How often do you find yourself opening the Windows calculator to quickly find the solution to a problem? How often do you create a formula in Excel to find the answer to a silly calculation? If any of these apply, then you might want to add the Calculator command to the Office Ribbon in Excel…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick and easy way to display trend data for a period of time, like stock prices, the best chart to use is the line chart and its variants. Excel comes the option to chart data using various line charts that allow you to customize the look and feel of…Continue Reading
In Excel 2010, Microsoft introduced a new formula to complement the NEWORKDAYS formula that exists in previous versions of Excel. NETWORKDAYS allows you to calculate the number of workdays in a given time period including holidays. In the new version of the equation for Excel 2010 you can specify when the the weekend falls in…Continue Reading
Want to make your Excel spreadsheets stand out? Use the header and footer. Like Word documents, Excel spreadsheets have the ability to use a header and a footer to display important information about the spreadsheet/chart you are working on. The header and footer are usually visible when the Page Layout view is enabled and when…Continue Reading
Excel’s power lies in the vast array of formulas that allow you to calculate the sum of a given list all the way to determining the interest rate on a loan. But in order to use these powerful formulas you must become familiar with the several ways that formulas can be entered and used. While…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
