by Steven Morrison | Aug 20, 2019 | Open Source |
I’m sure most people have used or at least heard about the Adobe product Photoshop. In this blog I’m going to be looking at some of the programs that are offered by Adobe (the makers of Photoshop) and find free software that will fill the same purpose. To get started...
by Nick Borrell | Jul 25, 2019 | Open Source
It seems to me that a lot of people dislike Vi. I thought a short blog on the essential commands might be helpful. If you just want to know how to either “save your changes and exit” or “exit and abandon your changes” just jump to here.I’ve collated a list of what I...
by Nick Borrell | Jul 18, 2019 | Microsoft, Open Source |
When is paranoia a good thing?When it comes to downloading files for sure. Using a cryptographic hash function to test the authenticity of a file is a good practice. Such a good practice, that I wanted to make it as easy as possible to perform.I’ve written two...
by Steven Morrison | Jun 6, 2019 | Open Source |
Back in 2016 Victoria wrote a blog on open source or free to try data mining and analytics tools, and recently we received an email from the team over at Canva about including their ecomap tool in our list. The email got us thinking it was a good time to have a new...
by Kate Loguteva | May 28, 2019 | Business Intelligence, Data Integration, MongoDB, Open Source |
We live in the age of big data, we produce and collect more data then ever. Surely, just hoarding it doesn’t make much sense, but a lot of valuable information could be extracted from it and used, for example, in the decision making process. Every organisation I...
by Shane Miles | May 17, 2019 | General, Open Source |
I had the privilege to listen to the Assistant Commissioner of Privacy, Jon Duffy during National Privacy Week. Jon started at the beginning by exploring what defines privacy simply put as, something that identifies a person. He then took us through a highlights real...
