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  • A-Z of Digital – A is for Automation

    Following on from my blog post outlining an A-Z of Digital, here is “A is for Automation” Automation is nothing new and the instinct to automate things has been around for a long time. There are lots of automated things in our lives that we now take for granted that at one time were not. The…

  • A to Z of Digital

    Being Digital, Journey to Digital, Digital, 21st Century Humans, are phrases that are common place in many conversations around business and technology. But what does it mean to be “Digital”.  This is a wide subject to cover in a single blog post, so here is an A-Z of Digital to help. I will break these…

  • How much trust should we give apps with device permissions

    Have you every gone to the app store and just installed something on there because it looks good and something you want to look at, or purchased a product and then installed the app without thinking or checking it out first? Lots of people do, but do they really know what is going on under…

  • Do It Yourself – AI Assistants

    The options available to consume voice activated assistants are increasing with recent releases within the market. The availability of pre-built off the shelf Assistants is growing and so is the ability to build your own using the open sourced versions. Google recently gave away AIY (Do It Yourself Artificial Intelligence) a maker kit, with Voice…

  • Attending GitHub Satellite 2017

    Yesterday I attended GitHub Satellite 2017 in London https://github.com/blog/2313-join-us-for-github-satellite-2017-may-22-23-in-london-uk The event was well attended and there was a good buzz around the conference. GitHub Marketplace was launched at the conference and some of the initial vendors in the Marketplace demonstrated how their applications can be used in the lifecycle of coding. You could watch demos…

  • Automating leaving a geolocation area

    Following on from my blog about Accepting automation and safeguards, in this post I will demonstrate how easy it is to set up a recipe from IFTTT (If This Then That) to use the location service to send a text to someone when I have left a Geolocation zone. There are other automation tools you can…

  • 10 Books I’d send to my younger self

    In H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”, the Time Traveler comes back from the future to take 3 books from a bookshelf in their study to return to the future. The reader (or viewer of the film) is left guessing which 3 books have been taken from the bookshelf and how they will shape the future. Thinking…

  • Accepting automation – Do we need safeguards?

    There are many and apps available to help us automate basic tasks on our mobiles and computing devices. When choosing these tools, we often read reviews and then download the app, run and set up, then let it run its tasks accepting that it will carry out our requirements. But what happens when there is…

  • Another step towards personal AI’s

    There have been many different attempts to create a J.A.R.V.I.S type of AI system to act as a personal assistant, able to interact with you and automate things.  (If your not sure what J.A.R.V.I.S is then you need to look up on Marvels Iron Man and his AI Assistant). These have been from high profile people like…

  • Voice Assistants and The Letterbox Problem

    There are lots of voice activated tools and services now available from software on your PC and in your car to physical hardware you can place around your home. These devices are becoming everyday occurrences, “Alexa, whats the weather”, “Siri, recipe for  Chocolate Cake” (too many to list). The two main ways to control them…