When the first Android handsets started to appear in the UK, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on one. The iPhone, with all its restrictions and Jobsian control-freakery just wasn’t for me. I wanted something much cooler, more open. I wanted something made by Google. Having been an Android user for 10 months or [...]

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I’m not a huge fan of Google Buzz – that’s not to say there isn’t a ton of interesting, amusing and useful content being shared which, like any social network, is down to the people you follow – it’s just that Buzz suffers from the same thing that blights many Google products – UI. For [...]

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Most recruiters and job sites will insist on having CVs sent to them in Word format, so I have to export my document as a .doc file. And there’s the problem: a document that looks fine in Google Docs can be all over the place when it’s saved as Word document. Inconsistent tab- and line-spacing; random hieroglyphic characters in place of bullet points; disobedient font sizing are just some of the problems I’ve encountered.

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