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Subscriber John Mood sent me this: I have been using Audacity for a few months. It is a very excellent audio editor! Coupled with Total Recorder, it’s a killer combination. Audacity is free, and Total Recorder is very inexpensive to license. I found both quite on purpose, having an ancient sound file that needed cleaning …
I recently posted about the amazing Autostitch software that is available for free. Well, here is another one. The Panorama Factory is a commercial product that also has an earlier freeware version. I haven’t tried it myself, but you can read about it and download it at http://www.panoramafactory.com/download.html#freeware
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Mcrosoft has published Microsoft Time Zone, which is free, installs via an .MSI install file. It’s handy when needing to keep track of time in more than one time zone. It sits in the tray, and displays the time in up to five cities when (left) clicking on the …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Getting SPAM from a person in a foreign language? Always wanted to know what your friends at work say in a language you don’t know? OK, here’s the scoop on translation. http://www.mezzofanti.org/ has links to translator sites for almost every language you might imagine. I found Polish, Arabic, Slovenian, …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: I just found a very neat program that lets you toggle between two desktops, you can put a different BMP as the wallpaper on the secondary desktop. It’s at http://www.fatfreesoft.com/ and it’s called Double Desktop. It’s easy, low memory loading, and free to download and keep. There are several …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Ever need to read media from an Apple system? Can’t dig those files off the MacIntosh CD you have been trying to look at? Showing NOTHING on a Mac disc under XP? Have no fear, you can download a fully functional limited term demo of MacDrive 6.0 from http://www.mediafour.com/ …
I first read about this in the LangaList newsletter. Someone had emailed Fred and told him about this utility that automatically puts photos together to make it a panoramic photo. Well, it just so happens that yesterday Chris and I were at Brick City in Niagara Falls, and Chris had taken several pictures in order …
The Office Tips and Hints blog regulary has some great tips (hence the name). I thought one mentioned the other day was fascinating. It shows how to read all the forumalas in your worksheet and put them inside comment bubbles. You can read all about it at http://www.klippert.com/TCC/Blog/2005/03/excel-show-formulas-in-cell-comments.html
Someone at work asked how they can get an entire path name in the footer of their Excel spreadsheet. Excel 2000 only allows you to put the filename is. There is a Microsoft Knowledgebase article that explains how to create a very simple macro that will do this. Check it out at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;213615
Andrew’s Excel utilities is a collection of utilities that perform many different funcitons, including conversions (temperature, distance, weight, and more), comments features, row and column functions plus many more. The free download has .xla files for adding a menu item, toolbar, or right click menu to Excel.