PC Update – 2021 Index

Rob Brown Some small changes have been rolled out to the melbpc.org.au website to improve the user experience for new […]

Tim McQueen I, Warbot – the dawn of artificially intelligent conflict. Kenneth Payne Hurst & Company, London   Payne based […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller   Host Paul Woolard opened the October meeting, once more joined by an increased audience, again from home […]

Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to the November 2021 edition of PC Update. It’s an interesting issue, with our feature […]

Eric Smalley, The Conversation When you enter your personal information or credit card number into a website, do you have […]

Harry Lewis Members with Melb PC email accounts have been provided with access to their new mailboxes hosted by Google […]

George Wright When deleting emails over six years of age you recognise you don’t trust anybody. When deleting emails under […]

Tim McQueen Daryl was frustrated. He’d left the job in Philadelphia, suspecting that international travel bans would come, but had […]

The November 2021 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 6th October 2021, with about 70 members in attendance via […]

Tom Burt, Sun City Summerlin Computer Club Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been around for quite a while. However, prices […]

Dennis Parsons Windows With the move of our services from Microsoft to Google based the use of Melb PC e-mail […]

Joe Callison, Seniors Computer Club of Greater Kansas City   Wi-Fi technology and the routers and Wi-Fi adapters using it […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened the September meeting, with a significant increase in members joining again from home via […]

Hello and welcome to the October 2021 edition of PC Update. Exciting news – our Moorabbin headquarters can reopen soon! […]

Kurt Jefferson, Central Kentucky Computer Society Shortly before Halloween last year, I noticed my Internet connection was getting slower and […]

George Wright I love my computer. I know it’s just a machine on my desk, but what can it really […]

The September 2021 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 6th October 2021, with about 70 members in attendance via […]

David Stonier-Gibson This is the last PC Update you will receive before the AGM on Wednesday 3rd November. That meeting […]

Hugh Macdonald You might have received an older PC from someone and now you’re wondering what to do with it. […]

Stuart James, Edith Cowan University On October 23, 2001, Apple released the iPod — a portable media player that promised […]

Dennis Parsons Windows   Windows 11 was officially released on October 5th and while most of us probably aren’t brave […]

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University and Bogdan Ghita, University of Plymouth What is my IP? It’s an odd question in […]

If you enjoyed the September 2021 monthly meeting on citizen science, then you might be interested in attending the annual […]

Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland and Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, The University of Melbourne Digital technologies are now at the […]

  DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too seriously […]

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened the August meeting, again with all members back at home joining the meeting via […]

Hugh Macdonald Last month in PC Update we celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the IBM PC with an article. This […]

Harry Lewis In his intriguing article ‘Elephobia’ in last month’s PC Update we were transported to Planet Wright where George […]

The September 2021 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 1st September 2021, with about 70 members in attendance via […]

David Stonier-Gibson This may be the last PC Update you read before submitting your proxy votes for the November AGM. […]

George Wright (with maths advice from Ann Lawry) Humans can identify complex relationships with each other and their habitats. I’ve […]

Dennis Parsons Technology News While last month saw the 30th anniversary of the announcement of Linux, this month marks 30 […]

David Stonier-Gibson The Committee has decided not to accept any new subscriptions for the printed version of PC Update. Here’s […]

Christopher Wenn, The University of Melbourne How does music get onto a cassette tape? — Paul, age 9, Adelaide   […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened the July meeting, again with all members back at home joining the meeting via […]

Hugh Macdonald The twelfth of August 2021 marks forty years since the IBM Personal Computer was first released onto the […]

Hello and welcome to another edition of PC Update. On the club front our activities have been back online this […]

Katharine Kemp, UNSW I spent last week studying the 26,000 words of privacy terms published by eBay and Amazon, trying […]

George Wright My wife loves an Apple. I like apples too, but I like eating mine. My computer is Android. […]

Greg Skalka, Under The Computer Hood User Group Everyone wants some control in their lives. Having the ability to control […]

Dennis Parsons NBN Questions and Comments Steve posed the question of whether it was possible to use the 4G fall-back […]

Kevin Gray Dear David, This is a short note of thanks to the Melbourne PC User Group. I’ve been a […]

Hugh Macdonald On June 24 this year, Microsoft somewhat surprised everyone by announcing that a new version of Windows, called […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened the June meeting, this month with all members back at home joining the meeting […]

Hugh Macdonald Welcome to another edition of PC Update. On the computing front this month, I take a first look […]

David Stonier-Gibson Moorabbin renovations: Can you help? The process of upgrading and reconfiguring Moorabbin has been continuing, even during Covid. […]

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University and Roberto Musotto, Edith Cowan University A major journalistic investigation has found evidence of malicious […]

Steve Costello PSA: Gmail Has Your Old Chat Logs From Google Talk (And Hangouts) https://www.howtogeek.com/711404/psa-gmail-has-your-old-chat-logs-from-google-talk-and-hangouts/ Did you use Google Talk […]

Heather Stonier-Gibson This rain fits. It fits the dull, bleak swarm of Melbourne winter. It fits my growing bitterness and […]

The June 2021 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 7th July 2021, with about 70 members in attendance via […]

David Stonier-Gibson The Virus struck close to home today: It was in Coles at Southland, 10 minutes walk from home, […]

