A quick post about transparency – the good and bad implications – my  blog post on AIIM Communites

By default, in the Mac finder you can see the size of individual files but not folders (unless you click on “get info” for each one.

However it’s easy to set the option to see the folder size. Just go Finder, View, Show View Options, and select the “calculate all sizes” box.

Bear in mind that the [...]

Today, Google announced Google Buzz which is their play into the social web.
Here’s a look at how it works.
On the face of it, the simplicity of it seems similar to a microblogging tool such as twitter (you have a space to write your update). However, it is embedded in the gmail interface,  making it easy [...]

This is pretty useful and I can never remember the exact syntax, so here it is for me (and now you) to remember.
In a Google spreadsheet, you can do an online currency conversion that looks up the exchange rate in real time, making my life much easier.
For example to get EUR to GBP just type
=googlefinance((”CURRENCY:EURGBP”))
(note: [...]

One of the things I often need to do is to calculate the number of work days between 2 dates in order to calculate billable days. There is a very useful function called NETWORKDAYS which does exactly this. It works the same in both Excel and Google Spreadsheets
The syntax is =NETWORKDAYS (start_date, end_date, [holidays])
example =NETWORKDAYS [...]

I was fortunate enough to attend the Google Atmosphere conference last week in London. My top 3 take aways were:

Cloud computing is a reality here and now, and is being used by businesses to reduce cost and redeploy expertise in a strategic manner
Even if your business is not considering how cloud computing can be used [...]

There are many benefits to cloud computing apps such as Google apps and Salesforce.com, especially in terms of reducing costs and allowing someone else to run things that are not part of your core business. However one of the downsides is that once you take the plunge and invest in a “cloud-based” application, it can [...]

This is an interesting innovation from US-based Magenn Power; a high altitude wind turbine that is designed to harness the powerful winds such as the low-level jet streams that exist at around 1000ft above ground level, by embedding a turbine in a balloon.
The ability to deflate and redeploy quickly would also make it pretty attractive [...]

This is an interesting webcast where Serena Software talks about their migration from an on-premise email system (Exchange) to a cloud-based solution (the well-known Google Apps)

Many IT teams feel threatened by cloud based services because they are not under their direct control. However, forward-thinking IT teams realise that the right strategy is to embrace the [...]

LocalGovCamp, an unconference for local government,  happened this last weekend (Saturday 20th June) – what an astonishing turnout -more than 130 people from Local Govt came along on a Saturday to talk about the future of local government, citizen engagement, smarter working and more…
Here is an interview by @davidwilcox with @carlhaggerty and @robgray (me) at [...]