I just loaded up bbLean as a way of speeding up my old Win7 laptop, only to discover that Google Chrome (the app I use the most) was flickering really badly because it has its own skin, and bbLean was trying to apply its own titlebar too. I would have just commented on Nimret’s blog […]
bbLean flickering with Chrome/Firefox/other: FIX Read More »
This article will look at ways to convert dates to text in Excel; that means converting dates into day names, hours, months and more. This is a really simple thing to do but it has a number of uses. As an aside, when you work with data on a daily basis, these sorts of Excel
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I recently had a need to unhide multiple sheets in Excel (maybe you call them tabs). Whoever sent me the original file had decided to spread their data out over so many extra sheets that it would have taken almost literally minutes to unhide them all. Naturally, I wasted even more time looking for a way
There are a number of situations that you might want to paste as plain text, i.e. with all formatting removed. Lots of copy and pasting from the web results in formatted text. This is fine if you are only pasting into a search box, URL bar or Notepad, but if you are putting this into
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There was me thinking that the Windows Update mechanism was designed to streamline updates to the operating system, eliminating the need to go to a website to download fixes and patches. Ha ha ha. Without realising it, I’ve been repeatedly shutting down to install the same Windows Updates on Vista for the past 2 weeks.
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Finally, after months of waiting and an endless stream of complaints from users all over the world, Spotify have updated their Android app and fixed the issues with crashing open opening, crashing when syncing and crashing a few seconds into playing. All these, as you’d expect, lead to a pretty poor experience and one that
This is a problem I’ve only ever had on Windows 7 but I gather it can affect you on XP too. If Evernote says Synchronization failed, could not connect to Evernote server and you aren’t sure why because everything else seems to work on the internet, go to Tools menu, Options, then the General tab