Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people […]
It is fully fifty years since I used my first computer. It was a terminal to a mainframe, and that is the kind of computing I was to access until the day I had a PC plonked on my desk when I was working for Ford of Europe. I have used PCs and laptops ever
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Repeat after me: “I solemnly swear to backup my important documents and precious memories on March 31st”. That is the World Backup Day pledge, but don’t just do it on March 31st – do it every day! Here at Octagon Technology the most consistent message we give out at networking meetings and here on our
Who knew that this month was Clean up your Computer month? I looked at resources online relating to this and most of it was about things people had to do before storage was so cheap and all the files they were working on were actually on their own computer rather than in the cloud. Still, there are
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Yes, it’s true. January 22nd is the day you sit with your cat and attempt to understand him better by answering all his questions. Before you think I have gone completely mad, I do know that cats cannot speak human, and humans cannot speak cat. The idea is to put yourself in the cat’s place, to look at
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Following our blog about unwanted ads last weekend, I thought I would pass on a warning from Microsoft, which came out last Thursday. A piece of malware is targeting major browsers such as Edge, Chrome and Firefox and incidents have been found all over the world. It works by injecting itself into search results and
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I was astounded to read (“Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count coronavirus cases“) that the reason so many positive cases of coronavirus were missed off the statistics recently was because outdated software was being used. What? Data was being uploaded to the national statistics in comma separated value (.csv) format to .xls Excel
During the current COVID 19 crisis, many companies have shared their knowledge and offered tips and tricks to help other businesses “bounce back” and perhaps change the direction of their company or offer their services in a different way. Octagon Technology has taken a full part in this by offering free online training on Fridays
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So, hands up if you use Windows 7 on your computer, XBox or phone. Yes, thought so. Recent calculations (December 2019, ZDNet) suggest that although the number of machines with Windows installed is dropping from the 1.5 billion Microsoft used to talk about, there are still about 1.2 billion devices running the operating system. Data
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