Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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How to adjust the canvas size in Visio

Random Visio tip for today (As I'm spending a lot of time in Visio at the moment).

If you want to resize the canvas area in Visio simply hold down the Ctrl button and move your mouse over the canvas edge. You'll see the Mouse pointer turn into a double ended arrow. Now click and drag the mouse to expand or contract the canvas.

You can also rotate the canvas by doing this.

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Archimate Architecting and Modelling tools – Built on Eclipse

If you've ever wanted to design the flow of an application before launching into the code base or front end CSS then Archimate is for you.

It is an open source platform that allows you to use an "independent Enterprise Architecture modelling language that supports the description, analysis and visualization of architecture within and across business domains." Roughly translated it allows you to draw different shaped boxes with connectors to show the layout and flow of your applications.

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Vodafone Sure Signal review

A product I'd been vaguely aware of, but have since discovered a lot more about is the Vodafone Sure Signal box.

This little white box uses your home broadband to create a 3G bubble in your own home. It is basically a mini, private 3G mast.

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Dissecting business failures: Allowing scope creep from clients

One of the most common forms of business failure that I have the misfortune to witness on a regular basis is the allowance of clients to instigate scope creep within projects.

I have never understood how some industries accept scope creep as part of everyday business; let me explain what I mean.

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