Loveday Writing

With cyber-security breaches and hacking become more common, as well as needing a mixture of letters and numbers to form an apparently “strong” password, are character-based passwords really cutting it anymore? A new app called uSig–short for unique signature–offers users of mobile and tablet devices the option of selecting a photo as a password. According to the uSig website, most people

Last week I published an article on the predictions of future technology in Back to the Future Part 2, as well as current predictions for future technological devices. Today, I came across an article that also referred to the technology predictions in Back to the Future Part 2, but the writer of the article did this to point out some technological devices that have

Apple are recalling some of the batteries of the iPhone 5 after it was revealed that some of them turned out to be faulty. For those of you who currently own an iPhone 5 (they were sold from 2012 until 2013) don’t start heading to the Apple store just yet. Apple have said that only a small percentage of these

Next year will mark the year of the setting of Back to the Future Part II. Back to the Future Part II was released in 1989, so the writers of the movie did their best to predict what the world and technology would be like 26 years in the future. If you have seen the film like I have, you would know that

There has been a lot of news and development with emojis in the last month. Last month, 250 new emojis were added to the Unicode 7.0 standard, which are the standards for text to be used across different software platforms, like smartphones. So what does this mean for texting addicts? They have more emojis at their disposal and can use

It drives me crazy that I have to take my sunnies off every time I want to use my phone outside. In an ideal world I would love to be able to check my emails, texts, play games and protect my eyes, but I can’t. I can’t do both because when I’m outside and have my sunnies on, the screen

Two months ago, OwnFone released a new mobile phone in the UK. This phone isn’t just any other mobile phone, it has personalised Braille buttons to help the visually impaired communicate with their loved ones. This week, they released the same mobile phones in my native Australia. OwnFone are known for their simplistic mobile phones catering to children and seniors.

I’m no Stephen Spielberg or even a professional filmmaker, but I have made plenty of videos and have uploaded them onto my YouTube account. When people watch them, I hope they watch them for enjoyment and because they like my work, not to point out tiny continuity mistakes that would appear, as I am an amateur. This hasn’t happened to

While some of us may already use our smartphones when we are at the office (sometimes when we shouldn’t), there could be a possibility that it is okay and even healthy for us, according to new research from Kansas State University. Doctoral student, Sooyeol Kim, has found in his research that allowing employees to have smartphone microbreaks, much like coffee

Facebook has found itself in hot water after it was revealed they conducted an experiment on nearly 700,000 users in 2012. In this experiment, Facebook manipulated these users’ news feeds, so only specific positive or negative posts were shown to specific users, to elicit specific emotional responses. The experiment was conducted by Facebook, as well as with Cornell University and