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Upcoming Topics
Term 4 sessions
CLASS CANCELLED 21 November (Committee of Management meeting)
LAST Class this year is 14 November
| Topic | Requested by | Expected date |
|---|---|---|
| Latest scams – | ||
| Clouds | Winston | 14/11/2024 |
| Differences on iPad as a result of upgrading to iOS18 | Alfred | |
| More on tile trackers | 14/11/2024 | |
| Desktop PCs | 14/11/2024 | |
| AI PCs – what is it and is it important | 14/11/2024 | |
| Word .doc documents slow to load | Rob | 14/11/2024 |
| New version of Macrium Reflect | Alfred | |
| Is it safe to use the one-off purchase of Macrium Reflect after it expired? Macrium FAQ states: We believe it is critically important that you can still access your backups even after your subscription may expire. Therefore, Reflect will automatically fall back to restore-only mode, meaning you can still access your data for as long as you need. | Eppie | 05/09/2024 |
| Buying & installing a new computer and disposing of old one | Pat | 05/09/2024 |
| How easy to freeze and unfreeze a credit lock? Are the credit checking orgs selling our data? Difference between a freeze and a credit lock? Do the big three sell credit locks? Do the big three sell our data? If so in what way? Is AURA (https://www.aura.com/aura101) worth using? | ||
| iPhone message re password in data leak – what to do | Christine | |
| Blue screen of death | Yoko | |
| Set size of images on Samsung phone | Yoko | |
| Microsoft accounts – getting help, resetting passwords | Yoko | |
| How to insert photos into a Word document and move them around with wrap around texts etc | Betty | 05/09/2024 |
| Credit checking with Equifax | Christine | 12/09/2024 |
| Facebook Marketplace scams – https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-03-01/facebook-marketplace-has-become-the-home-of-scammers/103521536?utm_id=2313721&sfmc_id=90432124 | 14/03/2024 | |
| Microsoft Family Safety preferences – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/family-safety | Theresa | |
| More on Passkeys | ||
| Recovery codes – how to keep them secure |
Special topics
Week 1 (8 February) “Security Audit” special session
- Slides in colour – best viewed on screen
- Slides in greyscale, 2 per page for printing if needed
Notes for Special topic “Backup your Devices”
Initial set of slides (includes how to download and install EaseUS Todo):
– Colour slides (best for viewing on screen)
– Greyscale handouts, 2 slides per page (best for printing)
Slides for week 2:
– Colour slides (best for viewing on screen)
– Greyscale handouts, 2 slides per page (best for printing)
Topics by week
| Week | Date | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08/02/2024 | “Security Audit” special session Slides in colour – best viewed on screen Slides in greyscale, 2 per page for printing if needed |
| 2 | 15/02/2024 | Security Audit follow-up Online banking – safer on computer or phone? Banking apps and 2FA |
| 3 | 22/02/2024 | NO CLASS (Committee of Management meeting) |
| 4 | 29/02/2024 | Saving an email as a pdf (revision) – Use “save as pdf” rather than Microsoft print to pdf to keep active links. Malvertising – mentioned in our Security Audit session. It looks like it’s going to be a significant issue this year. See https://www.kaspersky.com.au/blog/what-is-malvertising/5928/ Which ad blocker? – most are “free” but encourage you to donate. See https://www.tomsguide.com/round-up/best-adblockers-privacy-extensions for a list of some of the good ones. I also use Privacy Badger (a bit different from ordinary adblockers). Admin vs “user” privileges – https://www.uhcl.edu/information-security/basics/privileges iPhone iOS17 theft protection – https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-ios-17-3s-stolen-device-protection-security-feature-works/ |
| 5 | 07/03/2024 | Saving an email as a pdf (revision): – Gmail uses tags rather than folders (so an email can have multiple tags and appear in multiple locations but only the one email) – Hotmail / Outlook uses folders, so only one folder per email copy. – If you save a pdf, file it on your computer drive in your folder hierarchy – make sure you have thought this out! Organising bookmarks – https://lifehacker.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-organizing-your-messy-chrome-book-1826770044 |
