Take the dullness out of your Google Sheets with Emoji progress bars and charts

Take the dullness out of your Google Sheets with Emoji progress bars and charts

You can use dry numbers in your Google Sheet, or even add a chart, but there is an easy way to make dynamic progress bars and charts in Google Sheets using Emojis and the REPT function. What you will be creating We’re going to be taking this sheet: and making it a little more interesting:…

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ How to Quickly Create Google Docs in a Specific Folder: A Step-by-Step Guide

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ How to Quickly Create Google Docs in a Specific Folder: A Step-by-Step Guide

Google gives us several different addresses that we can enter to quickly create the different types of Google documents. However, this dumps them all in the root of your Google Drive. I’ve written directions on creating links to place the new files in a specific folder and shown how to quickly create documents. However, creating…

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Recalculating, getting the right answers, AI detectors are a bust, and more – Of bits and bytes for January 2, 2024

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Recalculating, getting the right answers, AI detectors are a bust, and more – Of bits and bytes for January 2, 2024

Internet Travels Welcome to 2024! I fully embraced the idea of Dead Week, working on several geeky projects strictly to satisfy my own curiosity and learn some things along the way. I set up a Ghost installation so I could compare it to WordPress, a chat server using Zulip, switched my About site to a…

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ A bunch of links for the Holidays – Of bits and bytes for December 26, 2023

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ A bunch of links for the Holidays – Of bits and bytes for December 26, 2023

Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week It’s Christmas break! It’s time to rest and recharge, so no commentary on the links this week or any other new articles. Take a moment,…

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Just the links – Of bits and bytes for December 18, 2023

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Just the links – Of bits and bytes for December 18, 2023

Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week It’s Christmas break! It’s time to rest and recharge, so no commentary on the links this week or any other new articles. Take a moment,…

Managing and sharing your bookmarks with Raindrop

Managing and sharing your bookmarks with Raindrop

Throughout the years I’ve saved bookmarks in various places. At first, I only used the browser. That worked ok, but was limiting because bookmarks didn’t sync between different machines back then, so I started looking at alternatives and found https://del.icio.us, the hard to spell but great to use bookmark service. This service introduced me to…

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Vectorpea – a free Adobe Illustrator clone, Canva whiteboard, your health and grammatical errors, and more – Of bits and bytes for December 11, 2023

πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ Vectorpea – a free Adobe Illustrator clone, Canva whiteboard, your health and grammatical errors, and more – Of bits and bytes for December 11, 2023

Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Learn21 is a proud sponsor of Eduk8me and the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter. Read more about their mission at Learn21. Apps When you need…

πŸ™‹Scanning in the mobile Google Drive app, reading & screens, and more – Of bits and bytes for December  4, 2023

πŸ™‹Scanning in the mobile Google Drive app, reading & screens, and more – Of bits and bytes for December 4, 2023

Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Learn21 is a proud sponsor of Eduk8me and the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter. Read more about their mission at Learn21. Apps Finally, Google has…