Archives for Productivity Tips - Page 4
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…
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…
Outlook password change not picked up by iPhone client
I recently changed my outlook 365 password - and was unable to get my iPhone mail client to pick up the new password. Here are a few things I Step…
Converting from DD-MM-YYYY to YYYY only in excel
Lately, I needed to go through a column full of dates – in the format MM-DD-YYYY. The thing is , I didn’t care for the day or the month of…
Safe(r) Domain Search
I was underwhelmed at the 'safe' domain search agents available. I particular encountered trust issues with some of the bigger registrars out there - including and hostgator. Two options that…
Privacy and Security for consumer laptops
Those free WIFI connections in cafes do not encrypt network traffic. This implies that anyone on the same WIFI network as you is able to ‘sniff’ your traffic and possibly…
Windows 10 Wifi
Just when I was getting used to Windows 10 (DEFINITELY an improvement on Windows 8), I started encountering frequent disconnects and dropped connections. Here are a few things to try:…
Creating and Using Drop Down lists in Excel
Using the drop down list values in a cell In the Cell, Click Data >Data the Settings tab, in the Allow box, click List. In the Source box, type and…