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From Wired: “For most people who spend a lot of time online, impulsively typing queries into a search engine has become second nature. Got a nasty infection in an embarrassing spot? Look up a treatment on your favorite search site. Obsessing about an ex? Try Googling his or her name. Chances are the queries will …
It is now possible to search two of the most popular search engines at the same time. Yagoohoo!gle.com takes your search term and searches both Yahoo and Google and displays the results from both search engines side by side.
From TechRepublic: “Gordon Moore’s famous law has been around for four decades. Not bad for an idea he thought wouldn’t last. Forty years ago, Electronics Magazine asked Intel co-founder Gordon Moore to write an article summarizing the state of the electronics industry. The article outlined what became known as Moore’s Law, the observation that the …
GMail has increased mailbox storage limits to 2GB today. April Fools joke? It does not appear to be. Logging into my Gmail account several times today, the available space has been steadily increasing. And the GMail login page currently shows a counter on how big the mailboxes are limited to. Watch it grow to 2 …
The Office Tips and Hints blog regulary has some great tips (hence the name). I thought one mentioned the other day was fascinating. It shows how to read all the forumalas in your worksheet and put them inside comment bubbles. You can read all about it at http://www.klippert.com/TCC/Blog/2005/03/excel-show-formulas-in-cell-comments.html
I’m sure many of you have heard of this before, but I was just reminded of it recently. Martin Aignesberger has written a bunch of utilities, one of them being software that checks your bookmarks: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it …
Someone at work asked how they can get an entire path name in the footer of their Excel spreadsheet. Excel 2000 only allows you to put the filename is. There is a Microsoft Knowledgebase article that explains how to create a very simple macro that will do this. Check it out at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;213615
From InfoWorld: “As computers appeared on the public scene in the ’50s, psychologists marveled at the parallels between data-processing technology and the workings of the human mind. A handful of scientists of the day believed that the functional structure of the human mind was fully analogous to that of the computer. Considering that computers in …
We’ve mentioned this before, but subscriber and co-worker Louise passed it along again. In particular, she thought the calendar section was interesting. You can pull up yearly calendars for any country, show local holidays, show moon phases, or not show anything. Check it out at http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
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