Blog archives 2008–now

Post titles seem to be from the most recent to the oldest, though some may be a little out of order (the WordPress ‘archives’ feature I’m using doesn’t seem to preserve the order of the posts all the time…).

• ‘Twas the night before Christmas…
• It’s Christmas Day
• Creating a PDF of a multi workbook Excel 2007 spreadsheet
• New website for software documentation and user assistance
• “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Really?
• Recent surveys from WritersUA
• You want a picture with that stick figure?
• Great communication — NOT
• Wow! Great advice for new college/uni students
• Round-up of useful usability resources
• Examples of all sorts of diagrams
• Donations in lieu of Seasons Greetings
• Word: Cursor is tiny
• You want what?
• Only in Australia
• The power of plain English
• Writers and editors working together
• Business and financial terms
• Giving helpful feedback
• Internet Explorer 8: Changing the text editor
• Social media exercises
• Now, where do I plug a book in again?
• Word: Taking back control
• Breadth vs depth
• Word: Tool to create a list of abbreviatons
• Conferences and Twitter backchannels
• All sorts of JavaScript tooltips
• There are no words for the stupidity of this
• Kathy Sierra on readable user manuals
• Very cool Google image tool
• Looking for a new camera?
• Vista: Create FTP shortcut with login details
• 2009 WritersUA Annual Skills and Technologies Survey
• WritersUA 2010 Conference for Software User Assistance
• Typographic howlers
• Sketch out your car accident
• What is it about time pickers?
• Product labels: 2
• Install multiple free applications at once
• Product labels: 1
• Windows Help Viewer for Windows 7
• Are you a grammar nerd?
• Typefaces laid out like a Periodic Table
• What makes you a professional?
• Fully uninstalling Trend Micro
• Word 2007: Using Table Styles
• Word 2007: Using Quick Tables
• Software defect reduction: Top 10 list
• Safety moment: Watch out for those office plants!
• A graphic that’s worth a thousand words
• Euphemism for the sack
• Still supporting multiple versions of IE?
• Captivate: Change the autotext for captions
• Word: Quickly moving between headers and footers
• Short list of website testing tools
• Quotable quote
• Priorities
• Three terrific writing How To’s
• Word: Superscripts and subscripts
• Free quick reference guides to popular software applications
• Websites 101
• Working towards happy users
• Tech Support flow chart
• Think you know your font names?
• Capturing your inspirational moments
• Personas 101
• Switch your regional Google search page to Google.com
• Word: Deleting a bookmark
• Book review: The Global English Style Guide
• Word: Separate out macros and attach them to all documents
• Great quote about the value of content
• Word: Macro to fix Track Changes/Cross References issues
• Making the case for renewing STC membership
• Word: Can’t add a comment
• UI wireframe and prototyping resources
• Word: Turn off pagination
• Spring cleaning
• Grammar basics in a poem
• Accolades
• Pre-populating email links
• Quick currency conversions using Google
• New to CSS? or just need a refresher?
• Create a simple survey in Google Docs
• Word: Use keyboard to browse text boxes
• Beware the ‘more work for you’ line
• Wikis for documentation and business
• Word: Recover lost documents
• HTML tooltips: The easy way
• Convert to/from various Wikis
• Dipping into the flat ocean of information
• Hilarious review of a vehicle user manual
• Before the coffee kicks in: 404 error
• Everything you wanted to know about Twitter
• Testing designs on mobile devices
• Read-aloud PDFs
• Cost of not checking the documentation
• Podcasts: User Experience
• Cute 404 error!
• The clock is running
• Can traditional publishers add value in an online world?
• Word 2007: Tips for using built-in table styles
• Interaction design principles
• Random text generator
• How to build a business case
• Made me pause…
• Bottom line decision making
• Word: Fixing a Table of Contents
• User assistance by any other name would smell as sweet
• Computer terms
• Online meeting schedulers
• Word: All about indexing
• Interested in dating an editor or technical writer?
• Caught by Captcha!
• Email: Use plain text
• Internet connection issues?
