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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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Mailto fix for Gmail

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I love Google. Well, in a nerdy kind-of way. I love search, Chrome, Android, Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Goggles, flight search, Wallet, etc. If ...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Searching in Excel and Word

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Searching and replacing text and special characters in Microsoft Excel and Word can get, uhmm, a tad complicated. Even for people very famil...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Picture date-time stamp editing

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I use Google's Picasa to edit / track my pictures, but I was very disappointed to learn that it does not have a basic tool to edit the d...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Vista Command Prompt

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So my new Dell Studio 15 laptop is a (great) step down from my old trusted Dell Latitude X300 , but it was unfortunately a matter of funds ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Links in emails

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OK, Joe in sales has just sent you and 16 others in your department yet another 13 MB PowerPoint presentation for everyone to review. And to...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I like either for grep'ing

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There are times when you want to grep for multiple different lines from a file. For example, the text file below could be an example of a lo...
Saturday, August 2, 2008

Grep'ing for a column value

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A few days ago I needed to get those lines from a file that only contained a certain value in a certain field. To simplify the example, let...
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Friday, May 2, 2008

Multiline AutoCorrect

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In an earlier blog entry I showed how the cool Microsoft Word AutoCorrect feature can be used to both increase your typing speed and your s...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Nifty Regular Expressions (RegExp)

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I personally use TextPad as my default text editor. There are probably some much fancier ones out there, but TextPad has all the features t...
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