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 […]
Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed
I am not supposed to be blogging for Octagon this month – I have two ebooks to write one for Octagon on the cybersecurity bases you have to cover and one for Smart Thinking covering a ransomware plan – but as I am writing this over breakfast on Sunday neither Diana or Kamila can complain.
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Here is an email we have sent to our clients Hi, You may have heard that Windows 11 has now been released by Microsoft. It will be a replacement to Windows 10. Many of our clients have asked how it will affect them and I thought it would be a good idea to let you
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A look at why the new Apple iPhone 13 is only as good as the one from 2015 and why I am bored.
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It was announced yesterday that the inventor and computer pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair died at his home in London after a long illness. Although according to his daughter he was still inventing last week. Sir Clive Sinclair: Computing pioneer dies aged 81 – BBC News If you follow the link to the article above you
Here is the man who wanted a flying car… Read More »
If you are a regular reader of this blog (and if not why not?) then you may be feeling a little déjà vu at this point. Stop worrying, you are not having a “Ground Hog Day”, that was on February 2nd in Punxsutawney – (great movie, love Andie MacDowell) – Diana wrote an article a
Who knew February 8th 2021 was “Clean Out Your Computer Day”? Read More »
Recently Apple has split the development of iOS 13 into iPhones and iPads (https://www.apple.com/uk/ipados/) – trying to make the iPad more like a laptop or Microsoft surface device. Most of the articles on the web focus on how the iOS works on an iPad Pro (starting price £769) this article is how one feature of
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Let me give you two good reasons for you to turn off the Wi-Fi on your phone… There is a phrase “Big Brother is watching you”, and there is probably a generation gap that says some of us know it comes from George Orwell’s 1984 and others who think Channel Four has something to do
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