David Stonier-Gibson The world is changing rapidly, not least of all in the realm of computing. Computing today is vastly […]

George Wright Last year, unverified rumour says that North Korea’s Supreme Leader ordered a nuclear strike on Darwin because he […]

Windows (formerly Windows 10*) We were able to help Jan with a major learning experience this month – using a […]

Hugh Macdonald Last month in PC Update we published an article by Dan Douglas on backing up in Windows. While […]

David Kretchmar, Computer Technician, Sun City Summerlin Computer Club Sooner or later this happens to all of us. You continuously […]

Dave Williams This is the second part of a series of articles on Dave Williams’ experience of building a CNC […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Hugh Macdonald Welcome to the June 2021 edition of PC Update. As Melbourne has once again found itself in Covid […]

David Tuffley, Griffith University Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years in […]

Steve Costello The Two Types Of Cloud Data Threats And How You Protect Yourself https://askleo.com/two-cloud-data-threats/ Leo Notenboom explains the two […]

The June 2021 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 2nd June 2021, with almost 100 members in attendance via […]

Katharine Kemp, UNSW Five antitrust laws proposed in the United States aim to aggressively rein in the market power of […]

Dennis Parsons In Memory of Judy Bednar We had a terrible shock when we heard that a long-time member, Judy […]

Dan Douglas, President, Space Coast PC Users Group Two types of files are required to be backed up. There are […]

Tim McQueen This is how they tell me the world ends – the cyber weapons arms race Nicole Perlroth Bloomsbury […]

Dave Williams This is the first part of a series of articles on Dave Williams’ experience of building a CNC […]

Phil Sorrentino, Sarasota Technology Users Group Most modern computers have HDMI outputs so it is easy to display your computer […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller Host Paul Woolard opened the April meeting again presented via Zoom. After welcoming members, the meeting commenced with […]

Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to another edition of PC Update. This month the highlights include: Dave Williams with the […]

Steve Costello What Is Archive In Gmail And How To Archive And Unarchive Emails https://www.guidingtech.com/what-is-archive-in-gmail-how-to-archive-unarchive-emails/ Do you know what archiving […]

The May 2021 Monthly Meeting was held in person and online on Wednesday 5th May 2021, with over 20 members […]

David Stonier-Gibson Successful Covid-be-gone party Sunday 18th April I think I can confidently declare the Party at Moorabbin on Sunday […]

Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University Apple recently launched the latest version of its operating system, iOS 14.5, which features the […]

Cassandra Steer, Australian National University Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space launch company Blue Origin has announced it will sell its first […]

Dennis Parsons Coronavirus Discussion & Comments   The use of QR codes for “checking in” to many businesses and venues […]

Frank O’Loughlin Last Monday I participated in an online course on Gimp photo editor. I haven’t been game to try […]

Jeff Wilkinson, President, Sun City Summerlin Computer Club I have become more interested in Chromebooks as an alternative for our […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller Host Dave Botherway opened the March meeting again presented via Zoom. After welcoming members, the meeting commenced with […]

Hugh Macdonald Pleasingly, life is beginning to return to normal at Melbourne PC User Group. Everytime I walk into the […]

Kurt Jefferson, Editor, Central Kentucky Computer Society I keep telling students in my CKCS classes that they need to start […]

Steve Costello Proxy Vs. VPN: When To Use A Proxy Server And When To Use A VPN? https://www.digitalcitizen.life/when-use-proxy-and-when-use-vpn/ Have you […]

The March 2021 Monthly Meeting was held in person and online on Wednesday 3rd March 2021, with over 40 members […]

Ritesh Chugh, CQUniversity Australia If you’ve ever gotten your phone wet in the rain, dropped it in water or spilt […]

Ben Egliston, Queensland University of Technology and Marcus Carter, University of Sydney Microsoft has reportedly been awarded a ten year […]

Dennis Parsons Windows 10 Merv, our loud and proud purple dinosaur (if you see his Yammer profile pic you’ll understand), […]

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too […]

Neil Muller Host Frank Maher opened the first East SIG’s meeting for 2021 again hosted via Zoom. After welcoming members, […]

Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to the March edition of PC Update. Our magazine this month covers a range of […]

Steve Costello, SEFCUG Gmail’s New Quick Settings https://cynmackley.com/2020/08/04/gmails-new-quick-settings/ https://cynmackley.com/2020/08/05/gmail-quick-settings-part-2/ https://cynmackley.com/2020/08/06/gmail-quick-settings-part-3/ If you use Gmail, you should know how to use […]

Expert tuition and assistance needed in using software to improve vinyl records and cassettes. I have a basic knowledge of […]

The March 2021 Monthly Meeting was held in person and online on Wednesday 3rd March 2021, with over 75 members […]

Roger Patulny, University of Wollongong A recent nationally representative survey has shown Australians are willing and able to pull the […]

Carsten Rudolph, Monash University On March 2, 2021, Microsoft published information about four critical vulnerabilities in its widely used Exchange […]

Jim Cerny, Help Desk Host, The Saratoga Users Group You’re going along just fine, enjoying a fun game on your […]

Jim Quinn, Vice President, Under the Computer Hood User Group In 2008 we (my wife & I) decided to do […]

Dennis Parsons Computer Help Occasionally members raise the issue of readability of the Yammer posts, no not the quality of […]