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15 Jan 2010
A day or two ago Bloomberg published an article that featured a rumor that the next generation iPhone might conceivably include a touch sensitive back like Apple’s latest magic mouse. This surely has to be some sort of joke?
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13 Jan 2010
For a couple of years now I’ve been pulling IT service desk statistics into a spreadsheet and setting up worksheets to break down and analyse the data in various ways. The number of worksheets has subsequently grown a significant amount and I wanted to create a front worksheet that contained hyperlinks to and brief descriptions for each of the subsequent worksheets.
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10 Jan 2010
Prior to Microsoft Office 2007 (MSO2007), office provided a quick and simple way to find out just how big your file was. This was done by selecting the properties option from the file menu which then displayed the same file properties dialog box that you could select from the file in Windows Explorer.
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09 Jan 2010
I was going to spend some time today compiling a list of keyboard shortcuts for Evernote. I’d had a look around some time ago and been unable to find much out there, but before I began I thought I’d have another check. This time I found a link to a PDF on site mistywindows.com that does a superb job of describing the available shortcut keys.
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07 Jan 2010
I’ve been doing a little bit more work with some spreadsheets recently
and I came across a situation where I needed to work with a date and
carry out a comparison to a string of text. My first attempt fell short
as it wouldn’t get the value I wanted, but Excel’s TEXT() function came
to my rescue.
01 Jan 2010
It’s been about a year since I started blogging here and whilst it was primarily supposed to be a site for quick useful tech-related posts several have grown into far larger posts. Whilst some posts have remained somewhat quiet on the number of reads others have generated far more interest than I could have expected.
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31 Dec 2009
Currently Evernote does not currently support outline structuring for notebooks. This means that you can’t group notebooks into collections (e.g. folders) or have sections/sub-notebooks. Recently I posted about why in many cases it is often better to use tags rather than notebooks as this allows you to better mark-up notes for searches and the like. However there is a desire to sometimes have information hierarchically organised and this is where an outline structure for notebooks in Evernote would be useful. Until the Evernote developers catch up on this popular request across all of the software platforms tags can provide you with a workaround.
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30 Dec 2009
One of my best technology purchases in 2009 was my Huawei E5830 MiFi. The best way I have to describe it is like a smart phone without the phone bit. It connects to a cellular data network and shares the connection over a self-generated WiFi network with up to five other devices such as a laptop or iPod touch.
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27 Dec 2009
This coming year I’ve decided to take a different approach with one of my core applications, Evernote. It’s based around reducing the number opf notebooks I’m using whilst increasing the number of tags. This is the opposite to what many Evernote users are doing, so I thought it might be useful to explain what my reasoning is behind this.
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08 Dec 2009
Several months ago I got a Dell Latitude E6400 laptop to replace my overworked Dell Latitude D410. Along with the laptop I got a new advanced E-dock which included two monitor outputs, so I recycled an old smaller monitor that had been relegated to the stores to have a dual monitor set-up.
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