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Word Tip – How to create Screentips that enhance your documents

June 16th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Style, Templates, Writing

ScreenTips are those little boxes that appear when you ‘hover’ your mouse over a hyperlink. As the name implies, they usually provide a small tip, or piece of information, about the word or phrase in question.

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Use MS Office on your iPhone – Documents To Go Available at Apple Store

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · Downloads

I don’t have an iPhone but if I did this new Microsoft Office to iPhone app might be worth investing in. It lets iPhone & iPod touch customers edit Microsoft Word files, synchronize important desktop files and send & receive Exchange attachments. DataViz, who develop Microsoft Office compatibility solutions, released its mobile Office suite application, Documents To Go, on the Apple App Store.

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How to Optimize PDF Files for your website or blog

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web. While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web.

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-15

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · Misc

Getting very hot here in Shanghai. Learning Chinese has ground to a halt. Hard to work all day n study grammar at night. #
Want to move to 1Shopping Cart. Have any of you used it? Love to get some real feedback before switching. CB has too many limitations. #
http://ping.fm/1YefR http://ping.fm/PgnZx #
Review: Documents To Go raises [...]

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Windows running under Ubuntu Linux 7.04

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · How To

Windows running under Ubuntu Linux 7.04

Originally uploaded by Lord_Darth_Vader

This could be the best product shot I have ever seen.

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-14

June 14th, 2009 · Comments · Misc

How to open a .img file or .sfv file – http://ping.fm/v42UD #
Process Design Tip – IBM Line of Visibility Enterprise Modeling (LOVEM) http://ping.fm/U25GA #
IBM's Business Transformation Page – The page you requested cannot be displayed… http://ping.fm/KT5wJ #
Flickr Tip – change the default settings on your Flickr page http://ping.fm/BaU9K #
Adding Line Spacing Above and Below [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-13

June 13th, 2009 · Comments · Misc

RT @jimkirk1943 Top Tricks On Using Clickbank To Sell Digital Products http://bit.ly/hCnZ3 #
Facebook Nabs The Man Who Developed Google AdSense http://ping.fm/iPjCd #
@GuyKawasaki go to bed, Guy! too late to be up. gt posts, by the way but you need sleep too… in reply to GuyKawasaki #
http://twitpic.com/79q9z – Fish as Sales Men! #
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5 Things to do if Word won’t print your images

June 10th, 2009 · Comments · How To

5 Things to do if Word won’t print

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Quark’s XML Authoring Tool Now Supports Microsoft Office 2007

May 29th, 2009 · Comments · News, Plugins, XML

Technical Writers who want to create documents in MS Word and also use Quark will be pleased to read this press release. Quark XML Author 3.0 for Microsoft Word allows users to create XML content easily within Microsoft Word, This XML authoring tool allows non-technical business workers to use Microsoft Word to create intelligent [...]

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Convert Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki markup

May 28th, 2009 · Comments · Plugins

This s a Word Visual Basic macro. Usage requires Microsoft Word that supports Visual Basic macros  (Word 97+).

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PowerMapper – Site Map Diagram Tool

May 27th, 2009 · Comments · How To

I’m working on some process designs for a client here in Shanghai, China, At home, I use MS Visio to create diagrams, but decided to try out PowerMapper, a diagramming tool that the technical writing team use over here.

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MadCap Flare Case Studies

May 26th, 2009 · Comments · How To

I started to use MadCap Flare about 3 years ago and wasn’t impressed at first. However, it has come on and is now a very powerful piece of tech writing software. Actually, I have stopped using RoboHelp and use Flare for most all web help and online documentation. Here are some case studies that [...]

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Use iText to create PDF files dynamically

May 23rd, 2009 · Comments · How To, Tricks

iText lets developers enhance web applications with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation. iText is not an end-user tool. Typically you won’t use it on your Desktop as you would use Acrobat or any other PDF application. Rather, you’ll build iText into your own applications so that you can automate the PDF creation and manipulation [...]

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How to print webpages without printing the ads

May 22nd, 2009 · Comments · Tricks

PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing. One of the problems I have when I print webpage is that I also get the ads, empty space and other sections I don’t want. PrintWhatYouLike offers another way to get around this. Here’s how it works:

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World’s Best Headlines: BBC News

May 21st, 2009 · Comments · How To

Summary: Precise communication in a handful of words? The editors at BBC News achieve it every day, offering remarkable headline usability.
Jakob Nielsen writes that it’s hard enough to write for the web and meet the guidelines for concise, scannable, and objective content. It’s even harder to write Web headlines.
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