Most companies I work with these days either ask me to set up a dedicated Skype account for business purposes, or set one up for me. If you’re trying to stay available to multiple groups of people, being stuck with just one Skype login at a time is somewhat restricting. Turns out, on Windows you can log into multiple accounts at the same time if you run Skype using the /secondary flag! Continue reading “Running Multiple Instances of Skype Simultaneously”
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Broken cross references in Word: Part 1
Here’s one every tech writer encounters sooner or later (usually sooner): you’re writing a document in Word, you insert a handy cross reference to a section title, you keep editing, you update your cross references, and all of a sudden half of your document is a mess of repeated text all over the place – gah! Continue reading “Broken cross references in Word: Part 1”
Adding Headers and Footers to PDFs in Acrobat
Did you know that it’s possible to add headers and footers to a PDF in Acrobat? This is a handy trick if, for example, you’re producing a single document that needs to be branded for multiple end customers, or exporting from Confluence without admin access to set up headers and footers for export on the system.
You can add text headers/footers by editing headers, and add images (for example, logos) by using watermarks. Here are instructions for both in Acrobat X. Continue reading “Adding Headers and Footers to PDFs in Acrobat”
Podcasts automatically unsubscribing?
A quick post on podcast subscriptions after an Odd Thing™ happened over the weekend.
I noticed Friday that a particular Friday night favourite didn’t update, but assumed someone was on holidays and feed updates were neglected, so got on with a busy weekend without my fix. Last night, in assessing the offerings for my commute listening, I noticed that iTunes was of the opinion that I was unsubscribed from another podcast, but was pretty sure I hadn’t unsubscribed. After checking the rest of my subs, I realised that all of my BBC podcast subscriptions were unsubscribed, tho I was pretty sure I hadn’t deliberately unsub-ed – very odd! So I re-subscribed, got my podcasts, and drifted off to sleep listening to a favourite.
This morning, the issue was still on my mind, so I had a bit of a google and discovered this BBC iPlayer FAQ. Turns out, if the RSS feed for a podcast is redirected, iTunes automatically unsubscribes! Who knew? May explain why some other podcasts mysteriously disappeared on me in the past.
If you haven’t heard a favourite in a while, check you’re still subscribed. You could be in for a backlog-y treat!
Screenshotting
A quick roundup of how to screenshot on various devices.
- iOS: Power button and Home button – image goes to your Camera Roll album.
- Android (4.0 and up): Power button and Volume Down button – image goes to the Screenshot album of the Gallery app.
- Mac: Cmd–Shift–4, then drag the crosshairs that appear to section of a rectangular area of your screen – image goes to your desktop.
- Windows: Ctrl–Alt–Print Screen to grab the active window, or Print Screen to grab the whole desktop – image goes to your clipboard, so open a graphics program, or Word, or mail, or … and paste it in.