Yesterday, I made cruel jibes about MS Word 2007’s new ‘Margin’ ribbon-bar button. Today I’ll look at the Ribbon Bar itself in more detail, and some of the other new features. Continue reading →

I’ve just been looking into the new Microsoft Office 2007 UI changes information here, and also the specifics for Word 2007 here. Oooh – Ahhhh – Doesn’t it look pretty? Continue reading →

Recently, I posted about my confusion over the MS Shareware Starter Kit. Well, the mists of confusion are lifting, a little. Continue reading →

In July 2005, Microsoft released a piece of software for Visual Studio .Net developers called the Shareware Starter Kit (SSK). A flurry of blog activity foillowed in the next few months about this news ~ but so far I have yet to find some real feedback on the kit. Hmmm. Continue reading →

Excellent! Just found out that my surge protectors are high enough quality to have an active display that the surge protection is working (apparently, they can wear out) Continue reading →

Well, a month or two ago I thought that it was time to reconsider my choice of blog software. I really did not want to use a web blog-hosting-service, and after a bit of mild research, came up with WordPress as a suitable starting point. Continue reading →

Recently, I sold a number of items on ebay, and have bought many items from Amazon marketplace – and a web-electronics dealer that I had never used before. In each case, rating systems became important parts of the sale or purchase. So, although they have different names, we are referring to eBay’s ‘Feedback Score’, Amazon MarketPlace ‘Ratings’, and probably any number of shop-comparison sites’ ‘Review’ systems. Continue reading →

It was somewhere between September and October of this year that I realised that my IT skills were outdated, and needed to be brought back up-to-date. Historically, I have been a back-office (batch) developer and support team member / leader and so most of my experience has been gained with Unix, shell-scripting, C, Oracle, etc. Continue reading →

In this blog I’ll cover what Styles are in Microsoft Word (from v2.0 for Windows) and cover a little bit of the cross-over to web-design (the equivalent for the web is CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets), and of course I’ll be covering why they are so important. Although I am a big fan of MS Word, I will also cover some of the Styles-related stupidities that Microsoft introduced along the way… Continue reading →