PC Update Archives

Your Committee For 2021
UEFI Configuration for Booting Live Media – Dick Maybach
Use keyboard commands to create screenshots in Win10 – John Stampfel
If Google does pull its search engine out of Australia there are alternatives – Gianluca Demartini
AI can now learn to manipulate human behaviour – Jon Whittle

Those Nasty Pop Up Ads – Jim Cerny
Why Linux ? – Jim Quinn
Security flaws in Microsoft email software raise questions over Australia’s cybersecurity approach – Carsten Rudolph
New evidence shows half of Australians have ditched social media at some point, but millennials lag behind – Roger Patulny

In 2021 vow to start using a password manager – Kurt Jefferson
Chromebook Update – Jeff Wilkinson
Phone wet and will not turn on? Here is how to deal with water damage – Ritesh Chugh
Potential for harm – Ben Egliston

Building a CNC router (Part 1) – Dave Williams
Casting, not in the theatrical sense – Phil Sorrentino
Backing Up – Dan Douglas
Air Tags only work because of a vast covert network – Paul Haskel-Dowland

Building a CNC router (Part 2) – Dave Williams
Best Practice Backups for your operating system – Hugh Macdonald
Blocking Unwanted Emails – David Kretchmar
How An App to decrypt criminal messages was born – David Tuffley

A Look Through Windows 11 – Hugh Macdonald
Whither Hobby Computing – David Stonier-Gibson
How does the Pegasus spyware work, and is my phone at risk – Paul Haskell-Dowland
Lockdown – Heather Stonier-Gibson

Forty years of the IBM PC – Hugh Macdonald
SmartHome, Smarter Home – Greg Skalka
Elephobia – George Wright
Curious Kids: how does music get onto a cassette tape? – Christopher Wenn
How one simple rule change could curb online retailers’ snooping on you – Katharine Kemp

CitSciOz 2021 Notice
In Search of Backup Utopia – Harry Lewis
Thanks To The Ancient Greeks – George Wright (with maths advice from Ann Lawry)
Digital tech is the future – Shazia Sadiq and Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas
What is my IP address ? – Paul Haskell-Dowland

Revitalising An Older PC – Hugh Macdonald
How Do I Know When It Is Time To Buy A New Router – Kurt Jefferson
Advantages of New Wi-Fi Standards – Joe Callison
What Am I Doing Here? – George Wright

How vulnerable is your personal information? – Eric Smalley
Solid State Drives – Tom Burt
Understanding Internet Speed – Joe Callison
Book Review: I, Warbot – Tim McQueen

How To Install Linux – Hugh Macdonald
Most Common Issues that Need Repair from a PC or Mac Repair Shop Perspective – Dan Douglas
How 2021 was the year governments really started to wise up against big tech – David Tuffley
Why wearable fitness trackers aren’t as useless as some make them out to be – Ben Singh and Carol Maher

Not bot, not beast – Simon Coglan
Does social media make us more or less lonely ? – Roger Patulny
Windows 10 Task Bar Options – Jim Sanders
Making Your Tech “Fit” – Debra Carlson
Book Review: Technically Wrong – Tim McQueen

Try one of these bootable USB media – Dick Maybach
What happened to Control Panel? – Phil Sorrentino
I made bushfire maps from satellite data – Wallace Boon Law
High tech shortages loom as coronavirus shutdown hits manufacturers – John L Hopkins

Interesting Internet Finds – Steve Costello
Coronavirus: Telcos are picking up where the NBN is failing – Mark Gregory
Review: Linux Mint 19.3 – Cal Esneault
Book Reviews: Nuking the Moon and A Place for Everything – Tim McQueen

COVIDsafe tracking app reviewed – Mahmoud Elkhodr, CQ University.
How to booost your internet speed – James Jin Kang and Paul Haskell-Dowland.
Understanding File Extensions – Jim Cerny
Review – LibreOffice 6 – Tom Burt
First Look at Ubuntu 20.04 – Hugh Macdonald

Virtual Machines – Dick Maybach
Tech and Your Eyes – Debra Carlson
Fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up – Bill Corcoran
Member Tips and Tricks – Graham Swanston
Book Review: Bruny – Bill Chandler

