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10 Reasons to Love Microsoft Word 2010 & Ditch Snagit’s Screen Capture Tool

October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

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What do you want to see in Microsoft Office 2010? Arpan Shan, who has access to the beta versions at Microsoft, shares his favorite 10 Office 2010 features.
Some of these you may already know, but he highlights some nice ideas that seem to be coming through. In Word 2010, for example, you [...]

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3 Ways to Turn Outsourcing to Your Advantage & Travel the World

October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Career, How To, India

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Outsourcing is not going to go away. Our recent Technical Writers survey showed that US companies are now outsourcing technical documentation projects big-time to India, Poland and Portugal. This is not going to change. It’s just a business decision.
Feeling bad/sad/mad about it won’t change it.
But what you can do is make it [...]

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Turn Google Docs into a Distraction Free Writing Tool

October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · Google, How To, Technical Writing

Looking for a simple writing tool that automatically hides your desktop so you can concentrate on your writing? Anil Atluri on Digital Inspiration has this great tutorial on how to make Google Docs your perfect free writing tool.

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How to Get Your Email Answered

October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity

Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone.
He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would take [...]

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Google targets Microsoft with new Chrome-based operating system

July 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Google is set to lock horns with Microsoft as it has announced plans to create a new operating system, based on the Chrome web browser, aimed at laptop and netbook users. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be,” it said on its Official Google Blog.

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Write and Maintain your MS Office documents online with Zoho plugin

May 30th, 2009 · View Comments · How To

The Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office lets you work offline on your documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word/Excel and then have these changes reflected directly in your Zoho account when back online online. The plugin bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity.

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Write and Maintain your MS Office documents online with Zoho plugin

May 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

The Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office lets you work offline on your documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word/Excel and then have these changes reflected directly in your Zoho account when back online online. The plugin bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity.

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Speech Recognition Software for Google Docs

May 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Speech Recognition Software for Google Docs

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Interest-based advertising: How it works – Google Ads Preferences

May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Did you ever stop to think just how does Google Ads work? Well, the good folk over at Google have put up a simple tutorial on how Google Ads works. It’s very high level but leads to other pages where things get more technical.
Google’s AdSense program tries to show ads as relevant as possible for [...]

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Prism Converts Websites into Applications

May 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Thomas Claburn writes in Information Week,“Prism is a Firefox plug-in, and a stand-alone application, that allows users to generate desktop versions of Web applications. With the plug-in, Firefox users can select the "Convert Website to Application" command from the Tools menu and immediately convert a Web app like Google Docs into a stand-alone application.

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Are links in Gmail Used in Google Algorithm?

May 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Are links in Google docs (either published or not) can be crawled and taken into account. SEO Journal discuss this, reporting that “people report seeing Gmail links to be used for discovery. The supporting arguments are as follows:

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Why Zoho Will Overtake MS Office

May 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Zoho has a million users, which is quite remarkable for a new company that hasn’t spent a dollar on advertising or getting a ton of PR. How did they do it? By releasing a suite of services for new workers. We’ll hear all about that, and more when Zoho’s evangelist Raju Vegesna visits us

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