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PDF2XL is 4 Years Old!
Posted by nitzan 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 nitzan 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 nitzan 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 nitzan 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 nitzan 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 […]
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How to Promote Your Events With Social Media
Posted by nitzan on Friday, April 17th, 2009
The other day John Haydon and I were on a live Webinar where someone asked how to go about launching and growing an event program using social media tools. I didn’t have time to explain fully so thought I would write up the process here for you now. Start talking/tweeting about your event in advance […]
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Excel Data Mining: Measuring Customer Support Costs
Posted by nitzan on Friday, February 6th, 2009
In this series we have already looked at Recency, Frequency and Monetary value as metrics for data mining and ranking your customers in Excel. RFM will tell you who the most rewarding customers are, but it will not tell you who is most-likely to be a tough customer, nor will it tell you how expensive […]
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Secrets and Paranoia at Wikipedia
Posted by nitzan on Thursday, December 4th, 2008
You have caused too much harm to justify us putting up with this kind of behavior much longer.–Jimbo Wales What was the crime that this Wikipedia editor was guilty of? The story reads more like a high-school cat-fight more than the inner workings of the worlds biggest online encyclopedia. Giano II it seems had provided […]
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Excel Design and Usability Tips
Posted by nitzan on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In the last part of this Excel Design series I offered some basic tips so you could avoid the most common Excel spreadsheet design horrors. Spreadsheet design is not just about aesthetics, usability is an important aspect to take into account as well. If you are creating spreadsheets for other people to use then you […]
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WordPress SEO Tips
Posted by nitzan on Thursday, October 16th, 2008
I just got back from an excellent conference in London, the A4UExpo. One of the best sessions was about WordPress and SEO by Joost De Valk. Check out the slides here: WordPress SEO & Optimisation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: plugin plugins) Another fantastic resource for anyone using WordPress to create their […]
