Some people may be aware of this, but in Excel you can change the default behavior of the Enter key. By default, when you hit Enter it will move one cell down. In Excel 2007 this setting is found in Office button > Excel Options > Advanced, and it allows you to select from Up, [...]
@hientran hit me up following my original post on The Google Apps Value Proposition. He considered my omission of Google Video and video chat in Google Talk big oversights. So I’m back today to bring you those two pieces to the Google Apps puzzle.
Video
I wasn’t totally surprised by the announcement that Google was made that [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been doing quite a bit with Google Apps recently. One of them is a non-profit that I’m associated with. The friend I’m working with on that (who works at the NPO) asked me today for some “talking points for selling all these services.”
I shot him [...]
Since it was this article that prompted me to post this, I figured I would take up the topic of personal computers for the first post in my series on how “The Internet Has Changed Everything.”
For a long time industry was based around mainframes and dumb terminals. Then when the PC hit, the market shifted [...]
I’m out at the Oregon coast with my wife’s family this weekend, and my wife brought along the Wired that came in the mail on our departure day (not up on their website yet). One article in this issue is about netbooks, and that one article has been a center piece of quite a few [...]
We do very little true data entry into our systems database. Most of what we do is updating the information already in, or adding an entry to the activity log for a server. I hadn’t really given much thought to form validation, until a coworker asked for it. Once again, there is already a jQuery [...]
As I set out on re-writing the interface for my systems database, on thing I knew I wanted to implement was better sorting, and pagination. In v1 I implemented sorting through GET statements, and requerying the database according to the choice of column and direction.
I used this tutorial as the basis for my own “plugin” [...]
When I started in my current job about 18 months ago, I was taking over some responsibilities from a guy who had been gone for six months already. Very quickly I learned that what was documented was done pretty well, but there was quite a bit of stuff that wasn’t documented.
Beyond the lack of documentation [...]
If you do any kind of work that requires S/FTP, you know the hassle of marking up your local copy, saving, uploading, and checking the result. I know it drives me batty to have to do all of that up-and-down crap. And sure, I can use vi in the command shell, and I do regularly, [...]
I saw the announcement come through yesterday for the “developer preview” of the new Google Quick Search Box for the Mac. I immediately downloaded it and started working with it, not fully knowing what to expect.
My initial response: wow, this could replace Quicksilver. For being a dev preview it seems quite impressive already. I did [...]