People who give a damn!

This post started as an email reply to Frank Arrigo. Frank was kindly answering another of my questions about Bluetooth and PDA interoperability. My response evolved however into something that really needs to be more widely heard, hence I’m posting it here. > Unfortunately the news isn’t good > > I haven’t been able to

Bluetooth & My PDA – my ongoing saga

Over at Frank Arrigo’s blog he has the low down on a kludge to get VoiceCommand to take commands straight from a BT headset. frankarr – an aussie microsoft blogger : K-JAM, Microsoft Voice Command, Bluetooth earpiece and a registry hack Longtime readers will know the ongoing battle I’ve had with this BT stuff on

The perfect productivity tools

The Lifehacker was reporting on what tools she uses everyday. In addition to using Yahoo! Calendar as detailed previously, I carry around a 70 sheet spiral notebook with a cardboard cover which cost about a buck at the local drugstore. In it I write down my daily to-do’s and project lists. I manually transfer items

Enabling Occupation

After a lecture I gave to some Year 2 Occupational Therapy Students at UNISA back in September which I wrote about on my personal blog, I was invited back today to give the speel to some Post Grad Students. This group was smaller compared to the 60 odd last time. I had a great time

Thunderbird’s QuickText

There’s a great extension for the equally great open source email program, Thunderbird called QuickText. This bit of software is installed in Thunderbird and acts like a macro typing device that can input long pieces of text with few keystrokes or the click of a button. QuickText is especially for email as it can recognize

Rotary switch adaption

Was sitting here in my office on a 31C day thinking it feels a bit hot. Was just then I remembered I could turn the ceiling fan on thanks to a switch mod my father did recently. I’d had many similar mods on rotary switches of many types done previously and as I cannot grip