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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Seuss

ENTER Excel

More Excel love. I was working on a report a couple of weeks ago, and knew it was possible to have multiple lines of text in a cell, but didn't know how to do it. I know that with some HTML editors (e.g. Nvu) you can hold Shift ...

Excel Calendar Trick

This is old news by some measure, but it is a timeless piece of trickery with Excel. Make a calendar in Excel: =IF(MONTH(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1)) <>MONTH(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1)- (WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(NOW()),MONTH(NOW()),1))-1)+ {0;1;2;3;4;5}*7+{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}-1),"",DATE(YEAR(NOW()), MONTH(NOW()),1)-(WEEKDAY(DATE(YEAR(NOW()), MONTH(NOW()),1))-1)+{0;1;2;3;4;5}*7+{1,2,3,4,5,6,7}-1) To use it: Copy the formula text to the clipboard Activate an Excel sheet and select a 7-col by 6-row range Press F2 Press Ctrl+V to paste the formula into the active cell Press ...

Excel Keystrokes

I used to work for a financial analysis company developing Excel macros/applications in VBA. There were -- and still are -- some 10th level Excel blackbelts that work there. I picked up quite a few keystroke tricks while working there. Even though I don't work there anymore, ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 2 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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