Archive for 16 January 2007

Excel to PDF

Following my Word to PDF convertor script, here is the Excel version.
Prerequisites
MS Excel 2007
Office 2007 Save As PDF Plugin
Same rules apply. Copy and paste the code into notepad and save onto the desktop as ExceltoPdf.vbs.
‘Excel to PDF
‘By John Reid
‘(c) 2007 bloggingIT – http://ccgi.maxpower.plus.com/wp

‘Feel free to use, modify, and redistribute – just leave the credits intact

‘Quick [...]

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Drag and Drop Convert Word to PDF

Sometimes I find that it’s useful to save my Word documents as PDFs.
After playing around with the Save As PDF plugin for Office, I decided that it would be cool if I could write a script to convert a job lot of Word documents.
Prerequisites
MS Word 2007
Save As PDF Office 2007 Plugin
Just copy and paste the [...]

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Inline Search for Internet Explorer

Inline search
For people fed up with the CTRL+F search function in IE, there’s a handy addon that acts (almost) in the same manner as the Firefox find bar.
It’s now on version 1.3, which has resolved some tiny bugs that used to get me wound up.
It doesn’t integrate as nicely into IE7 as I would [...]

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Pings not back

I seem to be having trouble with my installation of Wordpress sending out pings to other sites, and also using the Ping-o-matic and Technorati RPC service.
This is becoming a nuisance, as every time I post (which has been becoming gradually more frequent lately), I have to manually ping Technorati.
I have refrained from using other blog [...]

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Wordpress 2.0.7

Just as I finish updating my version of Wordpress – another one comes along!
Although a bit of a nuisance, I security on your blog is never a bad thing!

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