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Website Tools. Create Your Own Smartphone App With Infinite Monkeys - No Coding Knowledge Required. It would be great if we all had the time, skills, and patience to learn computer coding, especially since technology pervades so many areas of our life. But thankfully, there are applications and web developers out there who provide ways for the rest of us to produce apps with little or no coding skills. Back in June, I reviewed one such web application called Buzztouch, which is designed to allow anyone to create their own smartphone application. Now a similar program has just been released called Infinite Monkeys, a web-based tool geared toward niche communities who want to share content on the iPhone and Android platforms. Infinite Monkeys is not as polished theme wise as Buzztouch, but unlike the latter, Infinite Monkeys, says the developers, “Is completely web-based, and works on any computer or tablet device. You never touch the source code and don’t have to know what it is or how it works.”

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These techniques will help you get more done at work – and get you home on time. Just a few months into the year and you’re already playing catch-up? It’s not too late to make 2014 the year you start successfully managing your schedule. Here are five tips from time management expert Patricia Hutchings. Just because they’re often hailed as productivity tools doesn’t mean smartphones are always helpful. If your inbox is always overstuffed and you feel overwhelmed, you’re probably not get­­ting everything done, says Eliza­­beth Grace Saunders, founder of Real Life E Time Coach­­ing & Train­­ing.

Learn how to budget your cognitive resources with these tips from Harvard economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan. Next time someone asks you, “When can you have this done?” Google Drive for Small Business. Sorry but but we are experiencing technical difficulties. You should try to search, it's easy...We promise OR Go Browse The best documents & resources to start and grow a business. How are you planning on using Docstoc? By registering with docstoc.com you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service, and to receive content and offer notifications. Already a member? Sign In Sign Into your Account Not a member yet? Cloud Blueprint. Office - Microsoft Word, Outlook & Excel.

Microsoft Office Training. Using an Excel Worksheet as a Grade book. