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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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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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