word: https://tr.pinterest.com/pin/603200943867447469/" Try fontCreator, fontLab, Glyphs 01:24:24 Jocelyn Doire: possible answer in AI: how to overlap two characters in a text editor? 01:24:48 Natalie: Thanks! 01:25:01 Carol Pearson: Thanks very mcuh 01:25:01 Serge-Érik: Thanks everyone. 01:25:03 E O'Driscoll: Great links tonight! See you next week.