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08 Mar 2009
I’ve just been installing some new software onto my Windows Mobile phone, but I kept getting an error message saying that it had been unsuccessful … nothing as to why of course.
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08 Mar 2009
A little while ago I spent some time outside of work struggling with a particular application on my Samsung Omnia i900 mobile phone. It seemed like it just didn’t work properly and I almost reported it to the developers as a bug. Just before I did I came across another piece of mobile software and noted a very similar problem and this time something clicked and I realised what the issue really was.
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01 Mar 2009
Microsoft Office Labs have launched an exciting new addition to One Note - Canvas for One Note. This is the same idea as pptPlex for PowerPoint and instead off slides it amalgamates One Note notebook pages into a single canvas. You can then zoom in and out and edit pages on a desktop like layout.
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27 Feb 2009
At Thursday’s technical community event I had a little experiment involving QR Codes and Microsoft Tags. We have information up in our office meeting rooms about how visitors may access our wireless network. We have an alphanumeric access key and I used this as the basis for my little experiment.
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27 Feb 2009
One thing I came across after managing to find five minutes to read through some news feed recommendations a few weeks ago is something which could be the ultimate ICT support tool.
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26 Feb 2009
Today the Academy York office hosted an event for the Academy’s technical community. Staff with ICT interests from York were joined by a range of like minded colleagues from the Academy Subject Centres and some guest speakers from outside of the community - around thirty in total.
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26 Feb 2009
Well it’s been a little while since I posted my comparison of Microsoft Tag and QR Codes. In this post I noted that there was a strange 90° anti-clockwise when using the Microsoft Tag reader on my Samsung Omnia i900. Well I stumbled across the reason today whilst testing some Microsoft Tag print outs I had produced for an event.
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23 Feb 2009
About a week ago the BBC ran an article about standardisation of mobile phone chargers. Not particularly interesting at first thought, but the article was quite enlightening.
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21 Feb 2009
Have you ever found yourself in a pinch where there’s a QR code on a web page or stored on your computer and you don’t have your phone with you (or more often than not your smart phone’s battery has died on you {again})? Well Zxing to the rescue.
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21 Feb 2009
I’m a big fan of portable applications and particularly the work driven by PortableApps.com. The PortableApps Menu has been undergoing a revamp for some time now to work towards a number of enhancements and in the mean time I’ve taken up using a branch of this known as Geek Menu. Unfortunately they are all quite slow as I have a huge number of portable applications on my portable hard drive.
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