Archive For May, 2010

Google enables Wave for Apps domains

Posted on May 20, 2010 in: Social Media, Work Instructions|1 Comment

In a surprising turn of events today, Google released Wave for Google Apps for Domains! This is great news for those who’ve been following Wave as closely as I have. You can now relish in having it specifically for your own private domain, where you can collaborate with your users (family/friends) in an environment they’re [...]

Aspire One touch screen

Posted on May 19, 2010 in: Projects, Work Instructions|2 Comments

Now and then I get urges to something a little wacky. I was sat on the couch browsing on my netbook one day thinking “this would be so much easier if I had a touch screen”. So off I went to Google – One of the mods I found for my laptop model was a touch [...]

Streamline XP into Ubuntu

Posted on May 17, 2010 in: Work Instructions|Post Comment

Recently Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was released and after spending a few hours on the LiveCD I finally found a reason to migrate my Windows run laptops to this faster, lighter Operating System. I was getting sick of Windows and the constant management I had to do to keep it running at optimal spec, I do [...]

Edit a PDF with Zamzar

Posted on May 14, 2010 in: Reviews, Work Instructions|Post Comment

It’s a commonly asked question, “How do I edit this PDF?”. There are some pretty good tools for users wanting to edit their PDFs, but usually they also cost money! I’ve known about Zamzar for a long time, and use it regularly as I always find myself getting PDFs while I’d rather have them in [...]

Google offering Gmail addresses in the UK

Posted on May 6, 2010 in: General|Post Comment

Google are offering us UK folk the option of now switching from @googlemail.com to @gmail.com after finally winning a battle that has been going on since around 2005. Here is the link to directly change (you need to be logged in!) https://mail.google.com/mail/googlemail/rebrand Sources: BBC News – Googlemail to become Gmail in UK Google Mail is [...]

Google Wave: Revolutionising blogs!

Posted on May 3, 2010 in: Reviews, Social Media|Post Comment

Can you see this wave? If not don’t fret! Here’s my post in a normal, easy to read format just as you’ve come to expect from me. If you would like a Wave account, why not get in touch? I have plenty of invitations, and I like to share. google.load(“wave”, “1″); google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize); function initialize() { [...]