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No ‘Send’ Button with Wireless Keyboard for iPad on Facebook App – Fix
I encountered this problem with the Facebook app for iPad as soon as I started using the wireless keyboard. The keyboard isn’t at fault here – it’s actually not intended for iPad strictly speaking. When you attach the keyboard, the iPad looks at it as the output and takes away all the clutter (including the [...]
iOS5 Location Reminders – A Fix for iPhone 4
I had a problem setting up location reminders on my iPhone 4 after the upgrade to iOS5. Having looked around the web, I see that the solution is NOT to sync with iCloud, but to turn all iCloud and Exchange sharing off. If you have an exchange account, go into email settings and make sure [...]
A Quote
To choose between a flicker of inadequacy or the darkness of secluded genius The step towards the unknown danger or the fall to comfortable mediocrity Letting yourself imagine the words spoken by silent lips, or to hear every sickening inflection Knowing the journey you have to take, or walking blind down a road of your [...]
Death of Major Peter Parkes
We’ve heard the sad news that Major Peter Parkes who has been popularly described as the most successful brass band conductor of all time, has passed away. This excerpt from the website of Craig Roberts is a fine appraisal and one that I’m sure others who have had the pleasure of working with Major Parkes [...]
Monetizing Online
A recent “commission” has made me consider the options available to new web-based businesses that are expected to emerge from this period of austerity. Many years ago, a large number of people decided that they could invest in side businesses – online shops and ad-driven websites that could be run while they had full time [...]
Your Social Media Value
A while ago, while working for…Company X…I had the opportunity to devise certain metrics unique to the social networking sphere. The idea was to give a KPI to the white space of social interaction so that, when two profiles were compared, a value could be assigned to their level of connection (i.e. shared interested, existing [...]
Bringing Social Networking to E-Commerce
Buying online is quite an exciting experience, especially for someone new to using the internet as a marketplace. The order through to the hours of waiting on delivery day are all part of the experience, and companies using e-commerce rely on these experiences to build trust and repeat business online. A company that will remain [...]
Movie Marathons
Dear Readers You will note that I didn’t fall into the comedic pit of doom and use a “dear reader” greeting. For this, you are of course welcome. I’ve not been blogging recently because of movie marathons – plain and simple. Well not really… On the list of marathons is: 1. The complete works of [...]
Appraisal
A colleague from about four years ago hunted me down recently and we got chatting. He’s now in a sales role for a financial giant in Edinburgh and told me about how he’d talked about me to his boss on the few occasions he gets to a) reminisce and b) chat to his superior who is, apparently, just two [...]
