Quick tip: slide to open cheap resealable bags
You know those tiny little bags of screws and bits you get with Ikea furniture and computer components? Don't struggle to pull them apart, just squeeze and slide! The cheap re-sealable "Ziploc"…
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Launch your web browser as another user
In SharePoint 2013 there is no longer a quickie menu choice to allow you to indulge your alter ego. I’ll let others go into depth on why it went a way, but…
Showing more detail in SharePoint Calendar
The SharePoint calendar is an ideal place to give people a quick overview of team events, but the overview can be a bit thin on detail for some people’s tastes. The calendar…
A couple box packing tips
When a release is finished at Microsoft people pull their heads out of their current product and frequently move around between teams (and that means packing up your office to head to…
Quick image straightening with Photoshop
Microsoft Digital Image Suite, for all its limitations, does a few things really well: Fix red-eye Stitch together panoramas Make straightening images brain-dead easy I love Photoshop. It's definitely my image editor…
Enabled Clear QAM on my Media Center, High Def goodness ensues
If you record cable TV using Windows Media Center you may have wondered about recording high definition signals off the cable (or, like me, struggled unsuccessfully to make it happen). If you’re…
Getting a list of files for a directory
Ever had a folder full of files and needed a text listing of all those files? Here’s a quick n’ dirty way to do it. I have a whole folder full of…
Turning on AutoComplete to make IE’s history useful
For ages I've been annoyed by the IE history drop down which appears when you start typing an address. Here's the thing, most of the work we do is stored on our…