Archive for the ‘could_do_better’ Category
The arrival of my shiny new Lenovo X201 Tablet meant that I had to lay my hands on a 3G SIM so that I could try out its WWAN (the 3 SIM in my MiFi was pressed into other duties, but that’s another story for another day). For a while I’ve been recommending Vodafone’s Top […]
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Tags: 3G, APN, payg, sim, tug, vodafone, WWAN
I’ve been pretty gushing in the past about Lenovo and their netbooks, but more recently they’ve not been doing much to keep me happy. About 6 weeks ago I ordered an s10-3t ‘netvertible’ (a netbook crashed into a tablet). It wasn’t exactly what I wanted – I’d have liked a higher resolution screen, and built […]
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Tags: customer service, lenovo, s10-3t
I’ve written before about my trusty Lenovo s10e, which I’ve had for about a year now. Recently though I’ve been loving my little netbook a lot less, as the fan was making such an atrocious noise that people on the other side of my office were complaining. Sadly this seems to be a common problem. […]
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Tags: fan, fix, hack, lenovo, noisy, s10e
Custom CSS frustration
I spent a little time (well far too much really) earlier this week tarting up the corporate blog, so that it would look more like our web site. It wasn’t much fun. I’d had in mind that I might just merge the two, but it turns out that WordPress.com doesn’t offer the DNS flexibility that […]
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Tags: CSS, Custom CSS, SandBox, theme, WordPress, WordPress.com
How Gmail could be better
I’ve been using Gmail since the earliest days (Oct 2004), when you had to know somebody with spare invites, and I’ve always liked it. Now that I use it at work as well as for personal mail I find that there are a few niggles that I’m sure the Google guys could sort out: Label […]
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Tags: gmail, google
It really looks like somebody started building an application to do this properly on the web, and then thought it was too much trouble – let’s just give them a link to the paper form.
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