Archive for March, 2007
More on Office 2007
Today was to have been the last day of my Office 2007 trial but I headed over to Amazon.co.uk at the start of the week to bag both Office Home and Student 2007 and Outlook 2007. Both arrived yesterday and I set to ridding my system of all things Office before adding the new software. [...]
Is Windows 2000 support finished?
At work, we still use Windows 2000 on our desktop and laptop PC’s. This may (or may not) surprise you but the XP upgrade seems to have been thought a premature move and Vista turned up later than might have been expected. Now that Microsoft is winding down support for Windows 2000, thoughts have started [...]
Want comment spam on your blog?
This is an observation that surprised me: a title on one of my blog posts was helping to drive my Akismet counter a bit wild as the thing was busying itself detecting and quarantining the rubbish. Since changing the offending title, things have calmed down a bit. For me , that’s food for thought…
Adobe CS3 Launch
Last night, I sat through part of Adobe’s CS3 launch and must admit that I came away intrigued. Products from the Macromedia stable have been very much brought under the Adobe umbrella and progressed to boot. One of these that attracts my interest in Dreamweaver and Adobe is promoting its AJAX capabilities (using the Spry [...]
Post popularity plug-in
I found this WordPress plug-in called Popularity Contest while looking for something else, always the best way to find things. Come to think of it, I can’t remember what I was looking for. Anyway, the plug-in polls the popularity of your posts, a very useful piece of information, not that it should deflect from writing [...]
Turning off WordPress’ visual editor
I was doing sometime that required custom XHTML and got sick 0f the way in which the Visual Editor was mangling my code so I went and turned it off. It’s not in the obvious place where I would expect it.Apparently, it’s a per user setting so you find the relevant tick box (check box [...]