May 2011

72 degrees F is not 40 degrees C, even if the Mac says it is

72 degrees F is not 40 degrees C!

There seems to be an error in a Unix program on the Mac. Now what do we do?

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Tech Universe Digest for 23 to 27 May 2011

New York skeleton speed sign.

Wireless Hands-On; Print A Part; Wheelchair Sights; Smart Stores; Books Don’t Need Paper; Instant Translation; Spam Choke; Tiny Killer; High Tech Dogs; Hands-Off Touchscreen.

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The Cough that keeps on keeping on

Sick of being sick.

Several months of being unwell have hit my work hard. It looks like Whooping Cough! And all I can do is wait it out.

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Tech Universe Digest for 16 to 20 May 2011

Personal Iris Scanner.

Canyon By Jetpack; Another Side To Transistor; Trains That Fly; Software Pirates; Game, Stroke And Match. Home Bot; In The Block Where You Live; Lend Your Eyes; Out Of The Gait; Did You Mean Shopping? Underwater Space; Prize Tricorders; Do You Speak Robot?

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Make a video training library – it’s easy

This movie shows a client round their new website.

Instead of just writing instructions about how to do things when training others, make a screen recording. It’s quick, easy and extremely useful as a reference.

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Save your wrists – dictate long documents

Dragon Dictate.

These days I do a lot of my writing the easy way: by dictating what I want to say to my computer which transcribes it for me.

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