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Top FlagIT Posts of 2009
01 Jan 2010It’s been about a year since I started blogging here and whilst it was primarily supposed to be a site for quick useful tech-related posts several have grown into far larger posts. Whilst some posts have remained somewhat quiet on the number of reads others have generated far more interest than I could have expected.
It’s actually five more days until this blog is a year old, but I thought that new year’s day might be as good an opportunity to review what the top ten posts were. This has been based on the number of visits from more than six and a quarter thousand hits since the blog was created.
10. Reclaim more Memory on a Windows Mobile Device
Posted: 04/04/2009
Reads: 95 (Daily Average 0.35)
Windows mobile phones have a finite amount of memory and like any operating system (particularly M$ ones?) memory leaks can stop memory being released. This post highlights how to resolve some storage issues with the Mobile Opera browser and a useful tool for reclaiming that memory lost to leakage.
9. Simple Template Workaround for Evernote
Posted: 21/11/2009
Reads: 95 (Daily Average 2.32)
A relatively recent post about one of my favourite pieces of software (Evernote) and how to use a simple bit of scripting to create templates in Evernote.
8. A Ceiling Function for VBScript
Posted: 31/07/2009
Reads: 133 (Daily Average 0.86)
This post includes some VBS code to round a number off to the greatest integer.
7. Developer Tabs and Drop Down Lists in Word 2007
Posted: 17/03/2009
Reads: 135 (Daily Average 0.47)
This post explains how to access the developer tab in Microsoft Word 2007 and briefly discusses some of the shortcomings of the drop down lists it offers.
##6. VBScript - Count Occurrences in a Text String
Posted: 30/07/2009
Reads: 148 (Daily Average 0.95)
Another simple bit of VBS code that counts the number of instances of a string of text within another string of text.
5. Omnia to Oblivia (and back)
Posted: 05/04/2009
Reads: 151 (Daily Average 0.56)
I have a Samsung Omnia mobile phone and have had a number of issues with it. This describes how I resolved one of the most difficult issues with the file system constantly mounting and dismounting a storage device.
4. A Flexible Progress Window in VBScript
Posted: 19/07/2009
Reads: 169 (Daily Average 1.02)
Another popular bit of VBS code is some that builds a customisable progress window based around dynamically updating a web page that is automatically loaded into a browser. The progress window allows the user to display messages and progress bars.
3. VBScript - Select a Folder
Posted: 28/03/2009
Reads: 278 (Daily Average 1.00)
The most popular VBS code post on the blog in the past year this one shows how to access a common dialog to select a folder and pass this back to the main code.
2. Controlling Spotify
Posted: 29/07/2009
Reads: 1172 (Daily Average 7.51)
At this point we see a big change in the number of reads of the posts. This particular post’s popularity is most likely related to the popularity of Spotify. The post describes a way in which an iPhone emulator can be used on a PC running Microsofrt Windows PC to control Spotify installed on an Apple Mac.
1. Excel – Dynamic Drop Down Lists with Full Validation
Posted: 15/03/2009
Reads: 1272 (Daily Average 4.36)
At the top spot is a post relating to Microsoft Excel. It looks at how to overcome some of the limitations on dynamically populated drop down lists. There are a number of other Excel related posts on the blog that people may find useful in combination with this and it has certainly made quite an impact with some of the spreadsheets I’ve developed for colleagues at work. It seems as though that popularity is spreading to hundreds of others across the Internet.
So please have a look through these top ten (and others if you like) and I’d encourage you to leave a comment or rate the post. If you like the content why not subscribe to one of the RSS feeds?
