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We’ve all been there,you have the Mac keyboard in front of you and suddenly you hear the beep-beep-beep as it tries to enter a thousand Xs into the Finder as you accidentally press the key. Well not in OS X Lion. Go on try it. Press and hold a key. No auto repeat. However,[...] More and more of what we do these days is via the web,from Google Mail to Salesforce there are apps for pretty much any task. Living in the browser is fine but I tend to have a lot of tabs open and sometimes it is nice to just launch an app for a specific [...] When I opted for an iPad I chose the 3G version so that I could use it when away from WiFi but as useful as this is it is still bound by caps on usage and can be variable in coverage. The other day I was at an event and had these issues so checked [...] Gapminder World is a fantastic resource. In a nutshell it is a huge repository of world trend data covering a massive range of subjects. To cite some of the examples from the home page; Wealth &Health of Nations CO2 emissions since 1820 Who has most internet users? Is child mortality falling? Where is HIV [...] I’ve recently added OpenID support to my WordPress installations via a plugin. This allows anyone with an OpenID to log in and set up a profile using an existing provider such as Google,Yahoo etc rather than having to remember yet another username/password combination. However the one problem I have had using OpenID is that [...] DISCLAIMER:What I’m about to describe is tortuous and potentially useless but I use it and I even give an easier alternative so there . Google tend to get most of the buzz (no pun intended) around the “Cloud”and Microsoft tend to be seen as a company who are being dragged kicking and [...] I’m a big fan of Windows 7,it has finally moved me from XP on my work machines. However I still haven’t quite got the locations for the settings stuck in the old memory and find myself hunting for them every now and then. I was going to blog about a piece of software called [...] I’ve recently acquired a Netbook (Asus EeePC 1005HA to be precise) and in common with many such devices it came preloaded with XP. Now up until 6 months ago I’d probably have left it at that but having used Windows 7 for those last months I really didn’t want to go back. So I decided [...] | |||||
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