Over the years I’ve saved a fair few full length ebooks. It’s been easy to hit download, then find a place to save them. While they’re not exactly gathering dust, most of them are sitting around unread. This all changed in the last few days. On Saturday I noticed an advert for a book released [...]
It’d be fair to say I like lists. Not necessarily other people’s, such as the 1001 movies to watch before you die prematurely, or all time top 10 songs of 1974. The lists are my ones. I got to thinking about lists to see if it might help explain why I’m failing to blog as [...]
Yesterday when I arrived at Deirdre Kent’s place she was sitting with a friend sharing tools and tips for using their laptop computers. It looked liked they were having a productive session. Deirdre is a convenor of the Transition Towns Aotearoa social media network. It’s about the third time in the last fortnight where I’ve [...]
I’ve been perfectly happy with Apple’s iWork ’08 suite of software. I’ve created business cards, brochures and reports, a few slide presentations and played with the spreadsheet. It’s been easy to learn and use, especially with loads of templates. Best of all it only cost about $80. Last week I hit a glitch – I [...]
Normally I don’t touch the insides of computers or other electronic gizmos. Maybe it’s because my fingers are too clumsy, or eyesight poor. Adding some RAM in a slot and changing batteries is just about my limit. I was pretty alarmed when a sad face appeared on my ipod. The official Apple help pages shed [...]
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