I don’t like having the room light on while working at my PC, so this idea on Lifehacker gave me the kick I needed to come up with a cheap way to backlight my monitors and it works really well. Behind my displays I have a 30W 1 Meter fluorescent light fitting which kicks...
I have just discovered the chief happiness officer blog, which focused on happiness at work and I think it’s great. Just this morning I was talking to Graham on the phone while out walking (I had nothing better to do, Graham was late for a meeting!) and I was saying how...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...