2013

Google Docs spreadsheet script: compare dates, highlight past dates, highlight weekends, and highlight today

ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS […]

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Quick Link: Headers and Footers in Word 2003 – Unlinking To Remove Header From Only One Page

Linking and Unlinking Headers and Footers In Microsoft Word 2003: Here are instructions on how to remove headers or footers from any single page in a multi-page Microsoft Word document.  This applies to Word 2003, but may work with other versions as well. [Excerpt] You can link and unlink headers and footers as long as

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Screenshot of my jQuery Fancy Paragraphs code in JSFiddle 2013

Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery

I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available

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Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO). (EDITOR’S NOTE:  Ok this was news about 3 weeks ago but I just heard about it last night and had to post about it anyway.  Was this truly accidental, or some sophomoric “Easter Egg” deliberately programmed into the rover?  Only time

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Fix Your Broken AVI Files For Free With FIX PLAYER from Movie Toolbox

Just a quick note.  One of the the things you can spend days researching is HOW TO FIX BROKEN VIDEO/AVI FILES?  I tried various utilities.  For those new to to this topic let share what my experience has been: DivFix and VirtualDub (NanDub) are the venerable standbys that folks in the know have been using

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