by Tom | Apr 2, 2009 | IT
YourFonts looks like an excellent idea. That said, my handwriting is appalling, so the idea of a personal handwriting font has some issues.
by Tom | Mar 31, 2009 | IT
Spare brain: remember that Task import requires the company name and contact name to be text, not the numerical identifiers. Makes life easier for my meetings management system, actually. [update 20100823: use the Company name (creates new) and Contact (first / last...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Visio is expensive and very few people have it. So I should probably try these online alternatives. Certainly Lovely Charts is pretty, but you have to subscribe to use it on more than one chart in anger (fair enough, but I’d have carried on using it if I could...
by Tom | Mar 26, 2009 | IT
Unusual for Nielsen to like any new-fangled navigation, but mega drop-downs are good. Anything “funky” that Microsoft introduces (like the ribbon in Office 2007) has been through a serious amount of user testing so should be seen as well worth considering....
by Tom | Mar 21, 2009 | IT
A quite interesting idea: you can send your contact details to someone via text without having to fiddle with beams and bluetooth. Telling them to text “tomraggett” to a short code (50500) is a neat solution.
by Tom | Mar 21, 2009 | IT
Worth a go to see how this cloud computing works. At $0.125/hour that’s $90/month for a full-on server in Amazon’s cloud. Not bad value, methinks, although much more than my VPS which is $200/year.