| 6 | 14/03/2024 | The Royal’s doctored photo – https://theconversation.com/yes-kate-middletons-photo-was-doctored-but-so-are-a-lot-of-images-we-see-today-225553 How much storage for Hotmail? -15 GB of free Outlook.com email storage which is separate from your Microsoft cloud storage. Microsoft 365 subscribers get 50 GB of space. Organising bookmarks – https://lifehacker.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-organizing-your-messy-chrome-book-1826770044, using an app like Pocket to manage bookmarks (https://getpocket.com/en/save-to-pocket/) Retrieving lost bookmarks – https://superuser.com/questions/1005776/how-can-i-recover-lost-google-chrome-bookmarks#1005807and where bookmarks are stored: https://www.supportyourtech.com/google/chrome/where-are-google-chrome-bookmarks-stored-a-guide-to-finding-them/ Error installing security update for Windows Managing accounts – Admin vs “user” – https://www.howtogeek.com/739981/how-to-change-a-user-account-to-administrator-on-windows-10/ |
| 7 | 21/03/2024 | Backup photos from phone to USB thumb drive – Android: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjwYX_2Hav8&ab_channel=Britec09 also https://mobiletrans.wondershare.com/samsung-transfer/transfer-photos-from-samsung-to-usb-stick.html iPhone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHItxBemrh0&ab_channel=WebProEducation also https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph95baac91f/17.0/ios/17.0 and https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/iphone/iph480caa1f3/ios |
| 8 | 28/03/2024 | NO CLASS (Committee of Management meeting) |
| 04/04/2024, 11/04/2024 | TERM BREAK | |
| Term 2 | CLASS SUSPENDED | |
| Term 3 | Classes resumed 22/08/2024 | |
| 22/08/2024 | Scammers using homoglyphs such as .corn instead of .com Data brokers – sell our information Credit monitoring services See the PowerPoint from this session (available until end December 2024) | |
| 29/08/2024 | A scam example Buying a new computer See the PowerPoint from this session (available until end December 2024) | |
| 05/09/2024 | Update to Windows 11? A list of options and an option I didn’t know of | |
| 12/09/2024 | Last session for Term 3 | |
| 19/09/2024 | No session – Committee of Management meeting | |
| 10/10/2024 | Latest scams – iPad vs iPad mini – see https://www.apple.com/au/ipad/compare/ Note that a new iPad mini (v7) will be available from October 23 according to MacRumors. For a description of key new features see https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/15/ipad-mini-7-all-new-features-and-changes/ iOS18 – updates vs upgrades – if you are unable to upGRADE to iOS18, make sure you upDATE to the latest iOS17 (turn automatic updates on if it isn’t already). Using AI to generate images – we tried generating some horse racing photos on pixlr.com with limited success. | |
| 17/10/2024 | Notes for download (pdf) Latest scams – banks more accountable? – Gmail AI scam Gmail accounts being deleted 3G phone network shutdown – https://www.acma.gov.au/3g-network-switch Differences on iPhone/iPad as a result of upgrading to iOS18 New version of Macrium Reflect | |
| 24/10/2024 | Latest scams – data breaches make scams look more realistic – beware! My computer won’t connect Using Google Lens or Tineye to search for image matches John’s background switcher – https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ | |
| 31/10/2024 | No session – Committee of Management meeting | |
| 07/11/2024 | Clouds Turn off OneDrive Windows 11 feature updates – is there a problem with 24H2? Windows 11 forced feature update from 22H2 to 23H2 New iPad mini is here – how would you use it? Differences on iPad as a result of upgrading to iOS18 | |
| 14/11/2024 | Clouds More on tile trackers Desktop PCs AI PCs – what are they and are they important Word .doc documents slow to load See slides here |