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McBookaire: I have to name it
Monday, March 31, 2008All my platforms have names. Luggable, POSDELL, BigBox, Hasta (as in Hasta la Vista), POKEY, or PUTRID (performance wise).
In light of the TV commercials, I here by designate the soon to arrive Mac Book Air as … …?
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TECH HARDWARE: Mac Book Air
Sunday, March 30, 2008OK, call me “Martha”. (She’s using one.) I just spent the balance of my 2007 technology budget on one.
It should be fun.
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TECH SOFTWARE: How to create a glossary in Microsoft Word
Sunday, March 30, 2008http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/glossary/glossary.html
How to create a glossary in Microsoft Word
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Word has no built-in mechanism to create glossaries. You can type one by hand, use hyperlinks, or use the Table of Authorities functionality.
To create a glossary across several documents, use RD fields and the Table of Authorities functionality.
The simplest way to create a glossary is to type your glossary by hand at the end of your document. Word has no built-in method of creating a glossary automatically, but you can use hyperlinks or the Table of Authorities functionality to create a glossary for one or more documents.
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Arghh!
And, doing it manually is a productivity enhancement?
And, you wonder why I think Microsoft is more of a problem than a help?
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TECH SERVICE: FOLDERSHARE having trouble after an upgrade?
Tuesday, March 25, 2008A “Windows Live” Beta service to sync machines.
They did an update yesterday.
Today, my personal notebook says it’s connecting. My work notebook says it’s connecting. But they never connect.
Both personal and work notebook show three of the four machines in the group offline.
Interesting.
I think they have a problem.
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Update: As of 1400, the service is now connecting on both stations?
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TECH SOFTWARE: Good bye, Microsoft Project
Friday, March 21, 2008***Begin Quote***
We are pleased to announce a complete Open Workbench site upgrade in time for the release of Open Workbench 1.1.6 – a new stand-alone version of the popular free project scheduling software sponsered by CA Clarity. Over the past couple of months, we have worked hard to deliver version 1.1.6 to the Open Workbench community. We thought you would enjoy and improved site experience in addition to the latest release. The upgraded site includes a new look and feel as well as upgrades to the code for increased security in our forum.
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Good bye, Microsoft Project.
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LINKEDIN: Adds “companies” as entities?
Friday, March 21, 2008http://www.linkedin.com/companies/1703/Comcast?trk=pro_other_cmpy
I looked at the one for Comcast. And “new employees” are four months old. No rss feeds. And, I don’t see a lot of use. Maybe Business Week (the sponsor) will.
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TECH SOFTWARE: Sage Software’s Act! — NOT RECOMMENDED!
Tuesday, March 18, 2008http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/
2008/03/not_a_class_act.html
March 18, 2008
Not a class Act!
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Many people have mixed feelings about class action lawsuits, seeing as how the only real winners are usually the lawyers. But is such litigation more justified against a software company that keeps putting out a buggy product? That was the question confronting one reader when he received notice of a settlement involving Sage Software’s Act! 2005.
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I don’t even fight any more. My defense is Open Source Software. A huge criteria to “invest” my time and effort, which is worth far more than the little bit of money I spend on software, hardware, or services, is can I get my data in and out. I can’t — goodbye. I spend ZERO on anything that I can’t escape from. I’ve been locked in by the best of them most notable Microsoft and I’m going to escape that trap this year. No Vista for me. It’s a failed meme to use tools that trap you into upgrade cycle hell or steal your time and attention away from profitable activities. I’m moving to the zero foot print computing that the web — most notably Google — is offering. As long as I can export my data to Open Office, I’ll be OK. More than one way to skin a class action lawyer.
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TECH SOFTWARE: a strange bug or data error with Microsoft WORD2003
Monday, March 10, 2008Microsoft Office, (Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Microsoft Office and Outlook?), specifically WORD2003, threw me a curve this weekend. I was doing my Jottings Sunday morning and was hit by a strange bug or data error.
Everything on the page was coded as a hypertext link.
I was hooked bad. On deadline, I really didn’t need that hassle. Tried to clear the format in any way I could think. New doc. New file. Cut’n’paste. Even went through the doc and “removed hyperlink” on every paragraph.
Nothing worked.
Fired up Open Office. Removed one page of links. Saved it. Uploaded it. Still screwed up.
Fired up NVU and opened the page. It allowed me to globally nuke the link and save it.
Argh!
Two hours down the tubes.
I hate Microsoft Office.
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TECH HARDWARE: troublesome laptop (mac book air) and a flight long gone
Sunday, March 9, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/019882.html
March 08, 2008
The TSA Doesn’t Dig The Macbook Air
Posted by Manuel Lora at March 8, 2008 08:28 PM
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The TSA is the federal agency that supposedly keeps airports safe. It prevents bombs, firearms, knives, brass knuckles and all sorts of evil objects and people from boarding flights. Yet they were puzzled by the new Macbook Air:
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The senior agent hasn’t been trained for technological change. New products on the market? They haven’t been TSA approved. Probably shouldn’t be permitted. He requires me to open the “device” and run a program. I do, and despite his inclination, the lead agent decides to release me and my troublesome laptop. My flight is long gone now, so I head for the service center to get rebooked.
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Oh heroic TSA agents, may you keep our homeland secure from all evils present and future. May your vigilant, Orwellian and totalitarian eyes look after us poor frightened citizens forever and ever. And while you’re at it, read some technology blogs and leave us alone.
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I guess this is one small strike against my getting one. Is this part of the cost of being on the bleeding edge?
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