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Tech Corner 2026-Jan

Cut/Copy/Paste & Shortcuts

Three of the most beneficial functions in the PC world are “cut”, “copy”, and “paste”.  Most know how to do this, but some may not.  Some may not know optional ways to “special paste”.  Also, there are multiple ways to perform these simple chores that may be easier or quicker than others.  Some methods use “shortcut keys”.

First, Select What You Want to Copy

To select a file or folder in file explorer, (left) click it with your mouse.  It will be highlighted.  To select a second file or folder, hold the “ctrl” key (“cmd” or “⌘ “on Macs) while clicking the next file with your mouse.  Now two are selected. 

To select a whole series of files or folders in a row, select the first (or last) in the series, hold the shift key and select the last (or first) in the series.  All the files between the clicks are now selected.  Another way to make a series selection is to use the navigation arrows while holding down the shift button.  Once a series of files is selected, ctrl-click can then be used to fine tune the selection by adding or removing files from the selection.

The primary method to select text is to left-click-hold and drag across the desired text.  The “shift-arrow” navigation method can then be used to add or remove text from the end of the selection (beginning if you dragged left or up). 

Double-clicking will select a single word.  “Ctrl-a” (control-all) will select everything, all at once.  This may select a whole document, a whole table, or sometimes just what is in a certain field.  To unselect everything, just push any navigation arrow.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Often, applications have menu actions or application icons for the cut/copy/paste actions.  However, “keyboard shortcuts” may be quicker.  The “ctrl-arrow”, “shift-arrow”, and “ctrl-a” actions, that were already discussed, are examples of “keyboard shortcuts”. 

Now look at the keys, “x”, “c” and “v”.  The “ctrl” key turns these into keyboard shortcuts for “cut” (looks like scissors), (“c” for) “copy”, and “paste” (similar to a down arrow).  These work in just about every application and can be faster than “find-point-and click”.  Other common keyboard shortcuts include “ctrl-s” = “save”, “ctrl-z” = “undo”, and “ctrl-f” = “find”.

A third way to access the cut/copy/paste functions is to right-click on the selected files or data.  This pops up a context-based optional action box that includes these functions. 

Now, Cut or Copy

As the name implies, the “copy” function copies the selected files, text, or data leaving the originals there intact.  Conversely, “cut” removes them from their original location.   So, “copy” is useful for duplicating information while “cut” is more commonly used for moving information from one location to another.  In both cases the data goes into a temporary memory often called a clipboard. 

Paste / Paste Options

Now, navigate to, and click to select the destination folder for files, or click to put the cursor in the destination for the copied/moved text.  Use the “paste” function to put the clipboard files or data there. 

A common occurrence when pasting is that the pasted text may include undesired formatting.  In this case, accessing the cut/copy/paste functions with a right click includes special paste options (See figure).

The left paste icon (with paint brush) pasts text with formatting while the right paste icon (with the “A”) pasts text without formatting.  The result adopts the formatting of the text surrounding the paste location.

Other

THIS YouTube video shows what this document describes.  More examples can be found HERE.

Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline at Tech@highlandsnf.org.

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Tech Corner 2025-Oct

Get the Most from the NFP Calendar

An important feature of the Nifty Fifties…Plus (NFP) website is the Calendar of activities.  While one can certainly use email notifications to populate a personal calendar, the website calendar shows all planned activities.

The Default Calendar:

Select “Calendar” from the menu and the default calendar appears.  See Figure 1 below.  This shows the planned events for the month.  

Figure 1 – Default Calendar

The events are color-coded such that “Weekly Regular Events” are shown in White, less frequent “Regular Events” are shown in Red, “Service Events” are shown in Green, “Special Events” are shown in Blue, and “Official NFP Events” are shown in Purple.  Holidays are shown in Black.  

Navigate to the previous or next month by clicking the left or right arrows above the “Sunday” column.

To view on a smart phone, turn the phone sideways.

More Ways to View

Just above the “Friday” column is the option to view the calendar in different ways.  Try them all, but some may appreciate the second “week” option.  This shows the time of day graphically.  See Figure 2.

Figure 2 – Calendar for the “Week”

Another way to view the calendar is by selecting the “List of Individual Events” button above the color code key.  This changes the view from graphical to a list of events with dates and times.  See Figure 3.

Activity Event List

Saving the best for last, selecting the “Date List by Activity” button above the color code key brings up the list of activities.  Selecting an activity results in a list of dates for that specific activity.  See Figure 4.  Activity Leaders are urged to review their events and report any needed corrections.

In Conclusion

The calendar of planned events is available online and is easy to navigate.  Last-minute additions or changes sent via emails or text by Activity Leaders are not included.

Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline at Tech@highlandsnf.org.

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Tech Corner 2025-July

Reduce Photo File Sizes

Have you ever received messages from your cell phone or PC about running out of memory? A major culprit is having numerous high-resolution photos.
Today’s more advanced smart phones and digital cameras produce very-high resolution images. These are stored as very large photo file sizes that can easily overwhelm the capacities of older devices.
Let’s look at ways to create (and email) files that are of a more reasonable size.

Image Resolution Basics:

Many evaluate pictures or photos in terms of inches wide by inches tall.  However, inches best characterize a scanned or printed picture’s physical size.

Digital photos, as well as digital displays, are most often measured in pixels (dots of color).  More pixels can provide more detail.  A digital photo can be stretched or shrunk.  The resulting image has a different pixel density.  The pixel density is measured in “Dots per Inch” (DPI).  The effect of DPI is easily seen in Figure 1.  A greater DPI means more detail. 

Figure 1.  Copies of a 1-inch square image shown with resolutions of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 DPI.

Today’s Resolution Levels

The first digital cameras produced images of 640 x 480 for a total of 307k pixels. Later this grew to 1280 x 1024 or about ≈ 1.3 Megapixels (million pixels; MP). These photos, saved as a jpg (jay-peg), use about 380kb of memory.
Today, resolutions are much greater. My iPhone takes photos at 4032 x 3024 pixels or 12MP. Each raw photo can use up to 3 Mb of memory. A “good” camera can take photos of around 20 MP with raw file sizes up to 16.7Mb. Pro cameras even more.
On the other hand, today’s average computer display uses a maximum resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels or 2MP. An image that covers a quarter of the screen space only needs to be 640 × 512 or about 1/3 MP. This means that the resolution of a raw photo file today may be as much as 60 times the density that a screen can display. These raw camera images use a huge amount of file space. Why do cameras have such high resolutions?

Process Strategy

Generally, pixels can be removed but not added. A camera is therefore used to capture the best image at a resolution that provides many options. This “raw” image file is then processed to create a final compressed image file, one with the desired image, properly fit to the intended space, with only the needed resolution, and using minimal file space.

Process Steps

1. Get the image you want at a rather high resolution.
2. Use a simple photo editor (e.g., IrfanView = free) to zoom in and crop the photo as needed to include only the desired portion of the image. One may end up with most, half, or even less of the photo.
3. Check the image properties for width in pixels. Resize as needed to reduce the resolution. I recommend up to 2,000 pixels for a full screen width image; 1,000 pixels for a half-screen width image, etc.
4. Save the picture file as a jpg. This compressed file for-mat alone can turn a “cut-&-paste”, 6Mb file into a 304kb file using 90-95% less space.
5. Use an “insert picture file” function to put it into your document (cut & paste bypasses file compression).

Results

By taking the time to process your raw image files, the size of your files can be significantly reduced to 1Mb or less without significantly affecting the displayed image quality.  This also applies to the doc, ppt, and pdf files that have images inserted into them.  This will preserve space on your device.

Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline at Tech@highlandsnf.org.

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Tech Corner 2025-April

How to Post on Facebook

How to Post on Facebook

Website users can change their own online profile data (note, this is not the official NFP roster data).  All other website changes must be made by the Webmaster. 

Website users can change their own online profile data (note, this is not the official NFP roster data).  All other website changes must be made by the Webmaster. 

