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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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19 Feb 2009
I seem to be doing rather a lot with NoteTab at the moment and again I thought I’d share something useful I scripted. This time around, it’s relating to date/time and days of the week.
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19 Feb 2009
Twitter seems to have become really big in the UK all of a sudden. Stephen Fry has been leading the way for some time, but lately there have been a whole slew of celebrities tweeting away raising the awareness and popularity of the system.
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17 Feb 2009
In my latest foray into NoteTab arithmetic I came across a curious fact around performing arithmetic calculations on a variable containing text. Whilst in purely mathematical terms an arithmetic operation on something that has a numeric value is a bit nonsensical, but NoteTab is a text editor…
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