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How to choose fonts for your website
Font pairing isn’t easy, so the 25×52 initiative has done it for you with Google Fonts pairing suggestions.
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Recreate views after changing datatypes in referenced tables
I recently came across a problem that was difficult to diagnose. After I had changed the datatype in a table from varchar(256) to varchar(512) my Access 2013 reports show data truncated to 256 characters. It turned out that the views that I’d created against the base table were truncating the field. After changing the datatype…
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Income inequality – globally down, locally up. Bad for the Brits
This is a very interesting article about the effect of globalisation on income inequality. It shows how the rise in income for the global poor is linked to the stagnation of middle and lower class incomes in the West. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/28/inequality_rising_screw_the_one_per_cent/
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How to create a list from an crosstab table in Excel
If you analyse data in Excel you know that Pivot Tables are magic and that they are generated from simple lists of records (“facts”). Unfortunately very often you data will be given to you by a user who has put it into Crosstab format and to get this back into a list you have to…
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How to use Snagit to capture images, and even YouTube videos
I am a presentation today and I was concerned that a link to a YouTube video might not work because of a poor network connection. I decided to capture the video and insert it directly into my PowerPoint file. I found that Snagit 12 was perfect for this. You can see how it is done in this…
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Polonius’ advice on going to university
Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay’d for. There, — my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion’d thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means…
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How to backup data to OneDrive in “real-time”
I am setting up my daughter’s laptop for university. As a student she can purchase Microsoft 365 University edition for a small price for 4 years. This comes with 1 TB cloud storage called OneDrive. This is highly available, redundant storage that should be utilised as much as possible. When planning backup schemes we need…
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How to recover space from system on Windows Home Server
Follow the process recommended by Nem1234 in this thread and reproduced below and then run checkdisk on the C: You will have to reboot and it will take many hours to complete __ How to find the space….. 🙂 My piece of the pie chart showing SYSTEM space used ( seen on the WHS ‘Server…
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Windows 8.1 is Android Kitkat and other thoughts
— Update 2016-01-03 read about my new approach to backup — My daughter is going to university and has just bought a Lenovo laptop which has Windows 8.1 installed. It is a conventional 15.6″ laptop with a i5 processor, 8 GB RAM and 1TB hard disk. First impressions This is my first use of Windows…
Dr James Bayley
Creating successful projects
Dr James Bayley 