Two bits of retro tech this week with thirty years between them – both of which we take for granted today – just look at the dash of the modern VW above. First navigation. Second photography. Have a good weekend – wherever you are going or whatever you are photographing. …
Because It’s Friday – Queen Elizabeth II and Technology
Because it does not always need to be serious cyber security articles. Get your coffee and doughnuts out. Here are a couple of articles about Queen Elizabeth II and her relationship with technology. How the Queen embraced technology during her reign | Queen Elizabeth II | The Guardian Queen Elizabeth …
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Because It’s Friday – these are my frustrations when rotating my iPhone when browsing files in the OneDrive app
What does that rambling title actually mean? I use OneDrive and SharePoint for storing nearly everything, and I give files long file names. Who remembers to days when we had to name that file in eight characters? So, when I am browsing for a in portraits mode, the first part …
Because It’s Friday – The Queen
We were all saddened by the news last week of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and offer our condolences to the Royal Family. Diana and I think that any mourning should also include remembering happier times – for instance the weekend we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. As …
Because It’s Friday – IT and Cyber Security support powered by of course… coffee
The link is tenuous but this article by Claudia Wascher and Thomas Ings from Anglia Ruskin University is worth a read: How the birds and the bees help coffee plants (theconversation.com) Let’s go back to last week’s Because It’s Friday So you want the answer? We only had one winner …
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Because It’s Friday – Looking at Apple’s first PDA
I really wanted to include this in last week’s Platinum Jubilee Technology series, but neither Steve Jobs or Tim Cook were born in 1952 and I could not find any other 1952 link, so here it is as a “Because It’s Friday” blog: Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on | …
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I wanted to post this last weekend – but it only became available this morning! A Platinum Jubilee Fact.
The BBC Inside Science, radio show, went to their archives to look at science and technology over the last 70 years. BBC Inside Science – A Reign of Science – BBC Sounds I was also born in 1961, and it is interesting to listen to the bit about “…back then, …