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Convert Microsoft PowerPoint to Adobe Flash for Free with iSpring

April 9th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

Sometimes creating Flash presentations can be a real pain in the bum, especially if you don’t actually own a copy of Adobe Flash.
iSpring Free, formerly FlashSpring, provides a way to create Flash movies for free directly Microsoft PowerPoint. Using iSpring Free allows you to keep all your visual parameters and animation effects, while making a [...]

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Tags: Applications



Crayon Physics Deluxe – Draw your own solution

April 3rd, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

This is one of the coolest games that I have seen for a long time, and lately I don’t have much time for games.

The game that you see in the video is called Crayon Physics Deluxe, and it is unfortunately not yet available. You can register your interest on their web-site though and be informed [...]

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Tags: Applications

Xerox Error Code 005-285

March 10th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 2 Comments

This morning I went down to pick up some printing and found our Xerox printer flashing a 005-285 error code. The document feeder was not feeding paper, so I had a look and found that this is the error:

Xerox Error Code 005-285: An error occurred in the document feeder. Contact the Xerox Welcome Centre

I’ve restarted [...]

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Tags: Peripherals



Windows Media Player vs Nullsoft Winamp – Memory Usage

February 8th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

For some reason a few weeks ago I loaded Nullsoft Winamp 5.52 on my computer. I think that it might have been to listen to on-line country music radio, but I can’t remember…
Last night I was using it to listen to some podcasts and I had a look at the memory usage for Winamp in [...]

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Tags: Applications

Mac Preview Can Not Submit PDF Forms

February 7th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 2 Comments

We have been using Adobe Acrobat Professional with Adobe LiveCycle Designer to create the downloadable application forms for where I work. We have been having troubles with one of the forms not submitting, so I had a look at it today and fixed it, but then had a closer look at how the forms work [...]

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Tags: Applications

Download Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 for Free

November 23rd, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I usually use Wink 2.0 to create free tutorials on my computer. However this week Techsmith, the makers of Camtasia Studio, are making Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 available for free download.
You can download the software at http://download.techsmith.com/camta…amtasiaf.exe
You will still need to register for a free registration key when you install the software, as I discovered when [...]

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Tags: Applications