I’m absolutely loving this site at the moment: http://themagicipod.com/
Take some of your favourite tunes and create a mash up – just drag and drop!
Category: Misc
Anything that does not realy sit anywhere else.
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Outlook Meeting Attendees In The Invite Body
Personally I do not like the way that Microsoft Outlook prints out meetings especially the fact that attendees are a comma separated list.
I prefer to see all the attendees as a tabular list – with their acceptance response so that I can tick them off as they join the meeting.The following macro will do this for you.
NOTE 1 : this macro is amending the text of the body of the meeting invite, if you save this and send an update – everyone will see this. I prefer to just run the macro, print the meeting and then close without saving.
NOTE 2 : this is a one off snapshot of the attendee status, if further responses or updates are received you will have to delete the old text then re-run the macro. -
How Old Are My Google Contacts?
It may be a sign of old age but, I’m struggling more and more to remember how old people are. I have addressed this by having a review of my Google contact data and making sure, where I know someone’s birthday I have recorded it there.
This has the added advantage of creating a Google calendar showing me their birthdays.
I have now created a script which scans my contacts to find their birthdays, does some arithmetic to work out their age and store this in a custom field. I have set up a trigger to run this once a week.
Here is the script that I created:
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Productivity – Stay OUT of Outlook
As you will have read in various other places it is not productive to stay “in” Outlook and constantly respond to all the incoming e-mail.
It’s much better to go into your e-mail when it suits YOU – process your e-mail for a set period of time and then get back to some “real” work.
I had looked at various ways to implement this but it turns out that this is simple to implement using AutoHotkey (AHK). -
YouTube playlist – Birthday Number Ones
I decided to create a playlist that contained all of the number ones from my birthday over the years:
Some Good – Some Not So Good
What would your’s look like?
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Feedly Mobile App For Android Has Tag Support
The latest update to the Feedly application for Android has just added support for tags.
Previously; when I have found something “interesting” in Feedly, I have had to mark it as “Save For Later” and then when I’m next on my laptop or Chromebook, I convert my saved later articles to have the tag “BlogThis”.
Now; as soon as I find something I wish to share I can immediately tag the article “BlogThis” and the wheels will immediately start turning. I have an IFTT recipe which will scan Feedly for articles tagged with “BlogThis” and will then push them onto my blog www.RossGoodman.com. From there, there I then push the content from my blog onto Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Expect to see more “real time” updates in the future!
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Backup Required
The excellent site www.Feedly.com has been suffering under a DDoS attack for the last few days. I thought I had my backup regime pretty well under control but it’s only now that I can’t access feedly that I realise it’s the only place where my current reading list is stored!
This is what prompted yesterdays post concerning my podcast list – just in case there was ever a problem with that.
Once feedly comes back I’ll be backing up my OPML file so that I can access the list of sites that I review on a daily basis.
It’s a sad state of affairs that I can’t remember my favourite sites and I don’t even bother to bookmark them any more.
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My podcast playlist
Just in case anyone is interested – here is my current podcast contents. If you want to recommend any of your favourites to me – let me know in the comments below.
