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PUG survey Dec 2009

PUGwebAdmin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:51:28 +0000

With apologies for the delay in making these files available, here is Rupert’s survey in both spreadsheet (Excel) and PDF formats.

Pug Survey Dec 2009 (.xls)

Pug Survey Dec 2009 (.pdf)

Swiss-Army Clipboard

PUGwebAdmin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:00:55 +0000

Actually, the software calls itself the Clipboard Swiss-Knife but it amounts to the same thing

This nifty little clipboard extender runs all the time (unless you untick the ‘run at startup’ option) and at its simplest pushes every copy or cut action you do onto a stack. The most recent can be pasted with Ctrl-1, the previous with Ctrl-2 down to Ctrl-0.

So, if you receive an email containing, say, 4 items of text that you want to paste into PediTree, instead of nipping back and forth between windows, you can copy all 4 and then recall them after a single window switch. Of course there is a trick to remembering which order you copied them in and hence which Ctrl-digit key they will be assigned to!

You can download this utilty from:
http://www.sharewareplaza.com/Clipboard-Swiss-Knife-downloads_12453.html

There is much more to it than I have outlined above. As well as the default ten Ctrl- pastes, you can preload 26 lettered projects, each of 10 items, so you might load up a set of family surnames or placenames so that you can paste rather than repeatedly typing them. This is all done by overloading combinations of the Ctrl and Win keys and is not too tricky to get used to.

The FH Event at the Barbican

PUGwebAdmin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:51:23 +0000

Here are some photographs taken at The FH Event in May:

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/malcolm.austen/TheFHEvent2009#

PedSpecs v3.300

PUGwebAdmin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:36:10 +0000

Colin has released version 3.300 of PedSpecs. You can download the 582kb installer program (SetupPS3300.exe)

Of this (3.300) release Colin says:

One issue in PedSpecs has been the difficulty of navigating the large Relationships diagram that shows how the various picture scripts fit together. This update introduces a zoom facility that allows you to choose several smaller scales for this display, so that more of the whole diagram may been seen in the available window space.

This update also corrects an issue with unexpected characters in picture scripts, so that they no longer cause program failure.

The FH Event - Sun 3 May

PUGwebAdmin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:03:31 +0000

PUG will be at The FH Event.

Do call in to meet some fellow members.

Committee members and Murray will be on hand through the day.

Utilities updates for Vista users

PUGwebAdmin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:07:38 +0000

Colin has updated both PedSpecs and GEDutils to resolve some issues for Vista users. If you don’t use Vista, you don’t need to update these utilities. Details on the Utility Programs page.

Tidying text from an email

PUGwebAdmin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:48:29 +0000

This is something we all do at some time - receive an email and want to copy the text from it to somewhere else be it a PediTree note, a wordprocessor file or (if you are an Editor!) a DTP program.
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Control those USB drive letters

PUGwebAdmin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:23:04 +0000

In the September 2008 newsletter I introduced USBDLM (USB Drive Letter Manager) …
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Keeping your software up-to-date

PUGwebAdmin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:21:25 +0000

In the June 2008 newsletter I introduced two pieces of software …
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Some Choice Software

PUGwebAdmin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:15:39 +0000

This series of posts is intended to introduce a selection of software that may be of use to PUG members. Most of these posts will also appear in the PUG newsletter.

Malcolm.