January 2010

Excelerators Quiz and giveaway

Wed, 27/01/2010 - 7:29am — jethro

We are excited to announce a prize giveaway promotion, thanks to the folks over at Ignite Social Media.

Ok the quiz is open to everybody, but unfortunately the prize can only be won by someone who is a US resident.

The Prizes

The prize we will ship is a total value of over $250, and will include a Dell ST2310 23 inch flat panel monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

The Competition

Head to www.exceleratorsquiz.com and take the quiz. You will get a ranking, For example I was a Power User. You can post that on Twitter and Facebook also.

How to win

Post your ranking in the comments below along with your name, City and US post code. Add any other comment you like about Excel 2010 or PowerPivot. Be creative because I will select a winner based on the comment you write.

Have fun!

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Microsoft Excel 2003 screen refresh issues KB973475 and KB973593

Fri, 15/01/2010 - 1:08pm — jethro

There has been an issue with Excel screen Refresh issues in Office 2003 for some time. This was relate to a service pack Microsoft issued in 2009. In certain circumstances you will get “bleed through” refresh issues when you do things in excel files with macros in them.

Microsoft KB articles

Microsoft have released a hot fix for this. We would recommend that if you have experienced this issue to request the hot fix from MS and then install it on every machine with the problem.

If you are in a corporate environment then forward this to your IT department for them to do it.

Details of the problem and resolution at Dicks Daily Dose of Excel

Microsoft’s page for the hot fix. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=978908

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Mobile web and Drupal

Fri, 15/01/2010 - 12:20am — jethro

There’s a lot of confusion and misunderstandings out there – so first let me clarify what we mean by mobile web and give you some nomenclature to use.

First of all there are a number of different mobile platforms. These can be loosely grouped by the OS (operating system). There are also 3 specifically different ways to port web to the mobile environment.

Platforms

Windows Mobile (Smartphone)
Blackberry
iPhone
Nokia (Symbian)
Android
Others – e.g. Samsung, Treo, Siemens etc have their own proprietary systems in most cases.
Java

Each of these platforms is simply the operating system that the mobile device is using as its base system. What that system is will then predetermine what applications can run on it and how that works for the web. The best two in my opinion are the Windows Mobile and the iPhone because they are specifically built to replicate the desktop experience on the mobile device (though the iPhone I believe has some limitations with java support – that may be fixed now)

The other systems have carrying capabilities to run different web browsers on them – and this can also have an impact on what the mobile experience is like.

Browsers and access to web

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I like the colour green right now

Wed, 06/01/2010 - 2:01pm — jethro

We have had so much rain lately that everything is green – and i really liking it. Green is a colour with so many shades – and the constant source of arguments for my wife and I as to whether something is blue or green!

I have taken some really nice photos using the green colour in the background to offset the subject. I would love to have feedback on these pictures – which do you like, or not like and why?

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