March 5, 2011
Google Spreadsheets has always been one of my favorite tools. I was an early adopter (I quickly switched to the tool shortly after Google discontinued Google Notebook) and since then I’ve been happy to see all the hard work and hundreds of improvements the Google Docs team have been introducing. Despite the fact that there [...]
December 20, 2010
Excel is an awesome data management tool. I use it a lot to store and organize the information I need to deal with on a daily basis. As I am working online, most of the time this information contains multiples URLs linking to web sources. Excel provides for plenty of flexibility to geeky, macros-savvy people. [...]
April 3, 2010
Queries are the basis of power in a database. They give you the ability to ask questions, record the questions for later, and to take actions on the answers. As a follow-up to my introductory summary post on the product, and a more recent post on tables, this Microsoft Access tutorial is the ideal next [...]
March 13, 2010
Last time, you might have been fortunate enough to stumble over my introductory post for Microsoft Access 2007, and then get frustrated because it doesn’t actually show you how to do anything. This is the place to get the cure. I’m going to provide a Microsoft Access tutorial on how to create and use tables. [...]
February 23, 2010
There are conflicting ideas about how hard it is to make use of Microsoft Access. One school of thought suggests that it’s difficult, complex, and beyond normal folk. The other is that it’s just as easy to use as Excel. I’m here to tell you the truth. And it sits somewhere between the two. Access [...]
January 12, 2010
The other week on MakeUseOf, we showed you how to ungoogle your life – if you so desire. I’ve decided to do the opposite. Since I’m a self-avowed Google fan, and am in this deep, I may as well give my entire life over to them, including managing my budget and expenses. I’ve tried out a [...]
November 8, 2009
I am not much of an Excel hand; spending most of my time either in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. My most regular use of Excel is as a tool to keep track of my schedule and to list what I am putting out on the web as a writer. So I can safely say that [...]
August 14, 2009
I recently started working with a company that does HUGE mailing lists. I deal with a lot of records everyday but this really is a lot of data. They have an opt-in mailing list that they blast to once or twice a month. When I say huge I am talking about between 7 and 8 [...]
August 1, 2009
About 10 years ago, my wife and I were straddled with so much debt that we thought it would take the rest of our lives, or at least the next sixty years, to pay it all off. The combination of school loans, car loans and credit card debt was enough to make a grown man [...]
April 21, 2009
The intertubes are steaming with all kinds of documents and information that you can use as reference or guidelines for your projects, presentations, homework, research and what not. You can search for these documents and data using Google or any other search engine of your choice (ex. PDF Search Engine), however the results displayed as [...]
