Excel Calendar Add-In

I wanted a pop up calendar for date fields. It wasn’t obvious in Excel how to add this, so I checked online. The #1 Google hit is for a $20 commercial product. Seriously? Every web site I visit has this by default, but people pay for it for Excel? No. This one works great: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/excel/archive/2007/08/01/sam-radakovitz-on-date-pickers.aspx.

Summary:

  1. Copy this file to your your XLSTART folder (usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE12\XLSTART)
  2. Restart Excel.

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Growing A VMWare Fusion NTFS Disk

How to resize your disk image and then allow Windows to recognize it.  (Mostly all via:  Jim Culbert (thanks!))

  1. Resize / increase disk space in Fusion settings.
  2. Download GParted, Boot the VM to it (more boot specifics here)
  3. In Fusion CD settings for the VM, choose to boot to the image you downloaded.
  4. Select the default GParted options and extend the disk to use the rest of your allotted space
  5. Voila!

Let it snow, let it snow…

I grabbed the cool snowstorm script from WordPress.com.  It’s made by Shillmania

Either WP or my Atahualpa theme required I use the an explicit link to the script and not a relative link like in the documentation.  I’m not certain why.

So the code is this in the head tag:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://markpreynolds.com/snowstorm.js?ver=1260233238'></script>

Move Cursor To Form Field

Rrrrg.  There is nothing more annoying than having to leave the keyboard and click into a form field before being able to enter any text into it.  Below is the javascript method to pre focus the cursor on a form field.  ( I don’t do it on the search field on this page because a) the search is rarely used upon arriving here and b) focusing at that field moves the top of this page out of view.

In <head> </head> section:
<SCRIPT TYPE=”TEXT/JAVASCRIPT”>
<!–
function focus(){document.FORM_NAME.FIELD_NAME.focus();}
// –>
</SCRIPT>

In <body> tag:  <body onLoad=focus() >

Photo Booth, The Digital Archiver

Clothing tag scratching you?  Cut it right out of there!

But wait…what were those care instructions again?

OSX Photo Booth to the rescue!

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