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Microsoft recently released their update to Phone Link to fully support iPhones on Windows 11. This means that for the best experience of using your iPhone you should switch to using Phone Link on Windows 11. Phone Link supports messaging, has more advanced notification support and sync call history. For everything else (not everyone uses […]
Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) New initiative to help ensure greater workplace inclusion of the neurodivergent community Neurodiversity in Business (NiB) is an industry forum to support the participation of neurodivergent individuals in the workplace recently launched at the Houses of Parliament. The organisation, led by Dan Harris (Chief Executive Officer) draws upon the cumulative knowledge […]
Windows 11 introduced the concept of Focus Sessions which allow you to specify a fixed time to work uninterrupted. While active, Windows will not flash taskbar icons and will turn on Do Not Disturb mode to suppress notifications (this particular feature was known as Focus Assist in Windows 10). From Windows 11 22H2 there is […]
Today the latest app update went live in the Microsoft Store. This update adds a quick manual override to your busy status which you can trigger from the tray icon. The app continues to evolve to help you manage your free/busy time and share your status with colleagues. Read more about it here.
Jesse Liberty and Rodrigo Juarez have created this book to guide the reader through all aspects of creating apps with .NET MAUI. It assumes a level of experience with C# and .NET but is not limited to previous Xamarin developers. In fact while Xamarin Forms is mentioned it does not get in the way of […]
Many organisations revolve around a communication tool like Microsoft Teams. Not only do they form the backbone of meetings in hybrid and remote working, but also one-to-one chats and calls. Microsoft Teams has a presence indicator for each user so that you can show your colleagues when you are available or do not wish to […]
This article was originally written in 2018 and there have been a number of additions to the API since then. Azure Maps is a suite of services for working with constantly changing location-based information. These cover everything you’ll need whether managing systems with moving elements (Route, Traffic), finding contextual information (Search, Time Zone) or presenting […]
One of the books I read when I first got interested in computers was from the Ladybird books How It Works series. The volume covering “The Computer” was published in 1979 and, as you can imagine, features plenty of suitably dated illustrations of computers of the time. It ends with a page speculating about the […]
I’d completely forgotten about Pi day until I saw someone post about it online and I thought I should write about the happy coincidence that I’ve been working with a Raspberry Pi today. Last week I took delivery of a new Raspberry Pi. I have an older Pi 2 but I wanted to have a […]
There is a particular issue when writing any code which will run on Android which presents external UI through an Intent or uses broadcasts in that you need to have a reference to the current Activity. I covered this in my last post. Following on from that I moved the code to a new library […]
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