Making over the training room – Maker Room Project Team
Images of Melbourne PC User Group – George Skarbek
Why I use Aussie Broadband – Roger Brown
My Migration to G Suite – Stewart Gruneklee
How Australian supercompters crunched the numbers … – Sean Smith and Mark Stickells

Windows 10 Reset – Phil Sorrentino
Tuning Up Your Windows 10 Start Menu – Tom Burt
Australia’s cybersecurity strategy – Damien Manuel
Member Tips and Tricks – Graham Swanston
How to subscribe to SIG mailing Lists – Hugh Macdonald

Your favourite web browser extensions – Hugh Macdonald
Five projects for the Raspberry Pi at Home – Ben Nuttall
Digging your own digital grave – Patrick Scolyer-Gray, Arash Shaghaghi, Debbie Ashenden
Interesting Internet finds – Steve Costello

Your Favourite Linux Distributions – Hugh Macdonald
Member Linux Stories – Melb PC Members
Creating a Portable Web server – Fleur Stephens
NBN Upgrades Explained – Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas
Google News favours mainstream media – Axel Bruns

Electronic Circuit Simulation – Dick Maybach.
Wifi 6 – What happened to b, g, n, ac – Phil Sorrentino.
How Australia can reap the benefits and dodge the dangers of the Internet of Things – Kayleen Manwaring
3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are shared online daily. Sorting real from fake is an increasing challenge. – T.J. Thomson and Paula Dootson.

How To Install WordPress On Your Portable Web Server – Fleur Stephens
Your Favourite Linux Apps – Hugh Macdonald
Your Favourite Windows Apps – Hugh Macdonald
Australian hospitals are under constant cyber attack – Paul Haskell-Dowland
From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system – Arianna Olivelli and Uwe Rosebrock

Arduino at Moorabbin
Chromebooks for Seniors
The QR Project
ADSL Faults

The Raspberry Pi – Dick Maybach
Capturing the Northern Lights – Greg Eden
Open Letters from Committee Executives
The Future of Everything – Tim McQueen

Our Workshop – Hugh Macdonald
Casualties of Change – John Mackesy
The MiicroMite: Back to BASIC – David Stonier-Gibson
Making SIG Videos – David Stonier-Gibson

Visiting a San Diego PC Group – David Stonier-Gibson
Rethinking my desktop PC – Hugh Macdonald
Older people’s online needs – Dr. Wendy Rapson
The Elephant in The Room – Stephen Zuluaga

Librarian Clemens Pratt is retiring – John Hall
What 3 words will get you there ? – Anthony Edwards
The idea of alien life – Cathal D. O’Connell
Book Review – Winners take all – Tim McQueen

Gel Electrophoresis at Moorabbin – David Stonier-Gibson
Heisenberg was right about uncertainty – Howard Wiseman
A Bump, a Wiggle, and a Blob – David Stonier-Gibson
Book Review – Life after Google – Tim McQueen

What do you do with your computer ? – Phil Sorrentino
Neven’s Law – Alessandro Rossi, M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba
Book Review: Deep Thinking – Tim McQueen
‘Repair cafés’ are about fixing things including the economy – Jade Herriman

The Future of PC Update publishing – Hugh Macdonald
How Australia can make AI work for our economy and for our people – Anthony Elliot
Book Review: Humble Pi – Tim McQueen
Time Machine: Sharp Actius A150 Ultra Light Notebook – John Oswald

Software Literacy Begins with Learning to Code – Dick Maybach
Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro wants to take your laptop’s job – Andrew Maxwell
Book Review: Weapons of Math Destruction – Tim McQueen
Book Review: Reboot – David Stonier-Gibson
Member Tips and Tricks – Graham Swanston

Discovering Family Histories and Mysteries – Jan Whitaker
Melbourne Society of Model and Experimental Engineers Exhibition Report – Phil Lew
Software Review: CloudReady – Hugh Macdonald
How to use the iHelp website – Leighton West

Your New Committee
Yawning Gap in the plan to keep Older Australians Working – Andreas Cebulla
Smart Devices in the Home – Phil Sorrentino
How to Clean Your Dirty Laptop – David Kretchmar
Book Review: We Have Been Harmonized – Tim McQueen

