Record useful tweets in Evernote

Here’s a brilliant new feature from Evernote …
I was actually just thinking about this earlier today. There is so much cool & useful stuff that gets posted on twitter that I don’t have time to read/review/pursue most of it during the day when it’s live – but would like to refer to again. I wanted [...]

Quote of the week

“I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better.”
-Harry S. Truman

Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts

As with all browsers there are some keyboard shortcuts in Chrome which can help make us a bit more efficient. I don’t remember that many shortcuts, so better to pick a few really useful ones than try and remember them all! This isn’t an exhaustive list – just a few that I use all the [...]

Performance boost with Google Chrome?

Here’s an interesting article from Hamid Shojaee, founder of Axosoft. At work we use their OnTime software extensively to track Bugs/Defects/Feature Requests/Incidents – and even as a simple project management tool.
Their web client is probably the best web client I’ve ever used – the experience is scarily like using a native windows app. If you [...]

Launchy … get quick access to your programs

Here’s another neat little application I use all the time. Launchy runs in the background and provides a way to load applications quickly from the keyboard.
Hit Alt-Space and type the first few keystrokes of the application you want to launch – then Enter and away you go. If your Start Menu looks anything like mine [...]

Better note taking

One of my worst habits is writing scrappy notes on sheets of blank paper – these get filed on the desk,  in my drawers, cabinets, on the floor, at home, in the car ….. I also have dozens of Windows Notepad documents created when I’m out and about with Todo lists, customer requests, useful information [...]

Xobni – Outlook Plugin to Organise, Collate, Track, Search, Correlate your email

It’s not often I come across a bit of software which immediately impresses me as much as this little Outlook plugin! It has to be one of the most focused, fast & effective tools I’ve seen in a while. Xobni sits alongside the Outlook sidebar and shows information relevant to the currently selected email.
At [...]

Quote of the week: May 10th 2008

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
- Albert Einstein

How long since the last post …. finding the time.

I’ve discovered one thing over the last year. Writing a blog is difficult! Or rather, consistently writing a blog is difficult. It’s not that I can’t find things to write about … or that I don’t enjoy writing … it’s just nearly impossible to find the time!  In the words of my last post “I [...]

Things you didn’t know you could do with Google

Like many people Google is my browser home page – it’s where I start almost every Internet search / browse from.
I might be a bit slow of the mark here – it’s possibly common knowledge – but here are a few useful things you can do with the Google search tool.
Calculator
To do some basic arithmetic [...]