00:11:53 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: 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 00:12:33 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): Our March 12th meeting is Smartphone Essentials. Have a favourite app to share? 00:14:57 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Our March 12th meeti..." with ❤️ 00:17:28 Tom Trottier: "RTFM" 00:18:40 Steve Parker: Manual? everything's automatic these days. ;-) 00:18:42 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OneDrive’s worst annoyances https://www.computerworld.com/article/3827205/onedrive-windows.html 00:20:29 France Picard Ottawa: during the derecho (spelling?), my rogers cell worked fine the whole time 00:20:37 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: sCANUCK.ca 00:20:52 Tom Trottier: Even during a power outage, you can send texts, and they will go thru if power returns, even for a few minutes 00:21:05 Jeff Dubois: Cell phone option.. how often will he use the phone? If it's only once every once in a while, I have an awesome option... 711 Speakout... 00:21:20 Carol Pearson: my cell works during power outages, Videotron. In power outages, texts use less powere to conserve, s calls. 00:21:43 Jeff Dubois: I'll give the details following tonight's talk. Easier to do it voice chat. 00:22:14 Steve Parker: Has anyone tried SecTeer VulnDetect? Would be nice to find a way to run only when you want to check and then turn it off when done. 00:22:27 Jeff Dubois: https://www.speakout7eleven.ca/ 711 speakout 00:23:34 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): My wife and I both have cell phones but no landline. One cell is on the Bell network and the other on Rogers. No problem if one provider is down and Hydro outages are usually short lived. 00:23:35 Timothy: Phone hard lines are supposed to be powered for a longer period of time than cell phones after a prolonged period of a blackout. 00:24:09 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Steve - I use VulnDetect. It sleeps with no impact on performance except when it is doing a check-in or a scan. Checkins are VERY quick. Scans typlically run in a couple of minutes. 00:24:37 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): @Steve Chris talked about this last week (I think) 00:26:22 Tom Trottier: Change view to Speaker from Gallery 00:30:10 Steve Parker: @Alan Yes he did. It leaves the agent resident in memory and you have to set a time for it run. It would be nice to have a more personal user friendly interface instead of the office networking version 00:32:41 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Steve - just thought, if you really wanted, you could set the service (SecTeer Agent) "Startup type" to "Manual". Then run a script that starts the service just before your schedule (as configured in VulnDetect) to scan and then have the script stop the service again a while after the scheduled scan runs. 00:33:38 Natalie: For users: .What types of products are in the databases? 00:33:44 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Steve - I agree a more configurable agent would be preferred. Unfortunately, they don't give us that. 00:34:51 Tom Trottier: There is also a sCanada.ca 00:35:53 Bill: Now, to adjust it so you can find the store with the best price. 00:36:28 Darlene: Reacted to "Now, to adjust it so..." with 👍 00:36:50 Jeff Dubois: My regular cell (Freedom Mobile) is $30/month. That gives me unlimited canda wide call and text with 7GB Canada wide data. However, we also have an emergency phone that ALWAYS stays in the car. It costs $25 per year. It will work anywhere in Canada. and as long as you top up with another $25 before the year expires the additional time rolls over. I think it's about $0.20 a minute if you use it but as we have rarely had to use it it has LOTS of time on it... (about six years worth) So, if all he needs is a cell phone which he will RARELY use the SpeakOut 7 Eleven is likely the best and cheapest option. 00:38:16 Timothy: I read that in the near future that companies will be replacing the UPC code with a QR code. 00:42:07 Eldon Gaw: Did I miss the part about what if there is no QR or UPC code? I'm thinking about food products? 00:43:12 Natalie: Great utility. Thanks for considering the end users, issues like accessibility, etc. 00:45:28 Timothy: Very good app. 00:45:30 Carol Pearson: Thanks 00:45:41 Natalie: Someone mentioned Maple Scan app. Anyone familiar with it? 00:46:38 Bob Herres: Thank you Wil -Very Interesting, I can't say I'm ready for everything but I'm keen to keep learning.. Good Stuff ! 