• Tip o’ the Week #242 – File favourites and Explorer

    Office365 offers a great way of hosting documents in the cloud, using SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business (which is really SharePoint under the hood) as its publicly facing storage offerings. Office apps themselves are well versed in supporting...
  • Tip o' the Week #243 - Parliamo Glasgow?

    The great Stanley Baxter had a famous series of comedy sketches looking to help Sassenachs and Embrafowk understand how to navigate a conversation (at say, a Hogmanay party ) in the city that recently hosted the Commonwealth , and was hitherto known as...
  • Tip o' the Week #244 – Ticking away, the time of day

    “ Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day ” –  even if you choose not to fritter them away , the seconds and the sands of time slip by whether you’re having fun or you’re not. Apple has recently unveiled their long-awaited smart watch ...
  • Tip o’ the Week #245 – Podcasts on Windows Phone 8.1

    The topic of Podcasts was raised by a Tip reader some time ago, after Windows Phone changed the way it handled music synching onto the device (remember Zune ?) . Paul Thurrot suggested a workaround though it did involve using iTunes . Windows and iTunes...
  • Tip o’ the Week #246 – The least-used key on your keyboard

    The computer keyboard will probably be with us for many years to come – it’s just such an efficient way ( once you get used to it ) of text entry, that it’s hard to imagine it’ll be replaced entirely with gestures or by speech . There are some pretty...