• The illustrated guide to color contrast
• Change the keyboard shortcut for an application
• Freelance editing rates
• 60 day system outage = outrageous!
• Updated project life cycle cartoon
• Australian book prices
• Word: When Restart Numbering doesn’t work
• Book review: Conversation and Community
• Acronym Finder
• How ANZSCO sees technical writers
• What you can and can’t ask in a job interview
• Want to find out more information about a phone number?
• Software development lifecycle swimlane diagram
• DITA basics
• Cat fight! Trend v Spybot
• Can inanimate objects own or do things?
• Word: Changing the default font
• Very funny take on office culture
• User interface design revisited
• All 100K+ Unicode characters and more…
• Make a hotel reservation, get a rad combo box!
• Word: Set the Styles that users see in a template
• User interface style guides
• “Yay! I get to click the ‘Next’ button!”
• I know the person this happened to
• Always have a back-up safety plan
• Word 2007: File locations
• Word: Replace text containing superscript and subscript characters
• Word: Quick way to look for orphaned content
• “What’s that there?” Computer hardware chart
• Bypassing the server to get to the internet
• Customer Support response
• Great spin
• Two different approaches to words
• This is why you need an editor
• This is new… or I’m blind
• Editing: Terms and citations in long documents
• What are you worth?
• Writing resources
• They have to be joking…
• I love new terms!
• Happy 10th birthday, CyberText!
• Add steps, tips etc. to videos
• Round-up of 50 free lessons in graphic design
• Annoying Outlook Express messages even though not using OE!
• Interweaving words and fabric
• Telling it like it is
• Visual resumes and CVs
• Microsoft Office 2007 shortcut keys
• No wonder users get frustrated
• Unofficial Author-it wiki
• Everything you need to know to make accessible documents
• Business happiness wrapped up in a Venn diagram
• How hard is it to add another name to a hotel reservation?
• Bad/non-existent doco = Bad review!
• How Twitter deals with suspended accounts
• Presentation: Techniques for Reviewing a User Interface
• Author-it: Importing Word 2007 DOCX files
• The vendor-client relationship
• Dictionaries starting to recognize Twitter terms?
• Classic t-shirt
• Remote user and user interface testing
• Word: Keyboard shortcut to paste unformatted text
• Presentation: Reviewing Screen-based Content
• Don’t make the next step difficult
• Documenting a live user interface
• Content types: Metadata for content
• Word: Change date format from Excel data
• Offshoring, outsourcing and globalization
• What’s wrong with this picture?
• Presentation: Customizing HTML Outputs from Author-it
• Blog post gone viral!
• Microsoft Help3 resources
• Dig through to the other side
• 45 ways to get out a rut
• A picture is worth a thousand words
• Word: Change decimals from Excel data
• Presentation: Time-saving Techniques Using Author-it
• New search engines and other cool stuff
• Word 2003: Create separate mail merge documents
• Style question
• Way cool infinite photo mosaic
• Everyone can write, right?
• Who says technical writers don’t have a sense of humor?
• Presentation: Author-it Tips and Tricks
• Acrobat: Rearrange pages
• Employer preferences for resumes and cover letters
• Word annoyance: Mail merge fields
• Graph paper generator
• Word 2003: Import an Excel 2003 table
• Very clever paper prototypes
• Presentation: Training 101
• List of plain language alternatives
• 10 ways developers can reduce user frustration
• How silly warnings get into product manuals
• Author-it’s Xtend gets its first patent
• Word: Accept formatting Track Changes but not text
• Word annoyance: Cross-referencing
• A different perspective on economics
• Intelligent error message
• Consistency reduces confusion
• “Written skills preferred”
• WordPress now allows Slideshare embedding
• More hints for confusing words
• Immersing yourself in the writing
• Browsers are male!
