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For years I’ve used flat-bed scanners to scan historic documents. Lately I’ve started using my iPad to photograph them instead–faster and less intrusive. Even though the results are usually reasonable I’ve often considered finding a stand to avert the inevitable … Continue reading →

XML.com: XQuery, the Server Language Good article on eXist, XQuery, some ideas and info on how to implement.

Sites for info to help transition to MSOffice: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA101490761033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/HA100398921033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101662871033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101679481033.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/office/demo/newui/index.html

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Simple software to help you get organized: 37signals Writeboard: an online collaborative writing app, multiple authors, multiple updates, all stored by date, compare versions, etc. (also see “Writely”). For wiki-like projects on a small scale?

OpenXML Developer The place to keep an eye on how developers are integrating XML into Office/Word. Includes code for writing a web app that accepts text and turns it into a Word document. May, in future, contain news of apps … Continue reading →

Tatiana Announced: The UVM Web Team has recently released a new Google Search Appliance for searching UVM’s Web space (www.uvm.edu/search/). The new appliance offers continuous and faster indexing, as well as the latest Google technology. Additionally, our document count has … Continue reading →

We get lots of questions about using Word to create web pages. Obviously, we don’t recommend this method. Word tries very hard to translate it’s own rich formatting language into a language, HTML, that was never designed to be a … Continue reading →

Saving HTML files with UTF-8 encoding