Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]
Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 2
3rd January 2013 by
Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]
Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 1
30th December 2012 by
Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ?
This three part screencast is about how I manage all the “inputs” so I don’t feel lost in information after many, many people asked.
Max OSX: Set Default Font in OmniGraffle
26th December 2012 by
A quick tip on setting the Text Tool in OmniGraffle to your favourite font. I have my preferred font when creating diagrams and you set effectively make it the default font. There are two ways that involve the way you choose the Text Tool. One ‘trick’ is to press click and hold on the Text Tool and [...]
DevonThink for Automatic Content Discovery
19th December 2012 by
I’ve got a lot of content in my DevonThink system. As you can see here, over 805 files in the Inbox of my gfDefaultInbox alone. Note: Click on the images for fulle I’ve been promising myself to spend some time looking into LISP, and I KNOW that I’ve been collecting content about LISP for [...]
Important to Get Data Out and Well as In
21st May 2012 by
A look at a key feature of my favourite anything box – exporting and why I don’t use Evernote.
OSX: SmartSleep App Review
17th May 2012 by
Quick review of one of my favourite system tool for the Mac – SmartSleep
Change Dock Animation on OSX
24th April 2012 by
Remove Dock Animation Completely defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock Reset Dock Animation defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier;killall Dock Set an Ultra-Fast Dock Hide & Display Animation defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.12;killall Dock Apply commands in a terminal window etc etc.
OSX-RCDefault App – Editing the Default Application
4th April 2012 by
As part of the writing workflow, I have several text editors for editing raw text when I’m writing in Markdown. I also use different outlining apps which use OPML formatted files (mostly Mind Node, Tree or Scrivener) – OPML is useful for transferring outlines between applications.
This means that I need to keep changing the default application setting on OSX. This is not easy with standard OSX ( or maybe not at all).
Bonjour, Zeroconf, Rendezvous – Why Three Names for the Same Thing ?
14th March 2012 by
I’ve been researching Bonjour networking as used by Apple for Airplay and AirPrint technologies. Bonjour allows for auto configuration and auto discovery of network services and devices. Apple iPad and iPhones will be part of the corporate network in the near future and people will want to use the AirPlay feature for screen displays and AirPrint for printing – you will need to know what it is.
