Posted by
Andrew Gould
on 09 May 2024
It's my 20th anniversary at Wise Owl this month! I'm celebrating in style with a Power BI data model and report summarising some statistics from the past two decades of teaching IT courses.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 08 May 2024
You can now add Copilot to your 365 licence, although it isn't cheap - this review looks at whether the benefits outweigh the costs.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 May 2024
Congratulations to Samantha Wareham of Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust for winning our Easter quiz (out of the 47 answers received, hers was the entry chosen by our randomised Excel sorting hat). You can see some further analysis of the answers in this blog.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 May 2024
Our grid contains 24 hidden thematic treats. Once you've found them all, the unused letters will spell out a message. Email this to us and you have a change of winning a £50 voucher!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 May 2024
We've created two new sections in our website: to house full-blown tutorials and (at the other extreme) short tips.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
The Ajelix Excel AI tool claims to help you generate formulae in Excel - so we put it to the test
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
Microsoft would much prefer it if everyone switched to a subscription model for Office licensing, but they aren't abandoning the sale of standalone software applications just yet.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
How one determined person embedded the published ChatGPT 2 source code and weightings within an Excel workbook to give an insight into how AI works
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
Want a complete list of all of the AI tools available for you to use? Here's a website which lists 32 tools just for sarcastic conversations alone!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 03 April 2024
Don't consider yourself to be musical? Think again! Now everyone can unleash their inner Taylor Swift, using the Suno plug-in within Copilot.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 27 March 2024
While doing a thorough site audit we came across some pages which we no longer link to, but which we don't want to lose. This blog ensures that you (and Google) can still get to them!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 04 March 2024
Last month we asked you to identify 5 Abba songs from cryptic pictures. Out of 16 correct entries our randomised sorting hat chose the name of Alison Palmer of Devon Council, who wins a £25 voucher. An explanation of the answers follows!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
A review of websites whose UI is bad by design (and often very funny as a result), including hard-to-use Captchas, irritating volume controls and date-pickers designed to exasperate.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
There's a famous sentence which reads "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". It turns out that this is just one example of a sentence deliberately designed to lead you up the garden path ...
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 March 2024
Chat GPT now incorporates a range of mini GPTs dedicated to different tasks. We put a few through their paces, so that you don't have to!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 31 January 2024
We've discovered two (more) Windows short-cut keys which will help you work with multiple screens - and there's also a new Copilot key coming to your keyboard soon.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
If anyone rang the office on Monday 29th January and wondered where we were - here's the answer!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 01 February 2024
See if you can name the 5 Abba songs identified in these pictures, and win a £25 voucher to boot!
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
Congratulations to Paul M of Rochdale Borough Council for winning our New Year quiz (and a £50 voucher). This blog shows which questions were the easiest and hardest, and gives some background information and analysis.
Posted by
Andy Brown
on 30 January 2024
If you have something to say about the content of one of our web pages, you can now say it with pictures! Implementing an HTML editor which accepts images is not easy, but we're pleased to say we've now incorporated this feature within this site.