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06 Jun 2010
WWDC 2010 is taking place tomorrow and the Internet is awash with rumours of what Apple might be announcing. After dominating the tech news in the last few months with the iPad, iPhone OS 4 preview, the leaked iPhone and the release of the new MacBook Pro devices (though admittedly this was a little quieter than the others), what will Apple be covering?
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04 Jun 2010
Today I took my final ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) module assessment. ECDL is a syllabus that has seven modules of assessment on what many people might consider to be the day to day forms of IT literacy in a typical workplace. In my role as an IT professional (Head of ICT), with a masters degree in Computer Science, and a decade of IT industry experience, why did I decide to do this course?
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03 Jun 2010
The migration of my blogs to thoughtasylum.com was about a month ago now, so I figured I’d take the opportunity to reflect on the move away from several split Wordpress blogs onto this consolidated SquareSpace driven platform.
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03 Jun 2010
Today Evernote released the 3.5.4 update of the Windows client. Evernote’s blog post on the release covers many of the new features, but there was one notable absence of one of the new features that also reminded me of another obscure feature of Evernote I discovered a while back.
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02 Jun 2010
Each year the organisation I work for holds a conference and my team provides technical support. This year is slightly different in that we’ll be using the venue’s ICT equipment rather than our own. Whilst this has many advantages in terms of simplifying things it has thrown up a little issue around something we normally do with the desktop background.
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25 May 2010
Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to turn your iPhone into an iPod touch? For example in a meeting that’s being recorded but you needed to provide updates on a social media network, or even just abroad and you don’t want to run up your call/data charges. Well there is a way and it is nice and simple.
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25 May 2010
A little while back I was asked to put together a twenty minute presentation for a group of staff on an ICT related topic. After some deliberation and input from one of the team leaders I decided upon a topic of communications technology that was available to them. As a basis for the presentation I decided to put together a diagram that showed the relationships between the technology and the features of each along with some guidance on choosing the right sort of technology for the right scenario. At the end of the presentation I could then give the team an A3 copy of the diagram to put on their wall for reference.
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18 May 2010
Spell checking is one of those things that most of us take for granted these days in our applications. Those familiar wavy red lines are all too familiar to most computer users. You may even have noticed them in Evernote, but like many people I need to use technical jargon and in my notes and these are not part of the default English dictionary in Evernote which is a US English dictionary adding further issues for me a UK Evernote user. So let me explain how to update your Evernote dictionary.
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17 May 2010
Like many Mac users I’ve spent many years using Windows and have a significant familiarity with the working practices and keyboard shortcuts of that OS. One of the actions I commonly use in Windows is to minimise all windows. It may not necessarily be “the Mac way”, but I still find myself wanting to do this and have spent some time trying to track down a keyboard shortcut that will let me do this.
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15 May 2010
Power saving on computers is a big deal. As well as being good for the environment it can also preserve battery life on mobile computers. Occasionally however you need to keep your computer awake such as when giving a presentation. Whilst many slide show applications override screen savers, screen dimming, etc. there can also be occasions where you might need to display something else - a video feed on a web page for example.
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