Sep 20 2015
The Billion Dollar Startup Club
A very nice interactive infographic: The Billion Dollar Startup Club
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Sep 20 2015
A very nice interactive infographic: The Billion Dollar Startup Club
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Aug 30 2015
I often get orphaned temporary files in Windows. Typically they are associated with an Office file that I have, and they normally have the same name, except that it is prefixed with a tilde.
I find them very annoying!
I never knew how to search for them until recently. It is actually very simple – just use the following command in the search box in Windows Explorer!
name:~"*~*"
It works great!
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Aug 16 2015
Lately I have been on a mission to find an instant messaging app for my mobile phone. The initial plan is to use it for personal purposes with immediate family members, and I am in the position of being able to move them all to a new app. I am less concerned about less immediate family and friends.
If there is a suitable app, then I want to be able to use it for work purposes also.
The obvious choice is WhatsApp, but I detest it in principle for a few reasons:
In fairness to WhatsApp, the user interface is very polished and easy to use!
So my main mandatory requirements are:
Nice to have features include:
Aspects that do not concern me:
I will create a new post in the near future describing what apps I eliminated, and what app(s) I decided to use!
Aug 05 2015
Sometimes I wonder if my colleagues are building Rube Goldberg machines!
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Jul 11 2015
I had to read about the “Evil” bit in Request for Comments: 3514 this afternoon!
I wonder why it never caught-on!
Feb 28 2015
I came across this nice infographic today (click to see larger version):
The original inforgraphic and accompanying article can be found in LensVid Exclusive: What Happened to the Photography Industry in 2014?.
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Jan 23 2015
Wow – it has been a long time since I blogged!!!
I updated my favourite text editor recently – Notepad++. I was very impressed when the following message appeared slowly on my screen as if somebody was typing it:
Notepad++ Message
And just because I too believe in free speech (and equally the right not to agree with the speech being expressed):
Charlie Hebdo Covers
#JeSuisCharlie
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Jul 25 2014
I came across two very professional looking infographics from colleagues this week. The colleagues are not designers, so I was very impressed with their work!
It turns out that they both used Venngage.
I must give it a try the next time that I think that I need an infographic!
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Jun 08 2014
A friend recently sent this humorous guide to programming languages to me – A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages.
Actually, this guide makes me feel that I want to learn a weird and wonderful new programming language!
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May 26 2014
I was browsing the Amazon site recently, and I came across the following advertisement:
Kindle Fire HDX Advertisement
I am extremely sceptical about the claim that it is “Lighter than Air“! Is this false advertising?
However, if it is true then I think it must be very inconvenient!
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