virtualMV Wordpress blog on the move

Here I go again.. I am moving the WordPress Blog to my virtualMV domain so from now on I am using http://www.virtualmv.com/blog. This is to allow me to learn the idiosyncrasies of WordPress.

Adobe CS5 crash on launch

When you launch a Creative Suite 5 application, the application unexpectedly quits with an error report that is similar to the following: (in the windows error box click on the show error link)

AppName: [application].exe AppVer: [app version] ModName: updaternotifications.dll ModVer: 1.0.0.64 Offset: 0006a8dc

Solution: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/845/cpsid_84586.html

Too me all day to find this (including completely removing all adobe products from my PC!!)

PowerPoint Hyperlink error (comma in title)

I couldn't believe this until I read that it is a known issue. If you use hyperlinking in PowerPoint (linking from one slide to another) and you have a comma in the heading of the destination slide, the hyperlink won't work.

There's some documentation at (so they know about it!)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/818853

 

 

QR Code Generator

Web technology trundles along. (Android 2.x phones have built in QR code readers). To generate your own.
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

Bloated Word files .. why is my file so big????

One issue / problem  I have with students creating electronic storyboards where the scan/photograph/cut and paste images is that the Word documents can become very large. Often there are a couple of offending images that are magically very large. So how can we find them to see where the problem is.

Simple solution (use compress pictures)

1. Click on one of the images,


2. Click on the Picture Tools menu (Top right of Word), then


3. Select [Compress Pictures] in the Adjust group on the ribbon bar


4. Choose Apply to All pictures in the document, and [Ok]

Finding the problem images

If you have Word 2007 or 2010 they will save a Word document as a docx file (rather than doc). This is actually just a zip file with a docx extension.  So, to find out your problem images:

1. if your file is a doc file save as a docx, or make a copy of the file if it is a docx.


2. rename the new docx to zip


3. double click the zip file (or open the archive in your un-zipper program)


4. Look in the folder word/media, and you should see the images and their file sizes.


5. Double click on the images to see which ones they are,


6. Remove the images in the original document and resize.

Another book one. Free (e- and real) ones.

Best Places to Get Free Books (e- and real)– The Ultimate Guide.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AGVjy5/www.friedbeef.com/best-places-to-get-free-books-the-ultimate-guide/

Microsoft Tech Ed Online 2010

http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand

Videos from the Microsoft Tech Ed - link from Paul Lo