Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2023
It's taken a long time, but you can now finally get a downloadable PDF file of your Wise Owl course manual, to go with the paper copy.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 06 December 2022
The Orb X gaming chair comes with a leather chair, support for 3 screens, surround sound and much more besides, and will be the perfect Christmas gift for the geek in your life when it becomes available for purchase.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 December 2022
What happened to our PyQt5 editor? Well - not much, sadly. We've given up on this approach now and are reverting to a website solution - this blog explains why.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 December 2022
Wise Owl (and Sam specifically) presented a sample Power BI report that we had created to APSE in Blackpool - take your place in the audience!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 December 2022
Words.Net is a utility which allows you to build and edit Microsoft Word documents in C# rather than VBA. Should you adopt it? Read this review to find out!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 December 2022
Last month we sent out a survey - here are the results, showing a) how Microsoft Forms allows you to report on survey data and b) what people think of us!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 October 2022
Notepad is a well-known text editor, but is less well-known for its capacity to host games of Doom - with good reason.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 October 2022
Microsoft Forms is a joy to use! This blog will show you how to create and distribute a survey or quiz, and the type of whizzy features that you can build into it.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 28 September 2022
Sure, you often turn to StackOverflow to find why a formula isn't working, but are you missing a trick? The site can also help you design solutions to cope with a zombie apocalypse.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 September 2022
We review the new Wise Owl bean-to-cup coffee machine, and (at the other end of the scale) a £54,000 samovar for serving tea.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 02 September 2022
Worried that you're having to type in your second language, English? Help is at hand, with these two specialist Lord of the Rings keyboards.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 July 2022
Microsoft have released a completely new version of Outlook to some beta channels, parts of which will look familiar to you if you already use Outlook.com. This blog shows you what you can expect to see!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 18 July 2022
Will you soon need to modify a downloaded file's before you can run macros contained in it? Yes … and then no (and now maybe).
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 18 July 2022
Andy B claims to be good at only two things in life: crosswords and time management. Having blogged about the first before, it's time to give some tips on how to make your working life more efficient.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 05 July 2022
Watch Jacob Chandler from Oregon pick out each letter from a tin of alphabet spaghetti in a little over 2 minutes!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 24 June 2022
If you’ve been following the saga of the weight-loss competition between Sam and Shaun, you'll be wondering whether the loser got a tattoo showing the winner's name. Wonder no longer!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 21 June 2022
An explanation of why our current HTML editor needed replacing, how we decided what technology to go for and the solution we ended up adopting.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 May 2022
See how many reams of paper in weight Sam and Shaun lost, who won their competition and what they now look like without their beards!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 May 2022
Bored in your lunchtime? See if you can guess films from condensed five-second clips or from up to 6 still photographs, or songs from clips lasting for as little as one second.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 26 April 2022
If you're a fan of Boolean algebra, or are in two minds about Schrodinger's cat, these Ts are for you!