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Author: Michael Sauers, Technology Manager
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Quick Average, Count & Sum in Excel
November 12th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
Do you have a bunch of cells in Excel for which you need the Average, Count, or Sum, but don’t want to create a dedicated cell containing the right formula? Just highlight the applicable cells and look to the bottom-right of the excel window. You’ll find those three values there.
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Giving Alexa More Skills
November 7th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
If you're an Amazon Echo owner, you know it can do a lot of things. But did you know that there are hundreds of additional skills which you can add to your device ranging from asking if your dog's already been fed to asking about wine pairings. Just head over to the Alexa Skills page and take a look at all the skills you can quickly add to your...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: 10 Tips to Teach Yourself Design & Boost Your Design Skills
October 29th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
With products and services depending largely on design skills to appeal to their customers, the demand for good design skills is increasing day by the day.
Today’s graphic designers come from all sorts of backgrounds. Some took courses in school while others took it upon themselves to learn design. If you’re one of the latter and need some help in improving your design skills, then read...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Google has a built in metronome
October 22nd, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
I know we've got some musicians that use Do Space on a regular basis so here's one for them: Did you know that if you search Google for metronome you'll be presented with an on-screen one that you can adjust from 40-208...
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Community Projects
Attending Make Lincoln
October 19th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
On Saturday October 8, I attended a Make Lincoln event and had a wonderful time speaking with many of the participants. Booths ranged from mushroom growing to arduino programming, microphone and violin making to unicycle riding. It was wonderful to see all of these makers from the Lincoln area spending time outdoors in the wonderful fall weather, sharing ideas and inspiring attendees to become...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Surf a little more privately with Opera’s built in VPN
October 15th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
Opera isn't exactly most folks' browser of choice but recently they added a free virtual private networking (VPN) feature which will not exactly make your browsing completley private, but will add an additional level of protection by makining Web site thing you're somwhere else in the world than where you really are. It doesn't give you the ability to pick where your traffic gets routed, but it...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Ask Word how to do something
October 7th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
Have you noticed a small field above the ribbon in Word that says "Tell me what you want to do"? Did you know that if you type there what you want to do you'll be presented with a menu of options related to what you're trying to do? This is a great option for those of us who know what we want to do but don't know where to find the right...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Register to vote via text
October 1st, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
It's not to late to register to vote here in Nebraska. HelloVote is the chat bot that helps you register to vote! Simply enter your number or text HELLO to 384-387 and HelloVote will guide you through the process and help take care of filling out the voter registration form for your state. It's as simple as sending a few...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Edge’s Reading View
September 24th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
If you've recently moved to Microsoft's Edge browser did you know that it has a built in "reading mode" which makes it much easier to read the content of long Web pages by removing (most of) the ads and reformatting the text into an easy-to-read format? Take this page for example:
To switch to reading mode click the "book" icon in the upper-left of the screen and after a few moments you'll...
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Tuesday Tech Tip: Run both ChromeOS and Ubuntu on your Chromebook
September 17th, 2016 | Michael Sauers, Director of Technology
I knew that it was possible to replace ChromeOS with a linux distro on my Chromebook but what I didn't know was that it's not only possible, but easy to run both ChromeOS and Ubuntu on the same machine.
If you need to use those productivity programs that Chrome OS just doesn't offer, or you just want to try something new, Linux on your Chromebook has you covered.
You've may have seen chatter on...
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