Hey Friends,You may have heard the news that Google is ditching its use of third-party cookies in a move towards a more privacy friendly direction. On the face of it this may seem a win for privacy since cookies are heavily used to track the web acti...

Hey Friends,I have a lot of fond memories from growing up in the 80s. Despite spending most of my weekend outside I also found time to watch a lot of TV. Saturday's in particular were my favourite with the morning's usually consumed with Saturday Sup...

Hey Friends,I'm sure we are all familiar with the old adage 'The Camera never lies'.While digital photography and photo editing have long resigned this to a bygone age, a new phenomenon is on the rise which takes this to a whole new level. This week...

Hey Friends,You may be aware that WhatsApp are changing their terms and conditions which has forced many people to question whether they should remain with the popular platform or move to an alternative platform such as Signal, Telegram or Matrix. In...

Hey Friends,This week is Cyber Scotland Week; a week-long series of events aimed at making Scotland cyber aware and resilient. Today, during an event about Digital Footprints I got into an interesting conversation with a lady about how the informatio...

Hey Friends,So today is Safer Internet Day 2021.I have to admit I hadn't heard about this initiative until today, but I really like what they are trying to promote. Essentially they are partnership of three leading organisations: Childnet Internation...

Hey Friends,I am firm believer that when faced with any task or challenge the key to our success does not lie in whether we we are strongest, fastest, smartest <insert any adjective>, but rather how determined we are. Consistency is the superpo...

Hey Friends,I think you will agree, 2020 has been a very strange and testing year. Many want to forget this year ever happened, and are looking forward to 2021, in hope that things will be better. This is totally understandable.For me, I always look...

Hey Friends,In 1971 Michael Zeiler performed a famous experiment with pigeons. He placed a simple button inside the birdcage and started by feeding the birds every time they pecked on the button. After a while, he changed the experiment to reward the...

Hey Friends,A quick extra email this week. This week marks my quarter-century, having started my weekly email updates 25 weeks ago. I wanted to say thank you for staying with me this far. It has been great hearing from so many of you. Your...