May 2018 Website: http://www.sccc.org.au Email: [email protected] Info Line: 07 5492 1005

The Official Magazine of the Sunshine Coast Computer Club Inc. What's in this month's edition... From The Editor – Judy Smith...... 2 Monthly Reports...... 3 Huge Mobile Phone Recall - Peter Daley...... 4 Huge Mobile Phone Recall - Peter Daley (Continued)...... 5 Jean's Jottings...... 6 Members Help Needed...... 7 Bits'N'Pieces...... 8 Bits'N'Pieces...... 9 Alerts...... 10 Reviews...... 11 Raffle...... 12 Corporate Members ...... 13 Find Your Membership Number...... 13 Classified Ads...... 14 Surf Watch - Members Web Sites...Submit Yours...... 15 Your Committee...... 15 SCCC Membership Application/Renewal Form...... 16

Monthly Meeting – 2.55pm Thursday 3 May 2018 at

Technology ● Get hands on help with all your technology problems. Education ● Tutorials are presented during each session. Centres ● Internet access is available. Windows, Linux and Apple Mac operating systems are supported. Every Saturday between 9.00am and 12.10pm Caloundra Community Hall, Queen Street Caloundra, (opposite Caloundra State High School). Buderim Every Thursday between 1pm to 4pm Good Life Centre, 100 Buderim Pines Drive, Buderim. Notice about SCCC Monthly General Meetings The SCCC Monthly Meetings alternate between the Caloundra and Buderim venues. At Caloundra the meeting is held on the first Saturday of the month. At Buderim the meeting is held on the first Thursday of the alternate month. The next Monthly Meeting will be at Buderim 3 May 2018

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From The Editor – Judy Smith

Bits'N'Bytes is produced monthly from February to Membership Cards December each year. Membership cards for members Contributions for the newsletter are always welcome. who have joined or renewed Please send copy for the next issue to reach the editor their membership are posted th as early as possible after the monthly meeting or by the after 20 of each month to the deadline: 21 May 2018. member's address recorded on Email: [email protected] or Snail Mail: The Editor PO the Club Data Base. Box 384, Caloundra, Qld 4551. Members who joined or renewed their membership between 21st March 2018 and 20th April 2018 were This magazine is created with OpenOffice and posted new membership cards on 26th April 2018 to the produced in printed form and also electronically address recorded on the Club Data Base. in PDF format. Note - Membership cards show the next renewal date Copyright - material in this newsletter may be copied of membership. in other publications provided that copyright rests with the Sunshine Coast Computer Club Inc., This permission is on condition that reference is made to SCCC (with original published date) in the reprinted item.

Liability - Although articles in this newsletter are checked for content, no warranty can be given for any loss resulting from the use of material in the newsletter. Articles and advertisements are printed in good faith and views and opinions are not necessarily those held The SCCC Inc. education centre internet networks are by the club. provided as a club service. Downloading of any material that may be in violation of copyright, movies, music or SCCC Privacy Statement - In joining the Sunshine books etc or pornography is not allowed under the club Coast Computer Club please note that it is a club terms of use of this service. operated by volunteer members and operating within the community involving many activities relating to You as a member sign an agreement with the club that meetings, instructional and social functions for you understand this when you sign in at each meeting. members and at times visitors. A notice to this effect is placed at the top of the sign-in sheet. This requires the keeping of a member data base and the publication of the names of new members. The Club guards the member data base as best as possible and does not publish member's addresses nor telephone numbers unless authorised.

At times photographs are taken at meetings and functions and are sometimes published. Should you have any problems relating to your personal privacy which arises or is likely to arise, it is your duty and responsibility to advise the Club secretary in writing of the circumstances and requirements. The next SCCC What's on Bulletin - What's On Bulletins are sent once a week, generally on a Monday afternoon, to all members Monthly Meeting who have provided the Club with their email address. will be held at Buderim These bulletins give details of up-coming tutorials and will be held at Buderim topics to be covered at the various meeting venues. You Thursday 3 May 2018 will also find items of interest and club announcements in these bulletins.

