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Continue reading →: Tips on using Google Sheets for an old Excel and 1-2-3 deal
Google Sheets is wonderful for cooperative spreadsheet development, but really using it there a number of formulas tips and tricks: Blank cells. If you want to detect if a cell has a number, then BLANK() and then if you want to see if a cell is non-blank, then NOT(BLANK()) Indexing…
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Continue reading →: IPad Pro 2020 and Magic Keyboard for iPad
Well, in a break from COVID-19 news, I’m using an iPad Pro 2018 with Folio Cover and I must say it works pretty well. You can’t quite use it as a Mac replacement mainly because the applications aren’t quite there. Some of the things that don’t work are writing software…
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Continue reading →: Using Asana (and Trello) with Chrome and Scrum to manage life in the time of COVID-19
If you are spending a lot of you day at home, then staying organized is not easy, here are some simple tips: On your Mac, turn on Announce Time. Then set it for every half an hour. That corresponds nicely to the Story Points that you use for a Scrum.…
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Continue reading →: Figuring out when your DNS changes have propagated
Many times, you want make a DNS change, they tell you it will take 24 hours for that to propagate, but how do you know when it really happens. You can run a ping from your machine, but there’s a better tool. What’s My DNS does a check of various…
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Continue reading →: Review of WordPress Themes for Business
OK, we finished the review of some themes for a personal blog with scrolling content. That is quite different than something that is meant to be a front facing page for a small business or a new product. There are lots of themes that try to do this basic layout…
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Continue reading →: iPhone Garmin Connect Loses Sync with 520 Plus
Ok, getting the Garmin 520 Plus to work with an Iphone was a chore. But if, the iPhone deletes the Garmin Connect automatically then you lose the connection and have to start all over. I worked on this before thanks to Brad, but the procedure actually worked. To review, if…
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Continue reading →: Marketing in time of crisis
Had a great conversation with Yohai, Micah, Rebecca and Tim over a Zoom cocktail party yesterday. The conversation rolled around to how does one talk about oneself and ones company in difficult times. While it’s tempting just to stop all marketing as no one is going to buy things. And…
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Continue reading →: Gmail not activated for Gsuite because of high load
Ok file this in the department of strange things. With so many people working from home Gsuite is just jammed. In bringing up a new Gsuite account (for yet another company), I ended up in a strange loop. I would login to gmail and it would say “This account does…
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Continue reading →: How to wish some well at Passover
Well, I learned how to say this last year, but in Hebrew its: chag Pesach kasher vesame’ach. Indianapolis Star, 7 April 2020 I’ve no idea how to actually pronounce this, but phonetically it’s “CHAG PEH-sach kah-SHER ve-sah-MAY-ach” Google Translate