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Essential tools for every home office
Review of excellent, low-priced USB microphone
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I’ve been an audio engineer for more than 35 years, and I’m always on the lookout for useful new tools. Microphones are a particular obsession; I probably own a dozen high-quality models. For a long time I’d wanted a nice USB mic that delivers high-quality [...]
Send Text Messages From Your PC
Suppose a text message arrives on your phone while you’re sitting at your desk. Do you really have to peck out the reply on the phone’s tiny keypad? Not if you know the recipient’s phone number and carrier. Just fire up Outlook or any other mail client and compose your reply like an ordinary e-mail. [...]
Free 411 – Directory Service via your Cell Phone
Business road warriors frequently place calls to numbers they do not have in their cell phone contacts. Verizon 411 (aka ‘directory service’) calls are very handy, but also very expensive. Waste money no more! Try 1-800-GOOG-411 to get the same results entirely for free.
It’s very simple. Create an entry for Google (or whatever you wish [...]
Firefox + Sxipper = say ‘goodbye’ to passwords
I mentioned in a previous post that RoboForm is a ‘must have’ product-especially if you check into and out of countless password protected web sites daily.
So when I stumbled upon the FREE look-alike ‘Sxipper’ recently I had to give it a try. The interface is not quite as flexible as RoboForm, but Sxipper definitely gets [...]
Solve a business problem–fast, accurately, and repetitively
If you are debating whether or it’s worth your time learn macros or delve a little deeper into the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, perhaps it’s because you simply don’t understand how it could solve business problems for you, or perhaps you question whether the payback for your learning time is legitimately not [...]
MrExcel demonstrates recording your first macro
Macros save a ton of work–in the right place! You may rightly ask ‘But, what is a macro?’ A macro is simply a set of actions that you instruct your application to take. In this case we’re using Excel, but the exact same principles apply to Word (and others too!).
I find it hard to turn [...]
Voicemail as emailed text – what a great solution
This is the next best thing to a memory! Each voicemail is transcribed and sent to your email account and your cell phone.
Not only does it take seconds to scan to the most important parts, it gives you a written archive for those things you would like to retain, act upon, forward to a colleague [...]
How to parse non-delimited text data using Excel macro
Continuing the Excel macro theme… many employees receive company data from mainframe systems–perhaps even a screen copy or web paste.
Often the data is not delimited or structured in any way, so it does not want to go into Excel columns. They must first spend significant time ’shaping the data’ into columns and rows prior to [...]
