Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Innovation and surfing

Good case study (?) of how to get small groups collaborating and driving innovation. I can’t see us transferring ITW to a beach, though.

Wednesday reading

Off skiing, so these will have to wait until next week:

Vista lite

If only I had known before I installed Vista that I could massively reduce its footprint. Ach well.

2D photos into 3D spaces

Very neat algorithm to extrapolate 2D to 3D. Take a few pictures, a reverse panorama, if you like, and you have a pretty good 3D model.

Beeping

I hadn’t come across beeping – making intentional missed calls – by that name. Nice idea: what other “standard” messages should we allow for free – I have “I’m leaving now” set up as a fast text on my phone, for example. As the article says, government should have a pile of these for its citizens and customers.

US SMS can be pretty expensive

Some interesting figures for US SMS costs vs standard internet. I wonder what the picture is like in the UK, where far more people have SMS bundles as part of their plan costs.

Organ donation

Couldn’t remember if I was on the register or not, so I registered online. Let’s see how joined up government can be…

Mail merge to individual documents

Useful free add-in to allow you to save a sequence of individual documents from your mail merge. Now to work out how to automatically email them to the individuals with a tailored email message. [Update: this will work, but is a little tricky]

ExMerge as an exchange backup tool

ExMerge lets you grab multiple mailboxes to PSTs. This is a great backup, especially of old dead mailboxes you want to delete from your system. I got an “EXCHMEM.dll not found” error, fixed by copying the file from /Exchsvr/bin to the ExMerge folder. Some more useful stuff here. And you will most likely have to do this temporary work around to access data for backup. [Update: make sure you use a non-administrator account to do the ExMerging]

Communities and boundaries

Lots of good things on how to manage and facilitate communities with porous boundaries.

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