Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 27, 2009, 3:33 pm
This was tweeted around the world about a week ago. Says it all really… (Translation for those who aren’t tech writers: RTFM = Read The F****** Manual) Posted in Humor, Technical writing
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 26, 2009, 3:43 pm
I was meandering the Google Labs (as you do…), and came across Google Image Swirl (http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com), a new image search tool from Google. Now, I LOVE Google’s image sear...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 25, 2009, 3:04 pm
Then look no further than Flickr! Flickr? Yes, Flickr! Why? Because Flickr has a Camera Finder (look under Explore > Camera Finder, or go direct to http://www.flickr.com/cameras/). “Big deal...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 25, 2009, 3:25 am
This time an ‘Australian made’ one of charcoal and rainbow colors (http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=96480 — this URL will only be valid for a few days), and featuring my...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 24, 2009, 3:03 pm
Warnings and Disclaimers: Do not do this on a public computer. Be aware that putting your username and password into any saved setting may compromise your computer security. Do you need to quickly u...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 23, 2009, 3:48 pm
The 2009 WritersUA Skills and Technologies Survey is in progress: http://www.writersua.com/ This popular survey is designed to provide a snapshot of the skills and technologies we most value in our s...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 22, 2009, 3:36 pm
If you’re thinking of going to the Annual WritersUA Conference in Seattle next March, you can get $200 off the registration fee if you register by December 18, 2009. As I said last year, in my ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 21, 2009, 7:27 pm
Another Etsy item of mine (this time the large floral journal cover)  made the front page of CraftGawker today! Not sure how long it will stay there, so I took this screen shot for posterity: Large ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 21, 2009, 3:14 pm
We’ve all heard of or seen the bloopers and technology howlers in movies (like the guy wearing a watch in a chariot scene from Ben Hur). In fact, there are TV shows, websites, blogs etc. dedicat...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 20, 2009, 3:54 pm
If you’ve been involved in a car accident, my sympathies. You have quite a bit of running around and inconvenience ahead of you, to say nothing of recovery from injuries. One of the tasks you h...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 19, 2009, 3:53 pm
I’ve come across a couple of ‘interesting’ time pickers recently. I don’t know the best solution for one of these widgets, but I’m pretty sure none of the ones below are ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 18, 2009, 3:59 pm
... be the best for your hair? For many people, the information on the product label becomes an important part of the decision making. The problem is that labels for products such as shampoo are fu...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 17, 2009, 3:40 pm
You’ve had to reformat your computer, you’ve upgraded your existing one, or you’ve got a new one. Now you have to install all the applications (apps) you use on a daily basis, includ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 16, 2009, 3:49 pm
I’ve always read pretty much everything in front of me, and that goes for labels on jars, bottles, tubes, etc. When I was a kid, I’d read every word on the cereal box and milk carton (I...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 15, 2009, 3:12 pm
Microsoft have made a Windows Help (WinHlp) viewer available for Windows 7. You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=258AA5EC-E3D9-4228-8844-008E02B32A...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 15, 2009, 5:13 am
We drove to Perth on Friday for my appointment with the oral surgeon and the anaesthestist at St John of God Medical Centre, Murdoch, Day Procedure Unit. What I remember of the afternoon: Hospital go...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 12, 2009, 6:34 pm
I just added some new journal covers to my Etsy store. I made these last weekend from fabric I bought when we were in NSW at the end of October. I really like the lizard one and the large flower one ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 11, 2009, 5:03 pm
Here’s a scary thought – Christmas is just over a month away! If you’re tired of the Christmas crowds at the malls, seeing the same old (tacky) stuff in the shops, or would like to ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 10, 2009, 4:23 pm
I drove up to the city on Monday for my consultation with the oral surgeon (see my Expensive date post for why I needed to visit the oral surgeon in the first place). Yes, the tooth has to come out. ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 10, 2009, 3:56 pm
You have an existing table in a Word 2007 document. It’s pretty plain and you want to jazz it up a little. Here’s how to quickly change the styles applied to your table. Applying a table ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 10, 2009, 5:22 am
How many opportunities do you give a new business to ‘prove’ themselves? I’m about to give a new business in town one more chance. After receiving their flyer in the letterbox, I ca...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 9, 2009, 3:48 pm
Quick Tables are a quick and easy way to insert a pre-formatted table. However, the default tables are probably not what you want, so you need to know how to add your own. Adding a Quick Table to you...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 8, 2009, 3:51 pm
Here are some interesting research findings: Finding and fixing a software problem after delivery is often 100 times more expensive than finding and fixing it during the requirements and design phase...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 7, 2009, 10:13 pm
Finally! While we were in NSW, the local fire authorities did a controlled burn of the bush block behind our house. My local contact reckons it’s been 20+ years since it was burned, based on so...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Nov 7, 2009, 4:17 pm
One of my olive fabric items from my Etsy store was just listed in a Greek-themed Etsy Treasury — my 10th! Here’s the link: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=74792 and her...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 7, 2009, 3:51 pm
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 6, 2009, 4:12 pm
The other day, @KathySierra tweeted about this website. All I can say is ‘Wow!” What a terrific use of a graphic to explain the differences in size between small, common objects (e.g. gra...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 5, 2009, 3:47 pm
Yesterday I was editing an annual report for a small company, and came across these sentences in the “People” section: Some business restructuring also occurred across to manage costs in ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 4, 2009, 4:12 pm
If you still have to support multiple versions of Internet Explorer, then you’ll want to take a look at this Smashing Magazine article about how IE 6, 7 and 8 treat various elements of CSS: http...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 3, 2009, 3:14 pm
One small thing that’s annoyed me about Captivate ever since I started using it to create software demos is the default text. It starts off being a proper sentence, but doesn’t have closin...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 2, 2009, 3:03 pm
Scenario You have a long document, or a large one filled with lots of big images, a mix of landscape and portrait pages, lots of section breaks, etc. You need to do stuff in the headers and footers (...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Nov 1, 2009, 3:40 pm
There are plenty of tools out there that can help you test your website. But perhaps you’re overwhelmed for choice. If so, then start with this short list of tools: http://www.testing-web-sites....
