Had you been a faithful reader of this blog (haven’t you regretted this already several times?) you would remember this post about Lovely Charts, a brave attempt to make charting slightly less obvious, monotone and Powerpoint-dull. Jérôme Cordiez brings us an exquisitely superfluous – but exactly for this reason totally necessary – application which brings [...]
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iPad charting: some love from @lovely_djay
Posted: December 11, 2011 in Presentation excellence, Software0
Ever. I use trains in Italy and France; some of the trains I use go from Italy to France and viceversa. I have never used a train in Germany. Yet the best ever iPad application to check train schedules, especially when you cross borders is done by Deutsche Bahn, which obviously must access a database [...]
This is a post for all the project-management junkies out there (and given the size of my audience, it is a fairly large group. Not !) I am about to kick-start another very large client project which will require iron-fisted project management skills to stay on time. So I am dusting PM skills which I [...]
…since yesterday when I open an Office document (PPT, DOC or XLS) it now launches iWork instead of OpenOffice. I am sure I ticked some box somewhere, but for the life of me….
…why some apps can read the operating systems network settings and therefore automatically activate the proxy script when I’m behind the corporate firewall, and deactivate it when I’m outside? I would have never expected (perhaps unfairly) that level of user-friendliness on my Windows PC, but I did on Linux and even more now on Mac [...]
I’ve had it! After months of wrangling with a stubborn printing problem that only affects my MacBook Pro (not any of the kids’ nor Mirella’s iMac) I am dropping OpenOffice in favor a Apple’ Pages who reads and writes .doc but prints and saves in PDF as well. Don’t say I haven’t tried ! I [...]
Seems that the bubble-inspired love for alternate spelling of product names did not end up in the same tar pit as Lehman futures. Weeks after the Chrome hoopla, there’s a new browser in town, check it out. I have a hard time imagining anything new in the browser space, after tabs and decent Java, but [...]
Looks like the Googleplex is in ebullient mode, and after Chrome, now Picasa gets a nifty face recognition feature, giving it a boost over Flickr. It took it the best part of the night to crunch my albums and it turns out I have 4488 faces on my Picasa albums, so it’ll take a while [...]
It shows that there’s not much going on. Practically every blogger I follow has a Chrome post. But not so fast, Buster, if you use a Mac you’ll get there in due course. Update: for those in love with conspiracy theories, a good article by Matt Cutts. Update 2: here is a pretty comprehensive head-to-head [...]
Check it out! I guess this is Microsoft way of responding to Google Earth – sure the interface looks badass compared to the rather spartan one of GE. Except I will never know. No Mac version. Oh, well ! And, here is the installation instructions: 6 steps, .NET, SDK, allowing access, security warnings… Anyway, if [...]
