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Obscure but potentially useful shortcut and list of other shortcuts

Mark Dennison — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:47:37 -0500

Yesterday someone had need of an obscure keyboard shortcut. Their IE Developer Tools window was hidden off screen somehow. More perplexing was that right-clicking on the Task Bar icon would not give the System Menu (Restore-Move-Size-etc) . There was a strong preference not to kill IE and start over because of information that was thought to be on the Developer Tab. What to do?

TED Talk - Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

Mark Dennison — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:05:59 -0400

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html

This was a great talk on innovation and how chance favors the connected mind. In this case the speaker is examing how great innovation often grows slowly from two people having half a great idea each and then being in the right environment for the two ideas to meet and grow. This talk is only 17 minutes and 46 seconds.

Blog interrupted by newly discovered shortcut

Mark Dennison — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:46:32 -0400

Last Friday, I had started to blog about a couple of new shortcuts I learned of on Lifehacker.com. Just before posting, I accidentally discovered another one that blew away the content of my post.

In Windows Explorer (Vista and 7):

Rename Files Fast with the Tab Key - I started using this with file preview to quickly rename scanned files that the scanner delivers as datestamp.pdf. This method also helps overcome the frustion of delays when trying to right-click to rename files on far-remote mapped drives or WebDAV drives.
Rename Windows Files in Bulk - I was happy to find this. Not too long ago, I resorted to a batch file to do a very similar rename.

Also be sure to check out The Best New Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows 7 Info

Mark Dennison — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:45:41 -0400

Wikipedia has a good series of reference articles on Windows 7 including:

Comparison of the flavor editions, and
Detailed list of removed features

Some of the removed features seem completely inexplicable.

October Agile Austin Meeting Notes

Mark Dennison — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:01:54 -0400

Date: 10/6/2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Microsoft Technology Center; Stonebridge Plaza One; 9606 North Mopac, Suite 200, Austin TX, 78759

Great presentation tool for zooming the screen and more

Mark Dennison — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:52:25 -0400

With age catching up to my eyes, I plan to put this on all my machines, so I thought I'd share it. It is from Microsoft but is unsupported. It takes almost minimal space (1.2 MB RAM) but very powerful tool.

Fun article on MSN for long time computer folk

Mark Dennison — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:04:47 -0400

Where Are They Now? 25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die

Remeber your setup from 20 or so years ago: dot matrix printer, Hayes modem, monochrome monitor, Hercules video card, 5 1/4' floppies, etc.

Top 10 most useful secrets in Office by Philip Su of Microsoft

Mark Dennison — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:41:21 -0500

Excellent Microsoft At Work article on Office 2007 productivity tips. Half of these tips were new to me and there was an alternative to one of them in the community contributed tips at the bottom of the article. Well worth the read.

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