• Little Red Riding Hood in tech writer speak
• What different colors mean in different countries
• Excel: Create a drop-down list
• Facebook manners
• Creating a non-scrolling title for a webpage
• Internet Explorer: Cannot type in a field
• Australia Post: Substantial discounts
• Word: Modify Table of Contents tab settings
• Show multiple time zones at once
• Color scheme tools
• Word closure
• Word: Issue with multiple blank pages
• Incomprehensible interface labels
• How to annoy 22m people
• Even everyday objects need clear writing
• When readers can’t read
• Quote for tough times
• Upgrade Acrobat 6 Pro to Acrobat 9 Pro
• Windows: No to all
• Vista: Rebuild indexes
• Power adaptor pack
• Table and figure numbering
• Compound words
• This week’s safety moment
• Amazing technology
• Vista: Classic Windows Explorer view
• Brilliant support from WordPress
• Confluence Wiki for $5
• Work for hire contract in plain English
• New financial terms
• A short history of cookbooks
• About footnotes and endnotes
• Convert one video format to another
• Get a degree under false pretences
• Vista: Setting TXT file association for EditPlus
• Still young, white and male
• Fonts: Reading PDFs and ebooks on screen
• Think you know your sentence structure?
• Etiquette for commenting on blog posts
• Vista: Display the menu bar
• Fully fluid web design
• User Assistance in Web Forms
• Interview with Scott McCloud
• Not perfect — just done
• MYOB error messages
• Published
• I just spotted a one-legged woman…
• WritersUA 2009: Day 3
• Interview with Mary Jo Foley
• WritersUA 2009: Day 2
• WritersUA 2009: Day 1
• I joined Twitter
• WritersUA 2009: Registration Day: Sunday 29 March
• Decision making technique
• Ten funny ‘out of office’ email responses
• Some people are crying out for good Help
• Clean up your writing
• Dilbert on user interfaces
• Word: Cross-reference goes onto next page
• For those who don’t get Twitter
• ‘My computer is dead’
• Images not displaying in Firefox 3
• Word: About hidden text
• Vista: Find the program running a process
• Windows XP: Event Logs
• ColorPix: Find a color value
• Author-it: Variants and searching
• User experience basics
• You or users?
• PaintShop Pro: Find a color value
• Even the gurus see the value in Help
• Office 2003: Set the default language
• Estimating technical writing projects
• Writing consumer product instructions
• When marketing meets technical communication
• Using ‘Please’ in error messages
• Do not leave the documentation until last
• Word: All about sections
• National Grammar Day
• Typography sweatshirt
• Finding a Microsoft Product Key for an installed product
• A style guide and a half
• Getting SQL Server 2005 Express
• A prescriptive attitude to grammar
• Office 2007: Ribbon
• Word: Count the number of words
• WinZip: Split a Zip file
• Word: Add/remove highlighting with the keyboard
• Review of screen capture tools
• Word: What happens when you paste tracked changes into another document?
• Yes, yes, yes! Sorry: OK!
• Affordable usability testing
• Word: Changing a section break’s type
• Author-it: Publishing to Word on Vista
• The real cost of new software
• Flights booked, preparation done
• Author-it: Word output
• PaintShop Pro: Resize an image
• Great deal — and help bushfire victims too
• The cost of bad documentation
• Accessing your modem from your computer
• Grammar articles from The New York Times
• Word: Open old Word document formats
• PC Guru guys save the day — again
• LIFE magazine photo archive now available
• Technical writers’ glossary
• Fun word game
• Word: Align decimal numbers
• Get an accurate word count
• Proofreading? Spellchecking? Who needs it?
• Check the speed of your connection
• Treat the writing process like the coding process
• Word: Use StyleRef field to populate header/footer
• Editor’s revenge
• Explaining the various ‘bytes’
• Avoid culturally specific references
• Vista: Ownership details
• Developing your business in a slow economy
• Convert HTML and Word into Wiki markup
• Word: Change the spaces after a period
• Dealing with large documents
• Word: Run Format Painter with the keyboard
• For the geek girl
• Is laying off people the best option?
• Outlook: Turn off notifications
• List of banished words for 2009
• Play on words
• Word: Set up pages for printing
• The perennial font argument: Serif or Sans serif?
