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One of the annoyances I have with using Chrome is the lack of an extension to clip information into OneNote. There are times when, while surfing, I encounter material I’d like to clip into OneNote for future reference (OneNote being my preferred catch-all note-filing tool). So, armed with a few hints from Google-searches, I decided to [...]
One of the biggest headaches in deciding when to upgrade to Firefox 3 has been the whole issue of extension (in)compatibility. Many (most?) plug-ins can be made to work through Nightly Tester Tools, which permits users to “force” Firefox 3 to allow extensions to run, regardless of advertised lack of compatibility. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work for [...]
In an Excel-based tool I maintain for some of my underwriters, I use conditional formatting to help highlight missing information. I also have some default values based on formulas, and for various reasons I’ve been wanting to highlight them too. Excel has a nice collection of “is” functions to help identify the contents of particular cells [...] 
I’ve seen some noise over the past few days regarding the release of Amazon’s Kindle, a $399 ebook appliance that is supposed to be readable in sunlight, have a day-long battery life, and to be able to buy books (and newspapers, and magazines, and…) wirelessly (EVDO or WiFi) from Amazon. Much of the reaction is skeptical, [...]
Yes, I know…I keep intending to write a series of “stupid geek tricks” articles, and I still haven’t gotten around to it. This post, unfortunately, isn’t going to represent the start of clearing that particular writing backlog. However, since I just resolved one of the things that has annoyed me about Vista, I thought [...]
In almost all of the jobs I’ve held since college, even though I’ve been employed in an actuarial or quasi-actuarial role, I’ve also had the dubious honor of being the unofficial support person for all things IT or geeky. (The one exception to that was a 4 month stint where the desk I telecommuted from was [...] |
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