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Excel Sized Wine Glass
After a long hard day in Excel, this wine glass might be just about the right size. Did they name it “XL” in honour of our favourite spreadsheet program? In case you can’t read the box labels, that are behind … Continue reading
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Learn JavaScript Programming in a Year
Sure, you can program in Excel VBA, but what other programming languages do you know? Maybe VBA is enough, but if you’d like to expand a bit, there is a free course in JavaScript programming that I’m trying out. The … Continue reading
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Recovering Deleted Pictures From Digital Camera
One of my hobbies is photography, and I post the results on the family blog, and a few on the Contextures blog. Unlike the old days of film, when you thought about the cost of each print, now you can … Continue reading
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Disappearing YouTube Comments
YouTube sends me an email if anyone comments on one of my videos, or on my Contextures channel page. Most of the time, it’s easy to log in to YouTube and approve the comments. For the past few months though, … 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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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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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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