Publishing event updates and event photos for the entire membership would become a full-time job if it all had to be done by a single individual.  This is the reason we have a (private) Facebook NFP Group page (LINK) where individual members can publish their own updates, comments, posts, and photos.

Five types of Facebook Activities.

1. Look / Read – Simply peruse the “Feed” (column of articles) and see what the NFP is up to.
2. “Like” / React – Click the “Thumbs-Up” icon button to “Like” (show agreement or appreciation) a post or comment.  Hover over this icon and other reactions will pop up including “Love”, “Care”, “Ha-ha”, “Wow”, “Sad”, and “Angry”.
3. “Comment” – If you have something to say about someone else’s post.  You can add a “Comment” to it or “Reply” to someone else’s comment.
   • Comments can be edited or deleted.  Click and hold the comment until possible actions pop up.  Select the desired action. 
4. “Post” – Create your own post.  First, find the blank space near the top of the feed (below the group photo) labeled, “Write something…” (PC) or, “What’s on your mind? (iPhone).  Click in this box and start typing.  Click “Enter” to submit the post.
   • Posts can be edited or deleted by clicking the triple-dot icon at the upper right corner of the post and selecting the desired action. 
5. “Post Photos” – one or many photos can be posted or included in a post.  There are two basic ways to do this – “Pull” or “Push”.
   • Pull from phone into Facebook:
     1. Start on the Facebook NFP Group page.
     2. Start a post (click on “Write something…”) and click the “Add Photo/video” icon ( ). 
     3. Select all the photos you want to “share” (post) by swiping and clicking the circle in each photos’ corner.
     4. Click, “Done”.
     5. Add a message if desired.
     6. Select “Post”.
   • Push – Push from Photo Viewer (iPhone):
     1. On your smart phone, open your photo viewer and find the first photo to post. 
     2. Click the “Share” icon ( ). 
     3. Select all the photos you want to “share” (post) by swiping and checking the circle in each photos’ corner.
     4. Below the row of photos, find and select the Facebook icon (to share on Facebook).
     5. Select “Groups” & the NFP group.
     6. Add a message if desired.
     7. Select “Post”.
   • A single photo can be posted in a comment using the camera icon while commenting.

Facebook Usage / Tips:

1. A good YouTube video primer on Facebook for beginners is HERE.  Others can be found with simple searches on, for example, Google.
2. Search for (and join) our group by clicking on the “search” tool (magnifying glass) and searching for “Highlands Nifty Fifties…Plus”.
3. Once  a Facebook NFP group member, quickly find our group on your mobile device by clicking on the Facebook “Menu” (triple bars lower left corner) and clicking “Groups”.
   • Alternatively, click on the “search” tool (magnifying glass). This pulls up “recent searches”.
4. When using your PC to make a post or comment, create a “line-break” (a “return” without entering/submitting the post or comment) by using “shift-enter”.  This also works in most Microsoft PC applications.

Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline at Tech@highlandsnf.org.

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Tech Corner 2025-January

Too Many Emails? Avoid Using “Reply All”

Junk mail, spam; no one likes it.  No one asks for more of it. No one wants to send it without a true benefit to the recipient.  However, some may be annoying others without necessarily intending to.

The NFP Relies on Emails:

The NFP website is a repository for information, both old and new.  It is, however, a passive form of communication relying on a user to go to the site to get the information. 

Our Facebook page can be a fair place for making announcements, however, not every member uses Facebook. 

This leaves email as the primary method of communication.  While members need to open and read emails, almost every member does this regularly for their household business.

Three NFP Email Categories:

NFP Administrative Emails include announcements for the Annual Meeting, renewal notifications, and publication of the NFP Newsletters.  These go out to all members.

Special Events Emails are announcements and reminders typically put out by the First Vice President (VP1).  These often include the need (and means) for an RSVP.  These also go out to all members.

“Regular Activity” Group Emails only go to members within each individual activity group. 

Email Response Options:

Most emails do NOT require a response.  For those that do, there are three options.  Each behaves differently and has its own purpose.

‘Reply’ sends your response only to the person that sent you the mail. Therefore, other recipient members will NOT receive your reply.

