Tellico Village Computer Users Club

Non-Profit Community Computer Interest Group

Board of Directors 2021

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To our Tellico Village Computer Users Club Membership

New Board Members Have Been Elected. There were no alternate candidates submitted. The complete list of Board and Committee Members will be posted soon.

President: Larry McJunkin

Vice President: Mike Casey

Treasurer: Dave Flanagan

Secretary: Bev Sikorski

Director at Large: Gary Robertson
(2021 & 2022)

Director at Large: Jim Peterson
(2021 & 2022)

Directors at Large for 2020 & 2021 Vince Alline and Dave Crowden are not included in this year’s election as they are currently serving a two-year term.

As outgoing President, Ken Van Swearingen will automatically transition to the Past President position on the Board.

— The TVCUC Board of Directors

Mac SIG October 2020

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Another month with no Mac User meeting, but we might try to set up a Zoom meeting for January (Larry McJunckin says he can guide me through the process!). Big Sur should be out by then, so we’ll see what we can do.

If you have recently updated your MacOS (In Mojave, Catalina, or Big Sur), you should be running Safari 14. This video is quite informative.

How To Use the Safari 14 Start Page

In Safari 14 the new Start Page replaces Top Sites. The Start Page has several sections, including your Favorites, Frequently Visited sites and more. You can customize the Start Page to act much like the old Top Sites page, while also including your Reading List and iCloud Tabs pages. 

I sent you a separate message on things new to iOS14, but the following is an “all-in-one.”
iOS 14: Guides, tips, tricks, and everything you need to know about Apple’s new iPhone OS
Bookmark this page to quickly find all of our tips, guides, and how-tos for all the new features in iOS 14. 

How to toggle location precision for apps in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14

The latest OS provides even more privacy related to how closely apps can track your location.

Customize Safari With These 10 Preferences
Safari has a lot of preferences but you can start customizing how it works by focusing on these 10. Change the behavior of what happens when you open a new window or tab, click on a link, or download a file. Also learn how to reduce clutter when typing in the address field. 

3 Ways To Crop Photos On a Mac
You can crop a photo using the tools that come with every Mac. If the photo is in the Photos app, you can use the cropping function in the editing tools there. If the photo is an independent file, you can use Preview or Markup Tools to crop it. 

Stay safe…

Karen Brown

Tap Performance Update

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Tap performance update as of September 30, 2020

The TVCUC Technology Access Program (TAP) efforts continue during the COVID-19 restrictions. 

This year TAP has delivered an additional 848 computer systems as of September 30th. Moreover, schools and agencies receiving the TAP systems reported that an additional 1,295 youths are benefiting from the delivered computer systems so far in 2020.

Total Computer Systems delivered since TAP inception: 8,105
Total Youths Helped: 12,174

Dues Notice

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To all members, 

The Club is facing the following challenges:

1). We are seeing an increase in requests for the systems provided by TAP (Technology Access Program). We are currently supplying nearly 100 per month.

2). Cost increases for the refurbishing supplies needed for those systems TAP is providing.

3). There is also a greatly increased need to provide support services via FLS (First Level Support) to our members.

4). There are more organizations vying for Grant Foundation money with some changing qualification requirements that we may no longer meet.

Because of this, we will no longer offer a discount for online dues payment as of 12/31/2020. 

TVCUC Annual Membership fee is $20.00 / Household Annual membership is for one calendar year, January 1through December 31. We start enrollment for the coming year on 10/1 of the current year.

Note: As of 01/01/21 accepted dues payment is Credit Card only.

Cash and Check will no longer be accepted after 12/31/20.

 We thank you for your continued support and look forward to serving you.

The TVCUC Board of Directors

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You will need to be a TellicoLife member (Free) before you can sign in. When you go to TellicoLife, if not already a member, you will be able to quickly and easily set up your free TellicoLife membership.  Also note TellicoLife membership renews automatically, so you only have to sign up this one time.

TeamViewer Tool used by First Level Support

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FLS Home Visits and “Meet with FLS” Sessions are temporarily suspended because of the COVID-19 Shelter in Place recommendation until further notice.

However, please see the discussion below as an alternative means of support during these challenging times.

TeamViewer is a very useful tool to allow the First Level Support Team to provide remote support for Computer Club Members PC or Mac machines.  It provides a secure way (the sign in password is changed every time TeamViewer is started) for you to control who is connected to your machine and allows the FLS team to see and, if necessary, actually to run your machine remotely.  This will greatly enhance FLS ability to assist you with computer issues during this time of social distancing and self-isolation.

If you do not already have TeamViwer installed on your machine, go to How to Install TeamViewer and read how to install the software.

Join TVCUC Now!

To Join or Renew your membership with the Tellico Village Computer Users Club utilize the form on the TellicoLife website: JOIN TVCUC

For help signing up or logging in to TellicoLife, view the TellicoLife How-To Videos

Donate to TVCUC!

TVCUC welcomes donations of both used computer equipment and cash:

Make an Equipment Donation to TAP
Make a Cash Donation to TVCUC