Category Archives: HandyHints
Mac OS X Leopard upgrade
I picked up a copy of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on Saturday morning, and set out to upgrade our three Macs in the afternoon. All three installs went without a hitch on our 17″ iMac, 15″ MacBook Pro … Continue reading
Presenting tips follow up
By way of follow-up to my recent post about contrasting presentations styles, I am led to this round up of good advice for presenters via Vitamin News. The news article points to Nick Fink’s round-up post that sifts through the … Continue reading
On communicating; and Vista remote admin
A Primer on Electronic Communication This site had some good suggestions, including paying attention to the following should optimize your chances of receiving a response to your emails to unknown people:Descriptive subject line Polite point-of-contact Succinct statement of the message’s … Continue reading
Running Scheduled XP Tasks Without A Password
Sometimes it’s handy to have a scheduled task do something in Windows XP. I use a couple for different reasons. One is to do a weekly backup of data from one disk to another, and the other is to do … Continue reading
Serving mediawiki from a subdomain
I just managed to get MediaWiki working from a subdomain, rather than from /wiki. There are two changes that you need to make to localsettings.php when trying to serve MediaWiki from a subdomain. The first is to change $wgScriptPath = … Continue reading
Hard Disk Recovery (or “what a way to spend a weekend”)
Last weekend, I had a hard disk failure on one of my external drives. It was kind of frustrating, but I have recovered data from a failed disk before. Of course, the corruption occurred late at night, and just after … Continue reading
Basis of the site is done!
This time last week, I’d never heard of WordPress. Six months ago I started mucking around with blogger, but found the lack of categories a bit of a drag, really. And I guess because I wasn’t really happy that things … Continue reading
XP Hint:Screen refresh rate
This is a big one for me: Flickering monitors. I personally find them very annoying, but others seem to tolerate them much more than I do, but complain that their eyes are tired. Whenever I help someone out at their … Continue reading
Office Hint: Moving paragraphs up, down, in and out
Sometimes I want to resequence a list of items in Word, Powerpoint or OneNote. I use the keyboard shortcut ALT+SHIFT+arrow to move paragraphs up or down. You can also change the indentation level as well by pressing the left or … Continue reading
Cam’s Handy Hints
A collection of hints and tips for all sorts of things. Mainly from the things that I do, and from the questions that people often ask me about how to do stuff. This is my log of how to do … Continue reading