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Tuesday Tech Tip: Windows Presentation Mode
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Windows Presentation Mode

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Michael Sauers

When hooking up your Windows laptop to a projection system for a presntation there are a few things you should always keep in mind. For…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Raspberry Pi or Arduino?
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Raspberry Pi or Arduino?

Posted on December 8, 2015December 8, 2015 by Michael Sauers

The folks over at Make Magazine have written a wonderful article on the difference between the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino. Here’s a sample: Here…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Pre-fill Google form answers in your survey before sending it out
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Pre-fill Google form answers in your survey before sending it out

Posted on November 24, 2015November 23, 2015 by Michael Sauers

In Google Drive, open your form or create a new Google Form. Fill in the answer fields you want to pre-populate. Select Responses > Get…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Formatting text in Slack
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Formatting text in Slack

Posted on November 17, 2015November 16, 2015 by Michael Sauers

  Adding text formatting to your Slack messages is easy! We provide a handy selection of formatting options, outlined below: Emphasis To emphasize words or…

Download YouTube videos and much more with TEncoder
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Download YouTube videos and much more with TEncoder

Posted on November 3, 2015November 2, 2015 by Michael Sauers

TEncoder is a open-source multithreaded GUI for FFMpeg, MEncoder and MPlayer. Run up to 16 simultaneous processes and/or make FFMpeg and Mencoder to do internal…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Presenting from an iPad using AirPlay
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Presenting from an iPad using AirPlay

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Today was my first time using an iPad to demo an app using an AppliTV and AirPlay to mirror my screen onto a large display.…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Search Google Drive from Chrome’s Omnibox
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Search Google Drive from Chrome’s Omnibox

Posted on October 6, 2015October 5, 2015 by Michael Sauers

You can search your Google Drive files directly from Chrome’s Omnibox: Go into the “Edit search engines” menu and add a new search engine with…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Make File Explorer open to This PC instead of Quick Access in Windows 10
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Make File Explorer open to This PC instead of Quick Access in Windows 10

Posted on September 22, 2015September 20, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Via The Windows Club Windows 10 users may have noticed that by default, File Explorer opens to Quick Access. That is, when you click on…

Throwback Thursday: gif v jif
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Throwback Thursday: gif v jif

Posted on September 17, 2015September 17, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Back in October 2004 I received the following note on a workshop evaluation: One distractor [sic] was that the presenter referred to a .gif file…

Tuesday Tech Tip: Firefox Health Report
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Firefox Health Report

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Michael Sauers

Want to learn things about your copy of Firefox from how often it has crashed to how many hours you’ve spent using it? Just enter…

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