Podcast: Receipts
How to get rid of receipts, without just binning them. Another piece from the BBC World Service. http://www.loosewireblog.com/files/1705_receipts.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Category Archives: Hardware
The Productivity of Fewer Choices
I liked this piece switching by Bill Westerman on utilware about switching over to a Mac. What caught my eye were his points about the productivity of fewer choices: You’ll be amazed at how few things there are to modify I was the ultimate tweaker in Windows – registry entries, options menus, toolbar buttons – and… Read More »
A View From the Trenches
Just had lunch with my old friend William, an upright member of the financial community and a scholar. Half an hour of his computer woes and you wonder three things: how the PC ever made it out of the nerd’s den how overwhelmingly inadequate software, interfaces and help files are whether we shouldn’t just ditch… Read More »
Podcast: The Joy of Monitors
The joy of having more than one screen, and controlling other computers from one keyboard. It’s less nerdy than it sounds. This is podcast version of my BBC World Service column, which runs on the World Business Report. Download it and/or subscribe to the podcast feed here. For more on extra monitors, check out my… Read More »
A Directory of Monitor Extenders
This week’s WSJ.com Loose Wire column (subscription only, I’m afraid) is on getting more screen for nothing: People of the future will laugh at us for many reasons, no doubt, but one of the most likely sources of their mirth will be the miserly size of our computer screens. It isn’t that our screens haven’t… Read More »