Have you ever noticed that when some people send you an email the message ends with a random letter ‘J’? The good news is that it isn’t a typo…it’s supposed to be a smiley face emoticon, but thanks to a lingering bug in Microsoft’s outlook software the normal sequence of characters used to make a smiley face 😉 is converted[Read More…]
What will the new Theatre mode actually do in the iOS11 update coming later this year? There’s been some speculation that it will be based on a patent filed by Apple few years ago that used GPS technology to disable many of the devices features when located at a cinema, however likely to be somthing a bit less sinister sounding.[Read More…]
What does the Internet mean to you? That was the theme of the recent kids poster competition run by internet security company Trend Micro late last year. I recently spoke to one of the 3 winners, Bianca about her entry “The Good, the Bad & the Ugle of the Internet”. Listen below. You can view some of[Read More…]
USB Flash drives are handy devices to keep on hand for quickly moving files from one computer to another or for small backups. Starting at just a few dollars they can store anything from 4 Gigabytes to a whopping 256 gigabtes…but it doesn’t end there with the recently announcement of the world’s highest capacity USB Flash drive. Arriving[Read More…]
What’s your web browser of choice? Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera? Well if it’s Internet Explorer you’re no longer with the majority according to stats from Netmarketshare.com. This internet technologies statistics website reports that while Internet Explorer started out on top at the start of of 2016 being used on more than 40 percent of desktop computers, by December usage had[Read More…]
