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Improve Your Screenshots By Hiding The Taskbar Automatically

November 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Tips

Here’s a quick trick when taking screenshots of the entire desktop. Hide the taskbar automatically so you don’t have to waste time editing it in Snagit.

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Technical Writing News – Nov 6th

November 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Reviews

New technical writing screencasts, Madcap win an award, and the Intercom editorial calendar is finally announced. What more could you want?
Here is a quick roundup of this week’s technical writing news.

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What are Your Favorite 10 Technical Writing Tools?

November 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

I’ve used the same technical writing tools for the last 5 years. A few products have come across my desk but nothing that really blown me away.
Here’s a run-down of what I use to write my technical documents. No order of preference. Which should I keep? Which should I replace?

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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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Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free

October 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free

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Screen Capture Tip #11, How to Batch Process Groups of Images

October 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Do you need spend hours trying to make all your photos be the same size, format, with your company watermarks added in the corner? How can you convert 100 images to same file format, add a 1 pixel black border, and make them all the same size in less that 5 minutes? Here’s how.

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Screenshot Tip #10 – how to capture a Region, Desktop, Entire Webpage and keep the Hyperlinks

October 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Here is the simplest way to take a screenshot of a region, desktop, an entire webpage and also how to include the hyperlinks if you want to save the webpage as a SWF or PDF. We’re going to use SnagIt as our preferred tool for taking screenshots.

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How To Take a Screen Shot Of the Windows Start Menu Bar?

October 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

Most screenshot software doesn’t let you take a screen capture of the Windows menu bar. Here’s a workaround.

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Screenshot Tips #1 – Difference between Screen Shots and Screen Dumps

October 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

This is the first part in a series of lessons on how to create professional-looking screenshots. We’ll start with the basics and walk you through more advanced techniques, such as blending, merging and adding special effects to your screenshots.

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How to Create Printer Friendly Page | No Coding Skills Required

June 29th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing

How to Create Printer Friendly Page | No Coding Skills Required

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How to Create Printer Friendly Page | No Coding Skills Required

June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

How to Create Printer Friendly Page | No Coding Skills Required

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Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?

June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?

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Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?

June 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Process Design Tutorial #5 | What do I need to capture in my business processes?

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What’s The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers? Forrester Research knows the answer

June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing

Forrester’s Social Technographics classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation (see short presentation). Based on its survey data, they can see how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.

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What's The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers? Forrester Research knows the answer

June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To

Forrester’s Social Technographics classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation (see short presentation). Based on its survey data, they can see how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.

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