Archive for March, 2009
House tour
Sunday, March 15th, 2009Screen Capture
Friday, March 13th, 2009Awesome screen capture program…and it’s free!
In my first adventure with it “Alt-PrtScrn” didn’t work, but right clicking on the icon on the right of the Start Bar allowed me to capture either Full Screen or a Region, and that captured the screen for me.
Then I thought it had a drawing program…and it did, but it wasn’t clear to me until I went to Start/Programs/Gadwin Systems/PrintScreenPro and opened the PrintScreen program. At that point the draw program showed up with the screen image ready for a variety of balloons and other basic features.
DOS tricks
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Batch file tricks
current directory of the batch file
%~dp0
cd /d %~dp0
xcopy %~dp0\*.* %~dp0\%var%\
use pushd instead of CD for UNC directories
If a network path is specified, PUSHD will create a temporary drive letter that points to that specified network resource and then change the current drive and directory, using the newly defined drive letter. Temporary drive letters are allocated from Z: on down, using the first unused drive letter found.
use %:~n,1% and %:~n,-1% to scan a string and remove heading and trailing blanks
pushd %~dp0
pushd “%~dp0:~n,-1%\SubDirectoryName”
%USERNAME%
Newsletters
Monday, March 9th, 2009Nice article on writing for newsletters that sell (particualarly targeting non-profits)
And from the same site
3 Tips to Engaging Potential Donors Print this Article By Rebecca Ruby Higman: Mar 9, 2009