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Owed Two a Spell Chequer
May 29, 2009 12:22 - 0 Comments
I first published this poem on my personal blog back in December 2004 and was reminded of it again today when reading about Google’s Context-Sensitive Spell Checker.
A more intelligent spell checker is part of a new service to be launched later this year by Google called Wave. This takes a fresh look at communication [...]
Anagram for Gmail
May 28, 2009 17:08 - 1 Comment
Anagram is one of those great little utilities that you just don’t know how you lived without it. It takes what can be quite unstructured text and converts it into either a contact record or calendar entry as appropriate. I had been using the Outlook version of Anagram for a couple of years but [...]
Poundland to the Rescue!
May 26, 2009 18:20 - 0 Comments
The card reader on my desktop PC has given up the ghost. To be honest it is not something that I use that often but it is useful to have for those odd occasions – one of which was this last weekend. So I needed to find a reader in a hurry and the answer [...]
Carbonite Remote Access Revisited
May 21, 2009 20:17 - 1 Comment
I recently wrote of my inability to get the new Carbonite Remote Access facility to work and my frustration with getting anything useful out of their support. Well shortly after I had made the post and put up a tweet about it I got a direct message from Carbonite saying that if I sent them [...]
JoikuSpot
May 20, 2009 20:19 - 1 Comment
I have been watching the coverage of the launch of Novatel Wireless’ Mifi device (left) with some interest over the last few days. This pocket sized device is a mini hotspot allowing you to connect up to five wifi enabled devices to a single 3G connection. This is such a great idea as it allows [...]
Moleskine – My Favourite Low-tech Gadget
May 18, 2009 21:08 - 4 Comments
Anyone who knows me will tell you of my love of gadgets: cameras, laptops, mobiles you name it I’m into it. However, there is still one low-tech solution that I could not live without and that is my Moleskine note books.
I have been using notebooks of various sizes all my working life and despite recently [...]
O2 Broadband
May 11, 2009 16:13 - 0 Comments
After many years with my previous provider I finally moved over to O2 broadband last Thursday. It was not without some trepidation that I did so as the existing broadband was pretty reliable and I have heard horror stories from others that have switched providers and been without access. In the end the fact that [...]
Datz Music Lounge
May 2, 2009 21:35 - 4 Comments
At the Gadget Show Live recently was a company called Datz who were offering unlimited music download for only £75 per year – discounted from £99 for the show. I love music and am a regular downloader and so this sounded like a great deal – it would pay for itself in less than 100 [...]
Carbonite Remote Access
May 1, 2009 17:13 - 3 Comments
I’ve been using Carbonite as my online backup service of choice for about a year now and it works seamlessly in the background sending my important files to the cloud just in case. Until recently that was all it did. A one way upload of files from my machine to the cloud. You could [...]