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Monthly Reports

Treasurer's Report Minutes of the Monthly General Meeting of the Sunshine Coast Computer Club Inc. Profit and Loss Held at Community Hall Caloundra 21 March 2018 – 20 April 2018 Saturday 7 April 2018 Meeting Commenced: Income Peter Daley opened the meeting at 11.05 am. Donation 500.00 Minutes of Previous Meeting: Fundraising 482.00 The minutes of the March 2018 Monthly Meeting as Interesrt Received 0.02 published in the April 2018 Bits'N'Bytes were shown on the screen. Meetings 1,592.00 Membership Fees 1,394.00 Pauline Timms proposed the minutes be accepted. Total Income 3,968.02 Seconded by Patsey Corbett. CARRIED Expenses Business Arising from the Minutes of the Administration 600.00 Previous Meeting: Fundraising Expenses 297.00 Nil Hall Hire 2,131.30 Treasurer's Report: Internet Service Provider 352.00 The March 2018 Treasurers Report was shown on the Phone 187.59 screen and also published in the April 2018 Bits'N'Bytes Postage 269.72 Magazine. Printing and Stationery 125.49 Proposed by Gordon Pieffer that the report be Refreshments 282.47 accepted. Sundry Equipment Seconded by Rod Dinte. Repairs and replacements 63.60 CARRIED Total Sundry Equipment 63.60 New Members: Website Expenses 85.32 Jill Aigars, Suzanne and Frank Ireland, Christine and Total Expenses 4,394.49 Mike Naray. Lapsed Members Net Income -426.47 Michelle Simone and Filipe Aguilar rejoined after a lapse of membership. General Business Peter pointed out that there were now four wall fans in Heather the Hall – two replacing old fans and two new fans. Atkinson There was no further business to discuss. Treasurer Meeting closed at 11.10 am. Jae Tunnell Secretary

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Huge Mobile Phone Recall - Peter Daley

they are exposed to a lot more radiation when using any mobile phone. Proportionally their SAR exposure is very much greater! So no children should be using any of these phones. French Telecom Operator Orange Recalls Cell This huge mobile phone recall should be a clear Phone Over Excessive Radiation, Could Lead To message to members that you need to research the Cancer - 6 April 2018 amount of radiation put out by your mobile phone. This Extracts: is called the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). The lower We will not accept the “regulatory” sleight of hand that the phones SAR level the less your radiation exposure. would leave in circulation hundreds of mobile phones Numerous models recently tested by the French tested by ANFR before 2016 and which present for the regulator have been discovered to be exceeding by as vast majority of them, exposure thresholds well above much as ten times the SAR regulatory threshold when the limit values of 2 W/kg. As a reminder, 9 out of 10 compared to the US standard. This is a massive phones tested in 2015 exceeded the regulatory limits, amount! some reaching, in terms of the European standard, These devices are radiating more than just more than 7 W/kg, or, recalculated according to the microwave radiation, they are also radiating very U.S. standard, more than 20 W/kg, that is, exceeding high speed digital pulsed radiation as well. The ten times the thresholds, posing a risk to the health and high speed digital pulse signal is used for the data safety of users. transfer between devices or the mobile tower. The “Thanks to Dr. Arazi, the world is finally waking up to microwave is the carrier signal on which the the data the fact that phones are not safe, especially when used signal rides. As each new generation of mobile phone near the body. These new reports from the French gets faster, the frequency of the microwave carrier national test agency show phones exceed current test signal increases. limits many fold when at body contact. We must stop To communicate with older generation devices new experimenting on our children and ourselves. Studies devices can operate on multiple microwave frequencies from the Cleveland Clinic and leading institutions in 3G, 4G, 5G, WiFi and bluetooth etc., It is very important Australia and India confirm that men who wish to to understand how to use the device settings to turn off father healthy children must keep phones out of their those microwave bands you are not using. For instance, pockets. It is vitally important that all public you may not need to have WiFi or bluetooth turned on educational institutions develop simple directions to the all the time. Only turn them on when you need them. If millions of cell phone users around the world on how to you do this you will greatly reduce the radiation limit exposure.” exposure from the device. This is covered on page two Article: of the free club safety guide provided on next page. https://ehtrust.org/millions-of-mobile-phones-will-have- People are becoming addicted to their need for to-be-withdrawn-from-the-market-4-6-2018-press- constant social validation, seeing their worth related to release-phonegate/ the number of times people communicate with them, through their smart devices. This has become such a The club provides this WiFi safety guide to members, if huge problem that recent studies are showing that you haven't already downloaded the safety guide large numbers of people and particularly children are below, please do. Page two provides lots of suggestions now suffering from sleep deprivation, because they on how to easily reduce your families microwave and take they phone to bed with them. If they are not pulsed radiation radiation exposure! You are welcome communicating with it, they are in a shallow sleep in to share it with friends and family. anticipation, waiting for the next call! I have never owned a mobile phone, plus I have the No microwave radiation safety expert with tell you that the home hard wired, so we don't use WiFi. I live a it is safe for children to use a mobile phone! much more relaxed life style than the average mobile phone user. Why? Continued page 5 The SAR regulatory limit is measured using an average American 25 year old male's head size. A child's head and body size is much smaller than an adult male, so

