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Compare two Word documents – MAC

By admin on February 23, 2012 in MAC OS X

Today I have been working on a document using dropbox. I now have a conflicted copy saved by my colleague and I wanted to know how to compare the differences. Now the long way is to do a stare and compare, however I knew that the Windows version of Word offered a compare facility. I started looking at the options in Mac Word. The following steps are how to compare two documents using Microsoft Word 2010 for Mac Open both the documents you want to compare Select Tools Goto Track Changes Select Compare Documents… You are prompted with a window where you can select the two documents to compare Click Ok The documents will be compared and merged into a new document. Really easy.

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Screen flicker in VMware Fusion 4.x

By admin on February 22, 2012 in General, MAC OS X

Lately I have been having issues with the screen in my VM running under Fusion flickering. This is particularly annoying when working in Visio and trying to draw up a diagram. It is not good for the eyes 🙂 The below screenshot shows the issue I have been experiencing: To stop the flicker enter the VM settings and turn off 3D Acceleration under the Display configuration. You will need to Power off the VM before you can make this change. Once the VM is powered on the screen will no longer flicker, therefore saving your eyesight 🙂

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vCloud DR Solution – Partner opinions

By admin on February 20, 2012 in Cloud Computing

Here is a video with some partners discussing the vCloud DR solution that was released last week.

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Partner Exchange 2012 photos

By admin on February 16, 2012 in General

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Configuring and using VMware vCloud iPad app

By admin on February 15, 2012 in Cloud Computing

My previous article listed the download link for the VMware vCloud iPad app that was released today. This article is to demonstrate the screenshots and the basic configuration and use of the app. First you install the app from iTunes. I will not be explaining to anyone on how to do this 🙂 Open the app you are prompted with the initial configuration screen: You have to enter your vCloud Org URL (Note: You cannot enter the vCloud Administration URL, it must be https://vcloud.url/cloud/org/orgname) Select whether to save the credentials Do you want to ignore certificate warnings (Note: If you have self signed certificates you need to select On) Select your external applications for RDP, VNC and SSH Once configured you will be prompted with the login page Enter your login credentials for that org You are then shown the overview screen Press on the screen anywhere to remove the […]

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