Author: John
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Deciding Which Programs to Remove Using MSConfig
If you are having difficulty with your Windows OS you should check to see what programs were either delivered with it, or running now, by using MSConfig. I found Patrick Crispen on NetSquirrel has a nice step-by-step HOWTO on MSConfig. Patrick might be familiar to you from the Internet Tourbus, which has been an interesting…
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Simple Ways to Get More From Google Analytics
Today I was inspired by Dawn Foster to try one or two new things using Google Analytics to get more out of it. I setup Alerts and found that it was easy to set them up on multiple sites. I am only going to use one or two and try them out and then see…
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Think Quarterly from Google
From Google a new quarterly magazine, Think, which is a great read about interesting subjects. http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/ At Google, we often think that speed is the forgotten ‘killer application’ – the ingredient that can differentiate winners from the rest. We know that the faster we deliver results, the more useful people find our service. But in…
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Print Friendly Pages & PDFs from Blogs & WebSites
I was reading this page on the Quake Moving Japan Closer to U.S. and Altering Earth’s Spin and I wanted to print it out to a PDF to use on my Droid. With the NYTimes print function, it would be two steps and it would be fine, but I decided to use ??Joliprint instead. Try…
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Use Google Docs with MS Office
Today I am working with Google Apps collaboration using MS Office tools on the front end: multi-person, simultaneous editing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint application. I have some large legacy work that I can’t simply convert to Google Docs but need the benefits of web-powered collaboration: online backup, view only web sharing, file revision…
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Text Editor Epistle Syncs with Dropbox on Android
I am always looking to leverage my most commonly used tools and Dropbox is among those. Some call it using the API, others a product eco-system; leveraged properly, a powerful tool. One of the Holy Grails of my existence is a simple text editor to use for taking notes and it appears that on the…
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No Lock Android App Disables Your “Slide to Unlock” Keyguard
Convince I am that I am the last to find the answer to some problems. I texted my peer Android users about this annoyance, the “slide to unlock” feature, but they were unaware of this app, if you are, test it out. After all, the tiny power button seems to ensure not turning it on…