• Noisy computer
• Style guides for science and engineering
• Word: Replace excess spaces
• Hearing Voices: podcasts from NPR
• WritersUA: The Conference for Software User Assistance
• Author-it: Corporate blog
• Tools for technical communicators
• Word: Turning manual formatting into styles
• Citations and references
• Word: Line numbering
• Looking back on the first year of this blog
• Free photographs of textures
• Free online survey software
• Let’s start the year with some punctuation humor…
• A different New Year resolution
• Ellipses for missing text
• Word: Nonbreaking spaces the easy way
• The liberation of a termination clause
• Software and Systems Engineering Vocabulary
• Keep the pedants happy
• “We wish you a Merry Christmas…”
• Word 2003: Prompted to save template when no changes made
• View a website’s CSS
• Donation in lieu of corporate Christmas cards
• Word: Bookmark cross-reference formatting
• Could YOU get there from here?
• WritersUA Tools Survey 2008
• Producing better documentation
• Holiday eating tips
• Where to start with HTML Help
• Quote for software developers
• Adobe Technical Communications Suite group
• Graphics file formats for Word, PDF and HTML output
• Clever Christmas greeting
• Document layout: Hints
• Reminder: Price increase for checklist on Jan 1
• Get more clients without advertising
• Edit heavily or rewrite from scratch?
• Word: Templates galore!
• What technical communicators get up to
• Opening new tabs in a browser
• Designing a login form
• Script-free pure CSS menu
• Reminder: WritersUA Conference early bird registration closes this week
• Gifts for technical writers
• A bit of fun
• Keeping up
• Voice your opinion about an Australian spellchecker
• Obscure dictionaries
• Last chance!
• Outlook: Creating a hyperlink to a network file
• Making a business case
• Word: Automating your work with AutoText
• Acrobat: Capture web pages
• Amazon’s Black Friday Sale!
• Money Strategy #10: Manage Surplus Funds
• Are you blonde? Do you like pink?
• Money Strategy #9: Billing Method
• Ah! The fame!
• Money Strategy #8: Track Your Position
• Money Strategy #7: Use Accounting Software
• Money Strategy #6: Pay Your Tax
• Money Strategy #5: Pay Yourself
• WritersUA Annual Conference early bird registration
• WritersUA Annual Skills and Technologies survey
• Money Strategy #4: Pay Your Bills
• Money Strategy #3: Invoice Regularly
• Money Strategy #2: Separate Your Money
• Money Strategy #1: Get Professional Advice
• The business of freelancing: Money: The Rules
• Market share stats for internet usage
• External hard drive accessed when no processes running
• Author-it: HTML filenames
• Open Culture podcast directory
• The secret to writing great copy
• Need to manage your stuff?
• Word 2003: Create an automatic Table of Contents
• From an unnamed government department…
• Live in Australia? Want to buy goods from US websites?
• Configuring Remote Desktop settings
• Vista: Uninstall a program
• Getting your message across in another language
• Open a Word 2007 document in Word 2003
• Practice what you preach
• Word 2003: Recording a macro
• ASTC (NSW) Conference 2008: Day 2
• Fingerprint, schmingerprint!
• ASTC (NSW) Conference 2008: Day 1
• Social networking sites for technical communicators
• Show full menus in Office 2003 applications
• Word: Controlbox toolbar won’t go away
• PDF security
• Tips for Microsoft Word
• UI slide deck in ‘Featured’ list
• It’s called an octothorpe
• World clock with a difference
• Technical writer resumes
• The value of technical writers
• Putting the red pen on a campaign letter
• Outlook: Skip to another month in the calendar
• Plain English, please
• Single or double quotes
• Parallel structure
• Copyright notices on documentation
• Word: Jumping to another place
• Windows: Turn off FilterKeys
• Word 2003: Turn off the ‘writing book’ icon
• Word: Repeat a table’s heading row
• Results of Help Authoring Tool survey
• Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility
• Word: Document opens very slowly or not at all
• Spell check oddity
• DOS lives!
• Beer goggles? No – Mail Goggles!
