The Qwertyrash Blogs

So I’m a bit slow! Most folks probably discovered iGoogle eons ago. But I’ve just discovered it in the last few days. Yes, I’d looked at it previously, but discounted it as just a bit of clutter on the Google homepage.

However, I’ve now taken the time to explore a few of the other gadgets you can add and found a few that are going to greatly improve how I work.

I am writing this post from one!

Can you believe it? On a single page I now have my Google calendar agenda, my to do list, newspaper headlines, local weather and radar, my gmail, a wikipedia and a dictionary search, and of course, this widget that lets me post entries to QwertyRash!!!!

I don’t know about you, but I’m impressed.

This will change the way I blog because it makes blog posting even more accessible than previously with Ecto or with ScribeFire.

If you haven’t checked it out, you really must.

After much resistance, finally upgraded my Mac’s RAM from 1GB to 3GB. The difference is amazing.
I needed it because I run Windows (in Parallels), Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Safari and Firefox all at the same time. Plus a few others like Mail and Pastor. Not surprisingly that was killing my machine.
Now it flies! Well, it’s not […]

For fun I’ve started making a list of real people I’ve come across, whose last name reflects their occupation such as Mr Caterer - Publican/Hotelier, Ms Roots - Environmental Scientist and Mr Bell - Inventor of the telephone
As I come across more, I’ll re-issue this post with the date of update.

Have finally seen the light and started using del.icio.us (although I hate the spelling). I kick myself for not using it years ago. So often I’ve visted pages and then nebver been able to find them again.
I’m using it now though because I want to access my bookmarks at home and school.
However, visually, it’s rather […]

Well, I’ve just started my second year of graphic design and we have to do a web design component this year.
Had a lot of fun with the first assignment, taking it way past where the teacher intended. He actually said I already knew more than he was going to teach the others for the year. […]

Valleywag’s Rumormonger has rumored MacBook Air could have AT&T wireless access built-in. Not an original idea with respondents on that column have pointing out Windows PCs have had that facility for a few years.
But what if Apple cut a deal with AT&T so iPhone users could share their data component of their iPhone plans with […]

Like many others, I discovered web sharing not working in Leopard. It seems to be caused by using a Time Machine restored version of your system. That was my problem, and here’s a fix found on the Apple support forums that worked for me.

Maybe this will help you. The apache2 log file directory […]

Remember the olden days - 2006 - when RSS ruled and you’d follow 2000 feeds every day?
Yeah, me too. I’ve only got 9 nowadays.
I follow Digg, MacDailyNews, MacOSXHints, MacRumors, MacUpdate, NewsBiscuit, ProBlogger and Scobleizer. And that keeps me happy.

Don Bradman, the greatest batsman ever in cricket, may have missed the perfect 100 run average because of a rule change early in his career.

You can do heaps more with a computer than without…. Nowadays most people, even managers and executives, type their own letters - at least in first draft.And therein is the problem computers have created.