SharePoint: automatically sign in with my Windows User Account in IE and FireFox

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a concept of security zones.  It can guess which servers that you are visiting belongs to the corporate Intranet, and automatically pass in Windows Authentication tokens.

Internet Explorer

These options are under Internet Options

Figure: Set up Internet Explorer to automatically detect Intranet Sites

Figure: Default setting for "Automatic logon only in Intranet zone"

FireFox

You can also do this in FireFox, via a slightly different method.

First, about:config

Figure: Make a promise to be careful

Figure: type NTLM, and find the trusted URIs setting

Figure: Double-click and enter your SharePoint server URI, e.g. Intranet.ssw.com.au

Figure: Automatic Windows Authentication sign-in in FireFox

(This tip is of course, Windows-only).

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)