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100+ contacts, not one little wave in 5 months – Is google wave dead?

June 2, 2010

Like many others i was interested to get hold of a Google wave account.  I tried to make the most of it for months, inviting many to join and testing waves and the varied add-ons.  But, it just seems to have no present use in my life, or by the looks of it any of [...]

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Balsamiq – Wireframes and mockups tool

May 24, 2010

A great tool for creating fast site and other device mock ups.

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BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts

September 25, 2009

Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U – to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward, [...]

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GIT – Version Control

February 25, 2009

I am currently looking into GIT, I have previously used CVS and our current repository of choice is Subversion.  view a Comparison against Subversion. Git is… Git is an open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged [...]

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Qu-s desktop notes

February 3, 2009

Qu-s is a simple desktop organistation tool which allows you to keeps what you need at your finger tips but out of your way! It has some great features usually reserved for word processing applications which allow you to bring better  bring organization to your ideas and your notes. Features include: bullet, check boxes and [...]

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iLife 09, IPhoto Review

January 31, 2009

I have had iLife 09 for 5 days.  I’ve been using IPhoto and the new features are well integrated and the faces technology is very impressive.  I started testing by uploading to  flickr, facebook and the mobileme gallery, all worked first time and the process was (as you would expect) very simple.   I had downloaded [...]

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Cloud Computing – Why is it so good for business?

December 28, 2008

From a financial perspective, Cloud Computing pushes risks onto the people that own the assets.  The business in effect rent a particular set of assets, based on their usage. For the business this  transforms IT capex into opex. From a development perspective, Cloud Computing  enables you to potentially roll out your solution in minutes or [...]

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Webfaction Review

December 20, 2008

Having been with Webfaction for over a year i think it’s about time i said how good they are.  The plans are all very reasonable and have a very rich feature from static HTML, PHP and CGI to Rails, Django, Turbogears and Plone, these plans let you run any software you want. You can even [...]

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