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Entries from January 2008

To Edit or Not To Edit

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

As a long time web developer I often choose my tools by wrote.  Web tools are something that each web developer or designer has a personal take on.  Since I’ve been creating web content for about 13 years. I’ve run through a bunch of web tools and found what works and doesn’t work for me.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized · Web Development

Microsoft Expression Web DWT Updating

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I recently had  a cow-orker who was having trouble updating a DWT in Expression web.  While it looked great and the attached pages were correct, any new changes to the DWT were not applied unless she opened the page in Expression and then Updated the Selected page.   We were baffled as our understanding by [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

The Coffee Cup Revolution

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

MMMM your morning coffee, your cupa joe, your java.  Can’t beat it and stopping at your local coffee shop is a GREAT treat for many and a required fix for some.  Over at WiseBread, Nora Dunn speaks about the problems and a GREAT solution for disposable coffee cups. I agree with her whole heartedly and [...]

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Tags: Saving Money

Automate Windows… Free!

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Every day, several times a day, I open up the same application, login to the same server, type the same thing,  OVER AND OVER again.  I past text I’ve copied from websites into editors only to have the formatting from the website cause problems.    It seems that I might have a LOT of issues with [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Uncategorized

Gmail in the morning, Gmail in the Evening, Gmail at Supper time

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

An update on the Gmail situation.  First it’s working GREAT.  It took a LOT to upload my older messages but now instead of the power of Google Desktop, or Copernic Desktop search I have Gmail search for my messages.  It seems a LOT LOT LOT faster when searching PLUS I don’t have the added overhead [...]

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Tags: Websites

Getting the Support you need

January 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been in tech for almost 20 years now.  Wow 20 years. Of that much of my time has either been in an official or unofficial position of  a support person.   Support calls have ranged from stuck keyboard, Word not printing to my phone won’t call long distance, to a floppy drive used as a [...]

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Tags: Tech Support

Jott it down, or out, or anywhere.

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Have you ever been on the road and found you needed to remember something and didn’t have paper?  You could have used Jott.  Have you ever wanted to just quickly dash off an email when waiting for the bus with only your cell phone?  You could have used Jott.   Jott a free transcribing service lets [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites