Category Archives: Friday: Casual Day

Wind down from the work week and wind up for the weekend with our casual day grab bag

Represent Yourself

By Sherman | Published: April 8th

Do you ever visit a website where there are comments and see that some people look like this… While other people have a picture next to their comments? That’s called a Gravatar and you can get your own by clicking here. After your gravatar is set up you’re picture will appear next to comments you [...]

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Olympic TV Listings

By Sherman | Published: February 12th

If you plan on watching the Olympics on TV and don’t want to miss your favorite bob-sledders you need to make a pit stop at the official Olympic TV listings page. You can customize your listings by zip code! Enjoy the Show!

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Get the information

By Sherman | Published: December 11th

If you need to information goog-411 should be your first call

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You think you have problems?

By Sherman | Published: September 25th

My wife Amanda was given a task: change the file names on up to 1000+ files; some she had to create names for, some she had to remove the date from the file name. It was a bit daunting. After an hour she had new names for about 100 files, but there were 800+ left [...]

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Big, big files

By Sherman | Published: September 18th

Sometimes I need to send a BIG file to someone – a bunch of images, a presentation, whatever. I’m talking about files that are too big for email. I could put it on a disc and mail it, but drop.io is faster. On the home screen I click to add the file I want and [...]

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Forgot your password

By Sherman | Published: September 11th

I fixed a friend’s computer the other night. It was simple work as far as computers go except for one bit: She didn’t remember her password. Fixing that is not simple. Passwords are tricky; they need to be simple enough to remember and complicated enough to be secure. Luckily most password systems give you some [...]

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Golden Ratio

By Sherman | Published: September 4th

I’m pleased to offer the following from our first guest author: Robert Bausch. How can you get that perfectly pleasing proportion for cropping a photo? What’s the perfect balance when dividing Power Point slide or chart? Got something the right height and wondering about best proportional width? Try the Golden Ratio Calculator. Wikipedia describes The [...]

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Shut down for the enviornment

By Sherman | Published: August 21st

I’m going to be away from the office all next week. I usually let my computer run overnight a few nights a week so it can get updates, but I try to shut it down most evenings and over the weekend. I can save hundreds of dollars a year in electric bills with is good [...]

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