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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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07 Dec 2009
Evernote is a great application for jotting down a quick note about something new, but occasionally I find that I want to jot a note that’s very similar to an existing note. I predominantly use the Windows 3.1 version and whilst it looks as though copy and paste is enabled for notes it isn’t. So how do you do it?
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06 Dec 2009
I regularly make use of Evernote from my iPod touch (effectively an iPhone without the inbuilt communications) and I frequently look to add information from a web page in Safari to Evernote. As I’ve written about before, the standard Evernote bookmarklet can be added to the iPod/iPhone Safari app and this will then provide an option to set a title for the note as well as providing an option to add tags. I find this useful but invariably it is quite slow.
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03 Dec 2009
If you’ve used Google Earth on the iPhone or iPod Touch have you ever visited one of the poles? If you do be sure to check out the compass in the top right corner of the screen. If for example you zoom in on a point roughly 90°N & 135°W you will see the compass rotate and spin freely.
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02 Dec 2009
We have a number of E-series Dell laptops in my organisation and whilst we don’t configure it many have Dell’s Latitude On installed. This is a small Linux install that gives quick read only access to things such as recent mail, calendar and even a web browser.
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28 Nov 2009
I’ve had an iPod touch for a few months now and I’m a little frustrated by one of the keyboard elements. The keyboard has a backspace key but has no delete key i.e. you can delete characters to the left of the cursor, but not to the right.
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23 Nov 2009
Recently one of my colleagues was having issues in registering a piece of Adobe CS4 software on one of our user’s PCs. The product code was numeric and it was being refused each time he entered it. It even got to the point where he had another colleague check he was entering it correctly. After some frustration and a bit of research he discovered a suprising fact….
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22 Nov 2009
I recently got a Starbucks card. As well as getting a free shot in my latte when I pay by card I can get free WiFi access with my mug of coffee. However all was not straight forward for me because of one mis-communication when I got my card which caused a bit of a problem.
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