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Add a DropBox to your Google Documents for people to upload files to.
Jul 1st
Check out this information on GoDropBox from Lifehacker (no relation to DropBox) is an add-on for Google Apps that allows public uploads to your Google Docs account. The add-on provides a link you can send to anyone who has a file to upload, and will email you when they’ve uploaded a file.
The only users who can upload to your Google Docs account are the ones with the link, so you have a little control over who can upload. The user posting files can upload them one at a time or in batches, but they only see their uploads and the upload progress. When the files are finished, you’ll get an email and link to view them.
GoDropBox is free for organizations with fewer than 100 users, and gives each user 50MB to use. For larger uploads, $5/month will boost the cap to 2GB.
Setting up Office Communicator on your Blackberry
Apr 12th
I tend to miss messages on my Office Communicator AKA Enterprise Instant Messages when I am on a client’s site or even in the lab. So I wanted to setup my communicator on my Blackberry. I figured it wouldn’t be that hard but I had a few issues and figured I would share them so everyone can benefit.
Not everyone always wants to be connected but sometimes you need to be. Here are the steps you need to do to add Office Communicator to your Blackberry.
Download Blackberry desktop manager for your specific BB model. Your best bet here is to go to your phone’s carrier’s website and download it. Google “Verizon Blackberry Desktop Manager” and you will get a find a place to enter your phone number. Do so. You can replace Verizon with your carrier is applicable.Install the BBM on your computer.
- Connect your BB via USB or Bluetooth (this did not work easily/) Make sure you use a USB port on the back of your computer not connected to a USB hub.
- Download the appropriate Office Communicator for Blackberry from here: 2007 or 2005. Download the desktop version.
- Extract the folders.
- Launch your Desktop manager and go to applications.
- Point the browser to the directory you extracted the files/folders to in step 4.
- Log in to the app with your email address and correct password.
- Enjoy your communicator – now you can always stay connected!!!
Oh and while you are at it upgrade your BB’s operating system to 6 and enjoy a brand new device!
Synergy – Control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse.
Feb 27th
There is an awesome writeup on Synergy by Adam Pash over at LifeHacker today. I have been using it for sometime now and you should check out the post and applications.
If you have two or more computers at one desk, you don’t want two or more sets of keyboards and mice cluttering up your workspace, too. You can buy a hardware gadget that lets you share a single keyboard and mouse with several computers (which involves a mess of tangled wires), or you could use a free software solution called Synergy. The Synergy application runs on all the computers you’re using—the one that has the keyboard and mouse connected and the one(s) that do not—and lets you control all of them from that keyboard and mouse. That means you can move your mouse off one computer’s screen and it will appear on the other, where you can type and work as well. Synergy also lets you share Clipboard contents between computers. If you copy information to the Clipboard on one computer and move your mouse to the other, you can paste it there, even though they’re two different systems.
Read the whole post at Lifehacker here or grab the app here.
Cant open the task manager on your Windows machine? I can help!
Jul 9th
I was dealing with some nasty infections over the last few days and the malware authors are getting better and sneakier on a daily basis. I was unable to reverse their shenanigans that blocked me from using task manager to kill the bad tasks. I was working crippled from the command line using taskkill /IM but once I found this little application that gave me back my task manager I was back in business.
It is called RRT and can be downloaded from here. Once you run it you will see a screen that looks like this:
Simply check Task Manager and hit Remove. That’s it! Happy Hunting Guys!
Use OfficeTab to give Office applications Firefox like tabs.
Jul 8th
I got a hot tip today on a piece of Chinese software that will make my life MUCH easier. Have you heard of OfficeTab?
OfficeTab gives your office applications tabs like Firefox introduced to the web way back when. (If you haven’t checked out Firefox 4 yet check out this post on where to find it as a portable application.)
Well if you are not into finding the latest and greatest software you probably never heard of it. But I am hear to show you what it is, how it works and how to grab it. Interested?
Good, I thought that would spark some interest!
Feel free to download OfficeTab from this link here http://hi.baidu.com/officecm/
BUT WAIT – the catch is that the site is NOT in English.
So you do not have to go through what I went through trying to figure out how to download this bad boy the direct download link lives here:http://files.cnblogs.com/wangminbai/OfficeTabv1.20.zip.
Which incidentally if you scroll down to the bottom of the product page it is the only link there. So no need for Google Translations today. The actual application IS multilingual so there are no issues there. Let’s take a look at how it works.
After downloading the application you have to install it. You will see a screen that looks like this after the initial next…
Simply check the Microsoft Office Applications you want OfficeTab to work with. I left the only three that showed up checked. I guess you wouldn’t have a real need for it in Access or Outlook… (or would you??)
Finish your install and then check out the settings:
These are the Excel settings which start with the check box to enable the Tabs inside Excel. I left the rest of the settings alone until I really get into using the application.
Photobie is a layered light weight Photoshop alternative
Jun 30th
I use Photoshop daily and until today I have never used a free application that would allow me to kick Adobe’s Photoshop to the curb.
Being able to use Photoshop filters and the ability to use masks and layers were a necessity and sure enough those are both features of this application called Photobie.
Upon discovering Photobie 7.2.1 I think I have a major contender in the graphic design freeware war. First of all the download was a mere 4.4 MB. That’s right a full fledged layered graphic editor weighing in at under 5 MB!
