CONTENTS
4 OCTOBER 2019|COMPUTERSHOPPER|ISSUE 380
Contents
Issue 380 October
Regulars
6 Letters
Your monthly missives of wit and wisdom,
tips and tricks, and moans and groans
8 Mel’sWorld
Coming soon to agood bookshop near you:
the long-awaited officialMel Croucher
biography.It’s sure to be ablockbuster,so
long as our man can get his hands on an
Irish setter,apacket of crisps and ablonde
10 Kay’sCorner
Youdon’t have to take avow of silence to
stop Alexa and her mates snooping on you.
KayEwbankexplains how to make sure your
tech’s not listening in to your every word
12 Rants &Raves
What fresh vision of hell is this, assaulting
our eyeballs? It’s the redesigned Twitter
website: an object lesson in how to enrage
your users with aterrible user interface
130 Zygote
Donald Trump wants to know everything
you’ve written on Facebook and Twitter for
the past five years. To make things worse,
the US government has avery relaxed
attitude to protecting the data it collects
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112 Retro:WillYou
StillNeedMe?
The Commodore 64 is back,
completewith anew,built-in
keyboard.David Crookes
looks at the resurgence
of amachine so
popular it made the
GuinnessBookofRecords
94 ReclaimYour
OnlinePrivacy
Take back control
of your data with
our guide to the
secrets that Google,
Facebook and Amazon don’t want you
to know.David Ludlowexplains how to
keep your valuable information away
from prying eyes and safefrom hackers
106 TheReal
Steampunks
Pioneering Victorian
scientists mayhave
come closer to
creating aviable
computer than we
previously thought.
Mike Bedfordinvestigates
the primitive technology that paved the
wayfor modern computers, and asks
whether the steampunk revolution
could ever have become areality
Features
Learn
120 Helpfile &Business Help
Got aPCproblem, app annoyance or
Windows woe? Fear not:Simon Handby
is here to answer all your queries
124 Advanced Projects
Breathe new lifeintoanold laptop by turning
it intoafully functional Chromebook. All
you’ll need is aUSB drive,afree download
andClive Webster’sexpert advice
News
All the latest news and views from the
technology world, including:
14 News Round-up
5G mobile broadband finally starts to arrive
in UK cities; and MPscall forpolice to
suspend facial recognition surveillance
16 From the Lab
In-depth coverage of all the latest scientific
and technological advances
17 TheLowdown: Intel 10nm CPUs
Get the inside track on the latest generation
of Intel processors, which promise to take
performance and efficiency to new heights
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