Using Microsoft OneNote Across Multiple PC’s using Amazon S3

I love Microsoft OneNote, and use it on a daily basis to record any ideas I have, things I find on the Internet etc…

The issue is, that, whilst using it at home is great, I sometimes also have "brain waves" when I’m out and about on my laptop, or at work.
I needed a way to share my notebooks across the internet.
OneNote already offers functionality that easily lets you place you Notebook on a shared drive, and have multiple users of it.
We use this regularly in our office, and it has proved very useful for keeping everyone up to speed on various software component developments.

Sharing the notebook across the internet is somewhat more difficult.
It can be done if your web host supports WebDav, by mapping a network drive (which is similar to the method we will be using) to an FTP site, or VPN to your shared drive etc…. but all this can be a bit complicated.

Enter Amazon S3 & Jungle Disk

Jungle Disk is a way of providing an interface to Amazon S3.
Out of the box, S3 doesn’t have any easy way of putting data into it. That’s where JungleDisk comes in.
With Jungle Disk, you can map a network drive, to any of your "buckets" on Amazon S3, so they behave just like local drives!

Jungle Disk costs just $20 for the desktop edition

This enables us to share the notebook across the internet, by following these steps:

1. Sign up to JungleDisk (which will also create you an Amazon S3 Account if you don’t already have one)
2. Create a bucket, and map it to a network drive using JungleDisk.
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3. In OneNote, bring up the notebook properties, and click "Change Location"

    

4. Navigate to the Network Drive and select (or create) a folder for your Notebooks.
   This will then begin "synchronizing" your files to this new location.
   OneNote keeps a local copy also, for offline editing, and synchronizes the files every few minutes, or upon closing

1. Woo Hoo!!
   You now have a remote OneNote notebook that other PC’s can connect to.
   You will need to install JungleDisk desktop on the other PC’s, and set a mapped network drive to your bucket, but then you can open the notebook as per normal (File –> Open –> Notebook) and OneNote will recognise it as a remote notebook, keep a local copy, and sync to S23

Please leave me a comment and let me know how you get on!

Tags: amazon s3, onenote

Drink Prices In Stockholm

Now, everybody knows that drinks are pricey in Stockholm… but what does an "average" drink cost?

Well…. depends where you are:
GK (Göta Källare) which is in Södermalm (in Medborgarplasten metro station) has an event called 360 on a Friday night. The age limit is 20 according to the door staff, however some people I was talking to in the club were 18/19
They seemed to have a kind of happy hour, where the bottles of beer were 25-30 SEK, a vodka red bull was 98 SEK all night

Left is a receipt from the bar.

Another thing worth noting, most clubs accept payment by debit / credit card.
I would recommend getting a Nationwide Flex Account – as you are not charged by the provider for using the card abroad, either in shops or cash machines.

In Stureplan, drinks were a lot more, around 120 – 200 SEK for a vodka Redbull.

Tags: Money, partying, stockholm

Stockholm – Helpful People!

After arriving at around 6:30pm in Centralen (Central Station) I had a rough idea of where to go.
Walking around aimlessly with large suitcases isn’t much fun, so after admitting defeat, I decided to find help.
Help came in the form of a giant man, dressed in a long trench-coat.
I asked him where Tulegatan was (the road our hotel – Birger Jarl) is on, and he immediately whipped out his I-phone, tapped it into Google earth, and gave me accurate directions.

Considering this was the first (and only) person we asked for directions, we were pleasantly surprised.
Goes to show just how helpful and friendly the people in Stockholm are!

Tags: sweden