00:48:14 Tom Trottier: I use PowerToys TextExtractor almost every day, including catching URLs on our Zoom calls 00:49:34 Natalie: I often get a a prompt to update PowerToys on my PC. Does that mean I have everything available? 00:52:48 Carol Pearson: why do you need different zones? 00:53:38 Tom Trottier: Or add old monitors........ 00:55:45 Natalie: Replying to "I use PowerToys Text..." I just tried using it to copy text from the PPT slide that would not be possible with regular cut & paste. Thanks for the tip! 00:55:50 Tom Trottier: I think windows 10 natively support full and half zones with win+arrow keys 00:55:54 Bob Herres: Awesome Chris! TY I can truly see the merit in this! The monitor is more important than many folks realize - It can never be Too Large! 00:56:05 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: PowerToys FancyZones https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/fancyzones 00:57:53 Tom Trottier: Reacted to "I just tried using i..." with 👍🏼 00:58:16 Bob Herres: Power Users have more than one Monitor, But its the Basic Users that really need more than One Monitor!..😁 00:59:20 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Google fingerprinting https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/02/google-now-allows-digital-fingerprinting-of-its-users 00:59:40 Steve Parker: Win+ Shift T works very well for OCR of a screen clip 01:00:02 Tom Trottier: Don't discard old monitors. Keep connecting them! 01:00:30 Natalie: Replying to "Win+ Shift T works ..." Yup. That's the shortcut for the TextExtractor that Tom mentioned. 01:00:34 Bob Herres: Reacted to " Don't discard old m..." with ❤️ 01:00:43 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Steve - yes that is Text Extractor from the PowerToys. 01:01:11 Tom Trottier: BTW, on my 4th monitor, I see my bandwidth use total is about 2Mb/sec 01:01:35 Tom Trottier: (glasswire) 01:02:23 Tom Trottier: The Iron browser is Chromium without the Google snooping 01:02:54 Natalie: Is there an indication when fingerprinting is happening? 01:03:04 Tom Trottier: Lots of indications! 01:03:19 Tom Trottier: Especially since many cookie controls... 01:09:42 Tom Trottier: https://build.nvidia.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1 01:13:55 Natalie: Good for a laugh, but not if you want good results quickly! 01:13:55 Timothy: I had an adapter for a cell phone that looked like a real phone. 01:14:05 Tom Trottier: AI is more like a search engine, than a creative individual 01:14:12 Tom Trottier: LLMs, at least 01:14:28 Harvey Hope: Need more power Scottie ... 01:14:40 France Picard Ottawa: Reacted to "Need more power Scot..." with 😂 01:15:01 Ed Morawski: Most power outages are short, so a UPS is a good idea 01:15:27 Ma Vo: Replying to "Need more power Scot..." but Captain... I am only an engineer, not a miracle worker... ;) 01:15:41 France Picard Ottawa: Reacted to "but Captain... I am ..." with 😂 01:16:04 Harvey Hope: Replying to "Need more power Scot..." Ey laddie! 01:16:55 Steve Parker: AND Scottie was Canadian! 01:17:12 France Picard Ottawa: Reacted to "AND Scottie was Cana..." with ❤️ 01:17:14 Bob Herres: I just go to Phone Booth, if I get stuck for a phone 😁 01:17:43 Timothy: Try to find a Phone booth now a day. 01:18:06 Tom Trottier: 1on1request@opcug.ca 01:18:21 Tom Trottier: https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 01:19:10 Tom Trottier: Replying to "AND Scottie was Cana..." And Captain Kirk 01:19:19 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Try to find a Phone ..." with ❤️ 01:19:20 Natalie: Replying to "Try to find a Phone ..." I'm surprised that there's still an outdoor one in front of a Shoppers near me. They got rid of the one at the city rec centre. 01:20:21 Tom Trottier: Replying to "AND Scottie was Cana..." ...and Elon Musk..... 01:20:36 France Picard Ottawa: Reacted to "And Captain Kirk" with ❤️ 01:20:44 Carol Pearson: Thanks all 01:20:51 Natalie: Thanks! 01:20:54 Allison: Thank you! 01:22:00 Timothy: Thank you. 01:22:48 Natalie: Aside from presentations on the apps, would it be possible to have a list of recommended ones that won't be presented? 01:23:12 Natalie: A list of favourites that we check out ourselves. 01:23:21 Steve Parker: Replying to "AND Scottie was Cana..." Don't forget Sydney Newman 01:24:09 Ma Vo: Replying to "I just go to Phone B..." are you talking about The Phone Booth store or a Tardis? :P 01:24:23 Harvey Hope: Replying to "AND Scottie was Cana..." I scanned Musk and the app blew up 01:25:22 José Costa: I like the pocket app to save newspaper articles, etc. 01:25:27 José Costa: https://getpocket.com/home 01:27:15 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): SuggestionBox@opcug.ca