Londroid RNIB workshop – other blog posts
Other posts relevant to this weekend’s workshop Android: Ice Cream Sandwich Accessibility photo of a winner I will add more links to this page as they emerge.
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The remorseless march of Amazon continues… Announcing Amazon CloudSearchWe are pleased to announce the launch of Amazon CloudSearch, a fully-managed search service in the cloud that makes it easy to...
View ArticleThe social media world poster
The world of social media is complicated but here is a useful poster. Click for larger image
View ArticleThe living wage, even Mrs Thatcher would approve.
As one of “Thatcher’s children” I am always viscerally suspicious of socialism however it is clear to me that in future society is going to need dramatically more redistribution of income not less....
View ArticleTrafford Housing Trust wriggle out of Facebook compensation
There are big injustices and little injustices. This one may seem little but it is worthy of publication because sunlight is the best disinfectant. Trafford Housing Trust wrongly demonted a man for...
View ArticleWickedpedia?
I have given regularly to Wikipedia’s fund raising campaigns. After reading this article in el Reg I will give the money to my local scout group instead. Wikipedia doesn’t need your money – so why does...
View Article2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,300 views in 2012. If...
View ArticleHow the Internet has Changed the Spread of Information
Something new today, a post by a guest blogger John Harris on how the internet has changed the spread of information. Away you go, John, – In the past couple of decades, the Internet has transformed...
View ArticleOpera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/13/webkit_sucks_on_webkit_chromium/
View ArticleHow to use Outlook with Gmail
As a freelance project manager I have email accounts with many of my clients. I find that Microsoft Outlook 2010 is a very good client because it can support many email accounts and many calendars. I...
View ArticleDon’t use WordPress post-formats
http://www.doitwithwp.com/saying-goodbye-post-formats/ is a great post and I quote from it liberally below. When you make a post WordPress allows you to define one of 9 post formats. This meta-data...
View ArticleScaling Kim Kardashian’s back end
I would be the first to admit that I am not a close follower of popular culture but finally someone has found a way of making it interesting to geeks. Here is an article about serving up millions of...
View ArticleHow make long words and URLs wrap
I had a very long URL to display and I could not make it wrap. If you search this issue you will find lots of advice but it took me a long time to find a solution that worked for me. In the end I had...
View ArticleOff topic: Russian dashboard cameras
Nobody dies in this video. This is either a testament to the wonders of modern engineering, a benevolent god or the role of luck in our lives. Incredible but not for nervous car drivers or passengers....
View ArticleList files, directories and sizes at the command prompt
Any Windows system administrator frequently has to find out why a disk is full and my favourite tool for this is Windirstat. Unfortunately Windirstat does not easily allow you to export the results to...
View ArticleFighting DNS Propagation when you move server
If this is the sort of problem you face, then you will like this article. Fighting DNS Propagation with a Reverse Proxy
View ArticleHow to render a blank WordPress page
I want to create a REST endpoint on my WordPress site. This is to be consumed by a computer so I don’t want any HTML in it at all. In the WordPress architecture the page or post content is put into a...
View ArticleHP Steam 13 review for education
I have just purchased an HP Stream 13 to review for use in a school environment by teachers and students. It is a low spec machine optimised for use with Office 365. So far I am very impressed. It is...
View ArticleBuying a 24″ monitor, Dell U2412M software install issues
I have had the same Dell 21″ CRT monitor for over 20 years but recently it the image has started flickering and I have started to worry that it might fail or even catch fire. The internet suggests that...
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