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  1. It's Not a Typewriter (Office 2007/2010)

    by , 29th June 2010 at 07:06 PM (Ramblings from the Restaurant at the Ragged Edge of Reason)
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ID:	7599The two latest versions of Office handle paragraph breaks differently to Office 2003 and this seems to cause negative reactions from some users. Lately I have been exposed to a group of people who were new to the Office 2007/2010 way of spacing text and have discovered that they dislike the default settings.

    I think that the issue is not so much based on usability but more based on inertia with regards to previously learnt behaviour. The standard behaviour ...
  2. EduGeek in Denver - Day 2 (part 2)

    by , 28th June 2010 at 06:02 AM
    Well, the sand is up, but we had to put it up ourselves but thaks to the work of Chris, SmoothWalls head US sales guy, he had the framework assembled already. Anyway, it's 11pm, I'm posting some more pics then off to bed. Enjoy
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  3. EduGeek in Denver - Day 2 (part 1)

    by , 27th June 2010 at 06:18 PM
    Well, we went to bed nice and early, had a good nights sleep, have started to acclimatise and swore at the TV watching the England - Gemany match. Anyway, here are a random collection of pics we've taken so far. We shall post more later once we've set up the stand:
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  4. EduGeek in Denver - Day 1 (part 2)

    by , 27th June 2010 at 01:12 AM
    Our first full day in Denver. We are still a little jet lagged and have spent the day having a quick look around after getting up at lunch time. We also had to do a bit of shopping for some things we needed for the stand. Thank goodness for Radio Shack
    The flight over in club class yesterday was, to be frank, amazing. You got a cubicle to yourself, complete with entertainements system, a galley and the BA staff waiting on you hand and foot.

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  5. Office 2010 Road Warrior Event at Papakura Normal School (Part 2 of 2)

    by , 26th June 2010 at 06:51 PM (Ramblings from the Restaurant at the Ragged Edge of Reason)
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    Excel is the flagship product for the 64 bit line of Office applications, as Excel itself now has no row limit on documents it is only limited by the memory available on your computer. Excel is in fact the only program that Microsoft recommends from their 64 bit offering for users working with large worksheets of millions of rows (note: this was not from the presentation but a recommendation taken from several different Microsoft presentations). ...
  6. Office 2010 Road Warrior Event at Papakura Normal School (Part 1 of 2)

    by , 26th June 2010 at 06:50 PM (Ramblings from the Restaurant at the Ragged Edge of Reason)
    The Road Warrior event at Papakura Normal was well attended attracting at least twenty participants from five separate schools to hear about the new features and improvements available in Office 2010. Part one of this blog entry contains the writeup on general features, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Publisher. The second part contains information on Excel, Office extentions like Ribbon Hero and PowerPivot along with a small amount on SharePoint, Live@Edu and Expression Encoder.

    I arrived ...
  7. lzPingLaunch v1.2

    by , 26th June 2010 at 01:17 PM (Wandering lonely as a clown...)
    Version 1.2 is now available. It now includes SSH, SFTP, Telnet, 'Run' and customisable choice of VNC Viewer.

    Available for download from here.
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  8. It's For Either Taking Videos or Building Houses

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    , 26th June 2010 at 12:56 AM (100 Grades Per Minute)
    Sometimes strange kit get's pulled up from the depths of the school and sent off to the school's technical team as "potentially useful." It's a common occurance and every technician with a blog has probably posted recollections of their old kit found in the dark corner of a classroom or server room.

    Today is no exception when I was handed some old kit that the PE Department had cleared out of their gym. Amongst them was a still camera with a likely usable lens and couple ...
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  9. lzPingLaunch - Windows Keyboard Ping Launcher New Version

    by , 25th June 2010 at 03:45 PM (Wandering lonely as a clown...)
    I've now adapted the program to include the following tools:

    • Ping
    • NSLookup
    • Trace Route
    • VNC
    • RDP


    The application now also checks for updates. To go straight to the updated files, simply double click on the new version available shown in the tool window.

    Available here
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  10. EduGeek in Denver - Day 1 (part 1)

    by , 25th June 2010 at 12:11 PM
    Well, here we are, in the BA club world departure lounge at Heathrow after being bumped up a class We now get huge seats that turn into beds, a massage (should we want one) and a whole raft of free food, drink and facilities at no cost at all. All pretty sweet. This, in my humble opinion is karma offsetting the Sofitel we stayed in last night, where a burger and chips was £15 (the cheapest thing on the menu), beer £6 a pint and no other way of getting elsewhere to eat or drink unless you wanted ...
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