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 30, 2009, 4:26 pm
@africankelli tweeted this the other week — I couldn’t agree more! Our libraries, not our Wal-marts, should be open 24-7. Canadore College Education Center Library Posted in Business/Wo...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Oct 29, 2009, 10:05 pm
We weren’t in a hurry to get into Sydney. We had plenty of time — check in at the hotel wasn’t until 3:00 PM and we were only a couple of hours out. I decided to go to the Cessnock P...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 29, 2009, 4:30 pm
No, not how to write the great novel or how to correct grammar errors. These three recent How To’s all involve writing but they focus on quite different aspects. How to write a cover letter th...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 28, 2009, 4:25 pm
Here are two quick keyboard shortcuts for formatting selected text as superscripts or subscripts: Superscript: Ctrl+Shift+= (e.g. ft3) Subscript: Ctrl+= (e.g. H2O) See also: Replacing text contain...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Oct 27, 2009, 9:20 pm
We left Dubbo and headed out on the Golden Highway, retracing some of our route from yesterday (as far as Dunedoo). We stopped in the little town of Merriwa for lunch at the bakery. My husband’s...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 27, 2009, 4:52 pm
CustomGuide, a computer software training company, have made available — for free — their quick reference guides for all Microsoft Office products, some other Microsoft products, some Adob...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Oct 26, 2009, 8:51 pm
The whole reason for going to Dubbo was to visit the Western Plains Zoo (now part of Taronga Zoo). We’d always said that we should do this trip ‘one day’ — especially after we ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 26, 2009, 4:39 pm
A while ago, a small department at my current client’s organization asked me to run through with them the basics of setting up a website for their department. By their own admission, they had no...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Oct 25, 2009, 8:23 pm
Monday 26 October was a wild, wet, and cold day. Some parts of Sydney had 110 mm of rain that day (some 5+ inches)… It was time to test out the GPS! We had to get from the airport, out of Sydne...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 25, 2009, 4:49 pm
Usability expert, Dana Chisnell, has written a great article on how some companies create happy users who then become ‘champions’ for that product/service/company, while others put all sor...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Oct 24, 2009, 5:33 pm
We left home around 6 AM for the 2.75 hour drive to our friends’ place in Perth, where we parked the car and from where we caught a cab to the airport (our friends were at an event so couldnR...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 24, 2009, 4:13 pm
Here’s one from the xkcd website for all of you who support various family members and friends for no other reason than you know a *little* more about computers and technology than they do (agai...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 23, 2009, 4:58 pm
Do you think you’re pretty up to date with the various font names? Or perhaps you’re more a cheese person and think you know their names well? Well, here’s an opportunity to test yo...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 22, 2009, 4:15 pm
My creative and inspirational moments typically happen when I’m falling asleep or when I’m in the shower. But wherever, whenever and however your inspiration comes, you need to capture th...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 21, 2009, 4:13 pm
Brad Colbow, creator of great cartoon-style illustrations and comic strips to explain tech, web and design stuff, has added a new one — The power of personas — to the Think Vitamin blog p...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 20, 2009, 4:44 pm
Google’s pretty clever. It knows where you are (based on your IP address?) and so your ‘home’ Google address if you’re in Australia is google.com.au; it’s google.co.nz in...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on At Random - Oct 20, 2009, 2:41 am
I found a great pattern for a journal cover in a quilting magazine recently. I’d been meaning to try one out after my friend Whitney suggested it a few months back. But I just hadn’t seen ...
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Rhonda B. posted an article on CyberText Newsletter - Oct 19, 2009, 4:15 pm
Surprisingly, you delete a Word bookmark from the Insert menu, which I guess shouldn’t be so surprising coming from a company that gets you to click Start to shutdown your computer! ;-) Before ...
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