A New
Tuesday Class SMARTPHONES 101. 1st Week in each month starting Feb
6th. You will learn the basics such as;
setting contacts, Google Account, the Home screen, Messaging, Touch Screen,
Answering Calls, installing or deleting APPS and using Maps for directions.
Bring your device and your questions.
ANDROIDS
AND iPHONES FOR SENIORS 2nd, 3rd, and 5th week of the month.
GOOGLE. For this class you must be using your device already. And you need to have your eMail and contacts established. We have just completed a 3-week course on Photography using your
smartphone’s camera. It entailed; learning features of your smartphone camera,
managing photos with Albums and using the cloud for storing and sharing your
photos.
You can always send your
questions ahead before class to; one4cugr@gmail.com. Just as a reminder, we do not meet on the
4th Tuesday.
solving problems in the
classroom
There are many choices to SHARE the note to social media, or send it to an eMail account. Plus, you can change the Category aka Type of note anytime.
The text tools
This Tuesday Feb 13th, we worked in class on using QuickMemo and Memo from the iPhone. These APPS are a part of the operating device. You can create documents, grocery lists, make a note, and Capture a screen.
Also with the text tools, you can change the color, use a pen to draw or put your signature to a note, create a PDF file ( printable document ) and capture a screen image then add text to it.
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| Print note from QuickMemo APP |
The text tools
This week we solved the riddle of making incoming text
messages read aloud. Most users have an alarm or a sound play for incoming
activity on their smartphone. The text messaging APP that comes with your device has a feature
that lets you set Messages to be read aloud.
I have an LG, and the APP to find this setting is in the
Verizon package of APPS. It’s name is MESSAGE+
It is not the Message
APP you find on Google. To set it ,
click on Notifications. Then turn on
Read Incoming Messages
aNOTHER OPTION TO HANDLING AND PRINTING TEXT MESSAGES
You must be in the message, then press on the date line and you can come up with the menu option to handling your text messages. As you can see you can COPY the TEXT, SHARE with another user, and many more ideas.
Smartphone Apps of the month
Airdrop
Share your
photos with another smartphone as long as you’re on the same network and both
have this APP. Perfect for family sharing or vacation photos
Word
Warp- Free APP
ABOUT WORD WARP - A WORD PUZZLE GAME
How many words
can you make with these letters: A E R K R D? Try it out by downloading Word
Warp for FREE!
If you love word games, Word Warp will deliver with endless hours of fun. Exercise your brain with countless rounds of challenging word puzzles. Word Warp has NO level blocks, so you can play without buying more lives!
In Word Warp, you are given 6 letters for each round that you may scramble (or "warp"). For each correct word, you will receive 10 points for each letter in the word. Complete all the words in each round to receive an additional bonus of 10 points per word! How many rounds can you complete before it's game over?
If you love word games, Word Warp will deliver with endless hours of fun. Exercise your brain with countless rounds of challenging word puzzles. Word Warp has NO level blocks, so you can play without buying more lives!
In Word Warp, you are given 6 letters for each round that you may scramble (or "warp"). For each correct word, you will receive 10 points for each letter in the word. Complete all the words in each round to receive an additional bonus of 10 points per word! How many rounds can you complete before it's game over?
Google
Duo Just
like Facetime or Skype to connect using Video from your phone. You can connect
Android phones and Apple phones with this AAPP
Costo
Photo APP Put this APP on your phone
and you can order prints while you’re shopping at this store
Blog2Print EASY & AFFORDABLE Our
affordable books cost even less now that we’ve reduced our book and extra page prices! The easiest way to make a
blog book is now the least expensive way too.
What is the iCloud?
If your photos, videos and contacts, and more are backed up
to iCloud they’re safe and accessible from any apple device and most web
browsers. To see what’s there , log onto icloud.com and poke around.
Windows Window's 10 Creator update
The
Thursday class is studying the enhancements from Windows 10 update. There are
many useful and improved tools to work with other devices. I was curious how
difficult it would be to pair my laptop with my Bluetooth headset after
learning this feature is one of the updates. I have been using my LG phone headset to pair to my smartphone to
listen to radio stations and my music. But never thought to attempt to connect
my headset to my computer.
I found it
is simple. If I chose to listen to music with my headset while working on my computer I can. With the Groove Music App I can listen to all
my music.
To make
this work, from Action Center >All Settings> Bluetooth and other
devices. Click the + plus symbol to Add
Blue Tooth device. Make sure your device is on and discoverable.
Once you
have connected to your Bluetooth device, you can use Music Groove or File Explorer to play your music. Here is an example of playing music from
File Explorer. Once you choose the music by highlighting it, right click
anywhere in that frame to select Cast to device.
Night light feature. This softer light emanating
from my monitor is so refreshing to me.
It is the warmer colors lets me star at the monitor longer. Which is
great for my spreadsheet input.
Microsoft
update addresses these concerns in Creators Update with Night Light (Windows
Settings > Night light settings). This feature warms the color temperature
of the screen to make it appear more orange than blue. Try it. You will be
amazed how reading for a length of time with warmer colors on your screen is
life changing.
You can set Night Light to trigger
automatically at sunset until sunrise or manually set the hours. Just be aware
that you might want to deactivate this setting if you’re editing photos after
sunset.
Note: Bluetooth with Android phone.
I was able to
connect my Android phone to my computer. Use the same process above, and with
your Android change your settings to in the Network > Settings>Share and
Connect > Media Server to be turned on. Check mark all the files types you
want to share. The surprise is your phone access is just your Messages, Music
and Photos. It is much like using DLN with your TV. It does not mirror you
phone aka an AppleTV or Google Chromcast device. But the bad news is, it reset
my computer sound settings. I had to reset them to find my computer speakers.
