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If you want to open two Excel 2007 windows, each with different spreadsheets, you'll need to check out this tip. I have two monitors, and I need to use two spreadsheets at the same time. By default, you can't open two excel instances at the same time. Here's how to change that.

 http://blog.sadasystems.com/2009/07/open-multiple-excel-2007-windows.html

In case that site or file is unavailable, I am hosting it here myself. Thanks for the tip!

So you've hacked your iPhone and unlocked it with TMobile. Good for you. Now you need data access. Here's how:

A wireless keyboard and/or mouse can be quite convenient, and a seemingly endless source of frustration. Here's how I solved my own wireless keyboard interference problem. I have a Logitech S510 keyboard and mouse combo.

Steps to troubleshoot a wireless keyboard and/or mouse

If you are sure you've typed your filter condition correctly, to either include or exclude data based on a string match, try this.

Here's how to change the name of your SQL Server report.

To rename a report in SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services), from the Visual Studio environment, fire up the Solution Explorer sidebar. Then, you should see your report(s) in the tree view. Right click the report to rename, and choose "rename". Easy as pie, but hard to figure out.

• Podcast rewind 30 seconds button
  
• Podcast speed control button
• Ability to select certain folders for push syncing (in Exchange)
• ... more to come, I'm sure

Here's a cool trick. If you receive a lot of email attachments, maybe it would be useful to save them to My Documents or some other location on your computer besides keeping them in Outlook. I can show you how to do exactly that! These instructions show you step by step how to automatically save attachments of emails as they arrive. I have tested this in Outlook 2007 and 2010.

If you don't want the Reminders window to pop up for every event, here's how to turn it off completely.

In Outlook 2003, Click the Tools Menu, Options, Other tab, Advanced button and remove the check to
display the reminder.

Note, this is not the same thing as turning off the default reminder for new events.

From http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm

Just found two cool Drupal modules. Browscap and Advanced Statistics Settings module. Between the two of them, they filter out search engine robots and your own user(s) activity from the view count on nodes, blogs, etc.

I always suspected that I didn't really have hundreds of people reading my articles, and now I reset the view counts, and I'll see if anybody besides Google and me read my site.

Advanced Statistics Settings doesn't provide new reports, instead, you'll find its settings under Reports - Access Log Settings - Advanced Settings.