Camtasia costs $299 and that should be a big enough incentive to at least investigate if there are free or lower priced alternatives. I checked out a few of these alternatives and found CamStudio to be one that could hold its own. With a simple interface, CamStudio is particularly easy to sit down and use for the first time. You simply sit down, hit the record button, and … [Read more...]
Setting defaults in Word 2007
New to Office 2007? Don't like the default font, font size, spacing, or justification for Word 2007? Tired of changing it to your preferred setup each time? Let's configure the Microsoft defaults to your defaults. First, make sure all Office applications are closed. Now we're going to browse to where the default template stores these settings. Open up My Computer and you'll … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: Modify Word 2007 Keyboard Shortcuts
In Word 2007, press Ctrl+Alt+[plus sign on the numpad] to turn the cursor into a 4-leaf clover. This will allow you to get into customizing keyboard shortcuts used inside of Word 2007. At this point, if you want to know what a current keyboard shortcut does, you can press that shortcut while the clover cursor is up. Pressing Ctrl+P: You can alternately click on any of the … [Read more...]
3 under-mentioned improvements of Firefox 3
Firefox 3's low memory usage, password management changes, and new standard features get the majority of the buzz. Here's a few that help in the day-to-day but don't make it to the frontpage. Alt text is now able to go multiple lines. Firefox 2 would cut off alt text at a certain length and dictated the need of an extension like Long Titles. Firefox 3 does this without the … [Read more...]
I’ll take the PDF, hold the Adobe.
I think I've made my dislike of Adobe known previously, but there are plenty of reasons to look for alternatives to Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader: Price, bloat, load time, and interface. Make anything a PDF: There are a lot of programs that use the same approach of a printer sub-system. I've listed a few of them and my notes below. Essentially where you would normally save a … [Read more...]