Category Archives: Computing – general

Acer A500 Tablet Review and Total Commander

Posted on 18/05/2011 by dougaj4

Having got fed up waiting for supplies of the iPad2 to become available, I bought myself an Acer A500 Tablet about 3 weeks ago, so here are my first impressions.  Remember that I’m very much a tablet newbie, who still uses dumb phone … Continue reading →

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Seeing through Mingus eyes

Posted on 28/01/2011 by dougaj4

At the top of Bob Phillips’ Blog home page is a quote from Charles Mingus, the great jazz bassist, band leader and composer: “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity” If Bob hadn’t … Continue reading →

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2010 in review

Posted on 02/01/2011 by dougaj4

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. … Continue reading →

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RSS Feeds and Comments

Posted on 25/11/2010 by dougaj4

I haven’t been using RSS feeds myself up to now, and I assumed they were just available for those who did, but it seems you have to activate them, so I have done that and you can now click on … Continue reading →

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PyXLL Links

Posted on 20/09/2010 by dougaj4

This is really just a bookmark for me and anyone else who may be interested. “PyXLL is an Excel addin that enables functions written in Python to be called in Excel.” That’s all I know, but it looks interesting, and … Continue reading →

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