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Huge Mobile Phone Recall - Peter Daley (Continued)

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Download this WiFi Safety Guide Here. Peter Daley's Tutorial at Caloundra Saturday 21 April 2018 - Website Link http://sccc.org.au/wifi/microwave-safety-chart.pdf Earth Monitoring Sites and Emergency Previous article on this subject. Preparation Guides http://sccc.org.au/archives/10298 It is important to learn how these environmental monitoring sites work. They all have different site navigation systems, charting and measurement types. 29th March 2018 - Dozens of smartphone models In an emergency you may not have time to work out have built-in viruses – IT security specialists how to find the relevant data you need, or what a particular environmental measurement means. Having Extract: some prior knowledge on how to navigate each site, “Users told us that their anti-virus program has found plus what the levels mean, could be a life saver. malicious software on their smartphones. We’ve http://sccc.org.au/earth-monitoring-sites-emergency- analyzed the situation and came to the conclusion the preparation-guides software was in the system area where no virus could get from outside but could only be built in during the production phase,” Doctor Web director general Boris Sharov told RIA Novosti. https://www.rt.com/business/422677-smartphones- built-in-virus/

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Jean's Jottings

Eleven Smart Home Devices You Did Not Know home to do so, a smart pet feeder is a great option Existed Smart Fork https://www.lifewire.com/unusual-smart-home-devices- While a smart fork may sound like a joke to some, for 4145020 those looking to fix their eating habits, it can be a godsend. While you may be familiar with some of the biggest products out there like smart doorbells and garage Smart Frying Pan doors, there is an entire world of smart home devices So you watch a ton of cooking shows, yet you cannot you have probably never knew existed. From a smart get your dishes to come out like Gordon Ramsay’s. Do frying pan that weighs your food to a hair brush that not fret, a smart frying pan can help! coaches your brushing, if there is even a minor need, Smart Flood Sensor there is probably a smart device to address it. Flood sensors alert you when your home is flooding. So Check out the eleven devices below to see how deeply if you want to be notified of flooding any time instead smart home tech has penetrated every room in your of just when you’re home, a smart flood sensor is the house. The above website gives more information and way to go. illustrations of these products. Letting Smart Gadgets Help Smart Bed Many (if not all) of the devices on this list may seem Sleep trackers are a common use for smart technology, wildly unnecessary, but they are all designed to help so smart beds make perfect sense for people looking to solve very real problems. The moral of the story is that track their sleeping habits. And while a Fitbit or if you have a problem, there is a chance someone has Jawbone can track how much you stir in your sleep, a come up with a smart device to solve it. So whether connected bed has a lot more data to work with. you are brushing your teeth too hard or burning your toast too often, the solution might already be in your Smart Toilet pocket. While this one probably does not surprise you, you may be wondering what a smart toilet even does. Smart Garage Door If you are a worrier, you have probably driven back home a few times to double-check that you closed the garage door. Some people even take a picture each morning to reassure themselves that the door is actually closed. All of this is easily alleviated with a smart garage door, Smart Egg Tray File this one under both “did not know existed” and “should not buy.” Smart Toothbrush If you do not want to wait six months to have your dentist to tell you you are not brushing the right way, a smart toothbrush might be just what you need. Smart Hairbrush While this one may raise a few eyebrows, a smart hair brush is actually a lot less crazy than you might think. I wouldn't call being able to Smart Toaster turn it on remotely, 'smart'. Nothing is worse than burnt toast, and with a smart toaster, you will never find Picking my socks up off the floor, yourself scraping off blackened bread washing them and hanging them out to dry, again. now that would be 'smart'. Smart Pet Feeder Whether you forget to feed your pets or are not always

