Daily Archive: August 14, 2006

Windows Live Writer – suggestions for improvement

Having just written 13 new posts with Live Writer I have the following suggestions; When I am writing a number of posts I expect the post I have just written to close after posting and a new blank post to appear.  Or at worst when I click new I expect...

Tablet Slate

I am a really big fan of the Tablet PC slate format,  its so quick and easy to pop it into my rucksack and drag it out again a in a meeting, in a cafe, on the beach, by the pool etc.  In these environments I don’t want to be...

Insights into PDA usage

I work quite a lot on mobility but I still find it difficult to get good insights into the way different companies use PDAs and other mobility solutions, so I was surprised when I came across this post by Mary Beth Raven.  In the post she asks her readers: As...

Motivating geeks

Following on from my post on consumerization, which includes enterprise IT providing users with greater choice and control, I found this list of 10 ways to motivate geeks pretty interesting: 1. Geeks are curious. Let them feed their desire to learn things2. Geeks like to be self-sustaining. Let them figure...

Gartner loosens up

I believe that consumerization will have a big impact on the enterprise,  I for one gave up on the idea that my company would meet all my IT needs long ago, and regularly make personal investments.  In general I consider my personal tools to greatly enhance my productivity, way beyond the...

Blogs and PKM

I use my blog as a personal knowledge management tool.  Every day I collect up 20-30 blog posts, web pages, PDF files etc to read.  They are all there on my Tablet PC as different tabs in Maxthon, the following morning I read them and then for those that need...

Productivity toolkit

This post provides a really useful summary of productivity tools, companies and individuals don’t put anywhere near enough focus on personal productivity, so this list provides a really good start point.

Workplace design at Microsoft

I am a big advocate of well designed workplaces, so I was interested to see this post about the Workplace Advantage activity at Microsoft.  One of my favorite principles is to provide a flexible environment that the teams can change easily to suit their evolving needs and I have written...

Citrix becomes an – Application Delivery company

Brian Madden describes how Citrix is evolving from being an Access company to an Application Delivery company: We want to be the single company to provide access to all applications, regardless of what type they are. For Windows client/server applications, you can use Citrix Presentation Server. For web applications, you...

In cell graphing in Excel

I am using Excel 2007 full time now and I really like the in cell graphics and easy to use conditional formatting,  I have never been a power user of Excel and it’s taken the discoverability of the ribbon based interface to help me improve in this area.  I have...