Skill Zone News issue 37
The Daily Mirror has reported today that up to half of Britain's speed cameras don't work, and a report by Which Magazine has found that some of the shop assistants in major retailers such as Comet and Currys "didn't have a clue". With revelations like that, who needs Wikileaks?
28th January 2011
Choose your font carefully
Many factors affect readability of text including sentence length, line spacing and fonts, but recent research published in Cognition suggests there is more to fonts than meets the eye.
Pricing in retrospect
In these poor economic times, government bodies are finding ways to save money, and in doing so they are giving us good information about just how much some IT projects cost in the first place.
The uncertainty of cold calls
If you received a call out of the blue telling you that you had won a prize in a lottery, would you think it was your lucky day, or would alarm bells start ringing?
Electronic eyes everywhere, but where are the helping hands?
A video of a woman who fell into a water fountain whilst texting on her phone has made a big splash on YouTube, but there is more to this story than meets the eye.
Armed robbery? there's an app for that
How do you use an iPhone to commit the perfect robbery? Use it to hack into the banking system? Count cards at the Casino? Those are the stuff of CSI scripts. Real life is more mundane.
Deep-fried data
When a computer fails, its annoying. If it fails with your vital data on it, it can be stressful. If it fails because of something you've done yourself, that's just plain embarrassing.