01 Jan 2011
It’s time for my annual review of what’s been most popular on my past year’s foray into the blogosphere. This year has been all change as I consolidated my blogs into a new site on a new platform and as you may be able to tell from how quiet I’ve been for the last few months I’ve been quite busy with a few other things that have been changing my life in more than a few ways. Anyway, on with the show as they say.
Read More31 Dec 2010
I’ve frequently found myself needing to pad text strings with other text when putting together VBScripts. Typically this is with regards to time related outputs (pre-fixing with zeroes), or numeric outputs for things like filenames (again prefixing with zeroes). Occasionally I need to do more advanced padding and so I created a set of code to add to my code library to cover a wider set of padding circumstances including not only pre-fixing, but also post-fixing variable length strings … and even bo
Read More29 Nov 2010
One of the things I like most about my Mac is the automation and control I can have without having to fight the operating system. Don’t get me wrong I really like Windows and many other operating systems (I very much like the right tool for the right job approach), but the Mac along with some little helper apps makes this quite straight forward. Today I thought I’d share a couple of the utilities I use to keep my Mac awake and to send it to sleep.
Read More28 Nov 2010
So for some time now Evernote users have been clamouring for a way to work with rich text (e.g. bold, italics, fonts) on their iOS device (iPhone/iPod/iPad). The issue has been that iOS at a base level does not functionally support rich text editing. To implement this sort of function would require the Evernote iOS developers to develop an entirely new text editing interface and given the complexity/flexibility of the note format this could be quite challenging (and there are lots of other pulls on their time for develpments such as access to shared notebooks in the client (… which they did say would be this year and there’s only a month left).
Read More22 Sep 2010
For ten or so months now I’ve been clipping web pages from Safari on my iOS devices into Evernote using a one touch bookmarklet. Whilst Evernote’s own bookmarklet works for this activity, you have to enter some details for the note, maybe even login. For me this was just too much to be concerned with when I’m browsing on the move. My solution simply pushed the whole page into my default Evernote notebook for dealing with later.
Read More19 Sep 2010
Do you suffer from finger prints on any of your touch screen devices? Do you ever forget things and wish that you had a photographic memory? Well maybe Evernote has the solution…
Read More30 Aug 2010
I’ve been doing a lot of spring cleaning recently and came across quite a few old computers that I’d stashed away at the back of a wardrobe. Not exactly noteworthy, but I thought I’d share a couple of things I’ve done to clear the space and retain my archives.
Read More22 Aug 2010
A little while back, Evernote launched a new feature known as the trunk. It is a platform through which Evernote promoted partnerships and integrations with the Evernote system. Whilst it is a new system I have three ideas on how to make it even better.
Read More16 Aug 2010
Offline access to notes in Evernote is a must for me. Whilst much of my time is spent in areas with a good enough reception for my phone or with access to a WiFi network, there are occasions where getting online and connected is not so easy if not impossible as anyone who travels the UK rail network will attest to for example. Now whilst the Mac and Windows clients have offline access by default, the mobile clients are not so fortunate.
Read More13 Aug 2010
Do you use Evernote on Windows? Do you ever put files into Evernote notes? I’d like to share a little tip with you for making your life with files and Evernote bit easier.
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