Velcro to the Rescue

With my power strip laying on the floor, the cleaning folks would, occasionally and accidentally, turn off the power to my home office equipment.  The simple solution was to mount the power strip under the desk using some Velcro.  It also makes hides much of the cable mess.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Velcro-Extreme-4-x-1-Strips-5-Piece-Black/44416734

Word - Toggle Upper and Lower Case

This old dog learned an old trick today.  I needed a quick way to take some mixed case text and make it all uppercase.  Fortunately this old dog knows how to Google, and Google knows about everything.

https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Change-the-capitalization-of-text-9e3a6b90-5aa4-4fe9-85da-2852605c57af

Split Names

Another handy add-on from the world of Google Docs.  It takes a name, including various prefixes and suffixes, and splits them into new columns based on your choices.  Another tedious task gone forever.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/split-names/omjobieogknhhlogiaeofbdpipihaanb

Pipe and Clip

I just found this little time-saving tip.  You can run any DOS command and send its output to the clipboard for an easy Paste.  No more Edit ...Mark, highlighting and pressing Enter.  Even more useful for DOS commands that produce lengthy output.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/11/10/9919908.aspx

MacBook Air Anniversary

My MacBook Air is just over three years old now, still runs great, gets free OSX upgrades and never once has had a virus removed or the operating system re-installed.  I'll stay living in a house without Windows.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-air/

Call Me Maurice

My most recent t-shirt addition, which a few people might get, is a line from The Steve Miller Band's song "The Joker".  And no, "pompitous", as in the "pompitous of love" is not a real word.

http://www.zazzle.com/

Ice Trough

Not really sure why Parlay Social in Lexington fills the trough in the men's room with ice, other than to pass the time watching it melt.  Sort of like little boys and snow, I guess.

http://parlaysocial.com/

Add Rows & Columns

This Google Sheet add-on fixes one of the bigger annoyances, that being adding multiple rows or columns to a spreadsheet, which takes repeated insert steps.  Now you just select the number you want and be done with it.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/add-rows-columns/bepdpnejbnandmmikaedhbmphflnbnmn

SnapPower Chargers Installed

I've been waiting since April (to be fair, it was a KickStarter project) for a pair of SnapPower Chargers to stylishly add USB outlets, freeing up a needed power outlet.  True to their word, it's a snap to install, the only hitch being I had to install it upside down since the outlets were wired with ground on the left instead of the right.  For my house, that's par for the course.

https://www.snappower.com/

Kill The CAPS LOCK

The main purpose, apparently, of the Caps Lock key is to be accidentally pressed and WRITE A WHOLE BUNCH of letters in the wrong case, causing the BACKSPACE key a lot of extra WORK.

Learn how to AVOID the frustration at this link.  You can totally turn it off, make in another SHIFT key (MY CHOICE) or put it to SOME OTHER task.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-caps-lock-key-in-windows-vista/