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Sketch Your Presentation With Sketchcasting

Posted by on Sunday, February 24th, 2013






This is a neat idea that I found out about through Jim Kukrals blog, Sketchcasting! The idea is to create a video, much like a webcast, but rather than show the concepts you are talking about, you draw them. If you have ever seen any of the Whiteboard Friday videos over at SEOMoz you will […]






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Happy Birthday! PDF2XL is 5 Years Old

Posted by on Monday, October 11th, 2010






Dear Friends, This month Cogniview is celebrating the 5th Birthday of PDF2XL – our flagship product. It’s not that we always had PDF2XL, the truth is that Cogniview started as an Enterprise software company that aimed to sell its Enterprise-Level software products to IT departments in large organizations. We spent a lot of money on […]






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How to Create Personalized Invitations Using Word and Excel

Posted by on Thursday, April 8th, 2010






If you have ever had to hand write a whole bunch of invitations then I am sure you have had the thought “There has to be an easier way”. Well, if you have Microsoft Office then you are in luck! Here is how you can create and print your own personalized birthday party invitations in […]






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The Best 5 Twitter Services You Might Not Know

Posted by on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009






  It took a while to find a balance of fun and utility versus timewasting, but I now love Twitter. There is just enough signal in the noise to keep me involved. I imagine most of you will have tried the service by now, but did you know third party services are being built around […]






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Announcing Cogniviews Excel-to-PDF-Converter (and a bribe)

Posted by on Monday, November 30th, 2009






I am very proud to announce that we have released the beta version of Cogniview’s Excel to PDF converter. The ‘Excel to PDF Converter’ is the first out of several open source projects we will be releasing in the coming months and it is the only free Excel-to-PDF converter that supports hyper-links. here is the […]






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PDF2XL is 4 Years Old!

Posted by on Monday, October 5th, 2009






Dear Friends, This month Cogniview is celebrating the 4th Birthday of PDF2XL – Our flagship PDF to Excel conversion product. It’s not that we always had PDF2XL. You see, Cogniview started as an Enterprise software company that aimed to sell its Enterprise-Level software products to IT departments in large organizations. We spent a lot of […]






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How to Avoid Being Caught by Bad Tiny URLs

Posted by on Friday, July 17th, 2009






It seems Bit.ly is now starting to warn visitors using their shortened URLs about bad sites being linked up using their service. This is excellent news and I wish the other website address shortening services would follow suit. What is the issue, why is it a problem, and what can we do about it? Website […]






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Software Tools for Managing Your Online Reputation

Posted by on Friday, July 10th, 2009






I just got tipped off about a new reputation management helper developed by Strategic Profits. What it does is creates an OPML file containing search feeds for popular online services based on your search terms. This is pretty cool because setting up the feeds individually is a bit of a chore, especially if you have […]






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iPhone 3GS First Impressions

Posted by on Friday, June 19th, 2009






A while ago I broke all the geek rules on this blog by declaring Why I am Waiting for iPhone iPhoneThe iPhone is coming to the UK this weekend and I am shocked myself to tell you this, but I will NOT be in the queue to grab one. The problem was not that I […]






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Top Software Tools: Readers Recommendations

Posted by on Friday, June 5th, 2009






  Last week I asked readers to recommend their Essential Software Tools – here are your recommendations! Agree? Disagree? Got a better recommendation? Please add yours in the comments. Windows: Putty (SSH Client) Trillian (Multiple IM Client) mIRC (Chat Client) HyperCam (Desktop Recording) RapidPHP (PHP IDE) Dreamweaver EditPlus (Text Editor) Nelson Email Organizer Pro VmWare […]