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A Great FREE Online Typing Program to Improve Your Personal Productivity

By Ugur Akinci | January 14, 2011

© 2011 Ugur Akinci If you need to improve your typing skills by learning how to type 10-fingers here is a great free online program: http://www.sense-lang.org If you know other online typing programs, feel free to share it by commenting. Many thanks in advance!

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6 Different Ways to Distribute Large Technical Documents

By Ugur Akinci | January 14, 2011

© 2011 Ugur Akinci Large files have always been a distribution headache for technical writers. PDF files, book files of all kinds, PPT files need to be planned and generated always with an eye towards their distribution. If your files are too big to send around, review and approval processes will be jeopardized. Here are…

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How to View Two MS Word 2007 Documents Side by Side

By Ugur Akinci | January 14, 2011

© 2011 Ugur Akinci Imagine you have a legal document and its slightly altered version and you’d like to see both versions side by side and compare them by scrolling both of them simultaneously. Or, imagine a friend of your has sent a translated document and asked you to read and make a comparison to…

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6 Future Career Paths for Technical Communicators

By Ugur Akinci | January 13, 2011

There are not one but multiple future career paths for technical communicators. Technical communication is changing rapidly like any other thing in our world. Report by The Writers Block A new report by The Writers Block, “Technical Communication Landscape Survey Report (Bangalore, Karnataka, India)”, lists the following future specializations for technical communicators: Technical writing Instructional…

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