Category: Weekly Newsletter

This Thursday April 28th is the last Thursday of the month and it’s Drinks and Nibbles day! In addition, to entertain and inform us, Scotty will tell us how to steer clear of bad Android apps. He’ll also explain what … Read more

This Thursday, 21st April, we discuss VPNs: “Virtual Private Network”s. Some club members are always going on about using a VPN when doing stuff over the Internet. What are they? Why might I want to use one? (hint: perhaps it’s … Read more

This Thursday April 14th, we’ll take a look at printing headaches. Sometimes it’s pretty tricky to get the printer to print just what you want. For example an email, from which you just want the text. A web page: you … Read more

This is our presentation topic for Thursday April 7th. Do you have difficulty finding what you’re looking for on the Internet? For example, information about a book, a car, a herb, a country? What about trying to identify a flower, … Read more

Since Thursday 31st March is the last Thursday of the month, we’ll be having complementary drinks and nibbles. Plus, for some entertainment, Chris B-J will attempt to remove bloatware from one of the Club’s laptops. But which removal tool to … Read more

This Thursday, March 24th, Margaret (yes, our very own Margaret March!) will lead a Facebook Q&A session and, with members’ help attempt to clarify some of those niggling questions you thought were too stupid to ask. If you’re confused by … Read more

People tend to talk in hushed voices when discussing Torrenting or BitTorrent technology. Why? Is it illegal or something? How do you do it? I know it’s something to do with downloading big files, but is it safe? This Thursday, … Read more

The good news is Yes! You can disable some Windows 10 settings which slow down your device, show you tons of notifications and ads which you probably don’t want to see and, incidentally collect more personal information than you might … Read more