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David Stonier-Gibson Reopening I was delighted earlier in the month to be able to put out an all-member email heralding the re-opening of our Moorabbin club rooms and workshop. Some rules and restrictions still apply, but we can now go back in. The first face to face SIG meeting will be “Microcontroller Workshop” on Saturday...Continue reading→

The December 2020 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 2nd December 2020, with over 75 members in attendance. This was the program for the evening: Guest Speakers: Cameron McKenzie and Angela Stubbs Topic: Empowering businesses to exchange waste as a resource – ASPIRE ASPIRE is a digital tool that supports a social business network, across...Continue reading→

The November 2020 Monthly Meeting was held online on Wednesday 4th November 2020, with over 100 members in attendance. This was the program for the evening: Guest Speakers: Jerzy Zywicki and Miroslav Reitikh from Digital Home Systems Topic: The Z Wave Protocol for ‘smart homes’ Jerzy Zywicki Jerzy Zywicki is a co-founder and director of Digital Home...Continue reading→

David Stonier-Gibson Committee changes There have been a couple of changes in the committee. Kirsten Greed and Aavon Fernando have resigned. The committee voted unanimously to appoint Peter Boin and Aidan Kelly to serve in the period until the deferred elections and AGM. Transition to Google The transition to Google Workspace (formerly G-Suite) continues. It...Continue reading→

Firstly, welcome to another edition of PC Update, namely the November 2020 edition, and our penultimate for this ‘year’ we call 2020. Secondly, apologies for the very long wait for this particular edition. Like with the last time PC Update was delayed, I hope the wait was worth it, but I’ll let you be the...Continue reading→

Dennis Parsons Phones   We had a couple of interesting threads this month concerning phones and plans that ranged far and wide but proved very useful to both the users asking the questions and the other participants. As is our wont on Yammer we often wander well off topic but this frequently takes us to...Continue reading→

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 ‘feature’ for taking the gentle humour in such good part. Again DOTW was dominated by...Continue reading→

Neil Muller East SIG meeting host Paul Woolard opened the October virtual meeting with Frank Maher as the Zoom host. The meeting then commenced with George Skarbek presenting Q&A. I’ve recently had my Melbourne PC email successfully moved to Google G-Suite by the Office 365 Translation Team. I use Microsoft Mail and have been unable to...Continue reading→