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OneNote does OCR better than PhantomPDF
I used to use Adobe Acrobat Professional but I got tired of the cost and licencing hassles. Now I use PhantomPDF Business Edition which costs less and works well. I recently scanned a antiquarian document as PDF. This resulted in PDF wrapper around some images. I used PhantomPDF for OCR and it was OK but…
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Are crypto bears in retreat?
Crypto fans will be aware that the past three months have been bleak ones for both investors and speculators. There is a global bear market and even good businesses are down. Yesterday the market picked up as shown here. Long may it continue!
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Amazon wants you to grow dope!
When I logged into Amazon today with my company account I was prompted to buy dope growing equipment. Perhaps this is simply a prelude to Amazon taking Bitcoin? For the avoidance of doubt: I don’t grow dope and believe that in listing and promoting such drug paraphernalia Amazon is probably breaking the law.
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Next steps in Excel ETL – learning M
Excel 365 Get and Transform Data (was Power Query, actually ETL) allows you to use the M language to create custom columns. Naturally enough I hoped with would either be Excelish or JavaScriptish but no, because it is specialised for report writing it is quite different and you have to learn a new language. Here…
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Excel ETL – import multiple CSV files
I have previous blogged on how to unpivot data using Excel and Excel 365 (was Excel 2016) just keeps getting better and better. It can now do ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) operations that used to require SSIS. This article tell you how to import multiple CSV files in one operation. (for example, bank statements).…
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Finally a use for IoT
Free markets are amazing things and progress is not the result of great leaps forward but thousands of small steps that make things a little bit better. I can think of no better example of human ingenuity than this, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/02/smart_home_horse_birth_wonder/
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Don’t use Google Authenticator
If you use Google Authenticator then you need to know that it is bound to your phone and if you lose your phone or reset it you will lose ALL the Google Authenticator accounts. Update: 2018/01/14 This post has been updated and moved to here https://cryptoindex.guru/2018/01/14/784-dont-use-google-authenticator-2fa/
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Cryptocurrency Index investing
In my last post I advised readers not to invest in Bitcoin at $16,000, since then it has crashed, gone up to $20k, crashed to $10k and is now at $12.5k. It’s a rollercoaster ride. If you believe that cryptocurrencies are a new asset class that has some fundamental value then you may wish get…
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Bitcoin – what to do next
DO NOT BUY ANY BITCOIN – IT WILL CRASH AND YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY (8/12/2017) If you already have Bitcoin and have not, like myself, sold everything weeks ago in a fit of panic – well done. But you might be wondering what to do with it. There is a very good article…
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is Snagit dead? – OneNote & Paint the future?
I have always used Snagit for screen captures, it has nice workflow and just works. Except for the last two years it does not work properly if you have a high dpi monitor such as Microsoft Surface. In my case I have an external monitor as well and the Snagit interface becomes tiny on the…
Dr James Bayley 