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With some microphones, particularly Plantronics USB headset mic’s, you may get an error when you try to set the Microphone Level in Powerpoint. “Powerpoint is not receiving sound from the microphone. Try one of the
Continue readingI took a chance a few weeks ago and purchased the “MacHeist” bundle, mainly because I wanted the PhoneView application that lets you get at your iPhone images and music directly, and the cost is very low for all those applications.
MacHeist III is a bundle of 15 little utilities and applications for the Mac, many of which are surprisingly useful and well-written. One of the nicest surprises was an app called “Times”. Times is just a lowly RSS reader, but it does RSS with more style and readability than anything else I’ve seen yet.
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To use the KML files, right click the “Download KML file” link and select “Save Target As”. Windows may try to add an “XML” extension onto the end of the file name. Change the extension back to “KML” if it does.
You must have Google Earth installed to use these files. Double click the KML file and it should open in Google Earth to the correct spot.
While looking for more information on how Server Side Includes are implemented on IIS servers, I ran across the #exec directive. <!– #exec CommandType=CommandDescription–> #exec allows an HTML page to run an application (ASP application,
Continue readingIf you are having problems sending mail from the iPhone, try the following. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Under Accounts, click the account you are having trouble sending mail with. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail
Continue readingThe scrolled window setting is a feature in Snagit that can be used to capture a page or application whose contents are too long or too wide to fit in one window. There is an “auto-scroll” setting which is supposed to scroll the window vertically or horizontally until all the content is captured.
I’ve never been able to get that to work and assumed it was broken on Windows XP. Perhaps it works on Vista. After playing with all the options I did finally manage to find a good workaround, although I still can’t get the default “auto-scroll” setting to work.
Continue readingI just lost 20 minutes trying to line up a list of numbers inside a table cell in Word. The problem was that clicking “tab” only caused the cursor to jump, usually outside the table
Continue readingI have a very fast multi-core system, so I was puzzled because Photoshop always opened even tiny images slowly, sometimes taking 5 or 10 seconds, and freezing everything in the process. Thanks to a post
Continue readingThe fastest way to grab a YouTube video for Powerpoint? If you can’t count on internet access at the lecture hall, you will need to download the video in a format compatible with Powerpoint. YouTube
Continue readingWriting notes and sketching on PDF’s using a Tablet PC can be an excellent replacement for a blackboard or whiteboard in the classroom, meetings or lectures. Easier than using Powerpoint, especially when you want to improvise, it is particularly useful for annotating complex diagrams, music, mathematical problems, or anything requiring gridlines or graph paper.
On a Lenovo Tablet PC, you can use the clipping function to drop PDF’s into the Journal application and type or write on them with the pen. The pen has good enough resolution to write legibly, and draw lines and curves.
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