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May 11th, 2007

Informit Publishes Excel 2007 Book Excerpt

“Working with Excel Files” goes online.

Just a quick note to let Excel 2007 users out there know that Informit has published an excerpt from my Excel 2007 Visual QuickStart Guide on its Web site. The piece is titled “Working with Excel Files.” Access to the site is free.

I’m pretty sure the

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May 11th, 2007

Four Steps to Get the Most Out of Twitter

Some tips for taking the “yuk” out.

I first heard about Twitter a few months ago on either the MacBreak Weekly or TWiT (This Week in Tech) podcast. (Both highly recommended, by the way.) I immediately checked it out. At first, I thought it was kind of cool, but then I realized that

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May 11th, 2007

More on Mighty Mouse

An update to my Mighty Mouse experiment…and a cleaning tip.

I’ve been using my new wireless Mighty Mouse for about a month now, which I think is a fair amount of time for an evaluation. Because there seems to be so much interest in this topic here, I thought I’d give readers an

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