The Internet
SIG Leader - Glynn Brooks2020-08 Online SIG Links
What the internet looks like if you block Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Apple: Life Without the Tech Giants (Gizmodo) Tech’s Frightful Five: They’ve Got Us (NYTimes) Which Tech Giant Would You Drop? (survey with feedback) (NYTimes) Google account security...
2020-07 Online SIG Topics & Links
These are the article links that Glynn Brooks used during the July presentation Domain Name System Why You Shouldn’t Use Your ISP’s Default DNS Server (How-To Geek) DNSBench testing program (Gibson Research) How to Choose the Best and Fastest Alternative DNS Server...
2020-06 Security Presentation
A PDF of the slides used in Tom Alexander's June 20, 2020 presentation can be found here. File size is about 2 MB.
2020-06 Online SIG Topics & Links
How to choose a cloud storage service Best Cloud Storage: Picking The Right Service in 2020 (Cloudwards) Dropbox vs Google Drive vs Onedrive: Comparing the Big Three in 2020 (Cloudwards) Windows 10 after 5 years - Ed Bott video Windows 10 after 5 years Status of...
2020-05 Preparing for a life of web conferencing
Web Conferencing Equipment: Best Headsets For Video Chatting and Conference Calls (Rolling Stone) Best Wireless Headset For The Office (Wirecutter) Best Webcams (Wirecutter) Best Wi-Fi Routers (Tom’s Guide) Best Wireless Routers (Lifewire) What do I use? Pluggable...
2020-04 Online SIG Topics/Links
Internet Topics Guide to looking good in web-based video conferencing (Medium) Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Tracker Microsoft launches its Bing Coronavirus Tracker (ghacks.net) https://www.bing.com/covid Windows 10 Topics Download current and any previous version of...
2020-01 Internet SIG: Future of tech in 2020
Click on "read more" below to see the articles and links we discussed at our January meeting. The tech that will invade our lives in 2020 (NYTimes) Most exciting tech at CES 2020 (Popular Mechanics) World’s First Foldable PC, ThinkPad X1 Fold, Ushers in a New Era of...
2019-12 Internet SIG Topics
Here are the articles we discussed in the 12/21/19 meeting: Demo of what’s in the January 2020 release of Microsoft Edge Best defensive strategy to protect against ransomware Streaming video and the role of the FCC You can download the Edge browser beta from...
2019-11 Internet SIG Topics
These are the discussion topics for the November meeting Who is Watching You? – Consumer Reports They Know What You Watched Last Night (NYTimes) FBI Warns That Multifactor Authentication Is Not as Secure as You Think (Medium) How Streaming Companies are Using Data to...
2019-10 Internet SIG topic links
Here are links to the articles we discussed on 10/19/19: The best Windows antivirus software for home users How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct