28 March 2008 by Ross McLean
I’ve been morning a bit lately so I thought I would take the time to make a post about some thing good!
I have been using Google notes for about a month or so now and I find it really works well.
Basically it allows you to copy bits of web pages (and stores a link back to the source), then you can joint down notes along side what you have clipped. The idea has been around for a long time, there used to be another app that did the same thing, (snobole or something).
The notes screen is a little pop up type affair which sits in the bottom (or top) of the window, you can select text from a web page and add it with a click.
When you want to you can export/transfer/copy it to Google docs, and play around with it.
If you do a lot of research on the web, give it a try.
Now, if it could auto-magically add citations out of Pdf’s,….
Tags: Cloud, Dev Tools, Google
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24 March 2008 by Ross McLean
hummm, insulting, fun, totally missing the point, a bit of all three?
VBA Person
Tags: MS, VB.Net, VBA, Videos
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21 March 2008 by Ross McLean
Recently I’ve set up a Virtual PC, that is to say I’ve installed Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. I’m running it on Window Vista Home Premium, which is not actually a supported OS but it seems to work OK all the same:
I set up my “Virtual Machines” like this:
One base XP install with sp2
Then VS6 + Office XP(I didn’t have a copy of 2000 kicking around)
VS2005 + Office 2003
VS2008 + Office 2007
That’s it for the moment. Does this make sense? How do you have yours set up
The main thing I have noticed while using these VM’s is the use of memory/performance. I have a Centrino Duo ( T5500/1.6), Geforce Go 7600 and 2 gigs of Ram, Ok I’m running the VPC in Vista, but the maximum I can run any VM with is about 1.3 gigs, some times they run a bit slow, and I only really run one at a time.
I guess the performance hit is worth the isolation?
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20 March 2008 by Ross McLean
This morning I woke up (always a good start to the day), and had one thing on my mind. Whats the second best spreadsheet?*
As far as I can see there are only really (really) 3 spreadsheets that could be considered .
Excel
OOo
Gnumeric
OOo is working a way on the VBA API, when that gets there or there abouts things might start to get really interesting, or are people using VBA in OOo already. Have you been using other SS, how are you getting on with them?
*Yes, worrying isn’t it.
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12 March 2008 by Ross McLean
Last week I was in a meeting for my Cricket Club. One of the things we have problems with is collecting and recording membership fees. Currently I have a database and coaches etc have SS which they update, send to me and I update the database (.mdb). We also need to keep a load of other info as well, like medical details, emergency contact number etc, etc.
I thought a possible solution might be to use Blist . I thought I might be able to set up a DB and a simple front end. No such luck. But thats not even the 1/2 of it. There are about 600 or so lines in the file and the performance was utter rubbish, when you scroll down the page, you get a please wait message!
Also notice the UI, ribbon in a web app anyone? (I wonder if this is ok with MS, might Blist be a direct competitor to office?!?) I’m not trying to run BList into the ground, I like what there are trying to do, I’ve been a fan of the Excess (Excel+Access in one app) idea for a long time, I think it makes sense. I just think that web apps are still very limited for anything “real”.
Oh and it’s not just Blist. After that I thought I’d give Zoho a go. Same problems.
The solution? I just set up an account with Tripod and will write some Php + mySQL to get the job done.
Office of the web? Not for a while.
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