Android, Please Be Quiet!

Saturday, 12 May 2012 | Jason Slater

After using the maps application for navigation, within an Android based mobile device, you may find that even though you have the speaker volume off and sound set to silent that incoming messages are still read out.

This can, … Read More

Utility: Comparing Differences And Merging File Content

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 | Jason Slater

Being presented with a number of files, each version containing similar but slightly different text, and trying to understand the difference in content between them can be made simpler with a dedicated utility, such as WinMerge.

As an example, … Read More

Use A Little Extra Protection In Microsoft Outlook

Thursday, 4 March 2010 | Jason Slater

As an added security precaution in recent versions of Microsoft Outlook, the email client included with Microsoft Office, you can set the program to handle and show all incoming emails as plain text. In this article we will look into … Read More

Use Windows Narrator To Help Navigate

Tuesday, 5 January 2010 | Jason Slater

If you are using a small screen, or just have a little trouble reading the display, you might find Narrator handy. Narrator, available in Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 is a text to speech application which sits under the … Read More

How To Extract Text From PowerPoint

Thursday, 7 May 2009 | Jason Slater | 9 Comments

I have been working on a web translation project but the translated text was supplied to me in PowerPoint format. I do not relish the idea of copy and pasting text from each slide to get it into text format … Read More