• Author-it: Gaining more screen space
• PowerPoint: Change bullet indent for all slides
• Author-it: Autofit tables in Word output
• Add an Author-it AfterPublish macro to the Word template
• Indexes v. full text searches
• Word 2007: Apply a template
• Outlook: Remove attachments from messages
• It’s on the tip of my tongue…
• Word: Pictures in a table of contents
• Paying subcontractors
• Cube farms
• Nothing but the facts
• Word: Modify TOC styles
• National Punctuation Day
• Simple, but impressive graphs
• Word 2007: Outline numbering
• Fake phone numbers
• CSS settings for horizontal rule (hr)
• Copy text and images in a PDF document
• Accents
• Word: Toggling between Print Preview and your document
• Prophetic?
• “Be nice. Say thank you.”
• Author-it presentations
• Is it email, e-mail, or eMail?
• “Don’t make me think!”
• Acrobat 9 and Word: Outline numbering
• Word 2007: What happened to the Styles and Formatting task pane?
• Lost your Vista taskbar and desktop icons?
• What does a technical writer ‘do’?
• Take the Help Authoring Tool survey
• Vista: Changing the size of desktop icons
• Fish!
• Want to cut short a phone call?
• Cleaning up programs that Add/Remove won’t remove
• Author-it: Change table heading shading in Word
• Dealing with telemarketers
• Need to email to some addresses in plain text?
• Twenty ways to say “no”
• Author-it: Find all topics not in any Book
• Tricks with tables in Word
• Copyright: Is ‘work for hire’ legal?
• Mind mapping software
• Golden Bull awards
• Adobe is seriously testing my patience
• Creating Word footnotes using Author-it
• Windows shortcuts
• Creating powerful messages using charts
• OK then Cancel, or Cancel then OK?
• Free vector world maps
• Inches to pixels converter
• Outlook 2003: Send all emails in plain text
• Smooth fonts in Windows XP
• That devilish apostrophe
• Open multiple tabs at once
• Can I use a hammer?
• Author-it: Duplicating objects
• Fonts, typography
• Acrobat 9 Pro and Word 2007
• Author-it: Logging a support call
• Making faces
• Windows Explorer very slow
• Millions of free scientific articles
• World’s largest “how to” manual
• Annual survey for those who make websites
• Transparent background for desktop icons
• Translating user interface terms
• Email disclaimer
• Author-it: Variants
• Procrastination
• Avoiding ‘on hold’ hell
• Be careful of software demos
• General dictionary and glossary sites
• Add custom properties to Author-it’s Word output
• Google street views
• Printable blank calendars
• Vista: Running a command as an Administrator
• Mispronounced words and phrases
• Organize Programs list in Vista
• Free online training from Microsoft
• Were you born before 1960?
• George’s wisdom
• Vista: Microsoft time
• Word: Removing hyperlinks in a TOC
• More Bill Bryson books
• Outlook: Don’t send an email to the wrong person
• Word: Folder for inserted images
• Video: Font conference
• Telephone etiquette
• Word: Random text generator
• YouTube, Flash converters/downloaders
• The real costs of a ‘lite’ version
• Guess the Google
• Indexing software
• Why is intranet searching so bad?
• WordPress quick start guide
• This is NOT funny
• Outlook: Scheduling tips
• What’s ‘national’?
• You want fonts with that?
• How do they get away with it?
• Outlook 2003: How do I hide the list of email recipients?
• Word 2007: Where did everything go?
• Video “how to”s
• Word: Getting rid of blue hyperlinks
• Updating documents in old formats
• Acrobat 9: Installation issues
• You get what you pay for
• Windows XP SP3: Issues
• Word: Autocorrect
• Corporate/business blogging
• Word: Table column widths
• Content creators and user experience
• I wish!
• Language resources
• Word: Synonyms
• Word: Remove excess characters
• Outlook: Delay outbound mail
• Word: Select a column of text
• But is it really English?
• Resize text
• Search for people and businesses
• Google tips
• SnagIt 9 is out
• Use Gmail as a recipe organizer
• 10 things NOT to say to a technical writer
• Now here’s a job…
• View your website as a color-blind person
• Word: Find the location of a linked graphic
• SnagIt: Cannot save capture
• See/See also: And the difference is?
