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17 Apr 2009
A little while ago I received a request for the installation of Spotify on a work computer. I’d not heard of it at this point so I did some research and discovered that it was a piece of software that linked you to a massive library of music on the Internet. After a bit of discussion in trying to ascertain what the business case was for installing this to a work computer it faded away.
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16 Apr 2009
I recently came across a site called TED. It’s a web site for the annual Technology, Entertainment and Design conference. The web site itself has a showcase of videos clips from conference speakers and is worth a look. The thing I want to quickly post about however is something I think is quite innovative … an interface I’ve not seen anywhere else (yet).
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16 Apr 2009
Since I had my Omina problems the other week (it’s about to go in for repair as there are still some strange hardware issues) I lost lots of basic information on the phone. One of the things I lost was the ring tone. I can’t remember what I had before, but I like to have something simple and professional that won’t cost me and won’t embarrass me in the office. I don’t want the latest polyphonic chart hit blaring from my pocket as I sit at my desk.
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08 Apr 2009
I deal with a fair few academics and if there’s one thing they love about the Internet and the World Wide Web it’s YouTube and the vast resources it offers. Giving multimedia presentations is obviously a great way of getting people engaged, but an issue is that when visiting an institution you can’t always guarantee that you will have access to the Internet so being able to download a video from YouTube is a huge benefit.
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07 Apr 2009
I came across a bizarre issue today in Microsoft Word. A user had a document containing a set of information laid out in a tabular format where the text in each cell was being condensed and overlaid so that the text was all being placed one character on top of another
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05 Apr 2009
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation I’d been trying to put together for the best part of six months and this evening I’ve sent it on to the users who attended and who were unable to attend but showed an interest. I realised at this point I hadn’t actually blogged about it so I thought I might put together a little post about it.
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05 Apr 2009
Having spent a good part of the last couple of days doing some housekeeping and updating on my Samsung Omnia I had a bit of an issue late last night. The Omnia is aimed at doing everything (hence the name), but last night I owned an Oblivia. I’m not sure quite what happened but I think a disagreement between Windows Vista and my Omnia may have been to blame.
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04 Apr 2009
A little while ago I posted about some ways to reclaim memory on a Windows Mobile device. The reason for this was that the main memory on my Samsung Omnia was almost at zero and it had been a fairly common occurrence. I’ve spent a little while recently trying to get a Skype client working on it and installing it to anywhere but the main memory seemed cause a few issues. Today however I’ve had a good day working on the phone and I’ve managed to not only get the latest version of the Skype client running from storage rather than main memory but also found a few additional ways of getting some more control over the main memory.
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30 Mar 2009
We’re currently working with an organisation to assess some virtualisation options on our network. In order to gather some information on our existing estate we’re running the VMWare Capacity Planner. This is an ‘agentless’ piece of software that monitors server utilisation and uploads data to a central repository on the web.
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29 Mar 2009
A few days ago I was speaking to one of my users about creating some PDF files from Microsoft Word and securing them so that they can’t be copied or printed. Rather than using expensive software from Adobe or a generic creator like CutePDF I recommended using the add-in for Word 2007 that Microsoft provide as it provides some useful accessibility options (thanks to JISC TechDis for highlighting that one to me).
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