As part of a project I was completing in Computer Security I thought I would target war-driving.

For those who do not know what war-driving is - it is essentially the process of using off-the-shelf computing equipment to identify unsecured or poorly secured networks to exploit for free bandwidth or to access.

I thought the most practical way of gaining data was to simply walk from one end of a street to the other end, using my modest Blackberry mobile phone to scan...

It is often surprising to people from a marketing or business background to find that creating software is in reality different to the conceptual simplicity of the idea for the software.

Case in point, my brother, who is a senior member of a well known job searching agency in Australia wanted to do an app that on a conceptual level seemed easy. He wanted the app to analyse photos to see if they conformed to standards of composition so they could be rated and the user provided feedback...