Gadget With Huge Scope For MisuseGadget With Huge Scope For Misuse It is hard to tell whether Amazon’s latest wheeze is a revolutionary masterstroke, an interesting idea looking for a problem to solve or a potential threat to society. The online retail and distribution giant has just secured a patent for pocket –sized, voice-controlled, camera-bearing drones. These would be so…
READ MORE... Train Ticket Site On Wrong TrackTrain Ticket Site On Wrong Track I have been endeavouring to use online facilities to sort out planned train journeys in the past couple of weeks, and have been rather underwhelmed. The most pressing issue is that for a journey I wanted to make, between Solihull and the North East of England in a few…
READ MORE... Bringing Facebook Into The WorkplaceBringing Facebook Into The Workplace Using Facebook at work would often mean trouble for those caught, as messaging friends is for home time not paid time. But not in the future, it seems, as bosses are encouraged to actually pay for Facebook to be used in the office. Facebook Workplace is a new version of…
READ MORE... Google’s Allo Has Sparked ConcernGoogle’s Allo Has Sparked Concern ‘Allo’ allo, has an ominously threatening product been unleashed upon an unsuspecting community of Google users? There have been many good films and TV dramas in which a lead character looks charming and benign at first but slowly develops a sinister edge to become an increasing threat to main lead….
READ MORE... Snappy Specs To Be Eye-CatcherSnappy Specs To Be Eye-Catcher The outfit formerly known as Snapchat has kicked up a gear and surprised the world with a mass market pair of hi-tech specs. Its name now honed down to Snap Inc – the company is moving on from the fading popularity of its messaging App with a first hardware product…
READ MORE... Lightening Could Strike Apple Over Headphone JackLightening Could Strike Apple Over Headphone Jack ‘FURY’, ‘anger’, ‘outrage’. Just three of the words bouncing around the Internet in response to Apple ditching the headphone jack from its latest iPhone. The 3.5mm jack has been omnipresent on mobiles and seen wherever folk use them. But now the iPhone 7 will come without a headphone…
READ MORE... GIMP Has The Right Image For PicturesGIMP Has The Right Image For Pictures Do you spurn Photoshop and use free stuff for improving your images? If, so you might want to give GIMP a whirl. This free image editing software is gaining quite a reputation and there are claims that it is the best of the free options, giving paid-for packages…
READ MORE... Apps Make Walk In The Country A Tree-TApps Make Walk In The Country A Tree-T Schools are back and thoughts of lazy summer sojourns pass to plans for shorter, more active autumn jaunts, woodland walks and moorland meanders. Those who see trees or hear birds while doing the Countryfile bit, and want to identify them, should have Apps for the jobs on…
READ MORE... Consider An App Or Two For Their Return To SchoolConsider An App Or Two For Their Return To School As thoughts turn from holidays to the return to school, there might be room for considering an App or two alongside equipping them with uniform, pen and calculator. A consistent entry in ‘Top Ten Apps for Students’ lists is MyHomework Student Planner. This digital planner…
READ MORE... Video Calls Are The New Battleground For Major PlayersVideo Calls Are The New Battleground For Major Players Just four days after its release, the new Google Duo App astounded Net watchers by overtaking the fairly recent releases, Pokemon Go and Facetime Messenger, to top the ‘Free Downloads for Android’ chart. This new video calling App is reasonably similar in functionality to Apple’s Facetime…
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