Sunday, June 11, 2017
So I recently did a podcast with SonicWall on Safeguarding and the statutory guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE). You can listen to it here. Invaluable resources: Safer Internet Centre's Advice section. Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Thinkuknow website.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Microsoft’s march towards filling their operating system with adverts continues, with people upset to see adverts for OneDrive popping up in Windows Explorer. And lets be honest, we’re all right to be annoyed. I think that’s certainly pretty intrusive. The Next Web has an article on how to turn it off (though ironically, when I first visited their site on my iPad it tried to take over my whole screen. Hmm… …something… something… attend to the beam in your own eye.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
If you do then my condolences, but you probably don’t. And if you don’t then however bad your day at work was, it’s probably not as bad as the network admins over at EA. How is it that everyone except EA themselves could see this one coming? For some time now EA and Maxis have been working on a ‘reboot’ of the massively popular SimCity game. As part of the run up to this launch EA announced that the game would require an always on connection to the Internet, because whether you want to or not you pretty much have to play the new game as a shared ‘online’ experience.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Ok. So apparently Sergey Brin (seen here with an entire computer strapped to his face) thinks we should spend less time just “standing around rubbing this…"(smartphone/tablet)”…featureless piece of glass". He said this with an entire computer strapped to his face, covering his eyes. He seems to feel smartphones are “emasculating” somehow. Not sure about that myself, but I’d love to hear him explain why a smartphone or tablet is more emasculating than, say, having an entire computer strapped to your face.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
When Windows 8 was first released to techies, I made the effort to install it on my main computer at home and use it in order to try and get used to it. I’ve always done this; if you work in technology you need to be up to date with technology. This install lasted for a bit longer than a month before I gave up on it and rolled back to Windows 7.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
iPhone 4S disappointment... why? So the new iPhone 4S. Who's excited about that eh? Not the technorati apparently. More fool them, it seems. I guess a lot of tech commentators feel let down because they had decided among themselves that Apple were going to release something called the iPhone 5 and it was going to have 4G (despite no-one being entirely sure what that means exactly), be a nice new shape, possibly come with some kind of matter replicator and who knows what else exactly.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Whatever problems you've faced at work today just comfort yourself with this thought: You're probably not "head of security" for the PlayStation Network. Yeah, Sony have been the victims of an intrusion, and the question that everyone is wondering (and I certainly hope you are thinking about this if you're a Sony Playstation network customer) is what exactly has been "lost" and how quickly can you get all your banking security details changed.