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Say Hello to Evernote Hello
Dec 18, 2011 22:15 - 0 Comments
I really like Evernote I really do. It is probably one of only a handful of apps that I use every single day without fail. But I just don’t get their new app Evernote Hello. I think this quote from a ReadWriteWeb article sums it up:
It’s completely awkward for any social encounter where you’re meeting two [...]
Rapportive
Dec 6, 2011 16:55 - 0 Comments
What I love about Google Chrome the most is that it has a vast number of really great extensions to do almost anything. Not only that there are also competing extensions so you get choice too.
One are where there is plenty of choice is in the personal profile space, in fact Google has it’s own [...]
The Downside of SEO
Nov 25, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
I haven’t allow automatic publishing of comments on the site for quite a while because even with a captcha I was still getting loads of spam comments. The reason behind this is search engine optimization (SEO). In order to raise your rank on search sites, such as Google, you need to get some authority and [...]
Slideshare Participates in Rip-off Britain
Nov 8, 2011 11:21 - 0 Comments
Slideshare is one of a number of online services that allow you to post and share presentations to a wide audience. We have been using it at work to promote some of our own presentations for a while now. It works well but has a major drawback on the free edition in that it looks [...]
Evernote Web Clipper now a Rival for Instapaper?
May 24, 2011 19:26 - 3 Comments
One of my favourite tools has got to be Evernote, the service that allows you to upload pretty much anything and have it indexed and available to search and view pretty much anywhere.
Evernote have today upgraded their Chrome Extension to extend it to offer “smart clipping”. Previously when you clipped a webpage to Evernote unless [...]
Mac Folder Action Scripts and Evernote
May 15, 2011 17:29 - 0 Comments
For reasons that I have yet been able to fathom the functionality levels between the Mac and Windows Evernote clients is subtly different. For example on Windows there is the very useful ability to be able to add a watched folder that when anything gets added to this it automatically gets added to Evernote. This [...]
Top tech of 2010
Jan 16, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
Last year, for the first time, I produced a list of my top tech for 2009. I thought that it would be interesting to do the same in 2010 to see how things have changed, if at all. So this is the technology that I used day-in, day-out in 2010 and could not do without.
Google [...]
Small Scale Outsourcing
Oct 23, 2010 17:38 - 0 Comments
Outsourcing is big business. I should know as I have been using it for over 10 years now to get access to some highly skilled and cost effective development and testing resources. But what happens if you don’t need a resource for a long term project or just want to get access to a skill [...]
Google Mail Add-ons
Sep 4, 2010 11:25 - 0 Comments
There seems to have been a rash of new add-ons for Google Mail this week from both third parties and Google themselves. All of which aim to make the email experience better and, in some cases, closer to that found on desktop equivalents.
Perhaps the most significant of these is the new priority based inbox which [...]
Geeks in Space
Aug 5, 2010 14:10 - 1 Comment
It’s not often that I get to talk about something other than a gadget or an app but this is seriously cool.
Three friends of my younger son have designed and built a high altitude balloon and launched it. Beneath the balloon was a camera and other instruments recording details of the flight. You can [...]
