Run For Your Life – A Magazine About Everyday Runners

Kickstarter as a concept I think is generally a good thing. Having a great idea but no clue if it’s financially viable must be so common. Kickstarter fixes that problem by allowing people to put their plans out and there and if there is interest then you get funding upfront. That doesn’t mean, plenty of

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Hello Kindle Voyage

Way back at the beginning of 2011 I agonised over the decision to purchase a Kindle I eventually did, loved it and have used it pretty much daily ever since. I picked up my second Kindle after my first was stolen and the post I wrote at the time looked at the different models available

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A Darth Vader Lightsaber And A Charity Auction

This dear reader is a Master Replica of Darth Vader’s Lightsaber, complete with certificate of authenticity, signed by none other than Gareth Edwards. Director of Godzilla and an upcoming Star Wars film! It’s just one of many items available at a charity auction that’s taking place this Friday (14th November) at Ambleside Sports Club in

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Useful Productivity Website: Trello

I’m really enjoying Trello.com at the moment. The story behind the site is that the people at FogCreek built a tool so the people in their teams can see at a glance what everyone is working on. They then decided it would be a good idea to make it available to everyone else! The basic

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Manchester User Group–Thursday 19th

Just a quick reminder! I’m speaking at the Manchester SBSC group tomorrow night (19th). I’ll be going through the “SharePoint as a Help Desk” presentation I did at AMITPRO a few months ago The meeting is at 18:30 at QA’s training facilities on the 3rd Floor, Westminster House, Minshull Street, off Portland Street, Manchester M1

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Spring Cleaning – Feedback wanted

Was thinking of having a revamp of the blog I’ve been using the current template for quite a while now and while i think it’s very geeky cool it’s quite heavy, not to everyone’s taste and isn’t 100% user friendly If you consume this site via RSS feeds you probably have no idea what I’m

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InfoPath – Errr! What?

I got an email earlier this week from Richard Tubb asking a couple of questions about InfoPath. This is also the same Mr Tubb who has been “nagging” me to post more about InfoPath and SharePoint. I do take his point as I’ve posted very little on the topic since I spoke about it at

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iPhone advert dropped

Just spotted this article on the BBC news site. The advert in question was about the new 3g version of the iPhone where the advert said it was "really fast" I previously mentioned how this irritated me as 3G isn’t the fastest mobile speed available which the advert may lead you to believe so i’m

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We interrupt this program to bring you the following…

Just plugging a couple of things First up, SMB Nation Europe I’m not the first person to have mentioned this but I was asked if I’d post about it to here it is! The full details can be found on Harry’s Blog here but in summary, Harry Brelsford, author of many fine SMB books (including

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Calendars and Content Types in SharePoint 2007

Two SharePoint posts in one day! I only recently “got” content types in SharePoint. I’m not exactly sure why I had such a mental block about it but the penny finally dropped and I got quite excited about the possibilities (I’m such a geek) So what I wanted to do was create some content types

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