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Watermarks are great for branding your documents with legal text, company information, etc. A watermark is simply a very faint image or text that appears behind your text. You may have seen documents before that have the word confidential behind the text, such as legal documents. Yes, this is a watermark!
In a previous tip, I [...]

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could collect multiple blocks of text and then paste them into a Word document when you are ready, as opposed to continuously flipping between windows? It is possible to do with Microsoft Word. In fact, Word 2002 and 2003 let you copy up to 24 blocks of text to [...]

I can’t even imagine how many documents I’ve created over the years. As you can probably understand, I’m constantly writing something for any number of reasons, and all of that text adds up. Of course, I’m not the only one doing this. One of the main reasons why a lot of people use computers is [...]

I’ve tried to appreciate fonts, but no matter how many I discover and download, I just can’t seem to move beyond using the basic fonts that we’re all familiar with. After seeing text in the same way for many years, it can be hard to adjust to seeing it in a new way through a [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about Twitter recently for many different reasons, but one of the reasons why we can’t seem to stop talking about it is because there are so many different ways to use the service. By all appearances, Twitter may be a simple tool on its own, but developers have been [...]

A large part of my professional life has centered around text, but even I will admit that text can only go so far, especially on the Internet. On the Internet we have access to a seemingly endless supply of images, videos, and audio, and as a blogger, you can use that content to enhance your [...]

I normally don’t need anything fancy in terms of presentation when I’m reading content because I like to look at the content for what it is instead of how it looks. However, when you’re dealing with dates and the passing of time, it can be advantageous to organize the raw data in unique ways in [...]

Do your blog posts ever contain images or do they always just consist of text? Without a doubt, many of the blogs that you’ll come across will mostly feature text, but there are a lot of bloggers that like to include a picture or two in their posts. Why do they do this? Well, since [...]

Since I spend a lot of time on the computer, there are times when I get tired of reading text. There’s just so much of it, and when you read from a screen for around eight hours each day, you’re bound to want to close your eyes and stop reading. Sometimes I’d rather just listen [...]

Writing is a skill that takes time to develop, and those of us who write regularly or even professionally aren’t perfect. Blogging has enabled people to write what they want in the way that they want without having to follow a set of rules, and unless you’re writing for an important publication, it’s generally acceptable [...]

textBEAST is more than a clipboard; it’s a text manager that’s perfect for the busy professional or anyone who doesn’t want to waste time typing the same things over and over again. With textBEAST, you can copy, store, organize and paste text with ease. It features a clean, uncluttered interface and powerful organizational capabilities.
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Gnomie Nick M. writes:
Hi there, Chris!
Been watching some of your videos the past couple of weeks; just checked out your Top Five Reasons to Use Outlook. You asked towards the end what other people use for organisation of info, notes, reminders, etc.
I have, for a long time, been using a free application called Hott Notes.
It’s [...]

If you ever wished you could copy more than a single clip from one document before pasting to another, M8 is for you. With M8 you can copy up to 25 times, and unlike other multi clipboards, M8 shows you a preview of each clip before you paste it.
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We usually don’t think of video and text going together because they’re two completely different experiences. In fact, when we watch a video, we normally don’t expect to read anything, but text can serve a purpose when it’s associated with video. For example, just think about subtitles that translate or transcribe a video and captions. [...]

Back in some of the early days of the Internet, GIF images seemed to be everywhere. GIF animations in particular were a huge hit because they actually enabled people to make images move, which was quite a big step forward from images that were simply static. Of course, as is the case with anything new [...]

Although audio and video are beginning to have more of a presence on the Web, text still seems to be the supreme ruler of content on the Internet. It’s definitely quicker and easier to consume and search through, but even though that may be the case, audio and video can make a particular message more [...]