SkyDrive Glue between Word Desktop and Web App

April 7, 2013 by

Have you ever used the Web Apps for Office? I am becoming more and more addicted to them. They’re touch friendly (with my new Touch Screen Ultra Book [Lenovo Yoga 13]), fast, and have the glue/sync of SkyDrive built in.

In this quick screen cast, I create a word file on my desktop Word, in a SkyDrive Demos folder, that is already setup to sync to SkyDrive. Then on the website, I can use the Web App version of Word, make some changes to the same document, and see those changes magicaly sync’d back to my desktop drive.

I didn’t show sharing, but it’s just as easy to give access to another person or team to edit the file. The nice part about this is you just keep opening the document on your own machine, and SkyDrive does all the syncing for you between your own SkyDrive and the other users you’ve given editor access to.

Enjoy!

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Multiple Users in Chrome

March 23, 2013 by

As of last week, if I need to use two different accounts, on the same site, in chrome I would use the Primary browser, and the incognito instance. This gave me two instances of Chrome, where the cookies wouldn’t fight each other. Last week, while at lunch with guys from the office, they told me Chrome now has User Accounts. WOW. This is such a great feature, it’s worth a quick screen cast. [Read more…]

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Calculate the Miles Per Gallon on your Car

February 2, 2013 by

I’m writing this as a fun fact that millions of people already know, and calling to light something that may seem obvious but you just never thought of. How can you calculate the miles per gallon on your car?

  1. Fill your tank with gas, all the way
  2. Set your trip on the odometer to zero
  3. Drive.
  4. Drive some more.
  5. Drive until you have less than 1/8 a tank
  6. Fill your tank again.
  7. Before leaving the Gas Station, look at you trip meter. How Many miles did you drive?
    1. X = Miles driven (We’ll use 400 for our Example) X=400
  8. Look at the gallons purchased on your second gas reciept
    1. Y = Gallons of Gas Purchased (We’ll use 11 for our example) Y=11
  9. X / Y = Miles Per Gallon
    1. 400 / 11 = 36.3 Miles Per Gallon.

Try it, it’s fun. Maybe try this for 3 to 10 tanks of gas, and you’ll be able to take an average and get a good feel for what your car is delivering.

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Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts

January 31, 2013 by

These are listed in a lot of places, but I keep forgetting, and then need a place to find them. What a better place than here?

In Combination with the [WINDOWS] key, these are keyboard shortcuts worth remembering.

[WIN]Q – Search
[WIN]H – Share
[WIN]K – Devices
[WIN]I – Settings
[WIN]W – WinSettings
[WIN]Z – App Bar
[WIN]. – (Period) Snap Cycle
[WIN]D – Show Desktop
[WIN]B – Back to Desktop – Also sets focus to task tray??
[WIN]X – Fast Access Menu
[WIN], – (Comma)Desktop Peek

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Scorekeeper Update: Jan 23, 2013

January 23, 2013 by

Submitting an update to my Scorekeeper Application (Link to App in Window 8 Store) today.

Here is a list of changes.

  • Killed the Drawing Canvas called SketchPad. It’s outside the scope of this app, and is a little buggy anyway.
  • Changed so any score in the last column, adds a new column. Previously, only when the last column was full of scores, it would then add a new column.
  • Updated the ScoreEntry popup, so that it has nudgers to increase and decrease the valid score range. This was a request from @palermo4, that let’s them change the score ranges in the game, instead of having to hit the settings charm. NOTE: Due to lack of real estate, you can only DECREASE the minimum  and you can only INCREASE the maximum range. The increase and decrease, is stepped based on the value of your score range stepping (also set in settings).
  • I decreased the size of the min/max range values, and increased the size of the current score, to further highlight what all the numbers mean. Before they were all three sized at 24pt. Now the min/max is sixes at 18pt, and the score is sized at 36.
  • Made the name on the player card slightly bigger.
  • Right justified the Player Card Score, so that all players current score are easier to read (as you scan down)
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