Podcast 112: Nobody ever wants to buy software, with Toby Chapman-Dawe

Ellis talked to Toby Chapman Dawe of Strand UK about why he claims nobody ever wants to buy software. Toby is Managing Director of Strand. Toby specialises in communicating the business benefits of enterprise technology. Formerly a journalist in the UK writing for trade and national press, Toby transferred to the world of advertising in… Read more »

Antora as an intranet platform

Antora is a fairly new open source static site generator, aimed at Technical Authors who prefer writing in AsciiDoc than Markdown. SitePoint describes a static site generator as: A compromise between using a hand-coded static site and a full CMS (such as WordPress or Confluence). You generate an HTML-only website using raw data (such as… Read more »

Two mobile apps of interest

Here’s a couple of mobile apps that might interest you. SoundNote (IoS) SoundNote tracks what you type and draw while recording audio. When you are playing back your recording, if you tap a word, SoundNote will jump straight to that point in the audio. You can share your text, drawings, and audio notes via email,… Read more »

New features in Windows that could be useful for Technical Authors

Microsoft has released a update to Windows 10, and it contains some new features that might be useful for Technical Authors. Cloud clipboard You can: Make a piece of content permanently available on the clipboard, by using the Pin feature. Synchronise your clipboards (and their content) to different devices. This enables you to copy text from one… Read more »