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It appears however that this folder can become full – which means that you can no longer view images in emails.&#160;&#160; Instead, you’ll [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/outlook-images-not-showing/</link> </item> <item><title>Netflix Coming To Canada This Fall</title> <description><![CDATA[
Good news!&#160; The popular video streaming service Netflix today announced that they’re expanding their video streaming service to Canada this fall.
There are no pricing details yet, however Netflix have said they’ll offer unlimited movie and TV downloads.
Unlike the American service which offers both video streaming and mail delivery of DVDs and Blu-Rays, the Canadian service [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/netflix-coming-to-canada-this-fall/</link> </item> <item><title>Further SEO Analysis of BBC News Site Changes</title> <description><![CDATA[Following the recent changes to the BBC news website there has been some talk in the SEO community about the affect this has had.
A tweet from @tomcritchlow of Distilled this morning had me wondering how the transition to the new site was going:I first noticed that the PR of the new www.bbc.co.uk/news website is currently [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/seo/further-seo-analysis-of-bbc-news-site-changes/</link> </item> <item><title>iPhone Twitter App Crashing on 3GS?</title> <description><![CDATA[Do you use the official Twitter App on a 3GS iPhone?&#160;&#160; Have you experienced problems?&#160;&#160;&#160;
I thought it was just me until I came across a post on the twitter support pages asking for feedback.&#160;&#160;&#160; Looks like others are experiencing the same white screen, and then the app closes after a few seconds of loading.
Here’s [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/iphone-twitter-app-crashing-on-3gs/</link> </item> <item><title>Adobe Reader &#8211; Document could not be printed</title> <description><![CDATA[Here’s a quick tip!
Just had a PDF file which opened fine and could be viewed ok, however could not be printed?
When trying to print from any PC – we received the following error:
“Document could not be printed”
Not very helpful!
Turns out, if you click on the Advanced button in the print window – and select “print [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/adobe-reader-document-could-not-be-printed/</link> </item> <item><title>SEO Lessons to Learn From BBC News Website Redesign</title> <description><![CDATA[As one of the most popular news sites on the Internet, the the BBC News website has recently been updated.&#160;&#160;
What’s interesting about this update though is that a lot of the changes seem to be SEO driven.&#160;&#160; In November last year, BBC editors wrote a blog post explaining how they were already making changes [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/seo/seo-lessons-to-learn-from-bbc-news-website-redesign/</link> </item> <item><title>Amazing Virtual Human Interface Using Microsoft Kinect</title> <description><![CDATA[The BBC have an interesting video of an Interview with Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios.&#160;&#160; Peter shows how Kinect is being used along with artificial intelligence to provide an amazingly realistic interaction with a virtual human called Milo.
Take a look at the video below for a glimpse into the future of computer interaction!
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Share this on [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/amazing-virtual-human-interface-using-microsoft-kinect/</link> </item> <item><title>Compress Large Word Documents</title> <description><![CDATA[I’ve just had a client approach me with a 60MB word document with only a few pages in it!&#160;&#160; It turns out that the document had a lot of high-res photos in it.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;
The photos didn’t need to be high res, so I started looking at how to convert them.&#160;&#160; As there were so many [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/compress-large-word-documents/</link> </item> <item><title>PDF Table To Excel Conversion</title> <description><![CDATA[
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I’m often searching for free tools to convert between various file formats for clients, and frequently find “free” online converters.&#160;&#160; Most of the time, these free converters have limited features or don’t actually work as advertised.
I was pleasantly surprised to find www.pdftoexcelonline.com after I was asked to convert a large PDF table into Excel format.&#160;&#160; [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/it-hints-and-tips/pdf-table-to-excel-conversion/</link> </item> <item><title>Google Planning &#8220;Facebook Killer&#8221;?</title> <description><![CDATA[Several sources are now rumouring that Google is planning an alternative social network – supposed to be a “Facebook Killer”.
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg recently tweeted that Google is building a “Google Me” service to compete with Facebook.
This would be a huge move by Google and would take a lot [...]]]></description><link>http://www.scotiasystems.com/blog/google/google-planning-facebook-killer/</link> </item> </channel> </rss>
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