Spell Checkers for Facebook Chat, Posts and eMail (with pictures)
Filed under: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & Social Networking, Increase Productivity, Technology
| Summary: Here are two Facebook spell check solutions. One lets you use your Foxpro Spell check in Facebook, the other is a program that works in any program and on any Internet web site. |
AsUType adds a spell checker to any Windows program and is similar to the predictive spell checker on your iPhone or iPad.
AsUType allows you to choose an automatic correction mode which automatically fixes misspellings as you type, or an interactive correction mode that underlines misspelled words and beeps, prompting you to select a corrected spelling from a drop down list that appears near the misspelled word. The interactive correction mode is much like the predictive text spell checking that’s available on the iPhone and iPad.
AsUType “Speed Typing” Macro Program Helps You Type Faster
Filed under: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & Social Networking, Increase Productivity, Technology
| Summary: A “Speed Typing” macro is an short abbreviation that you type that is automatically replaced with expanded text, as you type. For example, you can use a “Speed Typing” macro to add your signature in any Windows program. You can use a “Speed Typing” macro to automatically type full paragraphs of text for form letters. The AsUType program lets you use speed typing macros in ANY Windows Program |
A “macro” is shorthand you type that is automatically replaced with corresponding expanded text that is retrieved from a macro list on your computer (also known as a “dictionary.”)
Most people are familiar with macros because macros are a feature of the Microsoft Office programs. Some people use Microsoft Word macros to type just a few characters that will insert their full signatures at the bottom of their MS Word documents. Some people use Microsoft Excel macros to execute complex functions in Excel spreadsheets.
A disadvantage of MS Word and MS Excel macros is that they only work in MS Word and Excel. Macros created with AsYouType software work with nearly any Windows program, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and nearly any Internet web site.
AsUType Spell Check program automatically fixes your spelling as you type
Filed under: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace & Social Networking, Increase Productivity, Technology
| Summary: Asutype is a real-time speed typing program that works with any Windows application to automatically correct your spelling, as you type. AsUType helps you type faster and with fewer mistakes. Type faster and look smarter in only 10 minutes. |
Most spell check programs work like this: As you type your document, misspelled words appear with a red (sometimes red wavy) underline. You can either correct your spelling mistakes interactively as your spell-check underlines them, or you can start a spell check program and slowly correct mistakes one at a time using a spell-check dialog window. Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to just have your computer fix your most obvious spelling errors for you, automatically, as you type? That’s what AsUType does.
Using Dual LCD Monitors – up to 4 LCD monitors!
Recent reports have showed that the more screen space you have available, the more productive you can become. One way to get more screen space is to add more monitors. Beginning in 2005, I started using four monitors connected to my laptop, and I believe it has truly increased my productivity.
For as long as I’ve owned laptops, I’ve always been connecting external monitors to them. Plugging an external monitor into the back of your laptop is simple, and connecting four monitors to your laptop is easier than you think if you have a second nearby computer, a network, and a neat, inexpensive program called MaxiVista.
MaxiVista provides two specific functions:
1) MaxiVista uses your computer network to allow one to three monitors on a remote computer to act as a remote desktop extension for your main computer. This is how I use MaxiVista most of the time, to extend my laptop to four screens.
2) MaxiVista allows you to use the single keyboard and mouse on your main computer to control both your main computer and a remote computer on your network. I do this sometimes to start downloads on a remote computer without slowing down my main computer (my laptop).
Essentially, here’s how it works: I run a copy of the MaxiVista Server program on my main computer, which is a laptop. At the same time, I run two copies of the MaxiVista Viewer programs on my nearby desktop computer. The MaxiVista server program on my laptop talks with the viewer programs through my computer network, and allows me to use the two monitors connected to my desktop computer as third and fourth monitors for my laptop.
MaxiVista works best when the computers are connected by a wired network, but, I’ve also seen MaxiVista perform well controlling the third and fourth monitors when my laptop was connected via WiFi and not a wired connection.
MaxiVista’s installation instructions may sound daunting, but they’re really not. I’ll give you a simplified overview.
But MaxiVista in my experience works first time, every time. In my case, it had to get through my two software firewalls, my hardware firewall, and then find the laptop on the WiFi network. It did it in a heartbeat.
It’s likely that the producers made the instructions this complicated because they want to cover all the nuances of installation. In my case, the installation steps were this simple:
1) Download and execute the MaxiVista setup program from the MaxiVista website.
2) Start the MaxiVista Server program your main computer. In my case, my main computer is my laptop. Once the MaxiVista server is running, one monitor icon for each remote screen will appear in the task tray.
3) After you have the server portion installed on your main computer, MaxiVista will create one or two viewer programs and place them on your main computer’s desktop. You’ll need to move those MaxiVista viewer programs to the remote computer you want to use it as a virtual monitor. When I installed my recent MaxiVista upgrade, the icons didn’t appear on my desktop, so I had to find the viewer programs on my hard drive. If you can’t find the viewer programs, you can have MaxiVista create new ones. While MaxiVista Server is running, right-click on the MaxiVista server icon in your task tray and select “create MaxiVista viewer.” Repeat this if you have a second MaxiVista server icon in your task tray. Click “Start > My Computer” then navigate to the Windows folder containing your installed version of MaxiVista. By default, the MaxiVista folder is “C:\Program Files\MaxiVista Pro Server”
4) Click the MaxiVista viewer icons on your remote computer to activate the additional “virtual” screens.
5) From the desktop on your main computer, right-click any blank area of the desktop, click “Properties,” then click the “Settings” tab. When your monitor configuration is displayed, just drag them around until they are in the proper order related to each other and you are done.
6) Right-click the MaxiVista tray icons on the primary computer to toggle between using the remote computer’s screens as an extension of your desktop and allowing you to use the primary computer’s keyboard to remote control the remote computer.
Installation of the demo
http://www.maxivista.com/docs3/09/manual.htm#install
Installation of the full version I use:
http://www.maxivista.com/docs3/09/manual.htm#installfull
Remember that you must have a network and a second computer to use MaxiVista. I consider MaxiVista one of the most productive software values I’ve ever purchased at only $30.
-Edited by DME
TimeBoxWidget TimeBoxing
This free Timeboxing widget I wrote can help you become more productive.
“Timeboxing” is a productivity strategy in which we set a commitment time for a task then we do our best to complete the task in the time we have allowed. For example, you may say to yourself, “I know I can finish writing these meeting minutes in 40 minutes, so I’ll assign myself 40 minutes to complete this task.” The Timebox Widget is a countdown timer that helps keep you keep your promise. Some people use egg timers to “box their time,” but the Timebox widget is better and easier.
It’s easy to use the FREE Timebox Widget to become more productive:
- Highlight your commitment time on any screen, then click the [Copy] button to start the countdown timer.
- Need to adjust the time? Click the plus or minus buttons.
- Need to pause? Click the big countdown timer button.
My Timebox Widget has no spyware you can download it for FREE in less than 1 minute from this link:
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