Write blogs with Windows Live Writer, and schedule publish to look like a PRO!

A blog post a day keeps writer's block away.

I sat down to write a bunch of blog posts tonight, but instead of having everything published at once, I decided to pace it out and have it publish over a few days. Because really, nobody want to read 5 blog posts all at once!

Here's the hot tip with Windows Live Writer.

1. Write your blog
2. Before clicking publish - set a publish date
   
   Figure: Set a future publish date
   
3. Then hit the publish button
   
   Figure: Publish!
   
4. See the articles queued for publishing
   
   Figure: This guy writes a blog every day!

PowerPoint is for code too

This is a follow up post to Outlook (and blogs) are for code, from my colleague Peter Gfader.

I have this problem with PowerPoint

1. I paste code into the slides for the demo
2. During the session I copy that code
3. Paste into VS
4. BUILD ERROR – funny quotes all over the place
5. NASTY!

THANKS to this tip, I changed in PowerPoint as well

We do so much code presentations, this is a fantastic follow up tip.

OneNote - screen clipping + OCR

I have to admit that I'm really new to OneNote, but more and more I realize I don't know how I get by without it before.  Here is a OneNote special tip.

1. Do you ever got a picture where you want it as text?
2. Paste the picture into OneNote
   
   
   
3. Copy Text out from Picture
   
   
4. Magic
   
   
   
5. Result: Text pulled from picture as text

(This works with both OneNote 2010 and 2007)