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, [...]
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 was first introduced to virtual desktops about 6 years ago when I first started poking at Linux. At the time it was a hobby type thing so I was basically running one or two applications at a time, and I didn’t see any real practical use for it. In the last 9 months I’ve [...]
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 export options in the [...]
Bren, formerly of Slacker Manager fame, showed me this great little tip today. Playtagger is a feature brought to us by del.icio.us. Play Tagger is a neat little tool that allows you to easily play mp3 files directly on del.icio.us (see the popular mp3 bookmarks), and you can have it for your website or blog [...]
My wife gave birth to our second son last week, so I was out of the office all week. I brought my laptop with me to the hospital so I would be able to dump photos from the camera if the memory card filled up. While in labor and getting settled into the room my [...]
Another shortcut key discovered by accident. I was moving around my inbox with the keyboard, deleting messages, when I mis-keyed and hit Insert instead of Delete. Much to my pleasant surprise I found that Insert flagged the highlighted message with the default red flag. If you hit Insert on a message that is already flagged, [...]
This is indirectly tech related, but generally not. The USPS has gone and upped the postal rates from $0.39 to $0.41 for the first ounce on a first class letter. They’ve also introduced something known as the Forever Stamp. I received a word of warning/advise about the use of this new stamp. In the past, [...]
Bren posted about this a good while ago, but I get so much use out of it that I figured I’d spread it around again. If you accidentally close a tab you can bring it back from the netherworld by hitting Shift+Cmd+T (on a Mac) or Shift+Ctrl+T (on Windows). This is so incredibly helpful when [...]
My dad runs a Joomla! based website that I have been hosting. Just recently we decided to migrate it to a different web host, so I had to figure out how to move it. I was initially puzzled by how to accomplish this move with the least amount of pain. I’ve enjoyed the slick Export/Import [...]