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How Do I import and iCal .ics file into Outlook

July 18th, 2008
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In outlook….Go To
File > Import and Export
 
 
Choose Import and iCalendar or vCalendar file (.vcs)
 
 
 
Now Browse to your .ics file and Click OK!
 

Greg How-To

How Do I Import a CSV File into Outlook Caledar

July 17th, 2008
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Import CSV Caledar into Outlook
 
For this example I am using Outook 2003. You can get your version by going to the outlook menu
Help > About
 
However it should not matter.
 
 
Go to File > Import and Export
 
 
You will get a menu that looks like this. Choose “Import from another program or file”
 
 
choose Comma Seperated Value (Windows)
 
 
 
Now Browse to your download schedule and Click Next!
 
 
 
Choose Calendar
 
 
Click Finish!
 

Greg How-To

Import Subscriptions into Google Reader

July 3rd, 2008
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 1) Go to http://www.google.com/reader (you must have a google  account)

 
2) Click Manage Subscriptions in the feeds pane as seen above.
 
3) Click the Import/Export Tab
4) Browse to the file you want to import
5) and then click Upoad
 

Greg How-To

Using Evernote and BlogJet Simplify my Wordpress Blogging!

July 2nd, 2008
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Although I have been in the technology field for ~10 years, I am rather new to blogging, and am quite frustrated with how difficult is seems to be to post an entry which has a bunch of images in it. This is especially true when you are writing up a how to with screen shots and the like. I don’t want to FTP all the images up and then hard code references to them in my blog entry. That is painful, and we’ve come to far to be doing anything manually.

So what I do is the following, and uses a combination of BlogJet and Evernote.

Both have greate features, but like anything else in this world, unless google wrote it, you need 2 tools to do the job of one….so that’s what I do. Using this method streamlines image uploads in your blog and make the task of blogging absolutly painless…

*I invite you to please comment and let myself and others know a better way or the way you do handle your blogging.

HERE GOES….

The Net-Net of what happens is this:
1) Create Note In Evernote.
2) Export to HTML
3) Select all HTML page
4) Paste into BlogJog (images and text come too)
5) Publish Blog Entry using BlogJog.
 

First you must create the Note in Evernote. One of the many, many, many beauties of Evernote, is it allows to copy images, directly from the clipboard. So that when I am writing a tutorial, I can just paste everything directly into Evernote. Once your note is created….

Here are step by step instructions.

In the Evernote menu.
Note > Export
 
 
2 ) Choose your save location
 
 
3) Browse to your Save location
 
 
4) Open the Blog entry in your favorite Browser (Firefox of course)
 
 
5) CTRL-A or Edit > Select ALL (in firefox browser window)
 
 
6) Drag and Drop in BlogJet (image below in a past post pasted to BlogJet)
 
 
7) PUBLISH IT!!!!

Greg Cool Stuff, How-To

HOW TO Merge PDF files using PDFSAM

July 2nd, 2008
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“PDF Split and Merge is an easy to use tool to merge and split pdf documents. Console and GUI versions are available. The GUI is written in Java Swing and it provides functions to select files and set options. It’s made over the iText library.”

You will need the Java Run Time environment installed on your PC. You may already have it it, but if not its a free download over at java.com

 
PDF SAM Home Page for downloading.
 
 
1) OPEN PDF MERGE will present the following.
 
 
Click on Merge/Extract
Then Click the Add Button
 
You will see a window like this.
 
 
Browse to the location of the PDF’s you’d like to merge.
 
Hold CTRL and Left Click the Mouse to select multiple (that’s for my mom) :)
Then Click the Open Button at the bottom
 
Should now look like this:
 
Under Destination output file: Click Browse.
 
 
Name the file in the file name field. Be sure to add the .pdf as the file extension
 
Click Open
 
Now Click RUN!
 
Should now have a file like

Greg How-To

Using FireUploader to Move Files To And From Google Docs

July 1st, 2008
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is is a video tutorial for using FireUploader (firefox plugin) to upload to GoogleDocs.

Greg Cool Stuff, How-To

FLEX and Perl Export to Excel

May 1st, 2008
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Need to export a Flex Datagrid to Excel CSV?

Here is a link to the Flex code

The flex code will convert the DataGrid to a CSV string. Which you will then post to a cgi….code below.

You can see it in action on my Dividend Reinvestment Tool 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $count = 0;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
$title=$cgi->param('title');
$html=$cgi->param('htmltable');
$type = $cgi->param('type');
if ($type = "CSV") {
print $cgi->header(-expires=>'now', -type=>'application/x-csv', -content_disposition=>"attachment; filename=$title.csv");
print "$html";
}
else {
print $cgi->header(-expires=>'now', -type=>'application/octet_stream', -content_disposition=>"attachment; filename=$title.xls");
print $cgi->start_html(-title => 'Export'
);
print "$html";
print $cgi->end_html;

Greg FLEX, How-To, Perl