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Changing save as PDF locations in Mac OS X

I came across this a while ago and thought it was cool (then when I next needed it I forgot where I read it – so this time I thought I’d post it here to make it easy to get at)  you can change the locations you might have added for saving PDF’s in . . . → Read More: Changing save as PDF locations in Mac OS X

Booklet Printing on Mac In Snow Leopard

I was keen to save some paper by printing some stuff as 2-up back to back booklet; fortunately I found an automator printing plugin that does just what I need. CreateBooklet

Mac Pro Audio output switches back to Internal Speakers on reboot rather than staying with Line Out at back of computer

I was having problems with the sound on my mac reverting to internal speakers and not using the line out on the back. Fortunately it seems that this is a problem have had before http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10141072#10141072 and that deleting some config files and restarting has fixed the issue.

NHS Mail and Mac OS X 10.6

Like many mac users I was looking forward to the release of Snow Leopard – Mac OS X 10.6 with it’s native support for Microsoft Exchange in the hope that I could get my NHS.net Exchange account  to work with this. Unfortunately it doesn’t work and mail crashes out completely when trying to configure . . . → Read More: NHS Mail and Mac OS X 10.6

Samsung ML1210 and Mac OS X

Since moving to my mac I have had problems getting my Samsung ML1210 Laser Printer to work correctly. I followed the instructions at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/samsung-gdi and got it printing but it was always missing off the top of the page. On searching around I found that I wasn’t the only person with this problem and . . . → Read More: Samsung ML1210 and Mac OS X

Windows Vista and Mac OS 10.5.7 file sharing

I was having big problems getting a Windows Vista laptop to connect to a Mac OS X via SMB file sharing, as ever setting things up on a mac was easy, but the it just didn’t work on the windows end. Fortunately some work with google found the following, which have been the very . . . → Read More: Windows Vista and Mac OS 10.5.7 file sharing

Moving Virtual Identities from Thunderbird to Mail.app

Before coming to the mac I used to use thunderbird on Windows with the virtual identity plug in which allowed for the flexibility of multiple sending addresses. I was looking for a native mac solution and found the following:

Multiple identities in one account with Apple Mail.app edit the preferences plist file : Mac . . . → Read More: Moving Virtual Identities from Thunderbird to Mail.app

Moved to WordPress

Hi All, Welcome to my new wordpress based site. Please bear with me as I move in content from my old site.

Health Alerts for locum General Practitioners

Another of my MSc Essay’s involved describing a potential informatics resource that might improve health care within the setting I worked.

A system for distribution of health and administrative alerts from Health Boards to locum (and other) General Practitioners

I went on to develop this resource and evaluate it for my MSc Project.

Read . . . → Read More: Health Alerts for locum General Practitioners

Heuristic comparison of prescribing module/functions of GPASS and VISION General Practice Clinical Systems

Another one of my Health Informatics MSc essays; this one is on computer interface usabilty:

This paper provides a comparative discussion of the prescribing interfaces of GPASS and InPractice VISION General Practice Clinical systems, using the “Discount Usability Engineering Approach”. Prescribing scenarios are investigated using a heuristic approach to cover typical tasks . . . → Read More: Heuristic comparison of prescribing module/functions of GPASS and VISION General Practice Clinical Systems