Short Story Entries – Subject: Keyboard
Trouble in the basement
Photography: remove the fog from your phone pix – David Stonier-Gibson
Robotics workshops – David Stonier-Gibson

Cover story: our youngest volunteer – David Stonier-Gibson
Video steaming system: behind the scenes – David Stonier-Gibson
Photography: Shooting small objects – David Stonier-Gibson
Saturday at Moorabbin – David Stonier-Gibson

Inspiring young programmers – David Stonier-Gibson
How to save electricity costs – George Skarbeck
The MelbPC development group – David Hatton & George Skarbeck
Photography: Size does matter, Part 1. – David Stonier-Gibson

Volunteers Party: celebrating their contributions – David King & David Stonier Gibson
Office 365 saves the day – Jan Whitaker
The month on Yammer – Dennis Parsons & Roger Brown
Reports
Photography: Size matters part 2 – David Stonier Gibson
New drink-driving penalties

Mirror, mirror on the wall
Open Day June 17
Win 10: Shortcuts and Procedures
Photography: Make the most of your flash

The Melbourne Computer Club

Computers in Education

Getting Started with the Scratch programming language

Cover story: Our Video Production History

Rebirthing a Laptop with an SSD

Photography: Find the picture in the picture ..

Cover story: Throwing Darts in a Darkroom

Progress in The Garage

Know Your Library

Promoting SIGs

Cover story: Not all computers come in big boxes.

Photography: Framing Landscapes.

Book Review: New Dark Age

Science @ Moorabbin

Cover story: Struttin’ our stuff, out and about.

Photography: Use the right gear.

Book Review: The Know it alls.

Robots @ Casey

Cover story: Downstairs Workshop.

Photography: My Bridge Camera Experience.

Book Review: Made by Humans – The AI condition.

How not to build a PC ?

Overcomplicated – technology at the limits of comprehension.
Book Review – by Tim McQueen
Writing for Newspapers – John Sutherland
Server room photos – By George Skarbek
Melb PC Membership Decline – By Colin Carter

Ransomware -John Langill
Voice Control – Phil Sorrentino
Search Engines – Google – Graham Swanston
Underground – Book Review – Louis Cook

Smartphone & Tablet Apps – Phil Sorrentino
Two Ways to Keep Track of your Word Files – Nancy DeMarte
Optus 4G Wi-Fi USB Modem with Car Kit – Stewart Gruneklee

Ryzen 7 vs Apple Mac Pro
All that Glitters is not Chrome – Greg Skalka
Good Computer House Cleaning – Len Nasman
Wi-Fi File Transfer – Easily move pictures from phone to computer – Phil Sorrentino

Computer Reliability and Speed – Graham Swanston
Customize Your Quick Access Toolbars in Office – Nancy DeMarte
How to Destroy Your Computer in Just Minutes – David Kretchmar
The Laptop that couldn’t keep its colors straight – Sandy Shapiro

Irresistible – Why we can’t stop checking, scrolling,clicking and watching – Review by Tim McQueen.
Library Update – Clemens Pratt and Choi Lai
Se Habla Windows? -Sprechen sie Android? – Greg Skalka
Thinkware Dashcam Review – George Harding

Using the Melb PC library at Moorabbin – Clemens Pratt and Choi Lai
Our new Membership System – CiviCRM – John Hall
Trying out Linux – for Windows users – David Hatton
Two Ways to Keep Track of your Word Files – Nancy DeMarte

Photography Competition Results
Move Fast and Break Things – Review by Tim McQueen
Associations – We need them! – Phil Sorrentino
Few of my favourite things – Greg Skalka

Photography Competition Results
My First 3D Printer – Keith Younger
The HDMI Cable and Connectors – Jim Cerny
High End 3D Printing site visit – David Stonier-Gibson

What is a “Database” Anyway? – Jim Cerny
Microsoft’s Varied Word-Processing Options – Nancy DeMarte
Educating My Phone – graduating to a Smartphone – Greg Skalka
Microcontroller SIG – Site Visit.

