Monthly Archives: December, 2008
Document Workflow
We all have to deal with paper. Not everything comes into the email inbox, so we work out workflows of how to deal with all that paper… moving from envelope tray to inbox, to work-in-progress, to completed and for file. However there is the new way of dealing with this that many larger/medium size companies [...]
Netbooks for the enterprise
There is now a steady flow of netbook class devices coming through from many suppliers (HP, Toshiba, Samsung et al), with the new HP Mini 1000 being HP’s second generation device correcting the major problems with their first generation (using the C7 processor rather than the Intel Atom, using XP instead of Vista Basic). Notebook.com [...]
Experiments with Social Networking
Visitors to the site will notice that an awkward little widget has appeared just off to the left. This is part of the Google Friend Connect system which allows you to login and show your membership of this site, pretty much in the same way as the MyBlogLog service operates. It seems to offer so [...]
News Clipping Service
Recently I was contacted by a company who wanted to sell me access to a news clipping service. I have no idea why or how they selected me, but they did the hard sell and in response to my rejections threw a free trial at me and they promised to call me after a week [...]
Real long distance working
Stephen Fry has produced a wonderful post where he kicks about various mobile/cell phones, but it has a wonderful description of his approach to real long distance working… Get a coffee, sit back and read it through. Lovely.
Standard App Screens
I recently blogged about how when you are at home you should have the most screen real estate as possible to make that experience great. However I now want to take a look from a different perspective and that has more to do with the fact that just because you have a huge screen does [...]
The Desk (cont’d)
I followed my own advice yesterday and upgraded to a 22 inch screen from my 19 inch. My reasons were specifically to do with bad software that requires at least 1024 pixels in the vertical, but the extra screen real estate of 3 inches, 150 pixels vertically, and 210 pixels horizontally does come in handy. [...]
The Desk
Do yourself a favour, make your desk as comfortable as possible for your computing. Here you are with a laptop or netbook, and you are scrunched over looking at the 10”/15” screen and using that 75-95% keyboard, and that trackpad which you have never gotten used to. No, it does not have to be this [...]
So you got a Netbook, what now?
You take it home, do the unboxing, get it powered up and running and now what? 1. Get comfortable with the Linux install that you may have inherited or swap it for Windows XP. If it came with XP, then settle in. 2. Get Firefox 3.0 running, OpenOffice 3.0 onboard, get hooked up to WiFi, [...]
Netbooks are not just for Christmas, they are for life
I use my netbook as my primary machine ALL THE TIME. I believe you can never have too much screen real estate but it is a tradeoff on so many things. When I am running around I find the 10″ screen absolutely great, particularly as anything bigger would be a storage problem in my case/bag [...]