MarkPReynolds.com » Technology http://markpreynolds.com ... an Archive of My Miscellaneum Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Excel Calendar Add-In http://markpreynolds.com/technology/excel-calendar-add-in http://markpreynolds.com/technology/excel-calendar-add-in#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 15:18:43 +0000 mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1642 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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]]> http://markpreynolds.com/technology/excel-calendar-add-in/feed 0 Growing A VMWare Fusion NTFS Disk http://markpreynolds.com/technology/increase-vm-disk http://markpreynolds.com/technology/increase-vm-disk#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:28:31 +0000 mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=1491 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!
]]> http://markpreynolds.com/technology/increase-vm-disk/feed 0 Let it snow, let it snow… http://markpreynolds.com/technology/let-it-snow http://markpreynolds.com/technology/let-it-snow#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:47:24 +0000 mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=994 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>
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In <head> </head> section:
<SCRIPT TYPE=”TEXT/JAVASCRIPT”>
<!–
function focus(){document.FORM_NAME.FIELD_NAME.focus();}
// –>
</SCRIPT>

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

]]> http://markpreynolds.com/technology/move-cursor-to-form-field/feed 0 Photo Booth, The Digital Archiver http://markpreynolds.com/technology/photo-booth-the-digital-archiver http://markpreynolds.com/technology/photo-booth-the-digital-archiver#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:00:40 +0000 mark http://markpreynolds.com/?p=979 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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