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Members Help Needed

Tutorial Sessions at Buderim Meetings Digital Community Hub – During May 2018 Volunteers Needed During May 2018 both of the regular tutors at Buderim As part of GetOnline , the Queensland Meetings, Bill Maxwell and David Gould will be absent Government is starting a digital community hub in on holidays. Maroochydore. The hub will run every Tuesday morning for two hours starting on Tuesday 15 May 2018. Heather Atkinson will do the Question and Answer Sessions and the first tutorial each day the regular The digital community hubs are intended to be safe tutors are away. inviting locations where people with no or limited digital skills can learn for free at their own pace and increase If there are any members who have some knowledge of their digital awareness and ability in a way that is a particular subject that may be of interest to other relevant to them. Each week participants will work with members they would be welcome to give this a volunteer digital mentor either one-on-one or two-on knowledge to other members in the second session on -one to gain confidence and basic digital skills. Further the days the regular tutors are away or at any other details of the aims have been given to the Club and time they make a request for time to do something. It may be read by members interested. need not be a structured training session but an informal talk/demonstration to a small number of The Club has been asked if there are members who members in the tutorial room and need not be for the would be interested in becoming volunteers. The full time of the usual tutorial session. volunteers are not expected to be IT experts just ordinary persons who want to share their knowledge If any members are interested in helping other and interests and help others. Volunteers will also have members by sharing their knowledge would they please the opportunity to learn new skills and meet others with see Jean Lear or Heather Atkinson at a meeting or similar interests and will be provided with support and email to [email protected] or telephone the Club information, including information on working as a Information Line 54921005 (leave a message if the call volunteer and digital training resources. is not answered). Your Help would be appreciated. If any members would like to read the full details given to the Club which are too extensive to be included in the Bulletin with a view to becoming a volunteer please see Jean Lear or Heather Atkinson at a meeting or email to [email protected] or telephone the Club Information Line 54921005 (leave a message if the call is not answered). A precis of the request is also available on the reading tables at Caloundra and Buderim meetings. The program is planned to commence on Tuesday 15 May 2018 with volunteers names needed to be forwarded to the organisers by Thursday 3 May 2018.

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Bits'N'Pieces

27th March 2018 - "Want To Freak Yourself Do You Know How to Take a Screenshot on Any Out?" Here Is All The Personal Data That Android Device? Facebook/Google Collect Take a look at your smartphone or tablet. Does it have Extracts: a Home button? This is a physical button on your smartphone or tablet that takes you to to the home Instead, the backlash to these revelations - which has screen. been justifiably focused on Facebook - is so severe because the public has been forced to confront for the first time something that many had previously written off as an immutable certainty: That Facebook, Google and the rest of the tech behemoths store reams of personal data, essentially logging everything we do. The Home button will be located on the bottom bezel of In response to 3800 demands for more transparency the device. Press the Home button and the Power/Lock surrounding user data, Facebook and Google are button at the same time for a few seconds. The offering users the option to view all of the metadata Power/Lock button is usually on the top or the upper that Google and Facebook collect. right side of the device. And as Twitter user, Dylan Curran pointed out in a If your device does not have a hardware Home button comprehensive twitter thread examining his own data (replaced by a soft key), you press the Power/Lock cache, the extent and bulk of the data collected and button and the Volume Down button at the same time sorted by both companies is staggering. This can be a bit clumsy, since these buttons are all https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-27/twitter- usually on the right side of a smartphone; it may take a user-breaks-down-all-personal-data-facebook-and- few tries to get it right. You may end up adjusting the google-collect volume or locking the device instead. Your screenshot will then be saved in your Gallery app in a folder called screenshots. From there, you can share the image as you can a photo you've taken with your camera, or do simple edits such as cropping or adding special effects.

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Life after Facebook On Nightlife with Philip Clark Professor Gerard Goggin talks about Facebook and data scraping.

Broadcast: Friday 20 April 2018, 10:00pm http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/life- after-facebook/9682504

