July 17, 2012
by Neil T
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Three months ago I began tweeting both in a personal capacity (@nrturner) and also using an official Twitter account at work (@LifeSci_UoB). The experience so far has been enlightening and, while the work account isn’t hugely popular (yet…) I’ve learned … Continue reading
May 10, 2012
by Neil T
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If you want to send a tweet with a picture, most Twitter clients will let you use services like TwitPic or yFrog to do so, and more recently Twitter has offered its own image hosting service which is usually the … Continue reading
April 17, 2012
by Neil T
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Several methods of sharing photos from the Instagram app to the Google+ social network, using ifttt, Picasa, Dropbox and Android. Continue reading
April 15, 2012
by Neil T
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It seems to be a fact of life that the longer you have an iPhone, the worse the battery life gets. But it shouldn’t be this way. There’s actually quite a few things you can do to maximise your iPhone’s … Continue reading
October 25, 2011
by Neil T
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Whilst some like to get lost in whole albums, I generally prefer to listen to music on shuffle mode – a bit like listening to the radio when you don’t necessarily know what’ll come next. iTunes is good for this, … Continue reading
October 10, 2011
by Neil T
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If you’re a Mac user, then it’s probably likely that you have Growl installed – a notification framework that allows applications to display messages on the screen. Quite why Apple haven’t yet made it part of Mac OS X is … Continue reading
July 29, 2011
by Neil T
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On Monday I added my first impressions about Lion, including my views on Launchpad, which I summarised as being a good feature afflicted by two major bugs: It puts the applications that came with your Mac on the first … Continue reading
June 26, 2011
by Neil T
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WordPress, like other modern blogging systems, supports tags on posts and also lets you display a ‘tag cloud’ as a sidebar widget, where the most used tags are in larger text. But what if you want a tag cloud as … Continue reading
June 17, 2011
by Neil T
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Though Christine and I are not badly off financially, we’re still in a situation where we really want to save money where possible, and this includes holidays. Despite this, we went to London a few weeks ago for a long … Continue reading
January 15, 2011
by Neil T
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iOS devices, such as my iPhone 4, are pretty good at handling apps that crash. But sometimes apps just freeze, or stop working correctly.
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