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 Buderim 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. Caloundra 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 Page 1 Bits'N'Bytes May 2018 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. Page 2 May 2018 Bits'N'Bytes 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 Page 3 Bits'N'Bytes May 2018 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