Frog Up or Down

As part of my move to Google Drive and all it entails, I have been wondering how I might get on with my brother Printer Scanner . The printing side is just not a problem, but and here is the usual BUT, I at present have no way of connecting my Chrome browser to the scanner, I have to use the Apple interface and scan in that way save and then use the imported pdf file. But there is a work around that seems to work. that is to use the scan button on the printer and set the destination to either mail or file. Here's how it works. for mail, I have my printer connected via   USB link, so the Brother printer can see mac mail and uses that to link up, I send that to Gmail  and all as before. Why it picks mac mail when I have it set up for Gmail is beyond me, yet this works so not a problem, although I managed to correct this simple by going into Mac mail and setting the default mail to Google Chrome. The other method, and the one I shall use in the future, is to save to fi...

Have you had chance to play with my.sketchup.com lately, I should if I were you, its suddenly becoming a very useful tool. I have left it alone for a month or two, and today I thought lets have a peep and see whats been added, well to my surprise, most of the major tools are there and working well. First is section plane, and scene settings, these work well and the dialog box for playing the scenes is so easy to set. Next is save, now if like me you use Chrome, then you might have to addmy.sketchup.com to the advanced privacy setting to allow it to communicate, but as its a named site ythis is the only one that it will allow. Views works well and all the usual are there, so are styles, and to my mind are easier to use than the stand alone program. Layers are also there and again I find them easy to use and set. The two main menu pallets are simple to use, but not movable, but they work well and as so small they fold away without taking up to much Realestate. As for up...

For so long, and I have written about it her and in other places, but my todo list have gone through so many different formats, and for a long time this been a series of paper lists that were rewritten as new item appeared and old items completed. It beat electronic versions, in as much as I just like the feel of pencil and they are always there, as I use my Moleskin to keep the lists with a sort of yellow sticky note -it as a label for the current page that had the latest list. I even went as far as copying the page to Evernote , my goto place for all storage for a while, well a long time,,,,,, that is till I found Google.Keep. And keep for so many reasons has transformed a lot of my note keeping and todo lists ot tasks or as Keep describes their version, a Reminder. So its so Keep that I moved, not so much as a complete goodby to Evernote, but more a trial, and I just clicked with the whole thing, ok so I am a big Google fan, and use Gmail and all it offers, Drive plus a ...

I was doing some research on CAD use over the globe and used this excellent service from Google Trends to compare search terms on three main products : Autocad Archicad Vectorworks Sketchup The graph below show a remarkable scale of interest, and not in the order I was expecting. ok Autocad I expected to be top, but Sketchup so high and the other two Vectorwork and Archicad so low, remarkable.

I have not blogged for a few weeks, its been sort of busy, with end of year, sorting marking and working out how I can lecture at two colleges. So many slides and lecture notes to prepare. I have taken Google wholesale into my work pattern, Apple just does not cut it, they are so private, I understand why, but I need to share, so google it is. But this brings me onto a new web page , I so like Sites.Google.com the new version is so easy to use, it still lacks some function, but I can easily use it to create a new site I have made. To this end I purchased Scays.co.uk from the Domains.google.com site, its so easy, and linking it to the new web page just some simple copying of the URL and within about a minute I was up and running. The site is being developed, I want to allow better access to my lectures and slide, it is a work in progress, but it may change. So what else, I have a major research project trying to understand the weather, how we can look at weather patterns ...

It’s been a long old month, what with student marking, teaching at a new college, and several new projects, going away for a few days to Oslo to watch the Bisslett games was a nice time out, but as always I could not leave the net alone, fortunately Oslo has a lot of free wifi access points in cafes and hotels, ours was particularly good. The trip was via two flights through Amsterdam, it’s been awhile since I used this airport, it’s grown and not just in size, the people volumes were huge, travelling on a Saturday was the main point not to make, it was bad enough mid week, but a weekend. It was our passage through the passport control that prompted me to make this blog, for the first time, I realised just what the Brexit means, the very long lines of non EU people. Even though we still use the EU line and that was long enough, the guards asked for our destination and reason for travel, not had that in a long time. So sitting on the plane I thought I might pull together ...

Mary Meeker has just given her annual Internet report, so I thought I might review last years presentation, before hand, available on YouTube.  Before I start on this years show. Its fast paced, and busy, she breaks all rules on slide presentation but who cares, you have little time to read them anyway. The slides can be downloaded from LinkedIn , and perused for information, which is vast, and shows all sorts of graphs on computer use, by who, and such things as general population growth , which is why i started to watch these presentations. I have down loaded both 2016 & 2017 slides and added them to both Evernote, but more importantly now, Google Keep , with multiple tags. You might want to review this excellent article on Backchannel , a news site I particularly like, giving a great overview of her work and a very light back ground. You might ask why I listen to her, its simple, the growth of computer use and the type of computer used have a direct link and infl...