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Jongkil Jay Jeong, Deakin University; Ashish Nanda, Deakin University, and Syed Wajid Ali Shah, Deakin University Data breaches are becoming commonplace in both small and big tech companies. The most recent victim was Australian telecommunications company Optus, resulting in unauthorised access to the identity data of roughly 10 million people. Adding to the misery of...Continue reading→

Stewart Gruneklee The personal computer operating systems that I have used over the years started with Digital Research DR DOS in the mid 1980’s and then Microsoft’s DOS followed by various versions of Windows starting from version 3.11 up to the current Windows 10. Microsoft loudly proclaimed that Windows 10 would be the ‘last’ version...Continue reading→

Steve Costello How to Fix Bluetooth Pairing Problems https://www.techlicious.com/how-to/how-to-fix-bluetooth-pairing-problems/ This post title is self-explanatory. I recently switched cell phone carriers and got new phones since then I have had intermittent problems connecting to some Bluetooth devices. I think you will find that this is a useful post to keep handy if you have Bluetooth problems...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Dear Readers, Firstly my sincere apologies for not getting an official issue out in July. The June issue came out belatedly in early July and I lacked the energy to get another issue out by the end of the month. So instead an issue has come out now, at the end of August....Continue reading→

Caden and Nathan Kang Nowadays, many flyers and posters are created and shared online. Canva is an online program that allows you to create posters, flyers, videos, cards, and even social media posts and share them with other people in your community. It also allows multiple people to work on the same document, so a...Continue reading→

Greg Skalka When I was growing up, there seemed to be more universal and unifying experiences in our lives related to technology. Today, we had much less tech, but it served us well and was more common in its applications and experiences. While the ‘have’ and ‘have not’ divides initially, new devices were often adopted...Continue reading→

Tim McQueen How to stay smart in a smart world Gerd Gigerenzer Allen Lane 312 pp. Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Hamburg Centre for Risk Literacy at the University of Potsdam and a former Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He has written several books to do with risk. This book is...Continue reading→

Barry Horn They’re calling a meeting and said I should go but I’m stuck at home, there’s a virus you know. They said not to worry, we’re going to Zoom, it will all be on-line, you can stay in your room.   It was all new to me and I’m sad to relate I mucked...Continue reading→

Neil Muller Host Frank Maher opened the May meeting, again from home via Zoom. After welcoming members, Frank outlined the nights agenda shown below: Presentation 1: Q&A with John Hall Presentation 2: Best free VPN by Trevor Hudson Presentation 3: Browser Finger Printing and other topics by Stewart Bedford The first presentation of the night...Continue reading→