• Tip o’ the Week #262 – Windows Phone 8.1 Update

    Well, it’s been an exciting week . We might not have laser beams but we will get “ HoloLens ” (though we’re not quite at the “ Help me, Obi-Wan …” level of holo-projection). Augmented Reality may be about to get really powerful and mainstream, though...
  • Tip o' the Week #260 – Scan cards to OneNote

    Business cards are still a big part of business culture – even if many of us primarily communicate via email, the ceremony of handing over a little card with your name on it, at the start of a face-to-face meeting, is still quite important. Some countries...
  • Tip o' the Week #259 – Manage your Christmas Cards in Outlook

    Happy New Year ! For many of us, time to chuck out trees, and pack away any and all decorations, never to be seen again until December ‘15. Before you recycle the cards you may have received over the holiday season, here’s a quick way of using Outlook...
  • Tip o' the Week #258 – The Network of Your Stuff

    As buzzwords go, 2014 has been a big year for the “ Internet of Things ”, or IoT . A term coined 15 years ago by a specialist in RFID , it was later refined in a paper as referring to a world where machines can share information (perhaps about themselves...
  • Tip o’ the Week #256 – Clip Art clips off

    Exactly 5 years after publishing the very first instalment   (though it was internal only for a year before I started posting the tips on this blog) , Tip o’ the Week goes Old Skool : # 256 , or 2 8 , the number of combinations possible from a single...