Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Enterprise Ireland run a sometimes useful email forum which occasionally gets diverted into rather tedious debate that is better termed as squabbles between competitors. The latest of these is on the merits of 'push button' websites - a rather twee term for systems like SitesToGo which enables rapid build of ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
"Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher"
Launchy is one of my favourite tools.
Instead of going to all the trouble of clicking Start , then programs
and seaching for the program you need , with Launchy all you do
is click alt+space bar and then type in part of the program you're after.
Launchy will ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
At Tullamore BNI this morning I found myself commiserating with our excellent carpenter Mark Feeley over state of his advertising trailer on the main road.
The story apparently went like this. That sign has been there for as long as we in SitesToGo can remember, but he recently pipped a competitor to ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Some years ago i went to the trouble of installing linux - the open source
operating system. To be perfectly honest it was a bit of a hassle , entailing as it did
re-partitioning my hard drive , burning cd's and a tedious install process.
I recently got a new laptop and have ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Panic in the office today. Support team told me we had a call from a health and safety officer. Oho! Well I guess we would pass an inspection but I was certainly going to take the call. Sure enough another call came through in the afternoon and was passed through to me ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Some weeks ago I read with interest an article in the Sunday Times
by regular columnist Sarah Carey. In it , Carey outlined her experiences as a consultant for
a new silicon valley startup.
It turns out the startup in question was a new search engine named cuil.
The company was founded by Carey's ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Thanks to the two people who spotted some broken links on an article linked to the GiftGallery. It often happens when you are at your busiest the simple stuff gets missed and it set me to thinking about the tools we use every day to check stuff, in addition to ...
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