Tag Archives: Tips

Weighty Matters

January 3, 2007 – 3:35 pm

If you’ve recently moved house, and in the process piled some weightlifting equipment in your garage, including some that’s leaning against a stepladder you need, and if the light in the garage takes 20 seconds to light, and if you’re wearing sandals, do remember to wait for the light to come on rather than just [...]

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Mini graphs in Excel

August 13, 2006 – 8:07 am

I’ve often wanted to do this but couldn’t work out how – here’s a way to get a graphical representation of a quantity in a cell within Excel using the REPT function.

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Torrents

June 23, 2006 – 7:32 am

Now that QuickSilver is installed I can relax into my Mac and deal with a few more ordinary chores. One early one to deal with, because of a bit of geekery I’ll post on later, is to install a bittorrent client. There are two main options that I favour, depending on use. For heavy lifting [...]

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Top Tip: Slugs

May 16, 2006 – 8:02 am

Apparently it’s worth checking your socks for slugs before cycling to work in the morning, especially at the front of your ankle where the constant flexing and extending of the joint could squish any hapless invertebrates. To anticipate the obvious question: No, it was on the outside.

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Recommended Software: Taskbar Shuffle

May 14, 2006 – 7:12 am

Taskbar Shuffle is a handy little app that lets you change the order of apps within your taskbar in Windows. If you have to use Windows you might as well make it feel like home, and this is a nice solution to a minor irritation. Downsides are that it’s recommended you turn grouping off (no [...]

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