See a word translated across a map of Europe You have to hand it to The Guardian newspaper, they have an impressive Data Store section with both raw data and interesting presentations of it. Their latest is a clever use of the Google Translate API to present a map of Europe with an English word […]
Can you call a Translation service to return results in Excel? After checking out the clever European word translator, we started wondering about loading translations into Excel. It should be simple to have some code to call a web server and return a translation of a word. Office 2010 and Office 2013 have a ‘mini […]
Reactivating Office 2013 isn’t as easy as you’d expect. If you have an Office 2013 subscription, the software might start with an ‘Unlicenced Product’ message across the top and only few functions available. Assuming you have a valid Office 365 subscription (the Manage Account button will open a browser window to let you check) then […]
How the Clinton ‘Saints and Sinners’ spreadsheet might look. Excel has many uses and an upcoming book talks about one of them. Apparently Bill and Hillary Clinton used Excel to maintain a list of those they like and dislike. We could not help wonder what the Clinton worksheet would look like and why they’d use […]
Epson’s new label maker is a far cry from the old ‘Dymo’ labeler. We’d all but forgotten about label makers but the new Epson LW-600P made us think again. This is a laser printer for labels that’s battery powered with apps for both Android and iOS devices to link via Bluetooth, as well as the […]
