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Entries for December, 2008

Mac OSX Screen Capture Tip

I found this tip to be very helpful.  It will let you capture a single element from the screen instead of drawing a banding box around the object and then cropping it in another application later.  This is great for writing documentation.
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/screenshots.html?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss

iTunes Fixup with Tune Up

If your iTunes is a mess use Tune Up and clean up all your music
http://www.tuneupmedia.com

The Web Site is Down

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

SharePoint Designer is unable to open site or page.

Article ID: KB101848
When attempting to open a WSS/MOSS site, or web page in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Designer do you receive the following error:
“The server could not complete your request. Contact your internet service provider or Web server administrator to make sure that the server has the Frontpage Server Extensions or SharePoint Services installed.”

Getting the URL from a Hyperlink Cell in Excel

If you’ve used Copy and Paste from a web page into Excel, you may end up with links in your Excel sheet. You can also add a URL to a cell.
So how do you access the URL itself? What if you want to modify the URL?

MacBook Pro Fan Speed Control and Unresponsive Apps

This morning while checking my emails I found my new (late 2008) MacBook Pro’s fan blowing hard.  I have a fan speed app installed and it told me that the CPU was in the 160 degree range.  I just turned it on how can this be?  I closed all open programs and found while doing [...]

Houston WiFi Locations

Sometimes I need to get out of the office and go somewhere quite to get some work done.  Today that requires that there is an big fat internet connection whereever I am.  I am compiling a list of the best spots in Houston for food and WiFi.  To be on the list the hot spot [...]