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Spring forward, Fall back. One hour to iPad and counting down to daylight saving

Here I sit watching the best of Tropfest 2010 wrestling heavy eyeballs trying to get to the last wee hours of daylight saving before the clock gets cranked back to normal, when seriously all I am actually doing is waiting and watching, online of course, what happens at the flagship 5th Avenue Apple ‘Cube’ store [...]

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Free your mouse hand today

Published on 29. Mar, 2010 by admin in communication, social, technology

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Free your mouse hand today

How many times a day would you chose to File>save as?

As a student and comms man who writes a bazillion reports I do it… let’s say quite often.

I never use a mouse though

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UPS tracking scam email – WARNING

My web-mail service got pinged overnight by an oldie but a goodie – the UPS tracking scam email. It went something like this: Hello! Unfortunately we were not able to deliver the package sent on the 1st of June in time because the recipient’s address is not correct. Please print out the invoice copy attached [...]

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My office Ringtone nightmare

Published on 10. Mar, 2010 by admin in communication, music

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My office Ringtone nightmare

This post is more of a vent than anything else but I have to let it out before I start smashing other peoples handsets so it is better here than at work. I work in an environment where people’s mobile phones ring all day long. I work in telecommunications so I understand that we need [...]

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Not convinced about the need for all this 'Social Media?'

If you are one of those people who sit around bagging me for the amount of times I check my iPhone or sit logged in at my computer checking my updates, watching videos, sending tweets, taking videos and posting them to Vimeo and YouTube and still don’t quite understand why or what makes it tick [...]

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Google Wave, Google Buzz… Index this *flips bird*

Have you heard about the latest buzz word, yeah Google Buzz is the buzz and I have no idea why I need, let alone want it. I signed up for a Gmail so I could enter competitions, sign up for pointless crap and generally give it to anyone I never wanted to find me so [...]

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How will the iPad fit into your digital life?

I was asked to write up my initial thoughts on the iPad on 27 Jan when it launched for my work blog, so rather than repeat anything here, please follow the link to the Telstra Exchange blog where you can read my opinions and have your say. .

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Twitter training – Final assignment

The final assignment has amazingly turned out quite similar to how I planned it. I am really quite  happy with most elements although some parts are still quite clunky and I did envisage the Quizz page quite differently on the outset. I would like to have been able to master the Card Flip memory game [...]

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Twitter lists and Communication Evolution

I made my first Twitter lists last week. I thought it was a cool idea and added a lot of value for me being able to sort my tweeps by category – I thought it would simply help me cut through the swathe of noise that I otherwise see in the Twitterstream of consciousness. But [...]

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