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Bits'N'Pieces

Help Sites for Members  IT Knowledge Base for Seniors - Bill's Web Page http://billscomputerpot.com CCleaner: 5.42.6495  MacMost Newsletter Malwarebytes Anti-Malware: 3.4.5.2467 http://macmost.com/video-list Evernote: 6.11.2.70  Mac Help for Mom Dropbox: 48.4.58 http - //www.machelpformom.com/? awt_l=7A7lk&awt_m=3ZOrNUFBHi6qGjB Firefox: 59.0.2  IT Tuition - Rodney Border's Web Page Thunderbird: 52.7.0 http://www.webjewel.com.au/ Windows Defender 1.267.373.0  Club Website Google Chrome: 66.0.3359.0 http://www.sccc.org.au Foxit PDF Reader 9.0.1.1049  SCCC Club Rules Picasa: 3.9.14 http://sccc.org.au/wp- content/uploads/2015/02/SCCC-CLUB-RULES.pdf Apache OpenOffice Suite: 4.1.4  Weekly Bulletin on Club Website. iTunes: 12.7.4 The Weekly Bulletin is posted to the Club Website Java: V8 Update 131 http://www.sccc.org.au under the Club Events Calendar. To use the calendar click on 'Click Here To Read The Current Club Bulletin' at the top of the page or simply hover your mouse pointer over Did you know it is easy to change the Font Style calendar item 'What's On Today? and click for 'This on your Samsung phone? Week's Bulletin'. Samsung has the most robust font options pre-installed with a number of font options. To change your font on most Samsung models, you go to Settings >Display > Font Style and select the font you would like to use. On newer models, such as the Galaxy 8, the font options are found in a slightly different place. On those newer models, the most common way to change your font is Settings > Display > Screen zoom and fonts > Font Style and select the font you like and tap Apply.

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Alerts

they drop their guard and tend to miss the warning signs they’re dealing with a scammer.” “Scammers will advertise puppies they know are sought after, particularly pedigree breeds. Reports to Scamwatch show the majority of people have been contacted by scammers via email or online through classified sites and even social media.”

Beware of scammers impersonating energy and ********** telecommunications companies Check your Facebook privacy policy 24 April 2018: 21 March 2018: https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/beware-of- scammers-impersonating-energy-and- https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/alert- telecommunications-companies service/check-your-facebook-privacy-policy The ACCC is warning consumers The private information of millions of Facebook users to beware of scammers across the globe has potentially been used to generate impersonating energy and political advertising. telecommunications providers Political research firm Cambridge Analytica has been and demanding payments. accused of mining the data of 50 million Facebook Scamwatch has received 5000 users to engineer political advertising during the 2016 reports of fake billing scams in US election campaign. the last 12 months, with The Australian Privacy Commissioner is looking into reported losses of close to whether any personal information of Australians has $8000. been acquired and whether further regulatory action is “The scammers typically impersonate well known needed. companies such as Origin, AGL, Telstra and Optus via ********** email, to fool people into assuming the bills are real. Beware of Scam Emails ********** 16 April 2018. Don't fall for a scammer's puppy dog eyes https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/alert- 26 March 2018. service/beware-scam-emails https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/dont-fall-for-a- There have been reports of a recent increase in email scammers-puppy-dog-eyes scams containing malware, which can take control of Scamwatch is warning people to your computer or steal your information. watch out for scammers setting up The emails contain a link which, if clicked on, fake ads pretending to sell downloads and installs a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) adorable puppies, with more than on your device. Hackers use these RATs as an invisible $310,000 lost and 584 reports backdoor to access the data on your computer. They about this scam in the past 12 can steal your confidential information, hold your months. computer to ransom or install other programs without “Puppy scammers play on people’s your knowledge. emotions who have their heart set on a particular breed. Once they see that cute puppy picture in an ad,