The Photography Competition is Back!
The Anatomy of a Death Certificate – Harold D. Kelly
Another Melb PC Member Benefit – George Skarbeck
Close Your Windows before You Leave on Vacation – Greg Skalka

Two Factor Authentication – Ira Wilsker
The Dark Net – Jim Scheef
Backups Are Needed for all Devices – Bart Koslow
Book Review – Raspberry Pi User Guide, 3rd Edition – John Hall

Office365 Pro Plus Subscription
Library News – Clemens Pratt
Dispose of My Computer
Online Passwords — Becoming Obsolete ? – Ira Wilsker

Melbourne University Research Project
Book Review: PROF: Alan Turing Decoded

Library: Is Genealogy Your Interest? – Clemens Pratt & Choy Lai
Book Review: Beyond Zero and One – Tim McQueen

Apple IOS — The Good, Bad, and Hard To See – Julie Ackland
Microsoft “Edge” — Win10 Web Browser – Jim Cerny
Apple Tips & Tricks – Gary Roerig
USB Is Changing with Technology – Bart Koslow

7 Quick Tips for Windows and Office – Nancy DeMarte
Ad/Popup Blockers & Internet Advertising War – Mike Morris
PDF File Type — What and Why? – Phil Sorrentino
OneNote – Perfect Computer Junk Drawer – John Weigle

Try the Presenter View in Powerpoint – Nancy DeMarte
New Books for the Library – Clemens Pratt & Choy Lai

Google Virtual Tours – Geoff Goodrum
What’s New in Microsoft Office 2016 – Nancy DeMarte
Ransomware — Protecting Your Recovery – John Langill

Windows 7 Not Updating? – Cedric Wyndham
Using Foreign Characters in Passwords – Martin Arbagi
Find Your Tech Support Match – Nancy DeMarte
Synchronise Mail etc on All your Devices – John King

President’s Page – November 2016
The Library’s PC Update Archive

President’s Report – December 2016
Editorial – Gary Taig

Starting Up at Office 365
Come Yammer With Us! – Peter Wright

How I Handled The ChangeOver to Office 365 – David Gilder

Linux — An Alternative to Windows XP – Roger Brown

Modernising Our Library – Clemens Pratt
The Windows 10 Upgrade – Neil Muller
The Raspberry Pi – Neil Muller
Melb PC Use of Yammer – Richard Solly

Proposed Rule Changes – Geoffrey Keenan
Our New Website – A preview

How to Turn your TV into a Smart TV – Neil Muller
Proposed Rule Changes – Geoffrey Keenan

The Preferred Future for Melbourne PC User Group Inc. – Bill Ford
Windows 10 New Features – Neil Muller
Book Review – Windows 10 for Dummies – Choy Lai

Security Bug Could Threaten 950 Million Android Devices – Ira Wilsker
Is Windows 10 Spying on Us ? – Sandy Berger

Book Review – Photoshop Lightroom CC – Colin Everingham

Website Basics – Katherine Shade
Web hosting – What are you Really Buying? – Fleur Stephens
Website Annoyances – Stephen Lake
Useful definitions: URLs and domains – Lance Lloyd

XP – The End Is Night! (Not?) – Lance Lloyd
XP – If it Ain’t Broke… – Roger Wragg
XP – Life after XP – George Skarbek
There’s an App for That – Tim McQueen
AutoCAD Not Just a Drafting Tool – Laurie Comerford

Melb PC’s New Email System
Staying with Windows XP

Security Threats – Katherine Shade
A successful attempt (just) to dual-boot Xubuntu and Microsoft Windows 8.1 – Tim McQueen
Image Effects: Kaleidoscope – Henk Visscher
Preparing a New Windows 7 Installation – Geoffrey Keenan

Backup… Backup… Backup…! – Phil Sorrentino
What exactly is a router ? – WorldStarts Tech Tips and Computer Help
Online Guides to Fix Almost Anything – Ira Wilsker

My Life With Computers (Old Times) – Karol Docktor
MP3 Player Woes – Graham Hunt
Hirens’s BootCD – Bruce Howells
Configuring a New Windows 7 Installation – Geoffrey Keenan

A Good Password Manager may Enhance Your Computing Security – Ira Wilsker
Better Ways to Store Your Files than On the Desktop – Joel Lee
Multitasking: the Big Myth – Diane Fahlbusch
The Web of Unintended Consequences – Greg Skalka

What device do you need? – Tim McQueen
My Life With Computers (Modern Times) – Karol Docktor
A Secure Password – Gary Taig
Code on a Raspberry PI – Lance Lloyd

