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Solid State Drives

Tom Burt, Sun City Summerlin Computer Club Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been around for quite a while. However, prices have come down while capacities and performance have gone up. As a result, adding an SSD to an existing system… Continue Reading…

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How vulnerable is your personal information? Four essential reads

Eric Smalley, The Conversation When you enter your personal information or credit card number into a website, do you have a moment of hesitation? A nagging sense of vulnerability prompted by the parade of headlines about data breaches and hacks?… Continue Reading…

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From The Editor November 2021

Hugh Macdonald Hello and welcome to the November 2021 edition of PC Update. It’s an interesting issue, with our feature articles being on the various types of solid state drives available today and how to understand Interner speeds, which is… Continue Reading…

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The Apple iPod came out two decades ago and changed how we listen to music. Where are we headed now?

Stuart James, Edith Cowan University On October 23, 2001, Apple released the iPod — a portable media player that promised to overshadow the clunky design and low storage capacity of MP3 players introduced in the mid-1990s. The iPod boasted the… Continue Reading…

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How Do I Know When It Is Time to Buy a New Wi-Fi Router?

Kurt Jefferson, Central Kentucky Computer Society Shortly before Halloween last year, I noticed my Internet connection was getting slower and slower. I would visit CKCS.org to check the latest newsletter. Then I would visit The Animal Rescue Site to give… Continue Reading…

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Member Fiction: What Am I Doing Here?

George Wright I love my computer. I know it’s just a machine on my desk, but what can it really do?   What use is it when its presence dominates my life early in the morning from a focus on… Continue Reading…

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DOTW Winners September 2021

Roger Brown DOTW is a lighthearted look at some of the sillier events of the week. Don’t take it too seriously and do pop over to Chit Chat and vote each week. Thanks to those of our members who occasionally… Continue Reading…

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Yammer Highlights September 2021

Dennis Parsons Windows   Windows 11 was officially released on October 5th and while most of us probably aren’t brave enough to use it on our main system quite yet, some of us might be keen to at least have… Continue Reading…

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Presidential Musings October 2021

David Stonier-Gibson This is the last PC Update you will receive before the AGM on Wednesday 3rd November. That meeting will be online only, so votes will have to be done by email or snail mail. The details on voting… Continue Reading…

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