Criteria for article in Me or MEW

I don't take ME and haven't read the article, so my comments may well be irrelevant.

Anyway, as I see it, the sticky pin requires absolutely no expensive, accurate. grinding at all: any pointed needle in a blob of Bluetack (sp?) will do the job. The whole point (no pun intended) about a sticky pin is that it is easily centred each time it is used. It takes all of 10 seconds. Another comment is that the point of a needle is much smaller than a laser blob.

Am I missing something?

Edited By Gary Wooding on 22/04/2013 13:50:06

Hi There

Sticky pin needs a blob of bluetac or plasticine..

Make sure it is reasonably true then push a steel rule against the end to make sure running true.

Job done.

Watch it does not stick into your finger hence the rule.

I have had good sucess with dressmakers pins, the ones with round plastic heads.

These avoid the need for plasticene, just nip it lightly in the chuck.

regards David

Edited By David Clark 1 on 22/04/2013 14:21:23

Hi There

Over the years I have had various email problems resulting in a few articles being put into the wrong email box.

I had over 20 Gigabytesof email and about 380 different mailboxes.

I can't afford professional filing programs, I do what I can with what I have got.

regards david

David

How can anyone have 380 mailboxes? Do you mean folders (directories) or do you mean you have that many separate addresses or accounts?

Either way, keeping track of that much mail is a mammoth task and I am not surprised some ended up in the wrong places (although it can't move by itself).

Seriously, maybe you should investigate some of the suggestions people have made.

Ian P

Hi There

240 on one computer and a lot more on the other.

They are classed as mailboxes by the email program.

Hundreds of filters to sort them as well.

I can't afford specialised software.

I now delete the majority of email whereas I used to keep most of it for reference.

regards David

Hello David,

It was not my intention to impugn your competence; I am really surprised that you attempt to handle all that data without some form of data handling software. Can you not persuade the proprietors of the magazine to fund something? After all it is in their interest. Surely there are other magazines in their portfolio that have something that you can share or use.

From what I read above, the sticky pin has merits.

Ray

Hi There

I use my own pc and the office will not buy software for own PCs.

regards David

And they don't need to - the server bit would sit either at a central office or 'in the cloud', client end (free) or web access would be used from your PC.

Added advantage that the magazine is not totally reliant on your PC (if it dies, stolen etc).

There are good solutions available - companies don't have to use them.