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I happen to notice today as I searched some info, that a new menu item has been added to the Chrome Browser , that will show what you have in your private collection that matches the search. Its limited to photos and gmail, but its a start, and I like it. I have a lot in Drive, and now a start of a good structured collection in Google Keep . OK so Evernote has something like it, but its never quite worked for me, even in this version the new Google addition has useful heads up. So make a search and in the result, took at the title bar above for more, drop this down and click on Private, and a window opens with the additional links. Related articles ifTTT and Mac IOS Moleskin Mind Maps

Some people call this Ift, as one spoken word , not if but ift, some spell it out IFTTT , i"f this then that", for me, call it what you will its a great free service, I use to allow my blogs to get posted onto both Twitter and my Facebook konstrukshon CPD page. After another forced absence, mostly due to pressure of work and other projects, I'm making a specific move to do more blogs, and open up articles and posts thoughts on some of my project.

On the 4th Jan 2017, I left Southampton, on the P & O ship Oceana , for a 35 night cruise to the Caribbean and the USA on what promised to be a really great start to my 65 year. I will turn 65 in October so by my calculations I should have, by now, been created, and will be forming, I would liked to have talked to my mom, and asked her, when she knew she was pregnant, but unfortunately she has dementia and that memory is lost. I had brought with me most of my travelling computing equipment, my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and my Kindle, with the first 6 days after out initial stop in Spain, at sea, I have planned to complete a little work, and start writing a little. The ships WiFi showed up on my Mac, and I logged in, it has been some time since our last cruise, but it looked the same, £12 for 24 hours, fine by me I thought, I will dib into this and let my system catch up, 15 min should be enough to send stored emails, pick up waiting mail, and let Apple save the photos on lin...

Most lecturers and Teachers will know of Lesson Plans, I have mine it may not conform to some standard or other official way, but it works for me and helps me plan the lesson. I have all the information I need to plan the lesson, from the subject I am covering, the equipment I might need, to the slide set I will use. My slides are in subject on Google, and so often I go back to teach a lesson I did last year, and can't remember which set I used, the lesson plan sorts this. I also have a reading list, I expect my students to have at least read before attending, often as not its a free download, I give links to the source, and point to any specific section I want them to read. There are many reasons I do this, but most its to save time, and get the most out of my limited lesson, by asking them to say read a section of the building regulations. I also give a bibliography of source books, web sites and article I have used in generating my slides. This lesson plan have been...

For so long, I have always thought that to track how a building is running, what machines or devices are running, I had to install sensors into the element and or object. That seems to have been turned on its head with a new single sensor board, that seems to use sound, and a smart algorithm, to analyse each sound to determine what is creating the sound, ir opening a microwave door, a window, or just entering the room. The video below outlines the product. as yet I can't get one, but as soon as it becomes available I will purchase a few and trial them out. Follow this link to the official site for more info, and the Academic paper describing this unit. Related articles MasterCard is testing new cards with fingerprint sensors to keep your money safe Future Fords may be equipped with biometric sensors How Core Sectors are Utilising Fibre Optic Sensors to Improve Operational Efficiency Creating the Smartest Home on the Block

On Thursday of this week, I attended the Google Next cloud event in London, ausum, not just good but totally, aussum, and I say that not because of the free lunch, but the presentations, and information the way I was received, and the help I got from all the Google Staff. So first, the reason I attended, was to learn about data, the way Google Handles it and how I can tap into this, using the wide breadth of storage they offer, but also to tools. It's here you suddenly understand the breadth of the capacity Google has, its in a world of it's own, they talk in numbers that only a few can really comprehend, and at speeds, I just look at and wonder. For some, the type and format of the products offered by Google is an easy choice, but for me, it's not so easy, this video has some answers: But for my sort of work I think it's spreadsheets, this video on Google Cloud give me more info Related articles Big City Data follow up

In the early days of my slight change in career, from simply running my small practice, to being a Professor, I would be asked to run a lecture, so I made the slides and loaded them up, ran the lesson and was mightly pleased at the result, but come the next year, I found that I have added similar slides to the set, for other years and slightly different classes, that I could not remember which slides I used last time, and the over all format I used. So I went in search of a lesson plan, and whoooo, there are so many, and so many reason, layouts, formats and styles. So I sat back and played about with different ideas, this was over a few weeks. I left it dfor a while, and tried again, this time fixing a style I likes, see todays photo. My lesson plan works for me, I tweek it every now and then, but for the past year its worked well, I use it not only to itemise the slides I want to use, but why. My most recent addition is the pre lesson reading list, articles or books I want the st...