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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 surprising 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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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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