Everyone posts photos online these days, whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat…the list goes on. But did you know that when you post those photos you are potentially giving away a lot more information than you realised? I learnt about this when I studied biometrics (see my previous post), but it was astonishing what information…
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Star Gazing
My mobile phone is dying. (I know strange start to a post on stars, right? Don’t worry, the connection is coming.) To try and make it last a little longer I went through my apps to see what I could remove to reduce strain on the poor old thing. (Here it is…) In doing so…
www is our Babel fish
Last year I read an article by Joe Hildebrand on this very thing. It related to the rescue of the boy’s soccer team from the Thai cave but the premise applies more broadly than that. I still think about that article so I thought I’d share the concept with you. If you aren’t familiar with…
Photoshop for real?
Do you think the following is for real? It starts with a model and takes you backwards through the photoshop process… Is it for real? The answer is no. But the things people can do with photoshop are amazing, and someone with skill can enhance an image to make it almost impossible to detect the…
Stop reading this and back-up!
Just over a week ago Windows updated my computer. Unfortunately in doing so it broke a few things. I tried to fix it with Microsoft’s help but…nada. I couldn’t get the computer to work and had to reformat. Luckily I back-up so I lost very little other than the days I spent trying to get…