Phil

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How to organize your ideas in Gmail - Emailers Anonymous (Download Squad)

Sep 5th 2008 6:04AM You can do exactly the same, but easier, by filtering on content.

I just put "Note to mee" in the body of the text. The misspelling of me is deliberate to avoid any other email that might contain these words getting caught

InsideTrip searches fast, comfortable flights (Download Squad)

Mar 3rd 2008 5:20PM You have to be kidding. Tried a trip from London to Belfast. The only options were via Paris at $1000 and 11hrs. Typical cheap fair for this trip is less than $90 direct flight 1 hr.

Study shows PowerPoint might make information harder to digest (Download Squad)

Apr 6th 2007 3:37PM The first comment by Yayaja is spot on.

Those of us in the communications industry have known this for years. We did not need a study.

The whole point of visual support to a talk or lecture is to add to, clarify, emphasise or visualise information, not to repeat the words.

It also offers a way to communicate the same message to those who learn by different modalities.

Worse of all is the practice of speakers using the PowerPOint to read from, or remind them what they have to say.

Sadly, "Death by PowerPoint" is now a standard occurrence at meetings. It is a crime committed by executives who are interested in appearance rather than action

After all, why would you give any presentation other than to create change - in ideas, in perception or in knowledge - or in some other area.

In my experience, this "read of the slide" use of PowerPoint is usually used to maintain the status quo or impress the boss, rather than achieve any useful outcome.

Phil Bassett
The Production Team Ltd.

Password management that doesn't suck - Ask DLS (Download Squad)

Jan 4th 2007 2:53PM Password Safe is undoubtedly the best of the lot. Open Source, Blowfish encrypted and easy to use.

Microsoft is offering Office Accounting Express 2007 for free (Download Squad)

Oct 31st 2006 8:27AM Pity that Microsoft doesn't seem to be aware of a world beyond the US. You cannot even register if you are not in the US (except by lying). Then you cannot set up a company with a non-US address.

Queen Elizabeth is on the lookout for an IT'er (Download Squad)

Oct 21st 2006 1:02PM The Queen is referred to as Her Majesty not Her Royal Highness (or even Heighness - although it is often pronounced that way) HRH is for lesser mortals such as royalprinces and princesses.

Barmy is Northern English and is usually used in an affectionate sense. It should not be confused with balmy - which we don't have much of here.

Another web word processor: ajaxWrite (Download Squad)

Mar 23rd 2006 10:58AM I tried it. It did not seem to be able to upload an ordinary word.doc from my machine. When I created a new one and saved it to my machine, the result, viwed in Word, was empty.

I think I'll wait to get a Writely invite.