The public musings of a collaboration lifeguard
Technology
MS Excel moving with the times
Dec 1st
Over the last few days I have been spending more time in MS Excel than can be considered good for my health! As I tweeted this morning, this has obviously hasn’t been without its frustrations!
I don’t often use Excel for more than basic stuff, but this time I am putting together a front end to [...]
“New-Generation Workers” Want Technology Their Way
Nov 26th
Today I caught a discussion on the findings of a survey carried out by Accenture.
Millennial generation students and employees (those aged 14 to 27) expect to use their own technology and mobile devices for work and are increasingly choosing their place of employment based on how accommodating companies are to their personal technology preferences
Yet more [...]
RIM, RBC and Thomson Reuters to Anchor a $150 Million BlackBerry Partners Fund Focused on Investing in Mobile Applications and Services
May 13th
I have been dabbling in the Balckberry applications area for quite some time now, and for those of us interested in this stuff, thie following looks like a big announcement.
I will be following this with some interest, particularly with regard to how it keeps the pressure on Apple with their iPhone.
Toronto, ON (May 12, 2008) [...]
How to load Web site faster in Mozilla Firefox
Nov 20th
The title says it all!
I guess this applies to any install of Firefox, not just a linux version. Check it out, mine was almost unusable before making these changes. Begs the question why the settings weren’t defaults….?
Update:
Following a little more digging, also found these quite useful:
lifehacker.com: top firefox 2 config tweaks
tweakguides.com
Mozilla software really is cross-platform
Sep 25th
So I have my ubuntu linux system up, running and online. So now the next challenge. How do you go about pulling across from WinXP your most important files, which for me are my email and bookmarks?
Easy! If you’re like me and using mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox!
And when I say easy, it really couldn’t have [...]
