Yesterday at work somebody sent an email to the Help Desk (or to give them their proper name, the IT Service Desk) asking for some help building a macro in Word. The email was forwarded on to our team as, in addition to training, we develop custom solutions (actually that’s my area of expertise so [...]
Whether it’s a fire alarm, a bomb alert or someone threatening to jump off a cliff next to the training room, over the years I’ve experienced many interruptions to my courses. But last week was something different…
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.
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.
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)
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.
So here’s my MacBites bag and my MacBites mug…oh, and my Windows PC. 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 [...]