Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Remove Passwords From Protected Excel Sheets

What’s simplest way to stop an Excel sheet or workbook from being modified?  Just protect it with a password.  While this is great for stopping others from accidentally modifying certain sections of your Excel file, it certainly isn’t the safest way to lock up private data for the simple reason that it’s very easy [...]

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5 Image Resizing Tools to Die For

From quick traditional ways, to groundbreaking methods that will blow your mind, here are 5 of the best ways to resize your images. 1. Web-based Intelligent Resizing The most common ways of image resizing – cropping and basic shrinking/enlarging usually ends up with compromised results – in the form of pictures which are either distorted or eliminate [...]

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Thank You Sponsors

  Just a quick shoutout to our lead sponsor Tech Czar.  TechCzar.com is trying to build a community & rewards program which consists of IT professionals.  In exchange for answering a few online surveys, you’ll be given rewards points which you can redeem accordingly. Learn more about Tech Czar here.

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IM Blocked at Work? Create Your Own Chatroom!

We’ve previously talked about my favourite web-based IM Meebo as a workaround to IM clients being blocked at work.  Now here’s the thing…Meebo has become so popular that it has become a victim of its own success, with many IT departments now adding this to their list of websites to block. ChatMaker is the quick [...]

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How to Test Your Site on Different Screen Resolutions, Browsers and Systems

The cruel fact of website customization, is that websites can look very different to visitors depending on settings they are using. Everyone’s who’s ever customized their blog theme would know the sinking feeling of viewing it through another browser and realizing that the layout doesn’t really look quite right. How to test different settings efficiently In order [...]

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