I've suddenly realised some people are still using Herschel with just one monitor. Don't you realise with two or three monitors you can spread those Herschel windows all over your huge desktop? And they auto-update! You can have Herschel, Outlook, Ebay and Facebook all open at once. And really impress office visitors.
Interesting story on the BBC news website about how the US nuclear weapons force still uses obsolete technology and 8-inch floppy disks. "This system remains in use because, in short, it still works," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt Col Valerie Henderson told the AFP news agency. It reminds me of the old version 11 of Herschel, which just [...]
Interesting (if slightly depressing) article by Ha-Joon Chang in today's Guardian about the need to reinvigorate British manufacturing: "The weakness of manufacturing is at the heart of the UK’s economic problems. Reversing three and a half decades of neglect will not be easy but, unless the country provides its industrial sector with more capital, stronger [...]
This is a minor release which actually slows Herschel down for a moment when it’s doing some of its printing options. Windows 10 was struggling to keep up and getting all confused. We've also added an extremely useful help button to the main Herschel window. This will take you straight into the relevant Freshdesk solutions [...]
As an experiment, we bought a (very) cheap Windows 10 tablet on Amazon to play with. We loaded on Hershel and were surprised to find it ran perfectly. So we’re working on a tablet version of Herschel with bigger fonts and buttons. We’ll let you know when it’s ready. The picture shows a Herschel user [...]
We’d been putting off upgrading our PCs for over three years. Moving everything to new hardware was just too much hassle. I spoke to our local computer guru and he suggested replacing our hard disks with SSD drives. The new drives were fitted within a day and the results have been incredible. One PC which [...]
After months of toil, our new Freshdesk support site is now fully working. If you’ve signed up for Herschel support, just send details of any problems to support@herschel.freshdesk.com – a ticket will be automatically raised, allowing you to track the progress of your query. There’s also a dedicated knowledgebase, packed full of implantation guides, detailed [...]
I’ve visited yet another company where everything is done using single-user, unwieldy, labour intensive spreadsheets. I’m sure if I visited their factory in 1916 they’d have used exactly the same methods of working – except with a ledger and a fountain pen. If only they’d chuck out their spreadsheets (after importing them into Herschel, of [...]
A rather boring upgrade but it does fix a few irritations and gives Herschel a shiny new Windows 10 appearance (we made all the corners square). It's available here.
Well, Windows 10 is here and (to echo Peter Allgood’s glowing praise of Herschel) it’s “quite good”. The great news is Herschel works fine on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP. All at the same time. Without SQL server. And as Windows 10 is the last version Microsoft plan to release, Herschel will run on [...]
It seems 2015 has been another grim year, according to this week’s Economist. “They were supposed to carry Britain aloft, but manufacturers have had a hard year”. British manufacturing has fallen to 9% of GDP – Germany’s is 20%. Britain’s deep problem is “to get its tens of thousands of small and medium-sized manufacturers to [...]
So we can give our customers the best possible support, we’re moving to the award winning Freshdesk support platform. Freshdesk is an incredible cloud based service, which means you’ll be able to access it from any of your devices. We’re also creating an advanced Freshdesk knowledgebase, which you can quickly search for instant answers.
We’re working on a complete series of on-line training videos that will cover all of Herschel’s awesome features. We’re using the beautiful Vimeo website, meaning you can view in HD on any device, anywhere. Although why anyone would want to do that is beyond me. There's football on the TV.
