Category: Presentations 2022

On Thursday July 14h Scotty demonstrated how he doesn’t use Windows at all, but instead does everything on his laptop by running Ubuntu Linux. https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop The origins of Linux First he summarised how the Linux operating system was developed in … Read more

We looked at this on Thursday July 7th, with the aid of links supplied by members. Chris subsequently checked up on some of the sites in more detail and found that scammers were a growing problem! We agreed that having … Read more

On Thursday 30th June 2022 Tom Stevenson explained the features of Microsoft One Drive to us. Below is the slide show content from this presentation/discussion. What is OneDrive? Cloud Storage5GB for free, pay for additional space1000 (6000) GB … Read more

On Thursday 23rd June 2022, Chris and Tom led a discussion about the changes introduced with Windows 11. A quick straw poll revealed that quite a few members present already had Windows 11. Tom started the session be running through … Read more

On Thursday 16th June 2022 our interactive session had a look at Google Keep. Google Keep is arguably the best note keeping app for your phone/PC/iOS device Notes are associated with your Google account in the cloud, but are still … Read more

On Thursday June 9th, we looked at what cloud storage is, dug into Dropbox and installed OneDrive on Chris’s laptop. A quick poll of Club members present revealed that they used Google Drive (which includes Gmail), OneDrive, icloud and Dropbox … Read more

Here are links to some videos which we shared on Thursday June 2nd to remind us of where technology was at the time when Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor became Queen of the UK and 15 other countries. The Great Smog … Read more

On Thursday 26th May we took a look at buying a new Smartphone, and the ins and outs of different price points. Chris started off by saying that she had been obliged to buy a new one because the Xiaomi … Read more