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21 Nov 2009
I really like Evernote and the more I use it the more I like it. For anyone who hasn’t used it, Evernote is a free piece of software that allows you to capture notes in a variety of formats and synchronise the electronic notebooks it creates with other machines via ‘the cloud’. It has lots of other features, but one thing it doesn’t do is templates.
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29 Oct 2009
This evening I had the pleasure of attending a special Microsoft event hosted just a few minutes away from my office. A team of Microsoft employees are currently traveling across Europe on the Microsoft Get on the Bus tour. York doesn’t really strike people as being the heart of UK ICT, but Andrew Bettany of the University of York managed to arrange for the tour to swing by the National Science Learning Centre and it was a fantastic opportunity.
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29 Sep 2009
The default browser on the iPhone and iPod is Safari which is a built in application. As it currently stands inbuilt applications on Apple’s hand held device operating system doesn’t give much to developers who would like to be able to add extra functionality (at least not without jail breaking). The option to send page content to Evernote from Safari is something I had hoped would be easily available, but found myself having to manually copy content from Safari to Evernote.
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28 Sep 2009
I recently bought an iPod touch and for several days struggled whenever trying to type in acronyms like “BBC” as the iPod’s on screen keyboard didn’t seem to have a way to lock capitals on. I finally came across the solution when looking through some of the settings.
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29 Aug 2009
I’ve been using Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 (Express Edition) recently to create some utilities. As part of this I needed to have an application start-up but only display as an icon in the system tray. After attaching a notify icon control to my main form I set the form’s load method to set the display in task bar and visible properties of the form to be false.
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28 Aug 2009
I was challenged to work out a little problem someone was having with Excel today. The expectation was that I could write some VBA to resolve it, but once I found out what the task was I quickly managed to put together a purely Excel function based solution.
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24 Aug 2009
I run XBMC on a Mac Mini plugged into my TV. Sometimes XBMC gets a bit caught up and freezes or gets locked into some sort of loop. I have it running in full screen which makes it rather hard to quite when the application with focus is non-responsive. So to get past this, press F8 to bring up Spaces and navigate to another space. From here right click on XBMC in the dock to reveal and select Force Quit.
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23 Aug 2009
Since Google Notebook went out of development earlier this year I’ve made the migration over to Evernote. It has many cool features one of the coolest being the ability to upload images and have Evernote run OCR to index the content of the image. The mobile phone Evernote applications allow a phone’s camera to be used to take a snapshot image and to upload it to Evernote over a 3G connection. Unfortunately the Windows desktop application has no functionality for capturing images in the same way through a web camera and with the proliferation of netbooks I feel that this is a feature that is sadly missing - well for me anyway. So after a bit of research I embarked on a quick weekend VB.Net project to put together a little application that could do this - and so I created “SnapIT”.
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22 Aug 2009
I’ve spent a little while today looking at putting something together for Evernote. Hopefully I’ll have it finished pretty soon and I’ll probably share it with you when it’s done, but whilst I’ve been experimenting, I’ve also been looking at ENScript a command line utility that allows you to interact with an Evernote database.
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20 Aug 2009
I tried adding my Twitter RSS feed to FeedBurner a little earlier. Even though FeedValidator identified the feed as valid FeedBurner wouldn’t. Googling this suggested that either Twitter isn’t producing nice RSS feeds (which FeedValidator’s validation seems to contradict) or FeedBurner has blocked it.
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