‘Reply To All’ sends your response to everyone the mail was sent to, either “To” or “Cc’d”.

“Forward” sends the message to another person or

group.  This option will include any attachments included in the original email. 

When to use Which Option:

Anything to do with member information (i.e., renewals) or a change in activity leadership should be forwarded (or sent) to the 2^nd VP (VP2@highlandsnf.org).

Most RSVPs for Special Events should be forwarded (or sent) to the 1^st VP (VP1@highlandsnf.org).

For “Regular Activity” group emails…

• For emails simply making an announcement, NO RESPONSE IS NEEDED.
• For emails requesting a headcount, “Reply” will let the sender know.
• Avoid the use of “Reply-All”.  Letting 20-40 people that you will attend when only the leader needs to know is basically sending spam to the other members.  If you want to let a friend or two know, cc them.
• “Reply All” can be helpful with very small groups (3-8 members) when interactive coordination between members is needed.

Avoid the “Reply-All” Risk with Bcc

When sending emails to a large group, there is a way to prevent the recipients from using “Reply-All”. 

Looking at the emails from “Nifty50s…Plus”, the members names are not visible.  Any “Reply All” has nowhere to go except back to the sender.  To do this the sender puts the member names for distribution in the “blind copy” (“Bcc”) box rather than in the “To” or “Cc” boxes.  An example is shown here.

If you don’t have a bcc box, it can be turned on with a setting or option.

Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline at Tech@highlandsnf.org.

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Tech Corner 2024-October

Website Addresses & Hyperlinks

How can I tell others how to see the web page I am looking at?  Use a web page “address”.

How can I communicate a long web page address with a single word or phrase?  Use a “hyperlink”.

What is a website page “Address”?

You’ve heard the ad, “To learn more, visit W W W dot” blah, blah, blah, slash, blah, blah.  They are providing their “URL”.  A URL, short for a “uniform resource locator”, serves as a web address that guides users to specific locations on the internet.  It is typically visible while browsing and appears in a browser’s “Address Bar”. 

In Figure 1, we have the case of our own NFP website, and, more specifically, the page you get after clicking on menu item, “About Us”.  By looking in the address bar (red arrow), one can see that the address is,

” https://highlandsnf.org/home/ “. 

This is the address.  It is composed of…
 

• highlandsnf.org = Website main address.  Use this to go to the default home page.
• “https://” – When using a “full address”, this is the standardized prefix.  The last “s” (https vs http) indicated that it is a bit more secure.
• /home/ – This is the file folder or page name within the website to go to see a specific page.  If a folder, then the default page will be displayed.
• #word – The word after a “pound” sign is a code that relates to a specific place on a page.
• ?text_string – the text after a question mark is usually a variable and often a search term. 

What is a Hyperlink?

Some web page addresses can get very long.  They are cumbersome to display or to share.  Most programs now allow a word or phrase to serve as a link (hyperlink) to a web page address, email; address, or a location within a document.

Hyperlinks are most often a word or phrase with a different color and usually underlined.  They can be confirmed when the mouse arrow changes into a select “finger”.

 

Create Your Own Hyperlink

You can create your own hyperlink.  The basic steps are to…

1. Go to the desired destination page.
2. “Select” the web page address and copy it (ctrl-C or right-click and “copy” or “copy link address”).
3. In your document, “select” the word or phrase for the hyperlink.
4. Use, (menu) “Insert” or right click, & “Link” looking for an icon like the one shown  (Chain links).
5. Accept, “Link to Existing File or Web Page” or select, E-mail Address”
6. Fill out the parts of the link:
   • Text to display – This is usually the text selected.  It can be edited here.
   • Address – “Paste” (ctrl-V) the website page address of the desired destination here.
   • E-mail Address (if linking to an email).
   • Select “OK”
7. Hover your mouse pointer over the new link.  the link address should appear near the link or near the lower left of the page.

Try it.  The result is an easy way to direct others to a specific place on the internet.

Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline at Tech@highlandsnf.org.

