The European Space Agency has released the first full Earth image from its new weather satellite and it’s a fantastic, high-resolution view of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Great for a desktop, screen saver or Powerpoint slide. Taken by the Meteosat Third Generation Imager-1 (MTG-I1), the image is available for download. Use it as […]
Microsoft is now looking at the contents of password protected ZIP files stored on OneDrive, Sharepoint and other cloud services. Maybe with honorable intentions but there are serious privacy concerns that haven’t been acknowledged. For a long time, Microsoft’s antivirus and safety systems have opened up compressed ZIP files to check the contents for nasty […]
There’s another security bug in Windows, embarrassing for Microsoft because it was caused by their own March fix for another security bug in Outlook! That means anyone with Outlook for Windows or Windows should ensure they have the latest updates. This is another ‘zero-click’ Outlook bug that can infect your computer without any action by […]
There are different check mark, tick or cross symbols available in Word, PowerPoint or other Office apps. Here’s an easy searchable list of all Unicode symbols plus in modern Office ✅✔️☑️ is called a ‘check mark‘ or ‘check‘ in some places and ‘tick‘ in others. Same symbol, different English names. ❌X╳ has many more symbols […]
There are at least NINE simple statistics formulas and functions in Excel that can summarize a list of numbers into something easy to understand. Often Excel has lists of numbers or money that makes little sense until you add a summary like this: We have a table called CountbyState and want to know something about […]
