Category Archives: Software

One dumb note

Posted on November 19, 2009 by acb

I really like the idea of MS OneNote, and find it very useful for scribbling ideas into and recording interviews. It also has exemplary synchronisation. But it is a pig to use as a repository for web clips, unless you … Continue reading →

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Evernote dumbed down

Posted on November 19, 2009 by acb

This is a quick note, really for the benefit of Google, to point out that Evernote, which is growing more and more popular, was in important respects much better in version 2, now neither sold nor supported, than in the … Continue reading →

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Google and Nokia (dull)

Posted on December 14, 2008 by acb

I have been frustrated for months by the inability of my nice new Nokia phone to synch usefully with any of the three places where I keep contacts. None of them, you understand, are perfect, but I dont need a … Continue reading →

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Greatest google maps mashup I’ve seen

Posted on October 13, 2008 by acb

Hey, what’s that?. Generates a panoramic view with a crib from anywhere in the continental US, and possibly outside it. Awe-inspiring.

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The street finds its own uses

Posted on October 13, 2008 by acb

<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> It turns out that modern graphics cards are so powerful that they can be used to crack the passwords which secure wireless networks more or … Continue reading →

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Chrome

Posted on September 2, 2008 by acb

I’m obviously going to try the new Google browser, Chrome, when it comes out. But there are two three things to note. The first is that it seems to me a further instance of Norwegian world domination: it is based … Continue reading →

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Bloody Nokia

Posted on August 21, 2008 by acb

I just bought — well, changed my contract to — a Nokia 6220: a very flashy phone with a nice camera, a GPS receiver, and in fact everything you could possibly want in a phone — except one tiny thing: … Continue reading →

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A simple thought on the management of software

Posted on June 29, 2008 by acb

I just wrote a column for Charles Arthur about how I had celebrated Firefox day by switching back to Opera and this thought didn’t quite make it in. The organisational division between the users and producers of software should follow … Continue reading →

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Windows 3.1 lies athwart my future

Posted on June 22, 2008 by acb

I have two CD roms on my desk right now which retailed for about £500 each in the early Nineties. Each one holds a year’s run of the Independent; so far as I know they are my only way of … Continue reading →

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Nerdly weekend note

Posted on June 15, 2008 by acb

Opera 9.5 is out and I am back too using it instead of Thunderbird/Firefox. This is mostly because it is very much faster, especially at mail. But it comes with most of the essential Firefox add-ins built in—Ad-blocking, Javascript blocking, … Continue reading →

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