Have you ever thought what happens to your personal photographs, if the web site you are entrusting to store them or display them, disappears or is taken over? Who actually owns the photos? Can you get them back? Can you get them removed? What rights do you have? Here’s an interesting article on the Washington Post …
Friends’ School, Lisburn, Northern Ireland have created a fabulous LipDub (music video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing) featuring more than 1,000 pupils and staff and which superbly “highlights the sense of community” within ther school. Congratulations to all involved, Top Marks!
At a recent meeting with a client, we were searching for an email in his presence and he noticed how we categorise emails in our Outlook inbox using the different coloured flag icons. He thought is was “cool” and remarked he had never seen the Outlook icons used in that form, so we thought we …
We had a problem with one of our Windows 7 laptops this week where the volume control slider insisted on automatically sliding down to zero (i.e. no sound). Dragging it back up didn’t help, as it automatically slid straight back down to zero again! After much searching around, followed up updating multiple drivers to no …
Don’t make it easy for anyone to guess your online password, irrespective of what it is used for. Use strong passwords and you can sleep easier in your bed! Do use strong passwords A good password: Needn’t be a word at all. It can be a combination of letters, numbers and keyboard symbols. Is at …
Like many others, the launch of the Apple iPad in January was eagerly anticipated by all the Rhinos! Apple has announced that the eagerly anticipated launch of the iPad will occur on April 3rd in the USA, and “late April” in other countries. From reading many reviews and analysis, here’s a quick summary we’ve compiled of the …
It is often said that the pressure of being under the spotlight when on a television or radio quiz has an adverse effect on the brain. That’s os obviously the case going by these examples! ——————————————————————– BEG, BORROW OR STEAL (BBC2) Jamie Theakston: Where do you think Cambridge University is? Contestant: Geography isn’t my strong point. …
Stafford Carson wrote an interesting and timely piece today on how can we celebrate the true meaning of Christmas without endorsing all the excesses. Tearfund’s Living Gifts allows givers to buy a gift voucher and for the recipient to chose how it is spent. Christian Aid’s equivalent is Present Aid which allows the buyer to choose the …
Here’s an item we noticed in another blog, which hits a few nails on the head – we could all learn from ancient philosophers and even in the internet age, we can still benefit from their wisdom! 1. Go with the flow To live in a high-tech world is to live in a world of change. …