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Take the Phishing Test
Following on from my earlier post about how to spot a “Phishing” email, you can now take a short test to see how good you are at identifying fake emails. Anything less than 100% and you might be vulnerable to being tricked into installing viruses, handing over your bank login details, or worse!
How to solve Apple’s Pro Video Formats 2.0.1 constant update loop.
A software update which was made available by Apple earlier this month causes some users machines to get stuck in a constant update loop. As soon as you install the update it re-appears as available for update. If this affects you, then there is a simple solution.
Apple’s new SpaceShip building takes off. (Video)
Construction work on Apple’s new “SpaceShip” headquarters building has begun, demolition is complete and the new circular campus building is beginning to rise from the ground. This video shows where it’s up to so far, and you can also see the huge car park building. Continue reading to see the video.
You just can’t trust the BBC.
Two headlines, both from the BBC News website today, both published today, both conflicting. One reads “UK Universities slip down rankings” and the other reads “Universities hold world rankings”. In fact both are true, because the BBC sees “England” as being the “UK” and demotes Scotland. The truth is that overall English universities have slipped down […]
Hong Kong trip postponed.
I was supposed to travel to Hong Kong on Saturday 11th October to attend HKTDC, but I had to pull out due to a foot injury. Now it looks as though that might have been a provident decision, given the current unrest in the area.
Stay safe from high quality phishing email scams.
Today I received an email on my BT Internet email account which looked bona fide, but it was a phishing scam. Here I describe how to spot the few clues, to make sure you don’t get caught out.
BT HomeHub 5 has issues with mDNS/Bonjour
I recently upgraded from the BT HomeHub 3 to their latest offering, the BT Home Hub 5. However immediately on replacing the old router with the new one I started having problems with my networked printers. I have a pair of HP OfficeJet 7500A printers, attached to my home network. Once I had upgraded to […]
The skies are busy
While traveling by air yesterday, it got me wondering how busy our skies are. The answer might surprise you. The following image shows actual flights in progress over Europe at 13:10 BST today. (Click image for a larger view). According to data from FlightRadar24 there were 8830 Flights in progress over world, 2920 of them […]
Intel Galileo 2nd Generation board – first pics.
Here is a picture of the new Generation 2 Intel Galileo board. This pic was taken from the Galileo Getting Started Guide available here. Click the image for a larger view.
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