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About Ryan Dube

Ryan has a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering. He's worked 13 years in automation engineering, 5 years in IT, and now is an Apps Engineer. A former Managing Editor of MakeUseOf, he's spoken at national conferences on Data Visualization and has been featured on national TV and radio.

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Using VBA to Automate Internet Explorer Sessions From an Excel Spreadsheet

Its integration with Windows allows control of Internet Explorer in a number of surprising ways using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) script from any application that supports it, such as Word, Outlook or Excel.

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Take Google Task Management And Scheduling To A Whole New Level With GQueues

Google Tasks doesn't work if you want to move beyond the time management of today into the visionary planning of tomorrow. This is where GQueues steps up to the plate.

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Analyze Your Site Traffic By Day Or Month And Prepare To Be Amazed

Google Analytics reveals a lot of amazing things about your website traffic, reader behavior, and even how to better optimize the website when you publish certain types of articles or other content on your site.

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Be Your Own Travel Guide: 7 Tips To Travel Smarter With Google Maps

Going on a trip can be such a stressful experience. But, let's walk you through the ways you can use Google Maps to plan every aspect of your next big trip.

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Autodesk and Circuits.io Launch New Electronics Design Tool 123D Circuits

Autodesk expanded its offering of free 3D modeling tools last week by joining with Circuits.io to launch a free electronics design tool called 123D Circuits.

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How to Issue a Command to Your Computer With a Text Message

You're out the door in a hurry as you realize your computer is still running. Not wasting any time, you send a quick text stating "shutdown #mycomputer", and continue on your way.

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IObit Offers Driver Booster Tool to Simplify Updating of Critical PC Drivers

Just last week, IObit officially launched its driver updating tool called Driver Booster, which acts as a stand-alone tool for frequently updating drivers to optimize your PC gaming experiences.

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How Google Analytics Alerts Can Email Or Text You About Site Problems

Google Analytics offers a special alert feature that sends out an email or an SMS alert when any event happens on your site. Setting them up isn't as complicated as you think.

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5 Unusual IFTTT Recipes You May Not Have Thought Of

You've got the folks at IFTTT who make web automation look like childs play. It's quite impressive. I decided to finally start digging through IFTTT to see if I could come up with a few more creative ways to mix and match services in unique ways. In this article, I'm going to offer you 5 creative ways to build IFTTT recipes that you're going to find so useful, you'll keep using them every day.

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Collaborate And Edit Meeting Notes In Realtime Using Sync.in

Whenever you need to work with a team online, or even if you just have to collaborate with other colleagues that may work at other remote locations, the ability to have something visual to look at and work on collectively is invaluable. Sync.in is true realtime document conferencing. It is an online collaborative notepad tool that I believe stands out above the rest.

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How To Prolong Laptop Power When Running Off A Car Battery

Have you ever found yourself hovering on the edge of an online catastrophe, trying to resolve some issue at work via your VPN link, while your laptop's battery level continues to sink down to 0%? This is a situation that a lot hard-working mobile users often find themselves in, and the options available to keep that laptop battery charged are not as well-known as you might think.

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4 Tools to Display RSS Feed Updates Directly on Your Windows Desktop

You used to be on top of your readings. Then you got busy. What you're suffering from is called "aging". You have kids, your responsibilities grow, and it seems like the days grow shorter. Thankfully, RSS feeds are a way to sort of auto-browse all of those headlines without the need to click and read each one. This articles covers four of the best tools to deliver RSS feed updates directly to your desktop, either through RSS tickers, or from alert boxes that display feed information and scroll automatically.

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Transform Google Tasks Into a Task Management Suite With Google Tasks Offline [Chrome]

Using Google Tasks is like a love-hate relationship. The problem with using Google Tasks directly in say, Google Calendar or inside Google Mail is that the layout and the user interface is extremely simplified and not very flexible. In the normal view, it's difficult to create subtasks, you can't see all lists at once on one screen, and editing tasks or lists is cumbersome and not very intuitive. The best solution is really a client that is purely desktop, and which makes managing and navigating all of your tasks and projects as easy as possible.

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Create and Store Network Settings Profiles With Simple IP Config

Do you frequently switch networks? Changing your IP settings still requires far more clicks than it should. You need to click through many windows to find and manually change your IP address, subnet, gateway and DNS settings. It doesn't have to be so complicated, though! You can make use of a utility called Simple IP Config that lets you quickly tweak any of the IP settings mentioned above, and it can even manage IP setting "profiles", which you can load up and enable on your laptop any time that you want.

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Join These Today: 10 Of The Most Interesting Communities on Google+

To help you get started with Google+ Communities, I've decided to compile ten of the most intriguing or interesting Communities out there. These are ones that have at least over 10,000 users, and receive frequent updates every single day. Of course, these updates need to be unique or fun, and something worth coming back for every day. Turns out that's a tall order on Google+ these days, but in the Communities section, it isn't really as rare as you might think.

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Key Differences Between Google Adwords Tool And The Keyword Planner

The key differences between Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Keyword Planner includes a more organized workflow for researching adwords and keywords, a clearer presentation of data, quick access to some nice historical graphs, and the ability to download historical data in spreadsheet form. In this article, I'll show you each of these new or different features and how you can make use of them in your own keyword or adwords research.

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Become a More Organized and Productive Leader With Wrike

Whether you're heading up a single project at work, or you're managing a small company, either role requires extreme organization and planning. This isn't always possible with a traditional scheduler or planner. Enter Wrike, an innovative online project management solution that turns projects into groups of categorized tasks. It manages the tasks that have slipped through the cracks, so that when you do have some extra time, you know exactly where to look to catch up.

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7 Tips To Get A Great Deal Selling Your Unused Domain Name

Domain names can sell for anything from a few hundred dollars, to tens of thousands of dollars in some cases. There are even sales in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in some unique cases. The real valuation of a domain name comes from a number of factors, and by understanding those factors, you can increase the value of your domain before you make the move to sell it. A lot depends upon where you are in the process as well.

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4 Ways To Bulletproof Windows XP Forever

Windows XP is slated to be exterminated for good by Microsoft in April of 2014. It is the last stage of a multi-year effort to kill off the operating system. Windows XP is one of those Windows Operating Systems that built a very loyal user base of people who are not very willing to let go of it at the end of its life. In this article, I'll help you set up that Windows XP system in such a way to reduce the likelihood of it getting hit by hacker lightning or a viral epidemic from the larger Internet.

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