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Teleport: A single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs

by jonathan on February 28, 2010

Came across a great little app today that allows me to take control of my iMac screen from my Macbook Pro across the network

Teleport:

“Teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. Simply reach an edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your nearby Mac, which also becomes controlled by your keyboard. The pasteboard can be synchronized, and you can even drag & drop files between your Macs. “

A quick tutorial on setting it up is here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2135941_one-mouse-keyboard-using-teleport.html

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Cloud Computing on Global Dashboard

by jonathan on February 26, 2010

I was chuffed to see one of my favourite blogs suddenly posted about “my” area , Cloud Computing. Global Dashboard has this to say:

VoxEU explores the emergence of “cloud computing” and its potential impact on our lifestyles, business innovation, and economic growth. Charles Leadbeater assesses the associated rise of “cloud culture” and the importance of guarding this new space from the overbearing influence of government and big business. Elsewhere, over at Brookings Mark Muro wonders if the rise of Amazon’s Kindle could be a “symbol of American decline”.

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Summing a table in MS Word

January 28, 2010

Its obvious in retrospect, but for years I have always manually added up figures in columns I was working on in Microsoft Word (e.g. a payment schedule in a contract).
This week I was getting sick of recalculating figures every time I made a change, and googled the problem.
Word Tips has just what I needed: Summing [...]

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Happy 2010

December 31, 2009

Dear readers,
I just wanted to to wish you a very happy and prosperous new year.
Kind regards,
Jonathan

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Design Thinking

December 13, 2009

I am currently crunching through Steve Litt’s brilliant series of books on Troubleshooting. I am hugely into general problem solving frameworks and his Universal Troubleshooting Process (UTP) is one of my favourites.
Today, whilst clearing my backlog on Instapaper I came across this Wired.com piece on legendary design firm IDEO. They use a simply process [...]

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Featherbedding

October 28, 2009

“Featherbedding is a pejorative term for the practice of hiring more workers than are needed to perform a given job, or to adopt work procedures which appear pointless, complex and time-consuming merely to employ additional workers. The term “make-work” is sometimes used as a synonym for featherbedding.
The term “featherbedding” is usually used by management to [...]

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Rave Review for Change By Design

September 28, 2009

Bob Sutton notes a rave review of EDEO CEO Tim Brown’s new book “Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation“. Bob writes:
The review, called “Redefining a Profession,” concludes that Tim has successfully avoided one of the biggest risks in a book like this one – coming across as too much of [...]

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50 more ways to improve your business

September 27, 2009

Master consultant and all round business genius Gerald Wienberg has sorted the best of Jerry Weinberg’s (no relation) “50 things to improve business”:
2. back up everything
4. Rule: do nothing, revised with 3 caveats: a) don’t do it if there’s someone that can do it better; b) don’t do it if there’s someone that can do [...]

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When Murphy comes calling

July 10, 2009

There is a good article in Projects@Work about what to do when a risk you chose not to mitigate materialises, and how to handle it.
From Projects@Work – A Guy Named Murphy:
Widely accepted risk management theory says that doing nothing is an appropriate response to some risks. But what happens on a project when you’ve [...]

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What you really do with OODA loops

June 30, 2009

These are some selections and notes from a brilliant essay by Dr Chester W Richards about OODA loops and the general application of military know how to business. From “What you really do with OODA loops” :
The key to the military notion of time lies in how practitioners of the art of war view strategy. [...]

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