• Windows Explorer tips
• Software for a USB device
• Speech recognition has a long way to go
• Silly labelling
• Breaking the creative block
• Cleaning up page breaks in Author-it’s Word output
• Word: Replace a style
• The business of freelancing: Insurances
• Ideas wanted for STC’s “Intercom”
• Need to find an ABN?
• Computer “Who’s on first?”
• Word: Selecting text in Word
• Author-it Xtend authoring memory
• Microsoft Office keyboard shortcuts
• Articles and blog posts related to Author-it
• Apostrophe Protection Society
• Need a photo for a presentation?
• Website updates
• Editing a digital voice recording: 2: Editing in Audacity
• Editing a digital voice recording: 1: Converting the WAV file
• Editing a digital voice recording: Overview
• Quacks like a duck
• Magnificent food illustrations
• Software for portable devices
• Google search ‘mashup’
• Outlook: Changing your working week
• Are you being copied?
• Love oxymorons?
• Management reviews of technical reports
• Pet peeves: Words
• Tips for presentations
• Hints for troublesome words
• Software design specification template
• Read-as-you-go
• Outlook: Update address details for multiple contacts
• Graphics designers as dogs…
• Missing underlines on menu items
• Where are the female presenters?
• AODC Conference 2008: Day 3
• Windows: Background processes and tasks
• AODC Conference 2008: Day 2
• Funny emergency signs
• AODC Conference 2008: Day 1
• Word: Replace text in quotes with bold text
• Capture the text in a Command window
• Word: Why is the Select All button inactive in Styles?
• Turn off Auto Run
• Twenty questions…
• Superfluous quote marks
• Word 2003: Letterheads
• Test yourself: Word origins
• IE7 crashes when open Office document in SharePoint
• Google search tips
• Word 2003: White background prints as gray
• Like that font?
• Quick way to zoom in and out
• Lost your Windows XP taskbar and desktop icons?
• I love WordPress but…
• Keyboard shortcuts galore!
• Lorem Ipsum random text generator
• About functional specifications
• Word: Automated tables of figures
• Word: Turn off Reading Layout view
• Word 2007’s numbering explained
• Pet peeves: Pronunication
• PhraseExpress
• Shortcuts to multiple drives and folders
• Migrating legacy content
• How popular is your website?
• Free link checker
• “Death by PowerPoint”
• Outlook 2003: Find directions to your contact’s address
• Google Maps for Australia
• Find duplicate files
• Qualities of a fake writer
• First impressions DO count
• Lies told to technical writers
• Google Desktop Search
• Adobe PDF is missing from the menu
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Presentation files available
• Use Outlook as an organizer
• Make long URLs short
• Lost your Windows?
• Want more people to contribute to your Wiki?
• Word: Edit in Print Preview mode
• Outlook and MSN Messenger
• Writing useful error messages
• Email or file limit blues?
• Fun metric conversions
• Word: Set default table style
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Summary
• Implementation time calculator
• Turn off the Search puppy
• Color code your Windows folders
• Online pedometer
• Food, glorious food
• Opening Windows Explorer to a folder of your choice
• Creating special characters
• Is the Help helpful?
• Reptilian computer actions
• Convert PDF to Word
• How does your website display in Internet Explorer?
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Wednesday 19 March
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Portland Hilton Hotel
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Tuesday 18 March
• Word: Unlinking linked images
• Vale Marta
• User experience levels
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Monday 17 March
• WritersUA Conference 2008: Sunday 16 March
• Make a 3D image from a 2D image
• Password recovery tools
• Getting Help
• Icons for your web address
• HTML email newsletters
• One space or two…
• Ultimate resource for writing white papers
• Author-it variables
• Shortened forms for company names
• Word: View two documents at once
• Word: Open a document at your last position
• The Mother Tongue
• Anagrams for everyone
• List all files in a directory
• Geek quote
• Add holiday dates to Outlook’s calendar
• Copy an error message
• Word 2003: Styles task pane
• Financial survival advice to writers and other freelancers
• Dial emergency in Australia
• Words to look for when changing spelling
• The Zen of CSS Design
• Meeting across time zones?
