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Lenovo Guns for Apple
Apr 30, 2008 12:05 - 0 Comments
Lenovo has released this great advert fighting back at Apple’s Macbook Air pointing out a very obvious deficiency of the sleek laptop.
Waiting on Google – Update
Apr 28, 2008 14:58 - 0 Comments
I wrote in my previous post that I am waiting on Google to enable or give me access to a number of cool features. Well I can update you on a couple of these. Firstly the new contact manager within GMail has appeared almost as soon as I hit Publish on the blog entry and [...]
Waiting on Google
Apr 25, 2008 22:04 - 1 Comment
My browser is increasingly becoming the real hub of my activity on my PC and a lot of what I do is centred around Google. Whether it is Search, Reader, Docs or Notebook I am a regular user of all those services with widgets for each on my iGoogle page. Problem is, being a real [...]
Wordpress woes
Apr 25, 2008 13:29 - 0 Comments
I wrote a while back about my love of Wordpress but after my experiences this morning I am feeling a little less charitable. I am currently setting up a new site (spokenlikeageek.com) for which I had intended to use the latest build of Wordpress (2.5). As part of this I wanted to transfer some existing [...]
Nationwide Online Banking Card Reader
Apr 23, 2008 21:33 - 0 Comments
This little device arrived through the letter box this morning and while it looks like a three year olds first calculator it is, in fact, my banks attempt at improving on line security. Now you might think that I would welcome this but actually I have mixed feelings on its use. It seems that [...]
Xobni – the Essential Outlook Plugin
Apr 22, 2008 23:00 - 2 Comments
Over the last week I have been trying out a new beta plugin for Outlook called Xobni (Inbox backwards) that helps you make sense of the mess that is your email.
Xobni appears as a column down the right hand side of Outlook that displays information about the sender of the currently selected email. At the [...]
Installing Windows #2
Apr 20, 2008 21:32 - 0 Comments
At the end of yesterday I had a fully functioning laptop again having completely wiped it and done a fresh install. This process involved a trip into the office to join the machine to the domain and synchronise Outlook to my Exchange folders, all of which took an hour or so. One thing that this [...]
Installing Windows
Apr 18, 2008 22:18 - 3 Comments
My laptop has been giving me increasing problems over the last few months and I have been putting off the inevitable need for a rebuild. Today, however, the final straw arrived in the form of a very untimely "Blue Screen of Death" so I decided to rebuild from scratch.
Before blatting the laptop I took [...]
SyncMyCal
Apr 16, 2008 14:33 - 2 Comments
I wrote recently about the impact of the new Google to Outlook synchronisation tool on the third party supplier SyncMyCal. I felt that Google’s free tool would cause significant difficulties for SyncMyCal who were selling their tool at £25 a pop. It seems that SyncMyCal has a bit of a card up it’s collective sleeve [...]
Apr 15, 2008 21:57 - 0 Comments
Been playing around with Twitter recently to try and understand what the value of it is and how I might make it work for me. Right now I can’t get over the thought that no-one is going to be interested in what I have to say. Then again I slavishly work on these blog [...]
