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March 28th, 2007
Use your Dashboard to keep track of new content. The idea has been brewing for a long while. After all, there are a ton of widgets out there that seem to monitor just one RSS feed. Why not cook up one to monitor my feed? So I can offer another way for Mac Continue reading The Mac OS X VQS RSS Feed Widget March 28th, 2007
A how-to for Excel users. My Visual QuickStart Guide books for Excel — from the edition for Excel 95 for Windows through the edition for Excel X for Macintosh — have always included an Excel function reference. In an effort to make pages available for other content, however, we’ve cut that appendix from Continue reading Printing an Excel Function Reference Sheet March 27th, 2007
A Mac OS X Widget to track AdSense Revenue. One of the things that bugs me about AdSense is that checking my AdSense reports is a multistep process: Launch my Web browser. Go to the AdSense home page. Enter login information. (My browser won’t remember it because I have an AdSense account and Continue reading RevenuSense March 27th, 2007
From Miraz, not me. Miraz Jordan, my co-author on WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide, has taken the plunge and bought an Apple TV. She writes a little about her experience here. Do any of you have an Apple TV? Please use the Comments link to share your thoughts. As for me — there Continue reading Some Apple TV Commentary March 26th, 2007
Another way to add To Do items to iCal. One of the the goals of the Getting Things Done methodology is to get tasks out of your head and into a place where you can track them. That means making extensive use of organized lists. Although iCal isn’t the best tool for GTD, Continue reading iCal GTD Widget March 26th, 2007
So that’s what’s going on! One of the first things I noticed after updating Mac OS X Tiger to 10.4.9 was that my CD eject key didn’t seem to work anymore. Normally, I’d just push it and the CD drawer would open. But it just didn’t work like that anymore. Not having time Continue reading Mac OS X 10.4.9: Media Eject key delay March 23rd, 2007
Another Informit article. Sheesh. I forgot all about this one. I just checked in at Informit and there it was — an article I’d written at least a month ago. It’s called “How to Add WordPress Category Feed Links to Posts” and it provides detailed information about how I get those little RSS Continue reading How to Add WordPress Category Feed Links to Posts | |||||
Mac OS VQS Widget
Keep track of the latest content on the companion Web site for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide.
If you want to keep track of what’s new on my Mac OS X VQS book’s companion Web site but can’t remember to stop in regularly and don’t want to subscribe to the RSS feed,
Continue reading Mac OS VQS Widget