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Just cause I want to remember this if I find I need it in the future  

FusionCharts (n.d.)[1] - http://www.fusioncharts.com/free/download/?_doPostback=561369948

FusionCharts Free helps you create free flash charts in your web applications.
It supports a variety of chart types including bar, column, line, area, pie, doughnut
 (donut), combination, funnel, Gantt etc

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If you are using the Zotero addon for Firefox for your referencing, you can install the APA 6^th edition referencing style by clicking here

http://www.zotero.org/styles/apa/dev?install=1

A collection of downloadable utilities to enhance your desktop. Object dock – a zooming menu (like mac) and fences (if you have lots of desktop icons)
http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Operating_System:_Desktop_utilities

Created COinS metadata in an HTML file, but had trouble getting zotero to recognise it. Actually its too simple, once zotero recognises there is COinS metadata it places a book icon next to the URL, click this and the metadata gets added to zotero!!
(Its real teckiee – but those who use zotero will understand)

A useful utility on the cover disk of Australian PC authority ( http://www.pcauthority.com.au/ ) is Paragon’s Hard Disk Manager (9.5 SE)

I am often confronted with students who have trashed their Hard Drives (or the drive have magically trashed themselves). This utility allows you to create a complete backup of the drive. Additionally if you want to upgrade your HDD to a bigger one it has a wizard to do this.

Also included is Magix Music Maker Silver for those of you who want to create your own “original ” music.

JJ has just given me a link to a page that links to lots of free(?) utilities – nicely organised.

FileHippo.com (2009). Retireved August 4, 2009 from http://www.filehippo.com/

If you are running a blog and have a facebook account how can you connect them together, so you only have to type stuff in once (in the blog) and it pops up in Facebook?

Ok, so this is got to ba an example of poor “User Interface Design”. I worked this out a month ago, and thought I’d document it.. but couldn’t recall the steps (in spite of just having completed it!)

Anyway, thought I’d have another go today.. and eurika I worked out what to do!!

So follow these steps!!

1. Click on your name (on the facebook bar at the top of the screen)
2. Click on the Options link (Just below the [Share] button on the “Whats on your mind window”
3. If “Stories Posted by You” > Available sites is not showing, click on the settings button (Just below the [Share] button)
4. On the Available Sites: Click on Blog/RSS
5. In the Public URL enter your blog site, then click [Import]

.. and thats all!!

Conflicker is doing the rounds so had a quick surf and found Microsoft has a Malicious Software Removal Tool for post infection (once you have a computer that is infected). Apparently it is part of Windows Update, so it should only be an issue if you have this turned off!!

Have added to my wiki

http://www.virtualmv.com/wiki/index.php?title=Virus/Anti-virus_software

Had a pdf that needed converting to doc. Found two options

1. Free Standalone converter that can be downloaded to your PC (http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php ) and

2. A Web based converter ( http://www.pdftoword.com/  )

Of the two the web converter (#2) did the best (though not perfect) job though I’m always suspicious about web converters when they ask to send things to my email address that they are not collecting them. Will be  monitoring my email for new spam.

Probably the dumbist thing I have seen in a while is the cobbling of IE 8s view source. IE8 has an amazing developer tools feature (press F12 in the browser or Tools > Developer Tools), however with all its magic it is unable to do a simple edit. 

However all is not lost, to change the View Source from the Default viewer, to either notepad or some other editor (I like pspad (http://www.pspad.com/en/) as its as quick as notepad but has better context editing).

1. Open the Developer Tools (press F12 in the browser or Tools > Developer Tools)
2. Select File > Customise IE View Source
3. either select notepad or browse to where your editor exe file is stored (my pspad was in C:\Program Files\PSPad editor\PSPad.exe)

Makes you wonder why you get a glitzy viewer but no way to do simple editing. Would it be so hard to have a check box in the developer options to “enable web page editing” if they are worried about people accidentaly changing pages?? (And yes I know chrome suffers the same fate – but I am sure there would be a plugin for editing like in Firefox!!)

Thanks to Ramesh Srinivasan (2009) from Winhelponline for pointing me in the right direction.

Srinivasan, R. (2009)”The default View Source Editor has changed in Internet Explorer 8 – The Winhelponline Blog” Retrieved June 22, 2009 from http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/default-view-source-editor-changed-in-ie8/