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Nuclear is dead – never bet against the experience curve
This is next in my “x is dead” series of articles that comment on the effect of change over the past few years. I started my working life in Nuclear Fusion research but for much of the last 20 years I have been working in business. Business is very different from research and development because…
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Adobe Acrobat XI is dead – use FoxitPhantom PDF
I have used Adobe Acrobat for many years but a few years ago they moved to an excruciatingly expensive subscription model. Most users can now generate and edit PDFs using Microsoft Word. I need Acrobat for Redaction Creating PDF Portfolios for Board meetings Commenting Adding and removing pages OCR I don’t want to pay £15…
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Personal domains are dead, how to migrate to Outlook.com
For 20 years I have owned the domain bayley.me.uk and run my email off it for myself and my family. Contacts and Calendaring have always been separate applications. However now with smartphones we all want simple and integrated email, calendaring and contacts. The natural choice for me is Outlook.com, this starts from free but I…
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Freemind is dead for Windows
For many years I have used and loved Freemind for Mindmapping. Unfortunately it uses Java and on my Microsoft Surface with a Displaylink dock the rendering is now horrible. I have given up trying to make it look nice and I am now trialling the free version of XMind. It claims Hdpi support and the…
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Best explanation of Bitcoin ever
This is a brilliant explanation of Bitcoin. Even if you are expert in cryptocurrencies you will enjoy it. https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-might-be-just-copy-of-age-old-money-practice-opinion
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AirBnB spamming me, make £M but no way to contact them
#airbnb are spamming me every day. They make millions but there is no way to contact them on the website. I guess I will have to report them to the ICO
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Fixed: OneNote notebook will not sync
I have about twenty OneNote notebooks that I use in desktop OneNote and 3 had stopped syncing (probably due to me manually killing the sync service – but that is a different story). To fix this Close the problem notebook The system will warn you that parts of the book that will not sync will…
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Fixed: Windows 10 – cannot find why programme is starting up at login
A program was running each time I logged in but I could not find it. It was in the last place I looked… To find the user’s Startup items type, Windows + R, shell:Startup To find all users Startup items type, Windows +R, shell:Common Startup Actually it was a Scheduled Task type running on user login,…
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The Simplest Possible Water Rocket
Water rockets are great fun and if care is taken can provide lots of fun for all ages. There is a good introduction to them on Wikipedia. The most difficult part of designing a water rocket is the launch mechanism. You must make a seal to the rocket while you are charging it with air…
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Fixed: Outlook 2016 Quickstep will not save
There is a 6 year-old bug in Outlook 2016; you cannot Save a Quickstep that contains an email address when the account uses either a POP or IMAP connection. The issue is that the email drop-down picker silently corrupts your entry by reverting to the Windows Address book. The fix is to type brackets around…
Dr James Bayley 