For the past four years, I have been working in a fairly agile environment, with intentions of bringing in the DevOps culture of automation for repetitive tasks to reduce the human level of interaction and potential for error. Naturally this is in an Information...
Sunrise Sets With a Fresh Outlook
One of the top calendar apps for iOS and Android, Sunrise has long been a favourite of mine for its simplicity but also its ability to connect to a number of different sites (Office 365, Outlook, Exhange, Google Calendar, iCloud Calendar, Facebook, Wunderlist, Google...
Nasty Scam Spams
I've had a couple of these, rather pernicious, spam emails recently, which purport to be from Her Majesty's Courts & Tribunal Service and stating I need to attend court to hear the charges against me. Quite what the charges are, and when the court date is, I can't...
Sharemouse a KVM for the modern age
I recently bought a Surface Pro 3, and since I already have a workstation of considerable proportions under my desk, I began looking for a KVM, or Keyboard/Video/Mouse unit so that I could switch between the two machines without having to...
Google's Easter Eggs Have Come Early
In what seems to be an early Easter present for us all (at least in the UK) Google have provided a not so secret Easter Egg on Google Maps. Head on over to maps.google.co.uk and enter an address. After zooming on the area (with plenty of roads), an option will appear...
Twitter Makes TweetDeck More 'Secure'
Having recently logged on to my Tweetdeck account, a web-based app that allows direct tweeting to any number of Twitter accounts, I was informed that I had to move my login from a unique Tweetdeck account to one of my Twitter accounts before the 31st March. This...
How Safe is a Contactless Payment Card?
I was recently issued with a contactless payment card by my bank, and I'll be frank: I've been dubious about the security of such cards, or indeed any Near Field Communication (NFC) systems. As I have been working with a client in London, the security of my payment...
A Little Light Relief
Most of the articles that are published on this site are fairly serious (well, always serious), but there is amusement in the IT industry, albeit often a rather rarefied humour. Two sites are always worthy of mention, https://xkcd.com/ and http://www.dilbert.com/....
Adventures into Secure Email: Solutions on a Consumer Scale
I've written before about an enterprise level secure email facility called MKryptor by Fresh Skies, but I've also been researching a few other options that are starting to arrive on the scene. One such option is Lockify. Where MKryptor relies on a server based...