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Did You Know: SharePoint does Optical Character Recognition
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over 4 years ago
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Alistair S
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Say What? OCRing TIFF files? This is news to me. SharePoint - is there anything that it can't do? How to customize SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files update: unfortunately...
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Joel on Standards
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over 4 years ago
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Well this war of words on document standards is almost over (Yay!). With all this scrutiny of OpenXML, I wonder what sort of scrutiny will be placed on ODF in the future. But anyway, lets take a look at the issues of standards (meta-standards?). Why are...
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Microsoft redefines ECM
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over 4 years ago
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See this forrester presentation (pdf). It looks like the idea that ECM doesn't need to be complicated to be valuable is validated.
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He Should be using a Tablet PC...
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over 4 years ago
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EXTRALIFE - Web comic
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An OpenXML reader written in Silverlight?
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over 4 years ago
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Yes. Intergen Textglow ... from those crazy guys across the Tasman in New Zealand. (FYI - this requires Silverlight 2.0 beta - so if you are still running the old 1.1 alpha (like I was), Dude, Upgrade! )
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Does Australia value Technologists?
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over 4 years ago
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I'm in a tell-it-how-it-is mood today. Are we just a nation of sheep shearers and miners? Here is a snapshot of a reputable Australian newspaper's IT section: D&D co-creater dead. While tragic, this guy was hardly a technology pioneer, it was all...
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braindump...
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over 4 years ago
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I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are...
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