Deadline missed... now what?: for firearm owners who didn't renew their licenses

If you are a firearm owner who didn't renew your licence by the deadline of 31 March 2009, then you have until 30 June 2009 to "opt for other options such as selling of their firearms to another person/legal entity, applying to the South African Police Service to deactivate the firearm or voluntarily handing the firearm over to the South African Police Service for destruction".

Comply before the deadline - unlawful possession of a firearm is a serious criminal offence.

Updated on 01 July 2009: See Firearms license: gun owners have more time with their firearms until the court tests the validity of The Firearms Control Act for info on the 30 June 2009 deadline extension.

For those who have not applied for an extension, you need to re-apply for a new firearms license.

Printing only some pages from Microsoft Outlook is not possible... until now

I have often wanted to print only the first page of an email, but the MS Outlook program only allows you to print odd or even pages (whatever for, I ask!), and multiple copies.
Even Outlook 2007 has this problem....

A workaround that I use is: first print the (full) email to a pdf file (using the free PDFcreator [17MB] then use Adobe Reader [41MB] to print the pages that I need.

Hope this helps in saving that precious paper!

If you're into software development of the GUI kind, then here's a Pencil that you can't do without - and it's free!

If you're a software developer who loves putting GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) together then this free tool is for you.
Pencil turns your Firefox 3 browser into a sketching tool with just a 400 Kb installation package.

Pencil will always be free and can run on virtually all platforms that Firefox 3 supports.

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and OpenSource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

• Built-in stencils for diagramming and prototyping
• Multi-page document with background page
• On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
• PNG rasterizing
• Undo/redo supports
• Installing user-defined stencils
• Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...
• Cross-platforms
• Adding external objects
  

Click over to their home page and read the quick instructions for end users to start using Pencil in just half an hour.


Oh, and if you don't use Firefox (for some reason), then there's a stand-alone install (8.6MB) as well WinXP, Vista, Linux.
See here for the download options: download Pencil