Archive for January, 2012
Digg Digest – Reddit Record Visits
In an ironic crowd-sourcing twist, the top staff pick from my most recent Digg Digest, was wait for it… wait for it…
click to discover what digg folks thought was important re: reddit
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entry written by Chris Augeri
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Truthiness Detector – Custom Search Beta
Sites such as Snopes, Fact or Fiction, & Politifact abound. Introducing the ‘truthiness detector’, a search engine for fact-checking sites around the web. First release in series of experiments illuminating philosophy vis-à-vis Google custom search engines.
As a bonus, upcoming haiku, also in ‘beta’…
Startup Schlep – Rinse & Repeat
Conception. Design.
Develop. Test. Iterate.
Release. Inception.
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Startup Query – Simple School Course Registration?
Any one else out there frustrated with how archaic & arcane high school, college & other school class registration processes still are, especially when done in paper, yes in 2012? If so, contact @thoughtpuzzle on Twitter.
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Microsoft Office – convert trial from unlicensed product to activated license
Interesting ‘undocumented feature’ encounter yesterday…
Sometime ago, I’d downloaded the 60-day trial software suite of Microsoft Home & Office 20110, which had since expired and converted to ‘unlicensed product’, i.e., I could open files in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, & Outlook, but could not save files, import/export data, or create new items.
- After yet again evaluating the trifecta of OpenOffice or LibreOffice, coupled with Mozilla Thunderbird & Lightning, yet again came to conclusion that MS Office, and in particular, Outlook, remains as my personal information manager (PIM) of choice. Testing included converting exploring Thunderbird / Lightning after importing several gigabytes of mail, appointments, from PST files. Some big gaps…
- import didn’t include [hundreds?] of contact pictures
- lack of task folder / hierarchy other than multiple calendars
- copying / pasting across documents within OpenOffice did not retain consistent formatting
- couldn’t store attachments in contacts, i.e., limited ability to use Thunderbird & Lightning as a wiki
- Decision – purchase license of MS Home & Office (& re-downloading the suite, being sure to keep the same filename at Microsoft’s suggestion), I entered the license key on pop-screen that appears after opening Office. However…
click for tip on completing Microsoft Office activation
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