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Tech Corner 2024-July

Beware of Scams

The internet and email are great tools for finding information and for communicating with companies and each other. Unfortunately, bad people will always try to scam us out of money.  What can we do?

Be on the lookout.

We often read and respond to emails without a care.  However, we should always be a bit skeptical. Scammers may ask you to send money or ask for your credentials.  Sometimes, all it takes is clicking on a link or opening an attachment to release malware into your computer.

Common Scam Examples:

Text – Occasionally, I receive texts or emails that ap-pear a bit out of place.  When this happens, my radar goes WAY up.  Maybe you have received a text like,

“The USPS package has arrived at the ware-house and cannot be delivered due to incomplete address information. Please confirm your address in the link. https://realmastm.com.”

The first time I got this, I happened to be expecting a package, but rather than clicking the link, I opened a new window and used USPS tracking tools to look up the item.  Here, my address was complete and there were no “can’t find address” alerts.  This indicated that the text was a scam.

Emails – I have occasionally received a message from someone I know, but the writing is somehow different; maybe too short, maybe without the usual pleasant-ries. Again, my “radar” goes up.

In the simulated email example shown, someone I know, namely, “Steve Smith” wanted me to click on a link.

With emails, one can usually dig and see the sender’s email address. By hovering over, or clicking on their name, the real email for “fake Stephen Smith” can usually be seen. The 2nd figure, shows how clicking on my name in Gmail pops up a box with my correct email.

A correct sender email address usually indicates a legit email, but not always. An email I received from an NFP member had a strange request, but it had the cor-rect email address. I looked at other emails from the same person and saw that the format was somewhat different. As it turns out, the member had been hacked. After another member alerted him, he quickly changed his password and then worked with his provider to straighten it out.

What to do?

1. Never send money or information to anyone based on a text or email.
2. Do NOT click on a link or open an attachment in a text or email if you are not sure of who sent it.
3. For any suspicious communications, try to verify who the sender is outside of the text or email (even call on the phone).
4. For any strange alerts from a company (your bank, Amazon, etc.), use a new window to access the company’s official website. See if there is an official alert or communication there.
5. Always be alert for scams. Do not let urgency make you do something rash. And always re-member, if it sounds too good to be true, it IS too good to be true.

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Remember, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline.

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Tech Corner 2024-April

Stay Logged In!!

Our website has a lot to offer, but using these it has often meant having to repeatedly “log-in”. While not a big deal, it is annoying and does take time, making it a begrudging chore and a reason not to use the website as a “go-to” resource.

A Password Protected Site

Our website provides general information to visitors from the public, primarily on our “About Us” page. Most of the good stuff, however, is available to members only. Access to these pages requires confirm membership by having the user log in with a user ID (or primary email) and password.

Log-In for the Good Stuff

Once you log-in with your login credentials, you have access to the members-only pages of the website.  Under normal circumstances, this password-protected log-in is valid for a single session.  As long as the active window is open, the login stays valid.  Once the window is closed, regaining access requires re-entering your login credentials.  This can become a real pain, especially on a home computer.

“Click the Box”

On the “Login” page, there is an option box labeled, “Keep me signed in”. Clicking this box extends the login period from a single session to what used to be a two-week period. This was a help to those who often use the website.

Very frequent website users still did not consider the two-week limit enough; after all, Facebook doesn’t require frequent logins; why should the NFP!  

So, this was recently changed.

Now, clicking the “Keep me signed in” box extends the login period to a full year!

This greatly opens up access to the NFP website; it can now be quickly accessed at any time without the log-in process. This makes it a snap to look up activity dates on the NFP calendar or to find member info (for those registered on the website).

Be Careful!

When using the “Keep me signed in” option box, your login now lasts a full year on the device being used. This should only be used on devices you own!! If you log-in on a different machine, like a library or a friend’s PC, do NOT click the option box.

Better yet, to end a session on a non-owned device, you can manually log-out of the NFP website. Just click your name in the menu bar then click “Logout”.

As always, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline.

