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Using book cover-images on your website
As an indexer one way to inject a bit of colour into your website is to include cover images from some of the books you have indexed. There are several ways to do this. The way not to do it … Continue reading
Use multiple machines and avoid UPS
Every year, when we have a dry spell followed by heavy rain, the electricity supply to my house trips out and, almost immediately, comes back on, but not before causing my computer to restart. This year this happened 6 times … Continue reading
Time tracking with Grindstone
Knowing how long you spend on each job is critical for an indexer (or at least any indexer who hopes one day to raise their prices). The indexing programs will record how much time you spend actually working with a … Continue reading
DropBox
A great, free utility which I came across recently is DropBox.com. It is an offsite, online, secure backup and synchronization facility, but that makes it sound far too complicated. In fact it is a folder on your desktop which you … Continue reading
Google Calendar
Another free utility, which I now use all the time, is Google Calendar. There are many calendar programs around, but this one is well designed, easy to use and has great calendar sharing facilities.
Handling PDFS
The topic today is PDFs and there is probably something for everyone here, whether you aren’t sure how to handle them or why you would want to, or whether you have Acrobat Pro and think that is all you need.