Tag: Francesca
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How to be Productive (part 2): The Action Book revisited
If you have been capturing your actions in an Action Book for a week or more using the method described in Part 1 then you will discovered some fresh challenges. Older Actions Some earlier actions will be outstanding and getting difficult to review because they are a long way back in your book and sandwiched…
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How to be Productive (part 1): The Action Book
Productivity is not everything but in the long run it is almost everything Paul Kruger In the long run your success at work will be determined by your productivity. Productive people make more stuff, sell more things, impress more people and do better. So how do you become more productive? This series of articles, sponsored…
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Fix for slow or hanging right click button
My daughter upgraded her Lenovo laptop to Windows 10 (hint – don’t do this until Christmas) and I spend several hours finding and installing drivers so it would work smoothly again. Having done so I found that the right-click button was very slow on the desktop. The problem was cased by the right-click button having…
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Excel coding style guide
I am introducing some students to Excel and have produced this brief style guide to producing more readable code which I think gives you 80% of everything you need to know. The strategy is to use Excel’s built-in ability to name sets of cells. Please add your comments. All tabular data must be in a…
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A simple investment strategy – your age in bonds
After many years of investing my pennies and trying to beat the market I realised that it was all a waste of time. The evidence is that almost zero fund managers achieve above average returns. Therefore the best approach is to simply buy index funds that follow market performance and to choose funds with very low…
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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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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 