Home / March, 2008

An Elegant Piece of Design

Mar 30, 2008 11:54 -

The picture on the left is of a small piece of plastic that comes with the Apple iPod Touch. Initially I had no idea exactly what it was for and the lack of any instructions meant that for quite a while it just sat in the box. Then I also noticed that the box stated [...]

Frustrated by Outlook

Mar 16, 2008 22:37 -

I have recently been trialling emoze, a free push email solution, for delivering my personal email to my Nokia phone. I’ll blog about that at some point in the future. However, using it has highlighted an interesting issue with Outlook- it never closes. Yes, it appears to close but the outlook.exe process is still running. [...]

Google Calendar to Microsoft Outlook Synchronisation

Mar 13, 2008 12:48 -

I see that Google have at long last released a utility that allows synchronisation to take place between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. The only real surprise is that it has taken this long to be released. Since Google Calendar was launched this seems to have been one of the most requested features and has [...]

 

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Neil Thompson is an IT professional with over 20 years’ experience in start-ups, software houses and commercial organisations.

In 2009 he set up Ammat Consulting to deliver strategic consultancy and tactical support to software companies of all sizes.

Neil has a keen interest in all things technical and mobile and cloud computing in particular. This blog reflects those interests.