New Magic Project releases
Just before the end of the year 2011 Magic Project Software has released two updates to their software, Magic Calendar Maker and Magic Matching Color.
Magic Calendar Maker version 3.3 is a small shareware utility to help create one month printed or electronic calendars. It’s super easy to use: all the user needs to do is select the month and year for which he wants the calendar (you can even skip this step if you’re interested in the calendar for current month). A HTML or PDF calendar is created, saved to disk, and can be edited or printed from there.
Magic Matching Color version 1.3 was released today and it’s designed to help designers pick matching colors. In reality it’s aiming towards non-designers since it’s goal is help users to pick colors that match (designers usually know how to do this). It creates six colors that match and can start from a random color or a color of your choice.
Both programs are shareware and offer great price/performance index. You should try them out for free – trial period is 30 days for each of them.
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Sheet name in downloaded PDF in Google Docs
In the recent update of Google Docs there is a new feature that I can’t find a good use for: when I print (download) the Spreadsheet in PDF, the file name now contains the name of the sheet as well as the name of the document. Until now the downloaded PDF contained only the name of the spreadsheet which was better for my use.
I hope they will make it an option.
On a related note, Spreadsheets still can’t remember print settings of a document – when the user closes the spreadsheet and opens it again, all print settings (i.e. selection, paper size or layout) are lost and have to be re-set again.
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Wrong letters (bad character set) in Gmail since redesign – solved
Have you also noticed that the mails sent from your Gmail account (or Gmail for Apps) is not the same after the big design change? Usually some special local characters are missing or are displayed incorectly, for exmpale for Slovenian ‘?’, ‘š’, and ‘ž’, for Czech similar ‘š’ and others, for Polish ‘?’, ”?’ or ‘?’ and others. These characters used to be dislayed normally before the design change.
You have probably tried to revert the design back to the previous one, but the errors still occur.
The reason for this is that with the new design the setting for the default character encoding in sent mails changed. I don’t know the reason for this, but I think it must be a bug.
The solution is simple: When logged in to your Gmail account, click the icon for Settings in top right screen corner (there are two, and any of them will do) and click “Settings” or “Mail settings”. In “General” tab find this setting “Outgoing message encoding:” and select “Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages”. This should fix the wrong characters in Gmail.
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