Photo <strong>de</strong> couverture :Le 10 septembre 1909, la fée électricité arrivait à <strong>Landser</strong>, en témoigne cetransformateur EDF situé rue Eugène-Kalt au coeur du village. Il a été gracieusementrestauré par La Société d’Electricité et décoré en 2009 par l’artiste peintre PatriceHOFF pour célébrer ses 100 ans.Les fresques rappellent <strong>de</strong>s moments historiques pour <strong>Landser</strong> dont une ancienneforge qui se trouvait tout près et l’ancien château landsérois.
(Continued from page 2)Recently, Google has allowed users to sign in with multiple Gmailaccounts. This is good since it can allow you to have one email addressfor personal use, and another which can be used when you registerfor a website. This keeps your personal account basically spamfree. To enable multiple account sign-in, log in at http://google.com/accounts and un<strong>de</strong>r "profile" select "Multiple sign-in". At the moment,this feature is only available for <strong>de</strong>sktop browsers and not all GoogleServices currently support multiple account sign-in.good job of handling your passwords, and some for very minimal cost,but I like AnyPassword and only nee<strong>de</strong>d a way to solve this synchronizationproblem.I believe I have found a simple, and free way to handle this, and anysimilar file-sync or sharing problems. The Cloud service I am using iscalled SugarSync. It is free and has a large space allocation (5 GB)that suits my needs. I have placed the data file for my password programin the fol<strong>de</strong>r that I setup for sharing.Creating bookmarks in Firefox is easy, and can be rearranged justabout any way you want them. We all have a lot of favorites whichmeans a lot of bookmark. In Firefox you can add a fol<strong>de</strong>r for each ofyour favorites and group them all together.Open Firefox if you don’t have it open and click on Bookmarks thenOrganize bookmarks. Choose where you want to add the fol<strong>de</strong>r. If youwant to see the fol<strong>de</strong>r when you click Bookmarks in Firefox click onceon Bookmark Menu. Right-click and select New Fol<strong>de</strong>r. Name thefol<strong>de</strong>r and give it a <strong>de</strong>scription if you want, then click Add. The <strong>de</strong>scriptionis only for you to see and is good to use when you have a lotof sites and can’t remember exactly what you liked about it.The fol<strong>de</strong>r you created is now listed un<strong>de</strong>r Bookmarks. To add a newbookmark to your newly created fol<strong>de</strong>r right click on the fol<strong>de</strong>r andchoose New Bookmark. Put the name of the website in the Namefield. Type the web address in the Location field. In the Keyword youcould put “ws” for example for Worldstart. In the address bar in Firefoxyou can just put “ws” (without the quotes) and press enter and itwill take you to that site. Just a little shortcut if you want to save a fewkeystrokes. Add a <strong>de</strong>scription of the bookmark if you want and clickAdd. If you check the box, Load this bookmark in the si<strong>de</strong>bar thatmeans if you click on View – Si<strong>de</strong>bar – Bookmarks this fol<strong>de</strong>r will belisted.Now to add bookmarks to the fol<strong>de</strong>r for sites you already bookmarked.Click Bookmarks and Organize Bookmarks. Click on the correctfol<strong>de</strong>r on the left holds your bookmarks. Simply drag and drop thebookmark into the new fol<strong>de</strong>r. To drag and drop, click once on thebookmark with the left mouse button and hold it down. Drag it to thefol<strong>de</strong>r and then let the button go. The new bookmark will be in thefol<strong>de</strong>r you created. If you want to add more than one bookmark at atime, you can hold down the CTRL key and click on each bookmarkthen drag them to the new fol<strong>de</strong>r.the end of the storyKeeping it all in “Sync”a Sweet Synchronization I<strong>de</strong>aBy Art Gresham, Editor, UCHUG(Un<strong>de</strong>r the Computer Hood User Group), CaliforniaMarch 2011 issue, UCHUG Drive Lightwww.uchug.org1editor101 (at) uchug.orgAt the February 2nd, 2011 meeting of the UCHUG during our discussionsabout Computer Health, I talked about how to automate some ofthe processes that can keep your system running well. I mentioned thatI had long been searching for a way to keep my passwords safe, whilestill being able to access them from computers at different locations.The program I use on my primary home <strong>de</strong>sktop system is called Any-Password (v1.44). It keeps the information in an encrypted, passwordprotected file, but if I want the current updated copy on my system atwork I have to email or transfer it by some other means manually eachtime I want it refreshed. I know there are other programs that do a3I opened the AnyPassWord program with my laptop. There I showedthe basic structure of the password program, and opened a sample key(this is a game-site, not any critical data here). I ma<strong>de</strong> a simple changeto the free text comment section. I then clicked save.I explained that that within a few moments that this very file, with thechange, would be resi<strong>de</strong>nt on my <strong>de</strong>sktop computer (named 'Dakota')at home, which I had left running before coming to the meeting.So as soon as I got home I opened the password program, and went tothat key. The result is shown here. As you can see the comment sectionhas the text 'note from the uchug meeting.’ This was the text Ityped in at the meeting, and without any physical action on my partthe data 'magically' is present on the hard drive, in my shared fol<strong>de</strong>r onDakota.(Continued on page 4)the end of the story
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