Please - Click here, or on the Amazon image below before a purchase - it will result in a donation to PATACS !! Win a 6 Month Membership Extension - Sign Up a New Member ! Details of Monthly Meetings PATACS - Arlington Wednesday, February 5th, 7 PM Please Come Early & Help with Meeting Setup! Meeting Location: Carlin Hall Community Center, 5711 S. 4th Street, Arlington, VA 22204 Zoom Session: https://zoom.us/j/894485185 Meeting ID: 894 485 185 Using Zoom To Be Announced Arlington Meeting Info & Maps        HAVE YOUR COMPUTER QUESTIONS ANSWERED! The program planners for our First Wednesday PATACS meetings in Arlington are looking for topics that members would like to have explored or questions answered - this is your opportunity to have a say in subjects addressed at this meeting. This is a smaller meeting than the Fairfax meeting, and it allows for much more interaction between members than is possible in Fairfax. And – there's the post-meeting Pizza and Salad SIG, the post-meeting social at a nearby restaurant - another value-added feature of your membership! Please send your suggestions to our meeting program planners at arlmtgpgm@patacs.org.

John Krout - Configure Your Cell Phone to Avoid RoboCalls. This presentation will show you how to configure your Android phone or iPhone to prevent the phone from ringing for any call other than one from a person in your phone's Contacts list. This is a way of avoiding robocalls, those "cold" calls that phish for your social security number and other identifying information, with the hope of stealing your bank account, IRS refund, or your identity. If you have no idea what is meant by robocalls, come on in and you will literally hear some that John found in his voicemails. John learned of this smart phone technique from an online columnist who asked his readers to describe their ways of coping with robocalls. While the columnist reported various reader approaches, some of them hilarious, he did not explain the smart phone configuration steps needed to make the most effective technique work for you. John figured out those steps and has been using the configuration for about three months on his Android phones, and will show you exactly how to do it yourself during the presentation. John Krout is a former president of the Washington Area Computer User Group (WAC), one of two groups that merged to become the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society (PATACS). He has been writing about personal computer uses since he joined WAC in the early 1980s. He is a frequent contributor to PATACS Posts, and occasionally provides presentations on tech issues at PATACS meetings. He lives in Arlington VA and is a writer for the Thales Group, a major maker of automated fingerprint identification hardware, supporting the use of that hardware in the computer system of a major federal government agency.

Is routine maintenance necessary? How often should it be done? Should backup be part of regular maintenance? What about software updates? Do you need antimalware software, and does it need recurring attention? How full is your disk drive and does that matter? Is your computer running hot and so what? What about those dust bunnies, ventilation and cable discipline? Do you need to lubricate the bearings in your hard drive? Should you replace your old computer if it still works? Lorrin Garson had a long career in technical publishing of chemical information. His presentations to our computer groups are famous for their thorough research and clarity in explaining topics such as cryptography, encryption of personal data, cloud storage and the origins of personal computers.

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PATACS - Arlington, Wednesday, Jan 22nd, 7 PM Meeting Location: Carlin Hall Community Center, 5711 S. 4th Street, Arlington, VA 22204 Technology & PC Help Desk: Extended Q&A Troubleshooting Arlington Meeting Info & Maps

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