Friday 09/22/2023
Went for the standard walk, yay me. At 10 met with Peter to go over the a/v requirements for the five-part, End of Life Planning series that he is producing. A series of workshops on all aspects of end of life, one a week through October. About the third own, they want to show the Netflix documentary Extremis. I thought, cool, I will get screen capture software for my laptop and I will use Peter’s Netflix ID to stream it and suck it up right off the screen.
Then I went down to Jean’s place and had lunch. She is planning a trip to SLC to finalize a lot of genealogical research she’s done over the years. She wants to borrow my old MacBook in order to have her existing database to refer to. Unfortunately that database is managed by Reunion for Mac, a genealogical app that… well I don’t like it. Mostly because it has no way to export its data in readable format. So if she is to see all of her saved notes and documents, she needs to have Reunion itself running on the MacBook. At first it looked like the only route was to buy another copy at $145. But I copied the app from her desktop machine to the MacBook using a memory stick. When launched it demanded a user name and activation code. Fortunately Jean is an experienced computer user and was able to dig that info up from her email archives. And we got it running.
So back to CH for the 3pm monthly meeting of the AV team. We got an update on the auditorium upgrade in process and settled a couple of other issues.
After supper I downloaded a screen recording app from the app store, and signed in to Netflix with Peter’s ID, and started Extremis playing. As soon as I clicked Record, the movie window went black. Stop the recording, the image came back. Netflix knows when you are recording your screen. So that’s that for Plan A. I have a plan B and also C.
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