Twelve years ago the company where I work decided to outsource the majority of it’s IT operations and IBM won the contract to be the sole supplier of IT services. The team that I work for (I joined in March 2007) is part of IBM and provides a range of IT training services to the [...]
Wanting to go wireless at work, I successfully paired my Apple bluetooth keyboard with my Vista laptop. All was going well – I even coped without PgUp / PgDn – until I had to press ALT+CTRL+DEL after my PC locked itself as I’d been away for more than 15 mins. The Delete key on the [...]
I woke up last Tuesday morning to find my car, my driveway and surrounding roads covered in 4 inches of snow so I made the decision to work from home.
Gone are the days when a mobile phone was just a phone. I prefer to think of my iPhone as a mobile computing device. Excluding the applications that come as standard, I’ve got almost 40 apps on my phone. These are split over 4 screens.
Anyone heard of Schmap.com? I hadn’t until I logged into my Flickr account to find an email from them, telling me that one of my photos was being included “in the newly released seventh edition of our Schmap Manchester Guide”.
A couple of weeks ago I was online with some fellow Mac 20 Questions Round Table contributors and we were posting pictures of our workplaces and discussing our equipment (ooh err). This morning I took my camera in to work and set out my desk ready for the working day.
When it came to mobile phones my requirements were simple – something that allowed me to make and receive calls. Camera, MP3 player and games were never a must-have for me. And the time it took for me to compose a text, well, forget it. Maybe that’s why I stayed for so long on Vodafone’s [...]
I was a panelist on a recent edition of The Mac 20 Questions Round Table. Each of us was asked to select our favourite piece of software. As I sat in front of the microphone, awaiting my turn to speak, I frantically tried to think of what to choose and realised that I don’t have [...]
If I was a company or a product I’d be rebranding myself. If I was a pop star or an actor, I’d be reinventing myself. I’m neither of these but today I decided to change my Twitter avatar.
Tomorrow I have booked a day’s leave to attend an Apple seminar in Manchester. Aperture in the morning and Final Cut in the afternoon…and if all goes to plan, a Chinese buffet at lunchtime!