Adrian Trenholm

Capture UK addresses in Anagram

Anagram is a pretty neat utility which captures address and telephone number text blocks from email or the web, then sorts the information into the correct fields to create an Outlook contact. When it works, it’s a brilliant timesaver, but when I tried it a while ago, I found one flaw: Anagram’s handling of UK address and postcode combinations was poor.

Until now. Marc Orchant on the The Office Weblog, , noted the new version’s “Enhanced text processing for UK addresses.”

I downloaded the generous 45 day trial and asked Anagram to capture an email signature which included a name; a UK address; phone, fax and mobile numbers; a URL, and an email address. Everything, including the address was captured flawlessly, and the whole process - from highlighting the target data to closing the new Contact - took less than ten seconds. It’s a massive timesaver and - with the strong pound - costs little over a tenner. Download Anagram now .

I am sure I was not the only one to email Anagram’s makers and ask them to improve their UK address support, but it’s great to see user requests answered like this. Well done, Anagram

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Frankie Manning is 91

just pointed out that Frankie Manning is 91. Who’s Frankie Manning? He is only

the King of Swing… the coolest man on earth…

One of the original Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom, Manning stopped dancing for 30 years when swing fell to rock and roll and disco. But Sandra Cameron and friends brought him out of retirement when they begged him to teach them how to dance the Savoy style. He’s been teaching and performing ever since. Taking a class with him is like dancing with Fred Astaire.

Frankie Manning and partner, Big Bea, were the first swing dancers to do “airsteps.” Check the photos on the Savoy Style site .

I haven’t been dancing in ages. Anyone fancy coming with me to Stompin’ at the 100 Club ?

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Don’t over specialise

Engineer2Entrepreneur warns us not to specialise our lives away. Great writing:

The most important thing to realize is to specialize in work is not to specialize in life. You need to mingle with other ideas and people. New ideas don’t come into an industry from inside the industry but from outside it. Other industries face similar problems and find solutions, apply them to your own.

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