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Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:28 AM

Turning off Proofing and Autocorrect in Word 2007

This is the second time this question has come up in the last week or so, so I thought I’d answer it here. Sometimes, you want to turn off proofing (spelling and grammar checking) and autocorrect in Word, either globally or for some parts of your document
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:55 PM

TechEd Sessions Posted and some useless Stats

Sessions Posted The first pass of the sessions at have been posted and if you're a delegate you can login and vote for your favourite sessions (to help us with timetabling and room allocation). Your votes will be automatically migrated to your agenda
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Monday, February 23, 2009 9:57 AM

Windows 7 on my Mac Mini

Back in the day, Dave and I bought (intel) Mac Minis (there was a retail outlet which had apparently decided to stop selling them and they were going pretty cheap). It’s been my main Vista machine at home for 18 months or so now (running bootcamp), I
Posted by acoat | 5 Comments
Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:51 PM

New CTP for Live Writer – now with hooks for pre and post-publish

Via Keith Combs I love Live Writer , I especially love the extensiblility hooks. However, up until now, the SDK hasn’t allowed you to take action before or after publishing a post. I wanted to write an auto- twitter plugin to notify people who follow
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Saturday, June 07, 2008 6:03 AM

TechEd Day 1 - Developers, Developers, D-d-d-d-d-developers

This is as close as I got to BalmerBot at the TechEd keynote on Day 1. I enjoyed, but wasn't blown away by the content. I'm not sure whether this is indicative of the way we generally have access to most information before a conference or event or whether
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:47 PM

More Office Developer Documentation

She's indefatigable! Erika Ehrli keeps posting these gems. Hot on the heels of my post about Office Object Model References , I discovered two great posts from her. Announcing the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2! ; and Open XML Format
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:56 PM

Record your Demos Happen { Here } demo with Community Clips

Jensen Harris (of " The Story Of The Ribbon " fame) announced it, Allan Da Costa Pinto has pointed to it already (as, of course, has Frank - does he never sleep?). There's a great new public site for the (previously internal only) Microsoft
Posted by acoat | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:15 PM

Want to stay connected to the Aussie DPE Team?

I was chatting with Darren the other day and he said that he's been feeling increasingly disconnected from the DPE team here in Australia since Frank left, and also now that Chuck 's gone. Putting aside the fact that they're impossible shoes to fill,
Posted by acoat | 10 Comments
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:58 PM

Holiday Toys from the Visual Studio Ecosystem Team

Especially now that Ken 's on the team , I have a real interest in the cool stuff people do by extending the Visual Studio shell . I got this note just before the holidays and have had it tagged "Blog This" for the last few weeks. Check it! Today there
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:19 PM

Four more Fishbowl Videos

The Virtual TechEd Fishbowl Editors have been at it again. Four more great videos. The Wide Ranging Applicability of Team Foundation Server Ron Jacobs, host of ARCast.TV , sits down to talk with customers Justin Butcher and Michael Daniel about using
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:28 AM

ViaWindowsLive.com - for Windows Live Developers

Tatham and Dr Neil alluded to it in their fishbowl interview , and now Anna 's been plugging it too. From the developers of ViaVirtualEarth , there's a new site for Windows Live developers . Check out the plethora of topics on the nav bar:
Posted by acoat | 1 Comments
Friday, August 31, 2007 4:58 PM

Heaps Gooder Spelling in Live Writer

Tired of squiggly lines under correctly spelt words like colour and flavour (not to mention anything ending in -ise)? Here's a tip for updating your dictionary in Live Writer. http://scottisafooldev.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FE151030F50B5B37!331.entry
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:40 AM

Resize Images - a Thumbnail Maker

Nic was hanging out with Nick (a combination that's just asking for trouble if you ask me) a couple of weeks ago near my desk, and Nic was bemoaning the lack of a resizing utility. This triggered something in the back of my mind and lo! I found a post
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Attachment(s): Resizer.zip
Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:52 PM

Review - Wireless Presenter Mouse 8000

Disclaimer: All of the products here are Microsoft hardware and I both work for and own shares in Microsoft. One of the things I do a lot of is presentations. Not just PowerPoints though, I also show the computer doing things, often with me making it
Posted by acoat | 3 Comments
Monday, May 07, 2007 5:45 PM

Cool bag for TechEd Australia

UPDATE : Oops, this isn't the speakers' bag, it's the delegate's bag! One of the interesting discussions around TechEd each year is " What should the speaker delegate bag look like? ". Well, this year, it'll look something like this: Sign up now! The
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