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More Myths - this time from Education to the Workplace
Blog I spent some years working in a higher and further education college in Scotland (which I'm not all that proud to say as you'll see) and I eventually realised that all the technological advances and the latest discoveries are not being made in...
[January 6, 2010, 13:51]
FeedOrator
Downloads Ian's voice evokes Scotland's Highlands; it is clear and strong, and can be listened to in relatively noisy environments without the need for headphones. Attention iPod touch users: Break free of your Wi-Fi chains!
[January 4, 2010, 6:01]
Carmina Burana
Downloads Along with the Carmina Cantabrigiensia, the Carmina Burana is the most important collection of Goliard and vagabond songs.The manuscripts reflect an 'international' European movement, with songs originating from Occitania, France, England...
[December 22, 2009, 0:07]
Car Age UK
Downloads This app allows the user to calculate the age of a vehicle registered in England, Scotland or Wales (support for Northern Ireland to follow in an update). The user simply enters the registration of the car, bus, truck or tractor and the app will...
[December 21, 2009, 23:50]
Buses Edinburgh
Downloads Customise your display to minimise clutter or maximise information.NOTE: Buses currently supports the bus network in Edinburgh and the Lothians, Scotland, UK. A real-time departure board for your iPhone.
[December 20, 2009, 18:15]
Beat Social Phobia with Andrew Johnson
Downloads This application is a guided audio program intended to help users overcome social phobia and anxiety in social situations.Andrew Johnson is a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Ayrshire on the West Coast of Scotland.His best selling range of Self...
[December 19, 2009, 21:35]
A Waving Scottish Flag
Downloads Use the waving Scottish flag to celebrate Scotlands Year of Homecoming, 2009, whether you're coming home to Scotland or celebrating from afar. Andrews Day, Scotland's national day of celebration (November 30th)!
[December 19, 2009, 18:43]
A Short History of Scotland
Downloads Here are few paragraphs from the book:If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.crossed the Border, we should recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains.
[December 19, 2009, 17:46]
A Ship's Tale by N. Jay Young
Downloads Through their creative use of materials and methods, they sail her through the English Channel and the Irish Sea, hoping to deliver the ship to her original home where she was built in Dumbarton, Scotland on the river Clyde.
[December 19, 2009, 17:45]
Architecture, Mysticism and Myth
Downloads Shaw quickly recognized Lethabys talent as a designer and Lethaby was to contribute significant pieces of work to major Shaw-designed buildings such as Scotland Yard in London and Cragside in Northumberland.While working for Shaw, Lethaby became...
[December 19, 2009, 16:51]
Beware of keeping your head in the clouds
Blog He has held posts as Head of Risk Services at Barclays, Group Head of Information Security at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Director of Information Security at Atomic Tangerine and as Head of Information Security at ICL.
[December 10, 2009, 12:55]
Cosmic conundrum for Celtic computing
Blog The story, that Dumfries and Galloway council has given permission for "one of the biggest data centres in the world" to be built in south-west Scotland, is on the face of it all good news. There's not very much there at the moment - it's one of...
[November 26, 2009, 15:53]
Wave energy generator pumps power to Scotland
News Wave energy received a boost with the connection of the Oyster hydro-electric device to the electricity grid in Scotland last Friday. The Oyster in the waters off Scotland is the only hydro-electric device producing power, according to its maker
[November 25, 2009, 8:57]
UK fibre rollout? my eye!
Talkback Looks like the South West of Scotland is forgotten about again! Unless you stay in a major city, you will be waiting for years until you get fast connection. Oh well!
[November 13, 2009, 8:32]
More Virgin trains get on-board Wi-Fi
News Virgin Trains has introduced Wi-Fi broadband services on its Super Voyager trains that travel between Birmingham and Scotland, as well as from London Euston to North Wales and Chester. Broadband provider T-Mobile has teamed up with Nomad Digital to...
[November 6, 2009, 11:05]
Gov't mobile working project saved from axe
News Project Nomad has initially been split into two entities - Nomad North and Nomad Scotland — and will be run by teams based at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council and Aberdeenshire Council, respectively.
[November 5, 2009, 8:50]
Data breach calculations fail to pay off
Comment With data breaches regularly making the headlines — from the Home Office to NHS Education for Scotland — it is right that the protection of information is taking centre stage. Organisations everywhere are trying to weigh the risk of a data breach...
[October 30, 2009, 13:29]
Guardian UK Jobs site hacked, user data breached
Blog The system supplier has identified the hack, and the e-crime unit at Scotland Yard is investigating, the Guardian said. The Guardian Jobs website has come under attack from a 'sophisticated and deliberate hack' that has exposed sensitive data...
[October 25, 2009, 0:12]
Complex IT raises rural payments costs, says NAO
News In a report on the EU Single Payment Scheme, the NAO said the Rural Payments Agency spends £1,743 on administering each claim compared with just £285 in Scotland. Complex IT systems have contributed to the high cost of administering government...
[October 16, 2009, 14:40]
South Ayrshire to get fibre access from H2O
News Rural towns in the south-west Scottish area of South Ayrshire will get fibre-based next-generation broadband access within months, through H2O Networks. H2O Networks, which is part of the i3 Group, is the company behind the fibre rollout in...
[October 14, 2009, 16:42]