Create and Store Secure Passwords with Free Password Managers – Ira Wilsker
Two-factor authentication – Proof of Identity – Phil Sorrentino
Fun and Knowledge with YouTube – Jim Cerny
Windows 7: Turning your Computer On and Off and Power Options – Jim Cerny

Back to Basics – Tips for Using your Keyboard and Entering – Jim Cerny
Data Trails – Twitter for Seniors – Larry McJunkin
Mass Hacker Attacks and National Cyber Security Awareness Month – Ira Wilsker

– 30th Anniversary Issue –
A treasure trove of stories from 30 years of Melbourne PC User Group
activities as told by members.

Home Networking – Adam Turner
My Life with Computers – Tim McQueen
Early Computers: The Dulmont Magnum – Laurie Comerford
An Overview of Lexing and Parsing part 1 – Ron Savage

Reading ebooks – Henk Visscher
An Overview of Lexing and Parsing – Part 2: Orientation – Ron Savage
My Life with Computers – Libby Shade

Storage – Sky Drive – Adam Turner
My Life with Computers – Dennis Parsons
Data Security in the Cloud – Katherine Shade

Refresh Your View of Linux – Geoff Perry
Social Media Basics – Darry D Eggleston
Misery from Social Media – Greg Skalka

My Life with Computers – Bruce Howells
3D printing, additive manufacturing and beyond – Julie Ackland
Children and Technology – Katherine Shade
Strong passwords and two-factor authentication – Adam Turner

Windows 8 – my journey – Vera Bennett
Phablets: the next big thing – Adam Turner
Smart Meters – Jemena

VoIP (Voice over IP) – Adam Turner
Freeing up disk space on a Solid State Drive (SSD) – George Skarbeck
An ordinary user’s guide to confusion and catastrophe – Stephen Lake

HTML 5: Some new additions – Fleur Stephens
Android Apps for Gliding – George Skarbeck
Photo Competition – Terry Lane
Digital Photography Editing – Dick Maybach

Windows 8 – An introduction – Kathy Rouse
My Life with Computers: Downsizing – Casey SIG Member
Windows 8.1 – The Upgrade we had to have – Katherine Shade

Which Outlook? – Harry Lewis and Katherine Shade
POP, IMAP and Webmail – Harry Lewis
Core Memory Origins – George Skarbeck
Microsoft Word: Using the Spike – Colin Abbott

WordPress: Websites the Easy Way – Fleur Stephens
Useful Definitions – Katherine Shade

A History of Melb PC – Llyod Borret
Father of the PC – Gordon Woolf
Using Live CD’s – Part 1 – David Hatton
Cable V ADSL – Part 1 – Ron Savage
An Introduction to Web Hosting – Ron Savage

Working with old Black and White Negatives – Roger Wragg
Which is the one True Faith – Windows or Mac ? – Adam Turner

The Cloud – Adam Turner
PC Computer Evolution – Wil Wakely
Microsoft Access Tips – Craig Evans
The Truths & Myths about Mobile Broadband – Michael Andrus

Using Sandoxie to Safely Browse the Internet – Jim McKnight
What’s Inside your Memory Stick – Roger Wragg
Windows 7 has it all – Vinny La Bash
Database-Driven Websites: Making the move – Patrick Brennan

Coffee Shop Computer Etiquette – Mark Tiongco
My Life with Computers – Norman Elliman
Music Services – Adam Turner

My Life with Computers – Judy Bednar
What makes a great photograph – Terry Lane
A Novice’s Introduction to the Raspberry Pi – Lance Lloyd
Using Live CDs – Part 2 – David Hatton

My Life with Computers – Kathy Rouse
Has your old computer become bloated and slow ? – George Skarbeck
Windows 8 – Adam Turner
Speeding up the slowest part of your computer: you – George Skarbeck

I have XP – should I ask for Windows 8 for Christmas – Harry Lewis
Windows 7 Accessibity Settings – Making your computer easier to use – Nancy DeMarte
From Info Select to Evernote – Katherine Shade

My Life with Computers – Annelore von Gizycki
Downloading Programs – Katherine Shade
Selecting the Panasonic LX7 – What do you need in a camera? – George Skarbeck