CoPilot Live’s wheels within wheels
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple, Uncategorized on March 7, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Dawn and I are the only Mac users in the office. We struggle with Windows, trying not to fight it but instead attempt to engage with a different operating system. After all, its interface was ripped-off from Apple many years ago so it can’t be that different? Can it? Read more
Rated: 60% (2 votes)
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Can bytes help the bitten
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Internet, Uncategorized on February 21, 2010 at 4:17 pm
My mum was mauled by a Mastiff this week. An elderly lady has been horribly wounded, her life ruined and for all we know, possibly shortened.
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Rated: 93.33% (3 votes)
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He, the usurper, must choose
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, utilities, Broadband, Internet, iPhone, Microsoft, Apple on February 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Later this week two of us are driving a few hundred miles to HQ to be shown the new database which will be implemented on April Fools’ Day. A date which is inevitably going to be a joke when it’s something to do with new computers and software, all going live at the same time. Read more
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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Grandma’s new Siemens
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Internet, Apple, Uncategorized on February 7, 2010 at 3:32 pm
My mother in law got a new washing machine yesterday. Not normally the topic of a magazine devoted to IT professionals but stay with the thought. Read more
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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And the Winner is… Who cares?
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, Apple on January 4, 2010 at 2:21 pm
We used to live near a dentist who ran his entire operation in an Hypercard stack he devised himself. All patient information, treatments, appointments and bills were handled by his stack, running on one of those original, all-in-one Macs which us old hands think of as definitive. No colour, no sound, tiny screen, clunky operating system, no multi-tasking and a mouse the size of a house brick. But a graphical operating system from the days when windows were holes in buildings. Read more
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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Three legs good, four legs…
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in iPod, Broadband, Internet, iPhone on December 26, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Every morning I drive alongside the harbour. It’s not a big port, mainly aggregates and timber but Constable and Turner thought it good enough to visit. When the economy isn’t doing well or rough seas send the fish down deep, the fishing fleet stays behind the lock gates and Carrot’s Café is full. Read more
Rated: 100% (2 votes)
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It just sits there dribbling
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Internet, Microsoft, Uncategorized on December 12, 2009 at 3:24 pm
My boss was using my work computer to demonstrate to a new employee how to send files from Lotus Notes. She gathered the files together, a mix of Word docs and a couple of PDFs, then clicked on send. Several tens of minutes later the computer became operational again. For some strange reason, Windows XP, or the Dell Optiplex, cannot multi-task in the same way a Mac can. Data dribbled out, meanwhile locking out Notes. Read more
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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Regional rip-offs
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Gripes moans and whinges, Internet, iPhone, Apple on November 19, 2009 at 7:06 pm
It was a dark and stormy afternoon in the Languedoc’s Black Mountain last week, as we made our way further up the narrow and twisting road. At each hairpin bend the drop on my side of the car grew more precipitous with only a few of the local marble off-cuts to stop us going over the edge. As we drove higher, it got darker, rain clouds swirled around the Peugeot. We had no choice but to follow the signs to the peak because there was no-where to turn around. Read more
Rated: 80% (4 votes)
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We have Ignition…
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in utilities, Internet, iPhone, Apple on October 25, 2009 at 1:57 pm
We have a hand-held vacuum cleaner in our kitchen. It replaced various rechargeable ones, all of which promised to suck so hard you’d stick to the ceiling but delivered a mouse fart for the five seconds the battery lasted. Our new one is 750 watts of 1970s technology, with a power cable long enough to clean the kitchen from one socket and a vacuum which can pluck a fly in mid-buzz at 50 paces. Read more
Rated: 86.67% (3 votes)
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Chasing the dragons
By Mark Tennent in Reader
Posted in Broadband, Internet on October 3, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Broadband speed in Britain is like today’s Formula One qualifying in Suzuka. Over in Japan the F1 cars tried to set ever faster speeds on one of the world’s most demanding circuits. Five drivers have crashed already, one is in hospital with a leg wound and the race hasn’t even started. Read more
Rated: 100% (3 votes)
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