Doc Scrubber removes hidden data from your documents (10)
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Filed under: Security, Text, Utilities, WindowsEvery Word file can contain a fairly large amount of metadata. This is stuff like the revision logs (for tracking changes), name of the author, last time edited, and last time printed. All that information is there for a reason, but embarrassing incidents have been known to occur when people don't realize what they're sending in their metadata. If you want to avoid that, you could delete it all by ...
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Sean Brady said:
Interesting utility. Working in the legal industry where we take our Metadata scrubbing very seriously, I am not sure that this would work for us, but I think it is cool that the product exists for free for others to use.
Tous les Bertrand ont-ils de grandes oreilles ? (1)
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Re: Tous les Bertrand ont-ils de grandes oreilles ? 11:20 le 18/11/2008. Je me permets de signaler que Mediapart avait révélé l'info avant Bakchich, le 10 novembre. Ca se trouve ici : Des écoutes téléphoniques sauvages au gouvernement? ...
Microsoft Word Metadata Scrubber (3)
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Metadata in Word documents can reveal information that the creator of the document had no intention to distribute. This ranges from information about the author to comments and a unique identifying ID. It can lead to all kind of privacy leaks. Microsoft even recommends to distribute documents in paper form only on their website. Doc Scrubber is a Microsoft Word metadata scrubber which can be used to analyze and scrub Word documents. The software program ...
Google Docs rockets to 1 percent market share in only three years [Toogle Many Googlers] (4)
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It's been more than three years since the debut of Writely, the free, browser-based alternative to Microsoft Word quickly snapped up by Google. Nearly two years since the formal release of Google Docs & Spreadsheets, now known as just Google Docs. Let's admit it: Google Docs is no YouTube, Gmail or Google Maps. A survey of 2,400 American Internet users by Clickstream found that half of them use Microsoft Word, but only one in a ...
Should I get a tattoo that tells the world what I am after all? (1)
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For the past 100 blog years, I have been searching for the most authentic tatty that represents who I am. A tattoo will be on me forever, and I plan on living 4ever, so my tattoo will live forever. Should I get a tattoo that tells the world I am human after all? Did Electroma prove that we’re all robot after all? (h8 that m0vie) When we are captured by the opposing army during the ...
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County of LA Join Lawsuit Against Prop 8, ACLU Laywer Makes a Great Case (1)
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Photo by Eheartsart via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to join one of the three lawsuits filed in the California Supreme Court to overturn Prop 8, which eliminated the right of gay couples to marry in California. They joined the City and County of San Francisco, County of Santa Clara and City of Los Angeles in the case. "Some may ask why, as a county supervisor, ...
MELISSA CLOUTHIER: Shame on John McCain for Not Defending Sarah (1)
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MELISSA CLOUTHIER: Shame on John McCain for Not Defending Sarah Palin. "What rock is Senator McCain hiding under and why can’t he show himself for a moment to defend his running mate? . . . Once again, John McCain’s actions betray the character traits conservatives abhorred about the man during his years in the Senate: He would spit in a friend’s eye to win the favor of an enemy." On the upside, he's making a ...
Rescue a Word Document from Multiple Editors [How To] (13)
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If you share a nicely-formatted Word document with one or more folks and ask them to make "just a few edits," you're more than likely to get back a document with inconsistent italics/bolding/underlines, crazy font differences, and whatever size looked best on each person's screen. The Microsoft Word Team explains in a blog post how to use the Styles pane and a few (not-so-obvious) options to get everything back into alignment, rather than highlighting, clicking, ...
Keep Formatting Consistent With Word's Styles Pane (1)
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When Word documents get edited by multiple people, the end result is often an unholy mess, since most people still tend to make direct formatting changes (such as adding bold and italics) rather than using Word's Styles feature for consistency. The Microsoft Word Team blog gives a useful overview of how you can rescue a format-challenged document by using the Styles pane to identify all the formatting used in a document, and replace ad-hoc formatting ...
Honda's robo-legs are the walker of the future (5)
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It gets harder to get around when you get old, which is why things like walkers and mart carts exist. But Honda wants to make getting around easier with some fancy new technology, which is why it's introduced some new robo-leg walkers. While it looks kind of goofy (not to mention uncomfortable on the groin region), it should make people a lot more mobile than something like a walker. It basically assists with the normal ...
Ginger Spell -New Writing Software (1)
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While doing some searches for new writing software a couple of months ago, I came across a rather interesting web site from Ginger Software. The company was tauting a new software application called Ginger Spell that works within Microsoft Word to provide students with writing disabilities support in the area of spelling and grammar. At the present time Ginger Spell beta does not include grammar support but will be added when the applications ships. Ginger ...
In the works: David Lynch's new web series. (2)
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In the works: David Lynch has signed with digital media company On Networks to make a new web series! Unfortunately, it'll be based on his book "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity," so it's best to be ready for more transcendental meditation rantings than strange narratives. Lynch has offered up online videos before on the members only section of his website, including his animated series "Dumbland," the first two episodes of which can ...
