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"Protecting your address book" and other email hoaxes Tuesday, 10 May 2011 09:52 |  Written by goldfigure
This is not a chain email or a hoax and PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK, at least not without reading it to the end. Last Updated (Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:21)
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Where can I find a wall planner for 2011?Friday, 11 February 2011 13:21 | Written by goldfigure
It's almost the middle of February and I realised that with the impending birth of my second child, school holidays for the first and a whole host of projects coming up this year I had better organise a wall planner / calendar. I spent a few minutes looking round for a wall planner to download but most were either plain ugly or had nowhere for me to scribble. None fit the bill. I am supposed to be an Excel Ninja so I put brain to paper and came up with a wall planner for 2011 that's simple and to the point. Me being me I went a step further because I don't want to be looking again next year so in go a couple of clever formulae and I've got a wall planner for any year just by changing the number at the top. Feel free to help yourself, the Excel download link is below. Should you feel you want to tinker, the password for the protected sheet is simply "goldfigure". Last Updated (Friday, 21 October 2011 12:16) 39 Applications I simply can't work withoutThursday, 10 June 2010 12:37 | Written by goldfigure
If there was such a thing as a standard build for my computers these are the applications I have decided I absolutely can't live without. Some are free, some expensive; some for development, some for general use. In taking delivery of a new laptop this afternoon I though it was about time I wrote the list somewhere for reference. The vast majority of the software I use is free. Not because I am against spending money on tools that help me do my job but simply because there is so much great software available. I try to Downloads giving back to the open source community. The only significant expense on my list would be Microsoft Office and Visual Studio but as a BizSpark member, even these are available without paying the full licence cost. My all-time must have's are:
Last Updated (Saturday, 12 June 2010 10:48)
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Are we in 2010? Binatone are still in the 90'sTuesday, 29 June 2010 10:48 | Written by goldfigure
A while back I bought a Binatone i2120 usb handset that I could use with Skype. It's slim enough to fit in my laptop bag and means when I am working from home / client office, etc I have a usable telephone handset. Having recently swapped my laptop I needed the Binatone Internet Phone driver / application so that it would work properly with Skype. I didn't have the driver CD on me so off I toddled to binatone.com to download the software but I couldn't find it there, or anywhere else via Google... Last Updated (Saturday, 11 September 2010 19:52)
The 'almost' top 10 Google Chrome extensionsWednesday, 02 June 2010 14:25 | Written by goldfigure
Chrome crashed on me last week and as a result I lost my profile, and in it the extensions I had installed. Not great. I thought today, as I put them all back, I would create this blog post with a one-liner about each of them. It's as much for me as it might be for you. Last Updated (Thursday, 10 June 2010 12:31)
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- Make sure your job seeking email has impact
- Introducing Invoice Permalinks for KashFlow™
- Send KashFlow invoice permalinks to your clients
- Offer an unsubscribe page without losing a potential customer
- Microsoft kills Office Accounting - what were they thinking? Use KashFlow instead!
- Save the planet (by drinking beer)!
- GoldFigure listed as a KashFlow API developer
- Joomla performance tuning: the Mootools / CSS slimfast plan (updated)
- GoldFigure's top 10 Joomla extensions
- Every cloud has a silver lining (GoldFigure gets a new look)
- Twitter resources for B2B users (white paper)
- We have christened the door buzzer
- Ditch your desktop email client
- Set yourself up with VoIP on a budget (and slow broadband)
- Move a Joomla site to another server
- Stop Joomla polls giving 'invalid token' when voting
- Save money sending documents by post
- Taking the BOM out of Joomla