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Reviews

Data stealing apps. What you can you do? 100 years of Panasonic reliability 17 April 2018 This year Panasonic is celebrating 100 years since its beginning. These days it makes things like TVs, http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/data-stealing-apps- speakers, air conditioners and appliances. But back what-you-can-you-do/? then it started with a light socket. utm_source=Gadget+Grapevine&utm_campaign=539ec 5fe75- In March 1918, 100 years ago last month, Kōnosuke EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_20&utm_medium=email& Matsushita was struggling. He had just established his utm_term=0_b3f5e74097-539ec5fe75-17378005 electrical socket company. Extract Back then a typical Japanese Data stealing apps (in Android and iOS) require home, if it had power, had only a permissions way beyond what is needed to do their job. light socket. Power points? What They are stealing your data to sell it. Channel Seven were those? Sunrise GadgetGuy speaks to the Sunrise team. Matsushita had been working for his local electrical utility. In his spare time, he developed a double adaptor for those light sockets. That would allow families to have light and use an appliance at the same time. It was touch and go for several years as Matsushita learned that he needed to not only create products but market them effectively. Manufacturing was in the basement of his apartment building. He had to let go early assistants, so it was him and his family working ********** the business. GadgetGuy says Embrace Smart Living Eventually, though, the word spread that Matsushita’s double adaptors were better and cheaper. The business 13 April 2018 was secured. From there he developed a bicycle lamp http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/gadgetguy-says- powered by batteries, again, better than the embrace-smart-living/ competition. Extract In the early 1950s, Matsushita began its global GadgetGuy featured on Channel 7 Sunrise with a range expansion, opening a sales office in North America in of smart living devices including a TV that becomes a 1959. Four years earlier it launched the Panasonic piece of art. Embrace a smart Android mirror, smart brand as the name for its loudspeakers. glass that changes opacity, and rock speakers. Still headquartered in Osaka, Japan, where Matsushita ********** first established his business, it is now reputed to be the “largest Japanese consumer electronics company”. Fake reviews What was for many decades the Matsushita Electric – the Scourge of the Internet (opinion) Industrial Co Ltd became Panasonic Corporation in 25 April 2018 2008. Throughout much of the world, it had been known by the brand name National until the early http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/fake-reviews-the- 1970s. Including in Australia, the company arrived here scourge-of-the-internet-opinion/ in 1962. Extract http://www.gadgetguy.com.au/100-years-of-panasonic/ Fake Reviews have become the scourge on the internet. As many as 90% are declared ‘unreliable using the same text, hyperbole or suspiciously positive words’. An article on Channel Seven News on 25 April prompted us to investigate further.

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Raffle

THE LAST SCCC RAFFLE WAS DRAWN THURSDAY 12 APRIL 2018 AT BUDERIM using the Random Number Generator. The prize for this raffle was a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8 inch 16GB tablet. The lucky winner with ticket number 353 was Keith Cummings who purchased the ticket at a Buderim Meeting where Keith attends every meeting he can. Thank you to the members who supported this raffle and to the members manning the desks and selling tickets in the raffle.

RAFFLE TO BE DRAWN SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 AT CALOUNDRA The prize for this raffle is a an OPPO A 57 Smartphone never miss a selfie with the 16MP flagship front camera + 13MP rear camera. 32GB internal memory expandable by a further 256GB, the OPPO A57 gives you plenty of room to play. Powered by a 1.4GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm processor with 3GB of RAM for easy multi tasking with long lasting 2900mAH battery. This phone comes in a gold case. Further details are on display where tickets are being sold. Tickets are $1 each and available at all meeting venues to day of draw. Remember buying of tickets is voluntary.

RAFFLE TO BE DRAWN SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 AT CALOUNDRA Watch the Weekly Bulletin and June Bits'N'Bytes for details Full details and features of the prize will be available when tickets go on sale at Buderim, commencing Thursday Thursday 17 May 2018. Tickets will be $1 each and available at all meeting venues to day of draw. Remember buying of tickets is voluntary.

If members have any suggestions for future raffle prizes please telephone the Club Information Line 5492 1005 (Leave a message if the call is not answered or email [email protected]

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Corporate Members

Help with Computers Peter Daley Andrew Hadland Diploma ICT Computer Repairs and Upgrades for Windows and Linux. Data Recovery. Phone 5491 8645 Computer and Internet Training and Setup. ● Help with all aspects of Computer Functions Home Entertainment and Hi Fi systems set-ups and advice. ● Tuition – Emails – Scanning – Video Editing Custom built computers. All computer systems are tested before pick-up. ● Burning CD's / DVD's – Backups Award Winning Web Page Designer. ● Protection Anti Virus – Spy ware – Firewall E-Mail: [email protected]. ● Internet – ADSL Setup PH 07 5491 3279 Computer - Repairs - New Systems | Free Books | | Links | | E-mail |

Keep up with IT Do you have an IT related business ● Websites and Internet Services and would like to advertise here. ● Computer Tuition See Jean Lear about becoming a ● Desktop and Mobile Devices Corporate Member and getting your ● Primarily Apple Mac, Windows and Linux message here. Rodney Border You can speak to Jean at Buderim or Phone: 5452 6268 Mobile: 0477 150 653 Caloundra meetings or phone: [email protected] Info Line: 07 5492 1005 http://www.webjewel.com.au/ Leave a message if your call is not Grad Diploma Information Systems – University S/Coast answered Diploma in IT Systems Administration S/Coast TAFE

Find Your Membership Number Do you read your Bits'N'Bytes each month? Find your membership number hidden somewhere in one of the pages and win five free tickets in the current raffle. The membership number will be chosen at random and will appear as a four digit number within the text of the magazine and may be on any page. If your membership number has 1, 2 or 3 digits, it will be shown with leading 0s. Do not forget to thoroughly scrutinise every magazine for your membership number hidden within the text of articles each month. The number is placed in the 8672 middle of a sentence like this! Start looking now! The lucky membership number is hidden somewhere in this month's edition. Is it yours? When you find your number contact the club by email at [email protected] or phone 54921005 to claim your prize. You are allowed 60 days from the publication date to claim your prize. Otherwise, the prize is forfeited!

