What happened at the Apple Special Event today? Tim Cook spoke briefly about the Apple Watch after a long round of applause Jeff Williams explains more about the watch and how they are adding functionality like ability to see transit information and they are giving developers more access to the hardware. Some features coming soon are: Messenger coming to the …
Force Windows 10 Upgrade
So Windows 10 is here and you still don’t have the update. If yo do not yet have the “Notify you when ready”, then this simple guide should get you going in the right direction. Please remember that with any major Windows update you should backup ALL your important information before updating. Force Windows 10 Update Open windows explorer and …
Jurrasic World combining Offline and Digital
It seems today is all about Dragons, Loch Ness Monster and Dinosaurs. If you happen to be passing through London Waterloo station you will see that The Jurassic World Marketing team have literately taken over the concourse. Just in case the massive 40m long x 3m high full motion digital screens don’t manage to capture your attention, they have added some …
Travel by Dragon or Loch Ness Monster
I have just been talking to the guys in the office about travel times and found myself in a surreal situation where I was being very serious, talking about travelling by dragon and the Loch Ness Monster. I never thought that I would ever be discussing these options as means of travel to be displayed on a website, Thanks to …
The importance of being able to adapt and change quickly in Digital
National Blood week is between the 8th and 14th June 2015 and they have a campaign #MISSINGTYPE to encourage more people to give blood. In short, the idea behind the campaign is to create awareness by removing the letters A O and B from companies names and prominent signs. As we all know, its almost impossible to keep up with the …
The Internet in real time
I came across this statistics site earlier today and was blown away. It is just incredible how much data is being used and made every second. In the time it took to create this post (all 7 minutes), the following happened:
Heartbleed
Heartbleed Following the Heartbleed security bug in the OpenSSL Cryptography library, a fixed version of OpenSSL was released on the 7 April 2014. What is OpenSSL? Open SSL is an open version of the SSL and TLS protocol that was founded in 1998 to provide a free set of encryption tools code on the internet. It is believed to be …
Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry
Tech Crunch Interview with Matt Corddry I don’t often share this kind of motivational stuff but there are times when people just make sense and have the same kind of views as you do. Matt Corddry who is the director of Facebook hardware engineering, sums up my thoughts in a short Tech Crunch “Inside Jobs” interview. Here are a few of his quotes if you don’t have time …
My Week with Bing
During a recent trip to the United States I realised how many people use Bing as their primary search engine. This got me thinking, our team always set the default engine on all devices we give out and deliver to use Google. This is just the status quo, we have been doing this for years and never questioned it.
3D printing at CES 2014
3D printing has now got its entire own section at CES 2014 and from a quick walk through you can see why. There were numerous manufacturers but the two that stood out most were “The Sugar Lab” who are 3D printing food from sugar and MakerBot who seem to be completely owning the market at the moment.