Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Fix missing country codes for all your Google contracts

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When I recently moved from US to Sweden I realized that many of my beloved Google Contact phone numbers didn't have a country code speci...
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Friday, July 18, 2014

Converting XLS worksheets into separate (CSV) files

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Today I had a large Excel file (workbook) with many tabs (worksheets), and I needed each tab in a separate file as they needed to be shared ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Random date generation

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Today I needed to generate a large (bulk) set of random dates for a project at work.  Probably a million ways to do this, but I turned to Ex...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

JSON file validator locally

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JSON files are great for many things, but they can also be the root of very strange issues. Hence, you should always validate your JSON file...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Cygwin DOS path names issue on Windows 8

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I finally upgraded to a Windows 8 machine and noticed that the Cygwin command prompt gave me issues with DOS style path names. This is very ...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Setting function keys back to normal on HP Envy Notebook

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Just got a new HP ENVY 15 and so far I love it. Well, except for one little thing that drove my crazy. Not sure what those pesky engineers...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Useful RegEx expression for text manipulation

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When doing text manipulation, there are a number of regular expressions (RegEx) that I tend to use over and over again. Maybe you'll fi...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Deleting multiple empty Google contact groups

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My beloved Google Contacts suddenly have ~300 empty "Starred in Android" groups. Not sure how or why they showed up, but many peop...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Fixing localhost email on CodeIgniter under Windows

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Argh. After spending a LOT of agonizing hours trying to get localhost email to work under CodeIgniter (PHP) on my Windows 7 machine, I final...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Fixing Carbonite UI skin issues

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If you use the Carbonite online backup you may have noticed that Carbonite InfoCenter UI skin at times looks very odd. You may experience ja...
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Missing leading zeroes in XLS

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If you are not careful when importing data into Excel (XLS), you often see leading zeroes be removed as XLS tries to be smart about the data...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Grep for value in a column

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When doing data analysis, you often need to find records with a given value in a given column, but you want to return the whole line. The gr...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Pipe to tab

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Converting a pipe delimited file to a tab delimited file should be extremely simple. And many times it is if you run under a pure UNIX envir...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Text editor tab in browser

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This is such a cool and simple trick. Creates a simple text editor / notepad in a browser tab. This is useful for storing various kinds of t...
Friday, October 19, 2012

DOS prompt output to clip board

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This trick is so simple, yet so powerful if you dabble in the DOS Prompt a lot. You can pipe the output from any command to the clipboard si...
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