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Classified Ads Classified Advertisements in Bits'N'Bytes - Editorial Policy is that B'N'B Classified Advertisement - 1. Are for the use of members only. 2. Items must not be of a business or commercial nature. 3. Items submitted should be limited to a few items - no huge garage sale lists please! 4. Items should preferably be relevant to computers, graphics, video, audio, electrical or electronic hobbies etc. Adverts for other types of household goods will be accepted only if there is sufficient room for them. 5. Ads should preferably be forwarded direct to [email protected] or phoned in to 07 5479 0671. 6. The Editor reserves the right to reject or edit any material .Editor reserves the right to reject or edit

FOR HIRE OR LOAN FOR SALE

The Sunshine Coast Computer Club owns Record Cleaning This space is available for members to advertise Equipment, Data Projectors, Laptops, External DVD burners, those computer related items you no longer use Scanners, Digital Cameras, etc. and are taking up space on the shelf.

This equipment is available for hire or loan to members when it is not required by the club for Meetings and presentations.

Contact your club if you need to borrow or hire equipment.

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 07 5492 1005

If you are ill or incapacitated or know of a club member who is ill and would appreciate a cheery greeting Send the members details to: SCCC Web Site http://www.sccc.org.au Email: [email protected] or Info Line: 07 5492 1005 To access the 'Members Only' area of the web site, members must be registered.

Enter the link http://sccc.org.au/membership-signup into your web browser and follow the instructions to get registered

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Place Your Classified Ad on this page.

Member Surf Watch - Members Web Sites...Submit Yours Peter Daley Very Useful Links http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vital1/lstlinks.htm Peter Daley Fantasy land Creations http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vital1/lstlinks.htm Peter Daley Daley Positive Personal Development http://www.ozemail.com.au/~vital1/lstlinks.htm Jay Leboutillier Website Design Centre http://www.websitedesigncentre.com.au

Technologypals Corporate member http://www.technologypals.com.au Bill Maxwell IT Knowledge Base for Seniors http://billscomputerpot.com Rodney Border Website and IT Tuition - http:// www.webjewel.com.au Graham Eastman Aussiepens”n”things - http://aussiepensnthings.com

Your Committee President Peter Daley 5491 3279 Vice President Peter Dodwel l 5438 7675 Treasurer Heather Atkinson 0466 954 687 Secretary Jae Tunnell 5441 5533 Administration Co-ordinator Jean Lear 5492 1005 Committee Valeria-Ann Whiting 0407 972 150 Committee Patsy Corbett 5493 7947 Committee George Lupsa 0423 177 955 Committee Chris Phillips 5445 6323 Committee Morry Phillips 0414 869 327 Committee Judy Smith 5479 0671 Committee Ian Smyth 5491 9139 Committee Pauline Timms 5493 2338

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SCCC Membership Application/Renewal Form Applications can be posted to SCCC Inc. PO Box 384, Caloundra, 4551 emailed to [email protected] or presented at a Meeting

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Phone: Mobile Phone:

Email:

Membership cards will be posted to the above address after 20th of next month

Membership fees include the electronic version of the Club monthly magazine. Amount $

Individual $50

Family $60

Corporate (Includes a monthly advertisement in the club magazine) $75

Junior (Under 18 Years of Age) $35

Printed and posted copy of Club monthly magazine $12

Total Enclosed $

Signature: ...... Payment by Cash, Cheque or Direct Deposit to - ANZ Bank - BSB: 014-616 Account No: 4095-54674 (Please Note - Payments made at Meetings by Cash or Cheque only)

In accordance with Club Rules, members are advised that the Club has Public Liability Insurance to the value of $20,000,000

SCCC Office Use

Date Paid: ...... Amount: $......

Receipt Number: ...... Membership Number: ......

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