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Friday, September 25th, 2009
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Welcome back to the podcast! This week’s edition: “Finding Your Perfect Match…by Using Excel Functions”
Well, it happened again. I’m almost positive I put both socks into the dryer, but only one came out. Tell me: where do the lost socks of the world go when they disappear? The Island of Misfit Socks? An exclusive club for singles? Maybe they have their own dating website, and they all go online in the hopes that they’ll find their perfect match. (more…)
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
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This week’s edition: “Inventing the Wheel was a One-Time Deal”
If you hang around any business office long enough, you’re likely to hear workers uttering the same banal buzzwords or expressions (more…)
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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This week’s edition: “The Un-Dirty Dozen: Fighting the War on Computer Slowness!”
Atten-hut! You are hereby recruited to combat the evil forces that have infiltrated your computer, causing it to run slowly, display error messages about a lack of space, and above all, prevent you from being able to do your work efficiently! In your training, you will be armed with the proper weapons needed to effectively rid your computer of these annoyances. What is your computer’s major malfunction?
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
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This week’s edition: “A Sign of the Times (New Roman): Exploring the World of Fonts.”
On my commute into the office this morning, I had a striking revelation: we are surrounded by more words than we sometimes realize. This revelation came to me as I slammed on my brakes to avoid striking the Mercedes in front of me; at that point, I was close enough to be able to read its bumper sticker. That just proves that there are so many opportunities to observe this, no matter where you are.
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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This week’s episode: “Tag ‘em and Flag ‘em – Following Up, Outlook Style!”
As a cyber pack rat, I have a lot of things that I probably should have deleted or thrown away a long time ago, but I just can’t seem to do it. My collection includes computer cables, old gadgets, files on floppy and zip disks, hundreds of unlabeled CDs, and most of all, e-mail.
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
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Welcome back to the podcast!
This week: Adding Sound to Your PowerPoint Presentations.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why would anyone want to add spoken words to a presentation of images? Seems like overkill, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. (more…)
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