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Allan J. Smithie
News: Microsoft Announces Xbox One
Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation video games console, Xbox One, its’ new voice and motion-controlled home entertainment… thing. “Where your games look and feel like nothing else, where your TV becomes more intelligent, where all of your entertainment comes alive in one place. Team Xbox is on a new mission – design and build an … Continue reading
News: MasterCard Display Card
I know this announcement originally came from a MasterCard press release in November 2012, but given the recent hack of ATM’s in New York and further credit card fraud, perhaps this ‘future of credit cards’ will be brought forward. The problem with the current generation of credit cards are not well protected. Most of the … Continue reading
Opinion: Why Windows 8 Has Flopped
The numbers are in and the numbers are disappointing. Windows 8 may be shipping in the millions (100 million to date) but against the half billion of Windows 7 licenses and the long tail of Windows XP, the Count Dracula operating system that refuses to die, it has a long way to go. With sales … Continue reading
How-to: Avoid Common Security Mistakes On-line Part2
In part one, we looked at the most common software mistakes; this time the focus is on the ‘wetware’ – that’s you, the human being, with all your fallible human behaviours. Mistake #4: Falling for Email Exploits Email is still the top delivery system for cracks and software exploits. And for phishing. And for social … Continue reading
Review: Outlook.com Web Mail 2013
Hotmail gets the Metro treatment to become Outlook.com. Microsoft’s web-based email service remains solid, without starting a revolution. Realising that Hotmail was getting long in the tooth, and was hardly a unified experience sitting in the Windows 8 browser, Microsoft is now adopting Outlook as a brand for personal, web-based email services. The accompanying facelift … Continue reading
How-to: Avoid Common Security Mistakes On-line Part1
Privacy and money. The two most important things we value on-line. If they’re not yours, they should be. It’s like the Wild West out there on the web. Even if you are content to live your life in public on social media, identity theft, monetary theft and fraud should still remain primary concerns. The day … Continue reading
Review: Crossing England in a Punt: River of Dreams
From the Staffordshire hills to the Humber estuary, spirited explorer Tom Fort embarks on a 170-mile journey down Britain’s third longest river, the Trent. Beginning on foot, he soon transfers to his own custom-built punt, the Trent Otter, and rows many miles downstream. Along the way he encounters the power stations that generate much of … Continue reading
How-to: AVG’s Malware Figures Highlight On-line Security Threats
…And you might expect as AVG is in the computer security business, it that would say that. However, if you run Microsoft Windows but don’t run some kind of anti-virus software, all I can say is, how is it that you’re on-line? Some of the statistics provided by AVG’s website are mind-blowing but I still … Continue reading
How-to: Cope with CAPTCHAs
The web is now rife with CAPTCHAs, those funny-looking letter and number puzzles that websites often make you solve before you can access downloads, submit comments, or register a new user account. While they are a reasoned attempt to separate legitimate request from those made by spammer’s web-bots and scripts, they are a universally poor … Continue reading
How-to: Text-speak
The pollution of the English language continues apace (‘OMG, I sound like a member of the Academie Francais!’). Text-speak and the Internet are driving the latest short-hand in verbal and written communication. Literal short-hand, I mean thumb-typing. You don’t get shorter hands than that. You may think this is the End of th World as … Continue reading
How-to: ChromeOS Desktop Part 2
The second part of our look at the ChromeOS desktop. On paper, ChromeOS gives you a very flexible working environment; within the browser, you have access to all the Google Apps, a huge selection of extensions to enrich the browser itself, and the Chrome Store sitting on top of that, providing a vast array of … Continue reading
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