Category Archives: Software

Guide – the Google Assistant for children

Posted on February 23, 2021 by gemmell

After buying my daughter a tablet with Google Assistant and watching how poor it was at giving her answers to her questions I thought I could do better. She’s 6 years old and asks 6 year old questions. “Why are … Continue reading →

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Conversational Accounting

Posted on February 17, 2021 by gemmell

A chat box for Xero that lets you: Create invoices for customers Submit receipts and other documentation List out unpaid invoices Query things But more than this, it’ll tell you things you need to know. This contract will expire in … Continue reading →

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VR Meditation Platform

Posted on February 9, 2021 by gemmell

After trying the new Occulus device I was impressed by just how immersive it was. Then whilst doing a guided meditation on InsightTimer I was finding it difficult to focus. Then it hit me: We should use a game dev … Continue reading →

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Excel Lambda Library

Posted on January 29, 2021 by gemmell

Now that Excel has introduced lambdas, which means you can build fully fledged systems by defining your own functions, there is the opportunity for sharing and collaboration on them via an Excel plugin that enables you to search for, import, … Continue reading →

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Inglish

Posted on January 27, 2021 by gemmell

The Word plugin that imports a native English speaker to help you author your document. Grammar and spell checkers can only get you so far. If English is your second language, you can get someone to read over it and … Continue reading →

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Splitz

Posted on January 18, 2021 by gemmell

A gmail plugin that “normalises” email threads to a iphone style chat like interface to make it easy to read a conversation that’s taken place over email. Importantly it’s doing things like removing the junk in the emails, greetings, signatures, … Continue reading →

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Shanty

Posted on January 18, 2021 by gemmell

Shanty is a an app that allows you to record yourself singing a shanty, and then a second tool to “compose” yourself and as many others as you like. The idea is that you sing a shanty and then use … Continue reading →

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Reeport

Posted on November 20, 2020 by gemmell

Reeport helps teachers write reports. You upload previous reports you’ve written and it analyses the text and creates a “sentiment cloud” – common descriptive words you might use for students. Writing a new report is as simple as clicking the … Continue reading →

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PayBox

Posted on November 4, 2020 by gemmell

A gmail/outlook extension that detects when you’ve been sent an email with an invoice in it and asks if you want to pay it. Handles the direct bank transfer/pay details.

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Video Chat Catch Up for Later

Posted on August 4, 2020 by gemmell

Perhaps this is now possible with MS teams allowing plugins, but the idea is that when you have people who come late to a meeting, you either wait for them or you repeat yourself. With the VC4Later addition to the … Continue reading →

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