Windows 7

I recently delivered a presentation to the North West Regional Group of The Institute of IT Training which covered how to install and run Windows 7 in a virtualized environment on Mac OSX. Part of the presentation was a demonstration of 7 new and improved features of Windows 7.
For each feature I’ve created a short [...]

Filed under: TipsNTricks | Posted on March 9th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »

Installing Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine

Although I started using a Mac in 2006, I still work in a Windows world so in order to keep my hand in, I decided I’d install Windows 7 – as a virtual machine inside VMWare Fusion, although the fact that I’d agreed to deliver a presentation on running Windows 7 in a virtualised environment [...]

Filed under: Apple, TipsNTricks, Tutorials | Posted on February 28th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »

The PowerPoint Comma Bug

I recently received a call from a customer who was having a problem creating hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2007. She had a slide which was, in essence, a table of contents in that it contained links to all the other slides in the presentation. However, there was one hyperlink that would not work.

Filed under: TipsNTricks, Tutorials | Posted on February 18th, 2010 by MikeT | No Comments »

Screenr

I recently discovered a great new free, cross-platform web-based tool called screenr which allows you to create screencasts without installing any software.

Filed under: TipsNTricks | Posted on August 28th, 2009 by MikeT | No Comments »

PowerPoint 2007 Shortcuts

When running a slide show in PowerPoint, have you ever needed to switch to another running application? I know you can use ALT+TAB, but it can be messy, especially if you have a few programs running.

Filed under: TipsNTricks | Posted on August 14th, 2009 by MikeT | No Comments »

Outlook to iCal via Google and BusySync

As a user of iCal (at home) and Outlook (at work) it would be incredibly useful to be able to display my work calendar in iCal (and via a Mobile Me sync, on the iPhone too). I don’t need the ability to sync – it is really just a case of wanting to have my [...]

Filed under: TipsNTricks, Tutorials | Posted on July 19th, 2009 by MikeT | No Comments »

Screen Captures with The Snipping Tool (Vista)

When it comes to taking screen captures, Windows users have had to rely on the PrintScreen key or purchase/download a third-party application. My favourite app for taking screen captures on Windows is Hypersnap, although there are several others – some are free and some are paid-for.

Filed under: TipsNTricks, Tutorials | Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by MikeT | No Comments »

Copying Non-Hidden Cells in Excel 2007

One of the features of Excel is the ability to hide cells. However, if you copy a range that contains hidden cells and paste the selection elsewhere, you get all the rows including the hidden ones. This short tutorial will show you how to copy just the visible cells.

Filed under: TipsNTricks, Tutorials | Posted on June 19th, 2009 by MikeT | No Comments »

FrontPage Runs Out of Memory

Unfortunately I have to use FrontPage 2000 at work and today when attempting to open our team’s site to make some changes, a message appeared that I’d never seen before.

Filed under: TipsNTricks | Posted on March 18th, 2009 by MikeT | No Comments »

Outlook-iCal Synchronisation

Today was my last day at work for 2008 and so I’d set aside some time for those end-of-year-admin jobs…empty my Inbox (no I didn’t just press CTRL + A and hit the Delete key, nor did I move everything to a “do not process until 2009″ folder), tidy my “My Documents folder, set [...]

Filed under: Apple, TipsNTricks, Tutorials | Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by MikeT | No Comments »

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