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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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15 Feb 2009
I’ve been working on something to help me with some logging activity in NoteTab and I’ll be posting a variety of useful bits and pieces from this in both this micro blog (FlagIT) and my main blog (RebootIT). As part of this I was looking at producing some date related clips which necessitated looking at some mathematical clips and notably one to determine if a number is an Integer. NoteTab is a text editor and numeric manipulations are definitely not its forte, so I needed to produce a clip function to do this.
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