Now Staff Get To Buy Office Ultimate 2007 at Low Cost

David Baker just alerted me to the ability of faculty and staff at Bond to buy Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for $75 or less. Ultimate includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Groove, InfoPath and Outlook. The deal mirrors the one made available to all students. See http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au to buy online until 15 May 2008.

Saving Clicks in IE8

Ever wanted to change an odd character or word in the URL in the address bar of your browser? You end up clicking 2 or 3 times, yes? Well thank goodness that IE8 will revert to a more standard model of text editing in an improved click behaviour:

Single-click within a URL to insert the [...]

First disappointment with Windows Home Server

It’s a shame to start the new year with a negative post. On return from a very pleasant trip to Hobart I find an unrecoverable error with the machine image backups on my Windows Home Server (WHS). The only work around currently is to delete all machine backups. My current 6 desktops and laptops at [...]

A professional blogging engine

I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Udell in his recent post, ‘Professional Services for Professional Blogs‘. Since my serious blogging debut in January 2006 I have striven to use this blog as a professional diary recording various aspects of my professional, and very occasionally, my personal life as it affects my work.
In the beginning I hosted [...]

Free older versions of Camtasia and SnagIt

Having just forked out to upgrade to Camtasia version 5 I am somewhat miffed by the Lifehacker post about free, older versions of Camtasia and SnagIt becoming available.
Camtasia 3 and SnagIt 7.2.5 are older versions but are full-featured screencasting and screen capture applications respectively. In both cases you need to download a trial version and [...]

The Hypertexters have their history told, again

Peta Hopkins points us to a gem of a talk by Alex Wright on YouTube in the Google Tech Talk series. Alex also has a new book, ‘Glut‘, that must repay its investment in reading time.
In his talk Alex takes us back almost a century to some notable precursors of information science before the information [...]

Moving to the Connected Age of Web Work

Anne Zelenka of GigaOM would have us moving inexorably to an era beyond the information age to the connected age of web work. She gives us a table to characterise the differences between to two ages:

I agree with the description of web work but believe it just layers on top of information age artefacts. [...]

Lengthy but Painless WHS Upgrade

My own copy of the full release of Windows Home Server (WHS) System Builder arrived this week. It cost about $235 from Eyo Technologies and came in 2 business days which was excellent service. 
I have been on the private then public beta programmes since the start of the year when I bought a dedicated [...]

Good news on Virtual Machine Format Standard

A blog post from Ars Technica about a new standard for virtual machine format was welcome news today. Under the auspices of Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) a working group representing big VM players like Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMware, and XenSource has agreed on Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF). To quote DMTF:
The proposed format, [...]

Windows Live Writer Beta 2 now works with WordPress

I use Word 2007 for most of the posts to this WordPress blog. However, I have always been a big fan of Windows Live Writer (WLW) that is now available as a much improved beta 2 which loads much faster and has automatic blog account setup. WLW also has additional blog features that Word does [...]