Sometimes a Word Doc or PowerPoint will contain images you want. The problem is, it takes for ever to save images from an office doc.
Today’s post will show you how to break open an office document and extract all the images at once. A real time saver!
Google’s made it fast and easy to perform a search, but what about a hundred searches?
There’s a lot of great things you can do by performing the same kind of search over and over again, but only if you automate the process.
Expand your toolkit and learn how to do infinite searches all at once.
Content creators know that sometimes you’ve just got to focus up, hunker down and do the difficult work of writing. They also know that sometimes screw that. I’m an advocate of “Productive Procrastination”. A selfserving rationalization of my laziness philosophy that says if you’re not going to do what your supposed to be doing, you […]
Some of my favorite problems to solve are figuring out how to automate big multi-step, multi-app tasks. Clicking spots on the screen, copying and using multiple lines of text, switching apps, accounting for UI lag, etc. Getting big stuff to a single keypress can tough but feels so good when you get it right. Today’s […]
I’m a bit of a neat freak when it comes to proper formatting and I abhor naked URLs—the sometimes 100 character-long strings of text you get by copying your address bar—and always, always create actual inline links in my notes. I was doing this like crazy back when I was a research associate. Each day […]
The Task I needed to create a new group in CiviCRM, the CRM we use at my alumni foundation. This group would contain all the individuals who had joined our discussion group on Facebook. I wanted it so that whenever a new person joined, I could easily find who from their graduating class was also […]
The Task I needed to check two radio buttons in everyone’s profile. These would add them as having marked “Yes” to a couple of mailing lists. This was no problem for all the contacts for whom we had emails. That was just a matter of doing an import. Unfortuneately,about half our contacts are just names, […]