I’m going to go through this slowly, because I’ve been having great difficulty making myself understood when I asked what I thought was a very simple question on Twitter about 6 hours ago. I’m still trying to clarify it – hence this blog post. I’m making a PowerPoint presentation for a speech I’m giving next [...]
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Photo by aidanbrooks Today’s idea is a terribly simple one – so much so, I’m astonished nobody else seems to have thought of it: Tamagotchi Gardening. Instead of looking after a pet, you tend a garden. Dig it over, choose what to plant, care for it, water it, and reap the rewards. But it’s not [...]
It occurs to me that I’ve had an iPhone for 6 months already, and still not done the obligatory ‘Apps I Love’ blog post. My friend Dave Harte got himself one today, and I was about to recommend him a couple – but I thought this would be a good opportunity to fulfill my blogging [...]
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Photo by poportis Today I start my 30 days of ideas. The way it works is this: Each day, for the next 30 days, I’ll have an idea for something: a business, a system, a book, a website, a concept, a piece of software, a new sandwich filling – whatever it might be. I’ll describe [...]
Inspired (and frustrated) by last night’s battle with the application that would not die, I’ve been going through and cleaning up my Macbook. I’m prepared to do a complete fresh reinstall of the operating system if it comes down to it – but if I can avoid it, I will. There’s something I’m looking for. [...]
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I had a problem on my laptop. Something called AddressBookSync was going crazy – sucking up almost all of my system resources. I don’t really know what it was, which piece of software it was connected to (though I have my suspicions) or even how I eventually managed to get rid of it – but [...]
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