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Approaching the Fork: Part 3. LibreOffice or OpenOffice instead of MS Word? 21 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
In this series of posts, I’m discussing whether I can move completely from Windows to Linux. In the last post in the series, I discussed why I’m sticking with Windows 7 for the moment rather than movi...
Dealing with WordPress Spam Comments Not Stopped by Akismet 7 Aug 2013 | 08:46 pm
This blog gets about 3000 spam comments each day. Akismet, the commonly recommended spam filter for WordPress, used to deal effectively with all spam but I’ve found that since about May this year, up ...
Filter Out Stories You Don’t Want to See in Feedly with Reader Filter 26 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Feed readers are great for getting all your news delivered to one place. Now that Google Reader has gone, we’ve all had to find an alternative reader. I’ve been using Feedly for some time now. I can s...
Remove Annoying utm_source Tracking Codes when Following Some Links from Feedly 16 Jul 2013 | 08:48 pm
Some bloggers choose to add utm_source tracking codes to their page URLs to track where their blog traffic is coming from. That’s fine but if I follow a link from Feedly, my RSS reader, and want to bo...
Holidays, Exercise and Relaxation 10 Jul 2013 | 09:47 pm
Every year, we have a summer break in the west of Ireland and this year was no exception. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed revisiting towns there like Athlone and Roscommon. Athlone is in central Ireland ...
Five Free Software Updaters Compared 19 Jun 2013 | 08:17 pm
I don’t know their proper title. I’ve always called them software updaters. You know, software you download which scans the programs on your PC, lists those with newer versions and offers to update th...
Five Free Software Updaters Compared 19 Jun 2013 | 08:17 pm
I don’t know their proper title. I’ve always called them software updaters. You know, software you download which scans the programs on your PC, lists those with newer versions and offers to update th...
Quickly Insert Missing Spaces in MS Word 8 May 2013 | 11:51 pm
Your collaborating or editing a Word document and you come across missing spaces with everything crammed together. No spaces after commas, no space after colons, no spaces inserted on either side of p...
Recording the Seasons 30 Apr 2013 | 11:21 pm
Well, that’s April just about over as we look forward to summer here in northern Scotland. The daffodils are in full bloom now and the buds are appearing on the trees. Barley has been planted and the ...
Change of Direction – Content Consumption to Content Creation 29 Mar 2013 | 05:49 pm
We have a lot of choices in our spare time these days. If we decide to spend it in front of a screen, we can generally either consume (e.g. watch YouTube, read blogs) or create (e.g. write blog posts,...
