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It was whilst reading a comment posted on Stephen Fry blog that led to me looking at Pixlr. Pixlr describes itself as “…a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter” and …

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I am now a qualified PAT Tester
Monday, 27 Aug, 2007 | One Comment

On Friday I became a qualified PAT Tester after successfully completing training and exams 2377-11 and 2377-12 of the Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment from the City and Guilds …

How I learned to digg and found a nugget
Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2007 | No Comment

Monk and I have recently discovered DIGG which is all about “user powered content.”. Basically everything that is posted to digg is voted on by digg members so the cream of the postings stand out. …

How I give a gentle reminder to users to keep their mailbox in order
Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2007 | No Comment

As I check user mailbox limits regularly when I find a user that is nearing their limit they get an email message from me similar to the following:

“You are not far away from reaching your …

How to fill in missing bits of pictures and sound really clever
Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2007 | No Comment

I was telling my partner about a great new technology I had read about in Gizmag that can effectively fill in blanks in photographs from a huge database of photogrpahs. “Oh, that’s the boffins at …

How to exend power and data to the desktop and make your users happier
Tuesday, 21 Aug, 2007 | No Comment

Some time ago i write (In Search Of…) about searching for devices to extend power and data to the desktop - at the time I knew very little about them and said:

They are devices a …

How to get more information on Exchange Server SP1
Tuesday, 21 Aug, 2007 | No Comment

A number of sites and Blogs refer to SP1 on Exchange Server 2007 but these all refer to Beta versions of SP1. There doesn’t yet seem to be a clear data of when SP1 will …

Research Aid: Time and Attendance/Access Control Solutions
Monday, 20 Aug, 2007 | One Comment

Unless your company is large enough to be able to place public adverstised tenders then one of the more difficult aspects of starting a project is locating appropriate Vendors of a product.
To help in this …

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Statistics
Monday, 20 Aug, 2007 | One Comment

Exchange 2007 had a nice screen that showed, for each mailbox, the number of items and the size of the mailbox. The closest that I’ve been able to find for Exchange 2007 is this command …

Paperless Office. Say goodbye to the paper trail
Friday, 17 Aug, 2007 | 2 Comments

Paperless Office - Bah! Some users have a hard time saying goodbye to paper. E-mails are one of the worst. Monk and I have often seen people printing out every mail as they arrive and …

Fitting it in: Access Control and Time and Attendance
Friday, 17 Aug, 2007 | No Comment

This week has finally seen the installation of the equipment and software for the new Access Control System and Time and Attendance System project. This is a huge upgrade from the previous Time and Attendance …