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12 Jan 2009
For a simple screen shot taking tool, Lightscreen is a free piece of software that sits in the system tray and can assign hot keys to capturing screen areas as well as the usual desktop and active window. It can also be set to dump out direct to file.
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12 Jan 2009
Every presentation these days involves Microsoft PowerPoint. After a while no matter how much multimedia you add to it, your presentation can still look a bit dull and boring. In order to make your next presentation a bit different why not try pptPlex?
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11 Jan 2009
NoteTab is a favoured text editor of mine and for a number of years I’ve used it for working with web pages and coding up HTML, PHP, Javascript and the like. One of the best features of NoteTab (beyond the light version being free to download) is its powerful scripting language - creating what is known as NoteTab Clips.
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09 Jan 2009
Microsoft Word has a little known feature (unless you happen to have read Microsoft Knowledgebase Article 212251 of course) that allows you to create large amounts of sample text using what’s in effect an inline macro command. Microsoft Word 2007 has a wider range of macro commands than previous versions, but I’ll describe the 2007 versions here.
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07 Jan 2009
When scheduling meetings with people who don’t share a common calendar system I favor the use of Doodle. However you might be interested to know that Meet-o-matic are offering 1,000 free registrations for their latest more advanced beta version for online registrations.
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07 Jan 2009
I did a bit more tweaking of the Yahoo Pipe construct that puts the FlagIT blog and Twitter feed together onto the Reboot IT blog. The output now combines the two feeds in a chronological order.
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06 Jan 2009
I was working on an Excel spreadsheet a couple of days ago where I wanted to automatically pick up the name of the current worksheet to use in a VLOOKUP function. I came up with the following combination of functions to get it for me…
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01 Jan 2009
When it comes to podcasting Apple is the king. The iPod and its variations lead the market and the software bundled with Mac OS X makes creating any sort of podcast a breeze. Unfortunately not everyone has access to an Apple Mac be it for financial reasons or for internal IT related issues. Creating podcasts from Windows is a little more laborious, but with the right tools it can be made much easier.
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29 Dec 2008
One of the biggest things in the Academy is communication. Just like any other organisation there’s a whole heap of discussion about the right ways to communicate and about who receives what information, and about what constitutes too little and information versus information overload. There will never be a perfect fit for everyone, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth exploring the options we have available and trying things out from time to time.
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28 Dec 2008
My background is as a systems developer and I like to think that I’m quite a good developer in so much as I like to achieve outcomes using the minimum of effort. In my book “a good programmer is a lazy programmer”. So whilst this post does not relate in any way to programming it does relate to me finding ways in which to update this blog with the minimum of effort. In this particular case through something you may have noticed a little way down on the right side of the page called “Spot IT”.
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