Category Archives: Computers

Will Facebook and Google get broken up by anti-trust?

Posted on 13 November, 2019 by

Hi all,it seems anti-trust action may be on the way.

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MR ROBOT!

Posted on 28 October, 2019 by

Calling all geeks: great review of MR ROBOT (without any significant spoilers). As always, there’s just so much more symbolism in these shows than I catch first time round!

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Microsoft Onenote cut from 15Gig down to 5!

Posted on 20 March, 2016 by

Whaaaaaat? This could have a big impact on my love for Onenote! Microsoft are cutting their free cloud storage from 15G to just 5G. Not an issue yet, but do I really want to commit to Onenote if they’re still … Continue reading →

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Libreoffice password opens locked Microsoft Office files

Posted on 14 February, 2016 by

Hi all, for the last few years I’ve been using Microsoft Office365 for business reasons. But since Microsoft took 5 years to update office for mac, we’ve decided most of us can switch back to Libreoffice. We’ll outright buy Microsoft Office … Continue reading →

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Evernote V Onenote: Onenote wins for my purposes!

Posted on 17 January, 2015 by

I *had* given up on Onenote. I thought it would let me do everything I wanted (like ‘Find & Replace’) with the Onetastic extension, but I use Mac and Onetastic only works on Windows7. Mac doesn’t even seem to let … Continue reading →

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Cheap internet to the rest of the world

Posted on 6 September, 2014 by

Great use for solar PV: bring the internet to the remaining billions who don’t have it! Solar PV powering 20km high balloons!

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Attention Open Source fans: what have I missed

Posted on 1 February, 2013 by

What fundamental argument for a worldwide Open Source standard have I missed? https://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/open-source/

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