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For all your slow Windows needs

Andrew — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:59:26 +0000

Apparently Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac is now free. This isn’t surprising, as there is now BootCamp and Parallels Desktop for Mac, yum, 2 os’s at the same time. (via FactoryJoe)

I’ve owned Virtual PC for 2 years now and ran it about 4 times when I first got it. It was too slow on my dual 1.8 G5. Go figure.

No LaTeX, never fret

Andrew — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:43:41 +0000

So you’re writing a paper with citations and you’re wishing you had LaTeX’s beautiful self-referencing ability to your list of references. However, for whatever reason, you’re stuck using Microsoft Word. And clicking through Insert->Reference->Cross-reference…, then scroll to find your article, and set to paragraph number, etc. has got you really down.

Bet you didn’t know about field codes. Instead, just put your cursor in your citation brackets (or whatever you use), press -F9, and then REF NameYear \n.

... demonstrated in on an airship [{REF Turner02 \n}].

The \n specifies that you want the paragraph number of the reference, which equates to the ordered-list number. Later, in your references section, you will Insert->Bookmark and properly name your citations (again, I use NameYear). You then need to hit Alt-F9 turn ‘hide’ all the field codes in your doc and update and they’ll all be linked.

It’s not pretty, it’s not LaTeX (not that LaTeX is pretty either), but it works.

Where 2.0 – Microsoft Local Live

Andrew — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:12:48 +0000

Stephen Lawler showed some really nice demonstrations of Microsoft Virtual Earth. They definitely have the “slickest” UI of all the web maps.

They’ve also baked in a lot of functionality that Google has left to mashupers (if that’s a noun) and developers. The “Collections” for building sets of spots and locations is a very Platial and Wayfaring.

What is *really* cool to see is their Streetside, which allows someone to virtually drive through a city and view the forward and side-views outside a car.

Microsoft has a lot of muscle and they’re really flexing it.

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