Frog Up or Down

The end of the academic year is nearly upon us in the UK, I have been using Sketchup free to run my last module, understanding 3D design, it has all that's required in understanding 3D, layering grouping use of components, colour, texture and the beginning of data control, plus the way perspective works and how to turn of perspective to parallel mode. Recently I noticed that an upgrade button has appeared on the bottom left of the free screen, Wooooo excellent, by upgrading : What you get: SketchUp for Web Import/Export CAD files Import/Export vector images Export raster images Customize materials Remove SketchUp watermark Unlimited storage Unlimited collaborators Pro tech support File organization Solid tools Still no layout, but for students, this just might be worth following up. As I have the desktop pro version I can easily use that to complete an Architectural drawing. without loading the desktop onto several machines. OK so there...

For so long, as a sole trader, I have worked both my private and business life into one large Google Gmail account, extended to 1TB,  but as the impending data protection act looms on us all in the UK,  I have had to make some long overdue changes to both my private and business life and separate my contacts and client information. Making that separation was, on paper easy, in practice I have had to sit down and make the physical break, by making my company, Konstrukshon Ltd, a Gsuite account and migrate all the data that's applicable over to this new domain. Simple enough, but believe me it's not so easy, even when you're dealing with a Gmail account and Google Gsuite.  First off, it's creating the Gsuite account, this is easy, use the very helpful online, human, who will guide you through the process, this took about 40 min for me, looking up domain info of my existing Konstrukshon.co.uk account and using my providers Cpanel to update th...

I am at last moving into the home security market, I get clients asking what to do, so I thought its time to experiment and look for products that I can fit to my own home. First it's the usual alarm, We had one fitted some 20 years ago, and its still as good as the day it was fitted, ok we have it services regularly, and the battery has been changed a couple of times. Its a same guard, I like to set the thing when we go out, most of my neighbours have the same unit, and we all check when it goes off. I have thought of getting a better, internet connected unit, but I thought about it and decided to invest in something a little up market. Enter stage right, out new web-cam we purchased from Y-Cam, its a simple little device that is wifi connected, has sensors to detect movement and works in the light and dark of the evening. The output is good, and its viewable on their web site vis their iPhone App, and on my Mac. I can down load the video feed, and best of all, once you purc...

Its the tradition at Birmingham City University, that all new professors give an inaugrial  speech to the University, so this week, I managed to book one of the large lecture theatres, and I gave a lecture on Data, Below are my lecture notes, there is a video taken by one of my student, and as always, I might have made notes, but a strayed a little. I intend to add to these notes and make it into a more formal article, perhaps even a paper I also attach at the very bottom of this article my slides, which I use a an aid memoir  The lecture lasts just over an hour so for you all, Enjoy: Professorial Speech Notes 18/11/2016 ========================== Slide Opening Slide “where will the Data Take us” Slide change to where will the data take us - Time they are a changing Opening with quote : Slide  Mies va de Rohe God is in the detail ( Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ) Or should that be data For me as a technologist th...