Category: Business

  • Useful Mac Shortcut Key (show desktop)

    Part two of my notes of moving from Windows to Mac – read part 1 here One of the most popular posts in the blog is the shortcut key in windows to ‘show desktop’. I love shortcut keys, but they’re all different on the Mac so I’m having to learn them all over again. Here…

  • Notes from moving from Windows to Mac

    My trusty HP laptop (nx6325 circa 2006) has finally reached retirement. Actually, as a PC it was running fine. It’s processor was expensive for it’s time (a 64bit dual core AMD) and routine improvements (memory to 1.5GB, hard disk to 256Gb, 2 replacement batteries) had extended it’s life nicely. The reason for replacing was the…

  • Backups for Google Calendar – a ruby application

    I admit I’ve not been so busy posting the to blog this year. One thing that’s kept me busy has been learning Ruby on Rails making my first opensource application. I’m a hobby programmer, so the idea of sharing my code is worrying. I’m sure there are lots of errors, bad practice and so on.…