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In Microsoft Excel, functions and formulas work closely together. Formulas are simply mathematical operations that may or may not include the contents of cells in the spreadsheet. Functions are very similar in that they are pre-defined formulas which take their input from the parameters passed in to them. Like formulas …
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This is about my fictional Aunt Sally who wonders if she can use Microsoft Excel to organize and track her large collection of stuff animals.
Microsoft Excel would be a great way for Sally to track her stuffed animal collection. With over 800 stuffed animals, finding information about a particular …
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This has probably been one of the most requested features for Google Docs: the ability to upload PDFs.
This is really the only feature that has been missing for my Great Google Docs Conversion of 2008. The addition of this new feature means that I can clear out even more …
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If you've been following the Firefox 3 news, you are no doubt aware that today (June 17, 2008) is the official release date for Firefox 3. Unfortunately, when Mozilla made the download available at 1 PM Eastern, the flood of traffic made the Mozilla servers virtually unreachable.
The initial rush …
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As previously mentioned, automatic software updates was one of the most exciting improvements included in the previous release of Camino. As expected, Camino was kind enough to pop up and tell me a new version was available — Camino 1.6.1.
This minor update is mainly aimed at stability. Several …
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Ladies and gentlemen, say "Hello" to a brand new Camino! Camino 1.6 has been released with some slick new features.
One that I'm really looking forward to is automatic software updates. Until now, Camino only checked for an update on startup. Considering how infrequently I have to restart my …
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I've been having problems with Google Chat (in Gmail) this afternoon. I decided that logging out of Gmail and restarting Firefox might be a helpful exercise. When I returned to Gmail, I noticed that something was wrong: everything was right.
For some odd reason, I seem to have been zapped …
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The good folks at Mozilla keep plugging away at Firefox 3. Now Firefox 3 Beta 5 is ready for download.
The two big ticket items for Firefox 3 Beta 5 are improved OS integration (Windows, OS X, and Linux) and increased Javascript performance. If you are one of those people …
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It's a new day and new Firefox!
Okay, so the latest version of Firefox really isn't all that new (the original version of Firefox 2 was released way back in 2006). But, Firefox 2.0.0.13 does include some critical security updates over previous versions of Firefox 2. Another …
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I'm not a fan of Firefox 3 Beta 4's new navigation buttons. I don't really use these buttons, but that huge Back button keeps distracting me. Thankfully there's a way to fix this, but it's not in the Preferences menu.
The key to getting a more reasonable set of navigation …
