Tag: Work

  • Specialise and innovate

    I’ve just returned from Avaya‘s partner conference in Barcelona*, the annual get together for the telecoms vendor and high ranking members of its EMEA supply chain. I don’t, as a general rule, go along to these things often as it’s a long time out of the office, and it’s rarer that I blog about them.…

  • Ubuntu 10.10 beta

    I’ve been running Ubuntu on most of my PCs for about three years now, and have been far happier with their performance than I ever was under Windows. The only real problem I’ve had is that as part of my job reviewing and evaluating hardware, I tend to use quite a lot of high end…

  • Local politics and stuff

    When I was younger, I was interested in local politics and who did what in the area in which I grew up. Like most people, though, I’ve since moved around a lot over the years and been focussed on issues and news from around the world, which has distracted me from what’s going on right…

  • Remember the Milk/Thunderbird 3

    I know this is of niche interest, but the Remember the Milk provider does actually work with version 3.0.3 of Thunderbird. All you do is change the version as described here (the rest of the hack isn’t needed with the latest version of the RTM app). Unless you actually use both apps regularly, you can’t…

  • 25 tips for Linux newbies

    I’m really enjoying writing the occasional list feature for TechRadar lately, giving me reason to jot down thoughts which I should by rights probably have published here long ago and just got too busy. The latest is a quick introduction to Linux which I hope covers most of the pain points for anyone thinking of…

  • More TechRadar article pimpage

    I’ve been really enjoying writing software round-ups for TechRadar recently – funny, mostly in that I avoided them like the proverbial plague when I was working on PCF and the like. Recently, though, I’ve become a lot more curious about the best online and offline clients for, you know, stuff. This is the latest one…

  • nivioCompanion reviewed

    Bizarrely, the Telegraph gave this cloud computing gadget 5/5. Here’s my thoughts on the nivioCompanion and what it means for cloud computing (not very much) over at Stuff.tv. The point of an operating system like Windows is that it allows applications to talk to the hardware. By throwing away the hardware but not the OS,…

  • More software recommendations

    While I’m on the subject, I’ll pimp this article at TechRadar: Seven programs for protecting your passwords. Can’t recommend LastPass highly enough if you want to avoid the perils that caught out Twitter. Scared by the news that sensitive information from within Twitter was obtained not by hacking code but by some relatively straightforward detective…

  • AMD’s Richard Huddy on Google’s Chrome OS

    I’m just putting the final touches to a feature for PCFormat about DirectX 11 which is essentially a stitching together of two interviews, one from an AMD spokesperson and one from NVIDIA, about how the two companies see the new graphics API that’s coming with Windows 7 and what it means for both gaming graphics…

  • Good time to be a freelance?

    According to DWPub it is. They’re the company that serves up several gazillion press releases a day tailored by subject matter to an enormous database of journalists – kind of like Press Association but without the editorial middle man. It’s surveyed commissioning editors and reckons that almost one in five of them say between 50-75%…