The great laptop experiment ends
The experiment that had me trying to see if we could have a couple of pool laptops to go to trial sans MS Office officially came to an end today. Much as we don’t want to, it looks like we’re … Continued
A new Twist for Presentations
Yesterday, I was writing about the bump in the road with using Open Office instead of MS Office on our pool laptops, namely, PowerPoint presentations. Today, my further research into that led me in some interesting directions. I started out … Continued
The Open Office Experiment Continues
I wrote earlier about a grand experiment with Open Office that I’ve been trying. Today, the experiment kicked in to full gear with the arrival of our two laptops. After setting up one of them, including an install of Open … Continued
G.ho.st Update
You may recall a while back I talked about G.ho.st the online Virtual Machine project. I haven’t gone back to look at it again in some time, but I got an email from them today, and given the new features, … Continued
Personal Use of the Internet
Neville Hobson posted something interesting over the weekend, and Shel Holtz added some further thoughts to the discussion today, about the number of companies who have simply blocked access to Facebook and other social networking sites. I think they cover … Continued
My own thoughts
Regarding my previous question from the weekend about where you draw the line between keeping up a good relationship with your users and letting them walk all over you with non-work technology issues, I would mostly err on the side … Continued
Today’s survey
In all your experience supporting users, which is the most mis-used application, Powerpoint, or Excel? Leave your comments below. I used to think it was Powerpoint, but then I saw this Excel workbook, multiple sheets with somewhere in the area … Continued