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Jul28th

Charging my iPhone

I thought I’d give my iPhone battery a bit of a charge, so I plugged it into my PC (I’m at work) and saw the following…

“Great” I thought “it recognises it”. However, my world soon fell apart as this message appeared:

Although this has happened to me in the past with other devices, I’ve always been able to charge them, however, with the iPhone it won’t charge. So…out has come the MacBook…the most expensive iPhone charger ever!

Jul20th

WordPress 2.6 - More Misery

Following on from my previous post I “successfully” upgraded 3 of our WordPress blogs (well I say successfully compared to my experience with upgrading MacBites)

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Jul20th

WordPress 2.6 - Nightmare Upgrade

Tonight, Elaine spotted Typepad (an app that enables you to create blog posts right from your iPhone) and asked me if I’d come across anything similar for WordPress - our blogs are WordPress-based.

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Jun26th

We All Have Our Crosses To Bear!

So here’s my MacBites bag and my MacBites mug…oh, and my Windows PC.

MacBites

BTW - process for getting the photo on here:

  • Take photo with crappy £30 Vodafone 1.3 megapixel camera - stop gap because my last phone broke and the iPhone wasn’t out
  • Insert USB cable into camera and other end into PC. Nothing
  • Boot up MacBook
  • Turn on bluetooth on MacBook and phone
  • Finally MacBook finds phone - after picking up colleagues phone 5 yards away
  • Copy file onto MacBook from phone
  • Copy file onto USB pen drive from MacBook
  • Insert pen drive into colleagues PC - mine won’t accept pen drives!
  • Ask him to email it to me
  • Upload to blog
Jun24th

Two Tin Cans and a Piece of String, Anyone??

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Jun24th

Evernote Woes

Trying to use Evernote at work. However, it doesn’t appear to support IE6. Roll on the iPhone!

Evernote

Jun21st

Bill Gates Interview

Just finished watching the Bill Gates interview on BBC2. Interesting insight into the man who changed the computer world (although that’s a matter of opinion I suppose). I was going to watch it earlier in the day (during my lunch hour) but Internet Explorer had other ideas.

Bill Gates

Sums it up really!

May1st

Microsoft Project Makes You Fat!

OK so I decided to try and eat a bit more healthily starting at the end of March. On March 31st I stopped eating chocolate and on April 10th I started again. April 10th and 11th just happened to be the dates that I was running a 2-day Microsoft Project course - my first one for a few years. Even with a bit of prep, Project always throws up the unexpected.

Are there any trainers out there who actually like training this product?

Apr22nd

Another Mac User

Suggested to a client that they buy a Mac. Well, he’d already decided that his next laptop will be a Mac, so I can’t really count that as a sale - but at least it confirmed it in his mind.

Apr14th

Mac v PC Part I

“Excel.exe has generated an error” was the cry from the desk behind me. “I can’t open the file and it’ll take 2 days to get a restore”

Enter a knight in shining armour (or a least a shiny-screened MacBook). And what could Neo-Office (a FREE Office Suite) do that Excel couldn’t? Yes - it opened the supposedly corrupt Excel file. All that was missing was a few graphs - and they were easily re-creatable.

I’m not sure whether the young damsel in distress was more speechless about the recovery of her precious data or the shiny white laptop on my desk! Anyway, fact remains - Mac 1 PC 0.