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28 Aug 2009
I was challenged to work out a little problem someone was having with Excel today. The expectation was that I could write some VBA to resolve it, but once I found out what the task was I quickly managed to put together a purely Excel function based solution.
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24 Aug 2009
I run XBMC on a Mac Mini plugged into my TV. Sometimes XBMC gets a bit caught up and freezes or gets locked into some sort of loop. I have it running in full screen which makes it rather hard to quite when the application with focus is non-responsive. So to get past this, press F8 to bring up Spaces and navigate to another space. From here right click on XBMC in the dock to reveal and select Force Quit.
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23 Aug 2009
Since Google Notebook went out of development earlier this year I’ve made the migration over to Evernote. It has many cool features one of the coolest being the ability to upload images and have Evernote run OCR to index the content of the image. The mobile phone Evernote applications allow a phone’s camera to be used to take a snapshot image and to upload it to Evernote over a 3G connection. Unfortunately the Windows desktop application has no functionality for capturing images in the same way through a web camera and with the proliferation of netbooks I feel that this is a feature that is sadly missing - well for me anyway. So after a bit of research I embarked on a quick weekend VB.Net project to put together a little application that could do this - and so I created “SnapIT”.
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22 Aug 2009
I’ve spent a little while today looking at putting something together for Evernote. Hopefully I’ll have it finished pretty soon and I’ll probably share it with you when it’s done, but whilst I’ve been experimenting, I’ve also been looking at ENScript a command line utility that allows you to interact with an Evernote database.
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20 Aug 2009
I tried adding my Twitter RSS feed to FeedBurner a little earlier. Even though FeedValidator identified the feed as valid FeedBurner wouldn’t. Googling this suggested that either Twitter isn’t producing nice RSS feeds (which FeedValidator’s validation seems to contradict) or FeedBurner has blocked it.
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15 Aug 2009
I’m been a huge fan of DokuWiki for many years now. Since I worked in a huge corporate development environment where structured documentation was hard to set-up I managed to pull a great number of resources together using DokuWiki and make it available to my whole team. The culture was such that I was pretty much the only person keeping it up to date … but that’s a different story.
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10 Aug 2009
DOS is one of those handy things that in a technical sense you never quite seem to get away from. The command line often allows you to do things quicker than the over designed graphical options and sometimes simply allow you to do things that there isn’t another option for.
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09 Aug 2009
I briefly had a problem with the web server that’s running my personal wiki yesterday. Try as I might it just wouldn’t start-up. I hadn’t had a problem before and after three or four attempts at clicking the start option I took a step back and surveyed my machine - a useful option in many circumstances.
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08 Aug 2009
In preparing a post today I’ve been through a bit of a winding process whereby I came across an issue I’d never encountered before with a VBScript. At first I thought I’d made some sort of mistake, but it appears I’d come across a limitation of a VBScript function I use all the time - MsgBox.
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05 Aug 2009
I’ve been using DropBox for some time now and I use it in some ways that I think are quite innovative and will be the subject of future blog posts. However in the last few days I’ve been having a few problems with Windows Explorer taking forever (well over a minute or two at times) to respond and it responds very sluggishly. I’ve managed to track the problem down to DropBox misbehaving.
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