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OneNote power toys

Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 10:46 AM by dstrange
nice little summary of OneNote powertoys that the guys in the OneNote testing team have written over on John Guin's blog. Read More...
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Working on more than one PC

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 1:17 PM by dstrange
Back from holiday now - hence the lack of blogging for a few weeks. I've been fantasising about buying a new desktop PC for home along with a cool new monitor.  I have my eye on a dell vostro Intel Core 2 Duo 3Ghz, 2Gb RAM with one of the new 24" Read More...
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Office tips gadget available

Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 11:26 AM by dstrange
Quite a nice new gadget to help you get more from Office 2007. Read More...
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RSS feeds in Outlook 2007

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 10:20 AM by dstrange
Good little article on how to augment the RSS feeds capability of Outlook 2007 using search folders for greater control. Read More...
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Windows Live Photo Gallery

Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 1:54 PM by dstrange
Chris Adams, who sits next to me at work, got tickets to the rugby final on Saturday (lucky boy) - sound like it was even better than my wembley experience . He took some pictures of the stadium and then used Windows Live Photo Gallery to automagically Read More...
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Wembley, Disintermediation, Blog Acne and FeedDemon

Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 7:12 PM by dstrange
One of the most exciting experiences in my life was being in the front row at Wembley on Saturday to see England beat Estonia 3-0. Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer visceral excitement of being so close to the pitch in an 86,655 crowd . The Read More...
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The pen is mightier than the mouse

Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:13 PM by dstrange
Interesting freebie got delivered to me today from Wacom. They've decided to send me one of their new Bamboo tablet pads . I do get asked from time to time how to start using ink without a tablet PC. Even with a tablet PC, when docked it is handy to have Read More...
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Man pines for abandoned electronic dog

Posted Monday, July 02, 2007 11:06 AM by dstrange
The Arthur C Clarke/Stephen Baxter novel "Time's Eye" is a bit of a silly story which brings people of all different times together onto the same planet, resulting in Alexander the Great meeting the British Army and Genghis Kahn meeting astronauts from Read More...
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Encarta instant answers

Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:06 PM by dstrange
Really cool new Encarta bot for Windows Live messenger. Just add encarta@botmetro.net to your windows live messenger contacts and then you can ask it your homework questions. It also opens up the Encarta page for you in a control in the chat window. Very Read More...
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Random roundup.. June 5th 2007

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:55 PM by dstrange
"Open battle will boost compatibility" writes the Guardian computer editor, Jack Schofield in a computer weekly article . Open XML will never win over ODF proponents: nothing would. However, the new formats are more open, more accessible and more standardised Read More...
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Live Writer beta 2

Posted Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:29 PM by dstrange
As I said before , beta 2 of live writer is available . I really like it already. Cool new features include: spell check see picture below, at last proper red wavy line spell check tools tables proper table tools for doing tables like this one - see below Read More...
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The Enterprise Learning Framework

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:25 AM by dstrange
I was chatting with my friend Colin Ashurst from Durham Business School this morning about the world of the information worker. He was saying he still thinks there needs to be more focus on helping get the technology deployed and getting people to use Read More...
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Classic mode for 2007

Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 5:40 PM by dstrange
There's been some talk today about the add on for Office 2007 which reverts back to classic mode. In their own words: Could not see the main menu and any toolbar in Microsoft® Office® 2007? Just download and install this software, you will see and enjoy Read More...
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Perpetual motion machine from HP

Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 6:58 PM by dstrange
the rest of our free kit arrived from HP this week including the extended battery. It's a wedge shaped block that sits under the machine, is very light and you can charge it independantly. Having charged it up, I tried it out today: sorry..?? 39 hours????? Read More...
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Live writer upgrade and cool flickr add ins

Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:10 AM by dstrange
In case you missed it, there is a new build of live writer. The update has some new stuff: Tagging support Support for Blogger Beta Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog Improved Read More...
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