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Tech Corner 2024-Janurary

A New Who’s Who Page

Our website has a lot to offer.  Many features were discussed in the April 2023 Tech Corner including:

• The NFP Calendar of events
• A list of Special Events with links to event details and the ability to “Book” (RSVP) Book Special Events
• An NFP Member List of those registered on the website (Use the “Other” menu tab.)
• An NFP Documents list with By-Laws, Meeting Minutes, Newsletters, etc. (Use the “Other” menu tab.)

Now we have a new page.

Have you ever tried to figure out someone’s name. You know their face but not their name?  Personally, I am not good at remembering names, especially new acquaintances. Often, I try to search the photos on our (private) Facebook group page, or I use the names in our directory to look at photos from the Highlands Residents group Facebook page.

To help new members with names of long-time members, and to help long-time members with names of new members, we have created our new “Who’s Who” page, a page with photos of member couples and individual members with their names listed below them. At least some of our members (≈65/≈185) have a photo here. Remember that this is in the “members only” section of our website, so your identity is secure.

After finding their name, you can go HERE to look up their other info (e.g., email, phone, address).

Want to add or change (or remove) your photo? Let the Webmaster know. While most of the photos are from the 2023 Annual Meeting, we can use photos from previous events, Facebook, or a photo you submit (aim for 1,000 pixel width or 150 to 250 kb file size).

As always, if you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline.

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Tech Corner 2023-October

Navigate Our Website on Your Smart Phone.

Starting around 10 years ago, the appearance of many websites changed to a seemingly less-functional format.  Why did this happen? 

One major reason was to make sites more user-friendly on smart phones.  Opening our old website on a smart phone resulted in the entire page being scaled down making the text very tiny.  This required zooming in and then moving all over the screen trying to read the message and to find links.  In the past, some companies would make multiple versions of their website to fit different screen formats.  Our current website, fixes this problem using new software. 

Figure 1 shows our current home page on a PC.  It looks easy enough to navigate.  Figure 2 shows the same home page on a smart phone (an iPhone).  Fig. 2a (left) shows the page when it first opens and 2b (right) shows the screen after scrolling down a bit.

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Newer websites allow paragraphs to adjust word-wrapping to keep the text a reasonable size.  They also utilize columns that can stack when necessary.  This allows the main content column to be displayed first and prominently (Fig 2a) while other content, in our case, the right-hand menu column (Fig 2b), is moved below the main content column.  Even within the main content column, the three columns below the first paragraph have been stacked.  Keep scrolling down past the RH menu and you will get to the bottom menu. 

All good, but what happened to the top menu?
The top menu has been re-placed by a “collapsed menu” icon button as shown in Fig-ure 3. Sometimes referred to as the “Hamburger Button” (top bun, meat, bottom bun), clicking this icon opens the menu with stacked options. Figure 3 – Menu icon

Summarizing:

• The NFP website can be easily navigated with a smart phone.
• To get to the main menu (top menu), click on the ”hamburger” (triple-bar) button. 
• To get to other menus, keep scrolling down.

For more information:

For more information on how to navigate websites on a smart-phone, you can try…

• Click for how to,
Browse the web using Safari on iPhone.

• Click for,
How to view desktop websites on Android.

If you have any computer related concerns or questions, contact the NFP Tech Helpline.

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Tech Corner 2023-July

Make your Online Experience Easier to See – Add a Large External Monitor to Your Laptop or Desktop.

When I was still working, I was able to increase my productivity on my computer by using multiple monitors.  These days I still typically use two monitors, my laptop screen, and a large external monitor. 

When using my laptop with a large external monitor, the laptop often has a music app or a YouTube music video playing, but my main focus is on my large monitor.  Having this is not so much for productivity, but to help me see the computer’s hi-def image without reading glasses.  This is far easier than working on the laptop screen where I would need to either lean forward and squint with glasses or change the screen resolution such that you end up scrolling all over but without the big picture. 

Adding a large screen monitor is extremely easy to do. 

• Most laptops and desktops have an extra video output port.  Newer ones typically have a HDMI port on the side or back edge. Check so see which one yours has. 
  