• Backing up an SQL Express database to a file
• Multiple users and locking in Author-it
• Word: Add a watermark
• Plural confusion
• Autotext entries in the default Author-it Word template
• Retool your computer
• Writing tips for non-writers
• Lynne Truss: Eats Shoots and Leaves
• Software to check for Plain English
• Toodledo!
• Beatles programmers album
• Firefox: Dictionary extension
• Tips for using color
• Outlook: Activities
• Word: Hide the clipboard task pane
• Convert Word to clean HTML
• AODC Conference, May 2008
• Conference presentation on its way
• Word: Turn off Reading Layout view
• Windows XP annoyances
• Restoring an SQL Express database on another computer
• Word 2003: Page 2 everywhere in Table of Contents
• Printing an Outlook address book or phone list
• Outlook: More keyboard shortcuts
• Doesn’t anyone care about the bridge?
• Install Vista/Office 2007 fonts on Windows XP
• Ten CSS tips
• Spaces around slashes
• Date and time formats
• Naming files
• The rising cost of gas
• 2008 WritersUA Conference
• Word: Update fields in headers and footers
• Compare software systems
• So you want to go out on your own?
• Accuracy in fiction editing
• Quick, portable, conversion software
• XML in Author-it
• Online backup sites
• Here’s why you should proofread…
• Missing RSS feed?
• It’s a matter of style
• Number of objects in an Author-it library
• Weird and wacky warnings
• Best practices for creating PDFs
• Searchable but hidden text in HTML
• Safety and hazard symbols
• Author-it v5 and SQL
• Portable freeware collection
• Image maps in Author-it v5
• Use PaintShop Pro to create an Image Map
• Making stars
• Get crisp, clean graphics from a Word document
• Open attachments blocked by Outlook
• Copyright notices
• IE6 won’t display active content
• Recycle your old cell phone
• Convert bitmap graphics to vector
• The freelancer’s toolset
• Gizmo’s 46 best-ever freeware utilities
• What are RSS feeds?
• Apologies for the change of theme
• Imported posts from personal blog
• “Wordplay”
• An MCSE is…
• Computer privacy policy
• Christmas cards for clients
• Ooo! I know someone like this too
• A new year, a new start
• I worked with someone like this
• Somebody got burned…
• Two great resource lists
• Sick of Windows XP wallpaper choices?
• Pixel to em converter
• Young, white, male…
• Typo… set in steel!
• Update on the Aeron chairs
• Very cool business card designs
• Search MYOB Help files
• MYOB Help files
• Tech support
• Portland, OR
• Password madness
• Aeron chairs have arrived
• Connection issues sorted – I hope!
• Wiki ’suicide missions’
• Cruising for a career
• Email address hijacking
• Handy software development references
• One way to document a confusing user interface
• Annual Report sense – finally!
• Sore ears and neck
• Crying over your work
• Get rich slowly…
• Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• Great error message
• “Wikiphilia”
• 2007 WritersUA Skills and Technologies Survey
• It’s all about the writing
• Lost your car?
• Expanding column issue – solved!
• Internet connection
• Yes, No, Maybe…
• How *does* Google work?
• “How to write like a wanker”
• Vale George
• Reading is power!
• Wikis in Plain English
• Updates to store
• Blogs by technical writers
• Technical writing books
• IE min-height issue solved
• Call Center Movie
• Twitter? Twaddle!
• Fake names for documentation
• Oh yummmmm!
• If I was a Klingon…
• Smart wizard?
• Giving something back
• Purging of a different kind
• Bosses and employees: understanding each other
• Two clever YouTube videos
• More accolades for the gurus at PC Guru
• Great blog post
• Usability is a ‘folly’!
• Hard drive crash
• An interesting week
• More conference feedback
• The cost of Microsoft Word
• Outsourcing and offshoring
• High praise indeed
• AODC, Cairns: Day 3: 5 May 2006
• AODC, Cairns: Day 2: 4 May 2006
• AODC, Cairns: Day 1: 3 May 2006