2.  Computer News  Office for the Ipad  July & August no meeting  Sept 19th  One meeting a month (3rd Wednesday)  Website & Email  www.oceanbluffcomputer.com www.oceanbluffcomputer.com  ron@oceanbluffcomputer.com ron@oceanbluffcomputer.com

4.  Yes! XP is still dead  People receiving message on screen  Amazon fireTV Amazon fireTV  $99 device with remote – voice recognition  App for a variety of Video services  Access to Amazon Prime 40K videos  $99 yearly – free 2 day shipping of Amazon products  Games, Pandora and other Music services  Access to Amazon cloud storage

6.  Windows 8.1 update  Available April 8th  Start menu  Store app icon on Taskbar  Power Button  Office for the Ipad announced last week  Obtain through the App Store  Free version  Full version for Office 365 subscriptions

7.  My Windows 8 horror story  Could not access drive after cleaning virus  No product key on the case  Software key unreadable on packaging  Windows 8.1 phone available in April Windows 8.1  Contana voice recognition  Search, contacts, reminders – throughout apps  Much improved phone software may take some market share

9.  What is a Chromebook?  Laptop running Google operating system Chrome  Acer C7 Chromebook  $199 - 12 inch display -3 lbs  Up to 4 hours of battery1  Dual-core Intel® Celeron® Processor  100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with 16GB SSD  Dual band Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and 10/100/Gigabit Ethernet  HD Camera  3x USB 2.0  1x HDMI Port, 1x VGA port  2-in-1 memory card slot (SD, MMC)

10.  Create/Manage users  Can operate a Guest – generic settings  Signing in with your Google account brings in  Apps, Bookmarks, Mail, Calendar, Settings  Most apps/programs require internet connection  Some offline app available  Uses the Chrome Web Store app  I have demonstrated from a PC in Chrome browser

11.  Set preinstalled apps – Mail, News, Maps, etc.  Pin apps to Launcher bar by dragging  Personalize – wallpaper, themes & settings  File app access to files on the Chromebook  Create folders  Download file from Google Drive  Use Google doc or Office web apps  Opens QuickOffice

12.  Printing using Google Cloud printing  Printer needs support Google Cloud print  Have to have a Google account & sign in  Find the printer IP address (wireless setup menu)  Register the printer  Print and select “print using Google Cloud Printing”  Remote printing to printer’s email address  Rest browser setting back to defaults  Powerwash  Removes all account & set Chromebook to new