Mark Cohen is a CIO at Australia's largest online retailer and is a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up, code-cutting geek. He lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and boys and can sometimes be spotted puffing and panting as he runs at Maroubra Beach
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As spectacular as they claim New Zealand is in the tourist ads on tv, it is. And then some. One thing I don’t understand is why so many kiwis are in Australia. But then maybe I should come back in winter to get my head around that
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If you’re using Entourage this is how you move your appointments to Exchange from local folders:
1. Fire up Entourage
2. Click on Calendar in the toolbar
3. Click on “All events” under Calendar Views
4. Click on an event, and then click the edit menu, then “select all”:
4. Then right-click on a highlighted appointment and on the popup menu choose “move to” and then choose your Exchange Calendar:
NOTE this may look like it’s frozen as it moves the meetings across. Leave it to run for as long as it takes.
Mark
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We’re rolling out new Macs at work in my team, and so I’m revisiting my must-have-done-before-I-start list. This is a list of things I’ve picked up from a lot of helpful and friendly mac users along the way:
Setup:



Free:
Commercial
Things I haven’t bought yet but want in future:
I spent the day at the Tech23 event in Surry Hills today, seeing some of what the Australian startup scene has to offer. There were a wide array of startups – some pitching to get started and some already off the ground, pitching to get equity to try fire up the business and take it to the next level. One or two who didn’t need investors at all, who were looking for relationships.
The key take-aways for me were that (possibly a massive and cruel generalisation) the success indicators can really be summed up as two points:
If you can’t do an elevator pitch you’ll lose what little attention you attract. As an extension of that, if you can’t explain your idea in an elevator pitch you’re not going to be able to sell it to the person you’re pitching. That doesn’t make it wrong, but it does tell you you’re selling it wrong – or maybe just to the wrong target audience.
For more info on who presented and what they showed off, search Twitter for #tech23 and check out the site at http://www.tech23.com.au
My notes from the presentation:
Sprites are cool, they were cool before and they’re still cool. Pillage ideas from late 80’s sci fi. Oh look, a bird. Forty two. Oh and don’t diss 8 bit. It’s also way cool.
That was the Pulp Fiction of Tech sessions. And I loved every minute of it