It’s been a labour of love getting Readahead going.
My Uncle, a school teacher in the UK designed this fantastic reading system many years ago now. About 10 years ago he asked if I could design some software to demonstrate it and help teach the system to not only children, but anyone with reading difficulties or learning English as a second language. Continue reading
I had some issues pairing my logitech bluetooth headset to my new Sony Ericsson x10 Mini Pro.
Probably my lack of Android experience but I got stumped with the “paired but not connected” message after attempting to connect to it. Continue reading
Here’s a little introduction to using gmail through the web interface (“webmail”).
This is for those folk who have a gmail account, but are used to using it via regular email software like Thunderbird, Outlook or Windows Mail. When you leave home and want to check your mail at a friend’s house or internet cafe this is what you’ll need to use. Continue reading
There seems to be no elegant way of transferring a picture you see in Picasa into an OpenOffice document.
This tutorial shows a quick, but not very intuitive, way of doing just that. It’s worth remembering as it’s very simple to do. This example shows OpenOffice Draw, but same will apply to OpenOffice Writer documents too, and probably any application which opens a file dialog to insert a picture.