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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 when [...]
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 [...]
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 see [...]
Online Icon Maker
Apr 27, 2009 22:16 - 0 Comments
Occasionally I have the need to create an icon file – usually for use as a favourite icon for a website. Until recently I struggled to find a simple way of achieving this as the graphics programs I use, as good as they are, don’t seem to have support for *.ico files. Then I stumbled [...]
Pantsman confuses Twitter
Apr 23, 2009 14:12 - 0 Comments
Sometimes technology has a way of surprising and Twitter did that last night. I have been using Twitter for a while now and while I am still not a complete convert it is certainly getting much more mainstream acceptance with the likes of Obama, Oprah and Fry all tweeting away. In fact a recent mention on [...]
Travellers Kit
Apr 15, 2009 20:06 - 0 Comments
Being away from home there is some kit that has proved to be essential while travelling, which you can see on the left here. What is also interesting is the software that I have come to rely on over the last couple of weeks while away. The most useful item by far has been my [...]
Errors with Google Docs Offline
Apr 2, 2009 15:14 - 0 Comments
While doing some research for my post on Google Docs’ drawing feature I tried to enable the offline feature, something that had worked perfectly on my previous laptop. The process got right through to the very end before displaying the following error message: “An error occurred while updating software.Failed to update software for the applications” [...]
Drawings in Google Docs
Mar 31, 2009 14:31 - 1 Comment
Google has added a drawing option to it’s Docs applications so now you can insert simple diagrams into documents, spreadsheets and presentations. To insert a new drawing select Drawing from the Insert menu and a new window pops-up over the document (see left). This is the same for all application types. You are then free [...]
