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Reduce size of excel workbook
Excel uses a lot of space with empty cells. There isn’t an easy way to figure out how much space is being wasted. I was seeing an Excel file at…
Lookup hostname for IP address
Launch a cmd prompt. nbtstat -A %ipaddress% nslookup %ipaddress%
Finding family purchases in iTunes
Trust apple to hide things to where nobody can find them. All I wanted to do was download all the music that was part of my family sharing plan (…
Recursion versus Iteration ( Looping )
Overview In general, whatever problem you can solve with Recursion can also be solved with Looping (iteration). It turns out, that for most use cases, Iteration (looping) performs better than…
DELETING Environment Variables when INCORRECTLY SET
I made the mistake of resetting my ENV variables for HOME and HOMEDIR - which resulted in a) My DOS prompt not being able to launch b) My environment variables…
Facebook pages versus Groups
When should you use a FB Group? When should you use a page? According to FB, a GROUP is ideal for ‘shared’ interests – Reading, Writing, Running… And Pages work…
copy paste from pdf, copy paste from ebooks
Copying and pasting content from either PDFs or eBooks is a fairly common need. While specialized tools can help with the task, some simple techniques – using only the basic…
Creating an Oracle RAC like structure with SQL Server Technology
It is no secret that Oracle’ RAC platform has been a best seller in the enterprise database category. Among other things, Lowers overall cost of ownership by providing a single…
Copy and Paste equations from PDF to whatever
The easiest technique I found was to use the SNIPPING Tool on windows 10 – to capture a snip (screenshot) from the PDF. Save the screenshot as an image- and…