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Superfast Broadband in the UK

The issue with superfast broadband is that it is the same properties in easy to reach urban areas that always get the new high speed technologies. The gap will widen as BT continue to push speeds higher in these areas.

Those in rural communities have to live with very low speeds (often less than 2mb) with no sign of any improvement in the future. In terms of carbon reduction it will surely be better to improve the ability for rural businesses to function than encourage travel to urban locations which have the required communications infrastructure.

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Wine rack project

Before and after

I must be getting older as I have started to do ‘projects’ in the shed. The latest is to build a wine rack from an old oak beam which was a gatepost in our driveway. Read this post to see the progress and the finished rack installed and filled with wine.

The full set of photos of the rack construction is here.

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Planning the move from PC to Mac

I have finally decided to move from a PC to a Mac as my main desktop computer. Thought I would blog the experience and add some recommendations to make the process easy. Check back here regularly for updates.

 
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Printing from iPhone and iPad

I have been looking for tools to help with porinting from an iOS device. Came across two recently which work using a Mac and shared network printer.

AirPrint Activator is a small application that will enable a Mac OSX 10.6.5 + iTunes 10.1 hidden feature to allow your shared printer to be visible on your iOS 4.2.1 devices. AirPrint allow you to print from new generation of Apple iPhones, iPad and iPod Touch to a printer shared over your personal WiFi network.

Run Printopia on your Mac to share its printers to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Add unlimited virtual printers to save print-outs to your Mac as PDF files. Printopia translates for your printer, allowing it to speak to your iPhone or iPad even if it’s not an AirPrint-compatible printer.

 
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Evernote… notes forever on any platform

I have started using Evernote a great deal. It is a cloud based notebook which is available on virtually any platform. With the capability to hold text, graphics, sound and other documents there is not much you can’t put into a note. See the Evernote web site to download and try for free.

 
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Online accounting software

For ages I have been looking for a better financial accounting package. Sage is cumbersome to use for a non-accountant and has to be installed on a single PC. Multi-company and multi-user versions are very expensive. What I needed was a cloud based system which could be accessed from anywhere and by anyone I give the username and password to.

After an extensive search I settled on ‘Kashflow’. It is extremely easy to use, cost effective (£15/month) and built for small businesses who do their own accounts. See the site www.kashflow.co.uk for details and give it a try. New subscribers will get a £1 month discount by clicking this link.

 
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