Although I tend to use my mouse a great deal when navigating around spreadsheets, there are a handful of keyboard shortcuts that I’ve found to be really helpful…
When you’re working with a large spreadsheet and want to select a data range from where you are in the spreadsheet down to the next blank row or [...]

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Kevin on April 29th, 2008

A great old friend and I are meeting in Des Moines in a few weeks for 4 rounds of golf. We’re each bringing a buddy and there will be some good golf, a number of friendly wagers, and a “more than adequate” amount of trash talking. Tonight I sent him a link to a customized [...]

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Kevin on April 28th, 2008

About every 8 weeks or so the merry pranksters in our IT Department send everyone in our company a friendly message like this:

This is just swell, but what if some of the emails you want to hang on to have really large attachments – but need to go to free up space?
Or, what if you’re [...]

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Kevin on April 27th, 2008

35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. Some of them might look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not — keep in mind that they’ve all been developed out of usual photos, and not a single image is an illustration.
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Kevin on April 27th, 2008

Happy April 27th! Here’s an eclectic rundown of some of the best posts I discovered this week…
Five Ways Productivity Can Turn You Into a Real Nutjob from Clay over at The Growing Life is a very funny semi-rant about geeks, productivity wankers and a few folks who take themselves WAY too seriously. Funny stuff!
Iron is [...]

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Have you ever saved files to a thumb drive at work so you could bring them home & left the drive at work? Or worse yet, lost a thumb drive?
I was thinking about how many files I have on one of my USB drives and came up with a simple solution that only took [...]

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Do you want to have zero emails in your In Box but are confused by the glut of articles on the internet about how to go about getting there? Are you intimidated by the notion of consolidating all your email accounts into Gmail, setting up 37 different Outlook rules, & having 18 folders [...]

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Do you want to avoid having the power cord for your GPS or radar detector cluttering up the interior of your vehicle but DON’T want to tap into your car’s electrical system?
My company car is a lease vehicle, and I wanted a cleaner look for powering my Garmin GPS but didn’t want to tap into [...]

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This is the counterpart to my recent post DIY: Hide a key inside your home where no one will find it!
If you’re like a lot of people, you rely upon your garage door opener for access to your home a high percentage of the time. In order to enter our home, 99.9% [...]

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Kevin on April 20th, 2008

Some interesting selections from Harriet Ryan @ Main Street. Give one or two a try!
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Kevin on April 20th, 2008

If you haven’t seen this before, it’s worth a read. A resourceful and very funny guy named Jeff Harris decided to prank someone who was trying to rip him off on eBay… very funny stuff. Happy Sunday!

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Kevin on April 19th, 2008

How easy do you make it for your customers to return product?
When things go bad, great companies shine.
2 quick examples:
I ordered a pigment dyed tee shirt from The Territory Ahead. It never fit properly, as they run a bit large. After a year, I sent it back with a brief note – something along the [...]

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