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Author Archives: Debra Dalgleish
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Spreadsheets
Did you know that there’s a blog for fans of the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives tv show? Best of all — it has spreadsheets! Scroll down a bit, and in the right-hand sidebar there are links to Google spreadsheets — … Continue reading
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Shrink Long URLs With Google URL Shortener
When you’re adding a link in Twitter, or in an email, you might not want to include a really long URL. In the past, I’ve often used a site like bit.ly or is.gd to create a shortened version of the … Continue reading
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New Volume Setting for Google Alerts
Do you have Google Alerts set, so you can keep track of specific topics online? For example, you can get an update in your RSS feed if your name appears in a blog, or discussion, or in the online news. … Continue reading
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Spot the Differences
Today I was looking through my photos, and found this shot of my office peripherals table, taken in November 2001. I had two large phones, a huge scanner, an answering machine, giant router, and a business card Rolodex file. You … Continue reading
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Like Google Reader’s Track Changes? Too Bad!
In January, Google proudly announced a new feature in Google Reader — Track Changes. You could quickly set up an RSS feed for any page that didn’t have one, and be alerted when that page was changed. I liked the … Continue reading
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Testing the Office Live Excel Embedding
Today I read that you can now embed Excel files into your blog, by using Office Live. After I figured out how to log in to my account (it’s been a while), I created an Excel file to test here. … Continue reading
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How NOT to Offer a Blog Guest Post
Some of the blogging expert sites suggest that you write guest posts on popular blogs, to get a bit of publicity for your own blog. Today I got an email from someone who offered to supply a guest post for … Continue reading
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Personalized Twitter Background
While reading my morning RSS feeds, I saw an article about creating a custom Twitter background. Since I didn’t have anything else planned for the day, I decided to attempt an update on my profile. Previously, I had a picture … Continue reading
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Access Database is Read Only
When I tried to open one of my main Access databases today, I got the alarming message, “The database ‘MyData’ is read-only. You won’t be able to save changes made to data or object definitions in this database.” I closed … Continue reading
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Google Search Cheat Sheet
Did you know that there’s a Google search cheat sheet? Even though I spend several hours a week searching for things in Google (all of them business-related and highly intellectual), this was the first I’d heard about a cheat sheet. … Continue reading
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