We have a large cross section of material in this month's PC Update - everything from software reviews, part two of building your own computer, recovering data from a dying hard drive, a look at Google's new Chrome web browser and a whole bunch of hardware with a bent towards wireless.

Of course, we like to diversify even more, and the key to this is finding people who have a passion about their subject and can scribble a few hundred words that our
expert sub-editor Paul can knock into shape as necessary. Subjects that come to mind include anything different that you may be using your PC for - astronomy, creating t-shirts, mouse mats etc, genealogy, scrapbooking, converting vinyl record music to CD, video editing - there will always be people who like to read about what YOU do, which means that THEY might like to do it too!

Or perhaps you have a technique you have found useful; a macro in Word or Excel for example, or the pros and cons of flipping from Windows to Linux or even Mac.

Maybe you are an electronics whizz and design circuit boards to build your own home automation? There are literally hundreds of things that can be written about, and as this is your magazine, I'd like to see your material and ideas in it!

As mentioned, don't be too concerned about your spelling, grammar or punctuation - or lack of it - we can fix that. But do be aware that we like pictures and lots of them. We need them at 300 dpi JPG (text should be from Word or in TXT format and NO formatting) and to get this ability, you can use the trial version of SNAGIT available from www.tucows.com.

Have you noticed that PC Update is now printed on better quality paper and now looks and feels better overall? We have had a change of printer to eliminate a few other errors that were becoming annoying to say the least and the results have been fantastic. So apart from a faster turnaround, we are getting a better quality product as well!
As always, if you want to make any comment, have some ideas or want to send me some material, please send to editor@melbpc.org.au.

Happy computing!
- David and the Team

Reprinted from the October 2008 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia

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