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Arlington Meetings in Person!
Fairfax In-Person Requirements
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Arlington Email: arlmtgs(at)patacs.org      Fairfax Email: ffxmtg(at)patacs.org

Meeting -in Person and via Zoom
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OPCUG Members Welcome!
PATACS - Arlington
Wednesday March 5th, 2025 7 PM

Please Come Early & Help with Meeting Setup!

Meeting Location: Carlin Hall Community Center,
5711 S. 4th Street, Arlington, VA 22204
Zoom Session: Details Sent via Email
Using Zoom




Windows Laptop Battery
Capacity Report

Presented by
John Krout

This presentation introduces you to the built-in Windows laptop battery capacity history report. If you own a Windows laptop, especially one that is more than a year old, then this report is an eye-opener. Find out the maximum capacity offered by your laptop battery when new, and how much capacity it has now, which is likely to be much less than the maximum.

The primary damage to a laptop battery is a result of normal charging behavior: charging to 100% and discharging the battery below 20%.

This presentation will also provide you the download URL for a useful Visual basic script named BatteryMonitor.vbs. This script provides battery high-charge-level and low-charge-level alarms using both a dialog box and a Narrator voice so that you can cease charging or resume charging at levels that minimize battery damage and prolong its useful life.

John Krout is a frequent presenter at our meetings and for APCUG on a wide range of computer, technology and photography topics, and author of many articles for the PATACS Posts newsletter.

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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 topics 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.

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OPCUG / PATACS Joint Meeting,
Saturday, March 15th 1 PM   3rd Saturday
Meeting In-Person and Via Zoom - See Above Banner

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Tallwood, TA1
4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, VA 22032-1028
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Agenda / Meeting Info

In Person Requirements -
OLLI Health and Safety Protocols

Coffee, Soda and Individual Snack Packages will be available.


Pre-Meeting Slides

 

Custom Text Tones
For Your Smartphone

Presented by John Krout

Custom text tones that announce the name of the text sender are easy to create, install and apply to text senders. The custom tones let you know who sent a text, so you can decide whether or not to look at the text immediately.

In this presentation, you will learn how to record a text sender name in a digital audio file using your smartphone, how to name that digital audio file using the name of the text sender, how to install that digital audio file on your smartphone, and how to assign that digital audio file as the text tone for that text sender. You will also learn how to assign a Silent text tone as your default, so unwanted texts from strangers do not distract you.

You can also record your own name and your nickname as text tones in digital audio files. These make great digital gifts for your relatives and friends to use on their smartphones.

John Krout is a frequent presenter at our meetings and for APCUG on a wide range of computer, technology and photography topics, and author of many articles for the PATACS Posts newsletter.

3D Scanning Technology

Presented by Roger Fujii


  		3D scanning technology has improved greatly over the years. This Learn in 30 will cover the technologies involved in getting 3D data, and various use cases that one might have.

Upcoming Learn in 30 Sessions:
This Is Your Chance!
10 - 15 Minute Talks Welcome
Presented by YOU !!
Contact director2 (at) patacs.org to arrange a presentation !!

Future Meeting Topics:

Presentation Volunteers Needed! Contact director2 (at) patacs.org

June 21st: Lorrin Garson - Mastering Your New Mac

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PC Troubleshooting
Meeting In-Person & via Zoom - See Above Banner
OPCUG Members Welcome!

PATACS - Arlington,
4th Wednesday,March 26th, 7 PM
Zoom Details Will be Sent by Email

Meeting Location: Carlin Hall Community Center,
5711 S. 4th Street, Arlington, VA 22204


Technology & PC Help Desk:
Extended Q&A
Troubleshooting

Do all your electronics, gadgets, computers, phones, tablets, TV sets, networks, earbuds, and software apps/applications work perfectly? Do you never encounter glitches, freezes, failures? Are you always certain what brand and model product to buy? If so, we'd like to hear about your magic touch.

But if you're like the rest of us, none of that is true for you. And so PATACS' first Wednesday meetings may be just the resource you need for a happier technology life. Just as most PATACS meetings begin with a Q&A session, so does this meeting. But then the meeting continues for nothing but Q&A -- meaning that it's possible to have detailed and in-depth discussions, including real-time research and demonstrations.

Same as all PATACS meetings, these sessions are free and open to the public. So join in, share your questions, problems, and pain -- and perhaps receive answers, solutions, and relief.

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Computer Mechanic


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