Aug 8, 2021 – SIG-Computing: Using Android Apps and Your Smartphone; SIG-Linux: new command – ss (Scan Sockets)

Sharan Kalwani, president of SEMCO, will start the meeting and make general announcements.

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When: Sunday, Aug 8, 2021, at 1:15 P.M. Detroit Time
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SIG-Computing Topic: Using Android Apps and Your Smartphone

Presented by Bill James

The smartphone is a device that can do a multitude of tasks that you have traditionally done on your PC. It just takes the right apps and a different mindset in making the device work for you. From adjusting to using a smaller screen and keyboard, you can do many things you did not think possible. Countless individuals have been able to adapt to using a smartphone where other devices are impossible to use due to some physical handicap. This presentation will demonstrate a few things possible that makes the smartphone more than just a telephone.

            Microsoft Mobile Apps, Online Banking,

Controlling other devices within your home, GPS

            Using printers from Your Smartphone

            Viewing files using Cloud Storage, Google Play Store (Finding Apps).

Bill first became involved in a PC user’s group in 1992 when he joined the Oklahoma PC User’s Group now known as the Computer Club of Oklahoma City. He has been a member of the clubs’ Board of Directors since 1998. Bill served two terms as president and is currently the Vice President of Operations. He has recently gotten more involved with home automation using Google Home to automate his own home.

As a member of APCUG’s Speakers Bureau, he frequently gives presentations to member groups on Windows 10, Chromebook, Android devices, home automation, and synchronizing devices.

Bill attended his first APCUG Fall Conference in 2003. He is a past APCUG Region 6 Advisor and Treasurer and served on the APCUG Board of Directors from 2006 to 2009.

Bill also belongs to the Windows Insider Program and is the go-to person on everything Android. He is broadening his knowledge base with learning the Chromebook OS, the MacOS, and iOS for Apple products.

Also: Questions and Answers following the presentation.

When: Sunday, Aug 8, 2021 at 1:30 P.M.

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SIG-Linux Topic: new command – ss (Scan Sockets)

Presented by Sharan Kalwani

This month we will take a look at a new command – ss.
SS is short for scan sockets, and is designed to be more human readable and easier than the venerable ‘netstat’ command  – which has been with us since the 1980s, when TCP/IP was first integrated into UNIX.
Several simple commands will be explored.

Also: Questions and Answers after the presentation.

Where: Meetings will be on line until further notice. Click on link shown above.

When: Sunday, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:00 P.M.