The use of Windows-D to minimise Windows

I learnt a new trick today from a techie that was helping me with something.
I have known about holding down the windows key and pressing the letter M, to minimse all windows that are open to the bottom of the screen, but I didn’t know about Windows and D, which does the same thing except [...]

Educational laptops for less than £100

The Asus eee which is an ultra small, ultra lightweight laptop type device but most importantly costs about £200 has started a kind of revolution, where devices are getting smaller, lighter, cheaper, and significantly are moving open source solutions such as Linux and Open Office.
Elonex have  plans for a similar device to appear in June [...]

Synchronising Outlook, Google and a Mobile device

Up until recently I have used Google Calendars as my primary diary, with a mechanism to record a back up to my Outlook account stored on my laptop. This worked well as I could access my calendar from anywhere on the web, and I could give other people access to it (e.g. my wife).
I have [...]

Getting rid of the ‘Drawing canvas’ in Microsoft Word 2003

When I first started using Word 2003, one of the most annoying things that I discovered was the way that it handled the drawing of images – in that if you wanted to draw a simple diagram (e.g. 2 text boxes connected by an arrow) – it would automatically create a drawing canvas, and make [...]

JISC Copyight resource

I blogged about this last year, in my previous blog, but as I was asked a Copyright question yesterday, I thought it was worth me bringing this to the fore again.
Copyright is a complex issue, with most people either ignoring it, or getting to heavily bogged in the finer details of the legalities. What this [...]

Embedding images from other people Moblogs

My good colleague Lilian Soon of xlearn (pictured on the right below) is an avid used of something called Shozu and Moblog. Shozu, is a piece of software that you download to your mobile phone, allowing you to take pictures somewhere, then publish them directly to the web from your phone – in this case [...]

The educational merits of Wikipedia

Wikipedia seems to have created very polar views within education – there are many who think it should be discouraged at all costs, as it undermines the whole educational system based around scholarly activity and reading of books, and then there are the others that recognise in certain areas it is far more accurate than [...]