• It is easy and relatively cheap to purchase an external monitor.  I have a 32” HP monitor that costs ≈$330, but Walmart has some for as low as $177. Mine has connectors for VGA, HDMI and “Display Port” and also came with an HDMI cable.
• Plug it in, start your PC, and choose your preferred configuration:
  • If it doesn’t pop up automatically, press the “Windows” button or icon and type “display” and click on the Display Settings page.
  • Under “Multiple Displays”, choose, “Duplicate these displays” to see the exact same thing on both screens (easiest), or choose, “Extend these displays” to use them as separate, independent sections of a larger “desktop.
  • At the top of the settings page, you should arrange the display icons to match the actual positioning of the monitors on your desk.
  • There are lots of help sites online like this one HERE that can help.
• Another suggestion is to add a supplemental wireless mouse and keyboard for as little as $23. This allows the laptop to function exactly like a desktop when at home, but still be portable when needed.

If you have any computer related concerns or questions, email the NFP Tech Helpline (tech@highlandsnf.org).

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Tech Corner 2023-April

What Does the NFP Website Have to Offer?

The private NFP Facebook Group Page is where any NFP member can post current news, post photos & updates from the various activities, and comment on others’ posts. So why go to the NFP Website?

The NFP website has a few public pages of information to let the general public know who we are. These include:

• A “Home / Welcome” page,
• an “Activity Groups” description page, and
• A “Special Activities” dates page.

However, NFP members can log in and have access to many more private pages of information and special features. These include…

Private Pages, Features:

• The NFP Calendar – This is a great page to see what activities are coming up soon. Look at previous & next months with the left/right yellow arrows. There are links to other viewing options (list, daily, weekly, etc.).
  • “White” activities are weekly or semi-weekly.
  • “Red” activities are monthly or quarterly.
  • “Green” activities are Service Events.
  • “Blue” activities/events are “Special Events”.
  • “Purple” events are official NFP events such as the Annual Meeting & Dinner.

• Member List – This is a (private) list of names of those registered for the web site. Click on a name and get their contact information. Click on your own name and the “gear” to revise your information. You can access this list from your smart phone or PC when the hardcopy directory is not handy. In the future, this can be expanded to include all members in the NFP directory.
• Documents Page – This is a repository for official documents. These include newsletters, our By-Laws, meeting minutes, and other admin-type documents.
• Special Events Details – While the public can see the titles and dates of special events, members can see the event details that are also emailed out. Instead of searching for an old email, members can easily find event details and linked information on the website.
• Book Special Events (event registration) – While special event RSVPs can be communicated via phone or email, many special events can be booked by simply clinking a link on its details page. For some events, including the Annual Meeting, website booking is preferred.

Another quick tip…How can you tell if you are logged into the NFP Website? Look in the upper RH corner of the window (red arrow in image). If you see your name, you are logged in, otherwise, you will see the “Login” prompt and you will be limited to “public only” content.

If you have any computer related concerns or questions, email the NFP Tech Helpline (tech@highlandsnf.org).

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Tech Corner 2023-Janurary

The Nifty Fifties…Plus is online in two places:

The first web location is our website: highlandsnfp.org.

Except for a few introductory pages, it is a “Members-Only” site. To achieve privacy, members need to complete a 1-time registration for the site. Once your membership is verified and your account is
“activated” via email, you can then log-in to view content.

Content is primarily informative and includes a current events calendar, a list of activity groups, a list of Special Events, the latest
posts (with an archive of older posts), contact info, NFP documents and newsletters, and a list of registered members.

This site is also used to book your place at our major events such as the Annual Meeting.

Currently, 50 (≈1/3rd) of our members have registered for the website.

The second web location is a Facebook private group page:
“Highlands Nifty Fifties…Plus”.

This, too, is a “Members-Only” site that requires joining.

The content for this is much more social. It is a location where any user can post photos, news, tidbits, etc., or comment on others’ posts.

While these online sites are not required for membership functions (emails and phone calls can still be used), we feel that using these sites makes life easier, enhances communication, and greatly enhances the NFP experience.

If you have any computer related concerns or questions, email the NFP Tech Helpline (tech@highlandsnf.org).

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