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Roger Brown Latest winners of the DOTW poll were: Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill who says homelessness charities providing food and laundry services to people are “enabling” them to “live a lifestyle” in public parks. DOTW alumnus Tony Abbott who this week has praised the far-right prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and warned a conference...Continue reading→

Paul Addis The Linux News for this month was about Android – which does use the Linux kernel, after all. The question addressed was “can you use an Android-based phone or tablet without accessing Google services?”. The video shown answered the question with a “Yes” response via an Android variant called F-Droid. There is no...Continue reading→

Dennis Parsons Chit Chat We had an interesting and educational thread involving three of Melbourne’s great religions – AFL, Judaism & gambling! Judy heard it mentioned on the radio that orthodox Jews wouldn’t be able to attend the Grand Final due to various strict religious rules but she reckoned a few would manage it by...Continue reading→

John Guegan Our three meetings for this month are over and we look forward to October for our next three meetings for that month. Each meeting follows a similar format when we have a Q&A session which usually takes us up to morning tea time. Nick Merrigan, our computer operator, and the font of all...Continue reading→

Neil Muller The September meeting opened with George Skarbek conducting his usual Q&A segment.   Q: I received an email from Google Map Timelines in early September titled “Your August in Review”. The email stated “You received this email because you opted-in to Location History with this Google Account”. The email included a link titled...Continue reading→

Graham Farr You are invited to join one of the upcoming Computer History Tours of Melbourne, organised by the Faculty of IT at Monash University.  The tours are on Sat 19 Oct, and Sun 3 Nov 2019 (though I’d encourage people to go for Sat 19 Oct if possible, please, as we have lower capacity for the 3 Nov tour). This tour is...Continue reading→

Frank started his talk by giving us some background on his background in the Video Industry. Frank's wife Jean trained in the art of Movie making and Editing in 1980. She created her own Company "Catlin's Video Events" offering Corporate and Wedding Video Services. As Frank was still working full time his role was second...Continue reading→

Andrew Maxwell, University of Southern Queensland What a week it has been in the Apple core. In recent days the tech giant has released a litany of products, including new phones, watches, tablets, and more. The big-ticket items are clearly the new iPhone 11 range. These hint at some interesting technology directions, which will most...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald Welcome to the October 2019 edition of PC Update. Firstly thank you to everyone who has provided feedback on last month’s issue. On the whole it’s been very positive. You’ll notice some further changes to the PDF version of PC Update this month, and I hope to introduce some further improvements to the...Continue reading→