Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Document control – how hard can it be?

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Here’s a good discussion about document management/revision control for a company. Document control – how hard can it be?.

Excerpt:

I used to work in a bank, in projects that produced astounding amounts of documentation, and yet the only form of “document control” going on there was a Sharepoint for sharing a few highly visible documents (like weekly status reports) and a huge shared drive that contained a chaotic dump of all the project documentation. Maybe that’s why they’re losing so much money… heh.

Outlook and AutoComplete

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Want to transfer your Outlook AutoComplete addresses to a New Computer? The short version is, copy the C:\Documents and Settings\--username--\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\*.nk2 file to the same location on the new computer. Done. Easy. (Via Lifehacker.)

Another cool tool that can help work with those AutoComplete files is Nk2View, also referenced by Lifehacker,

FileHamster: Version Control for the Rest of Us

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

The Cranking Widgets Blog has an interesting article about a software package that provides version control for non-programmers. The article is FileHamster: Version Control for the Rest of Us.

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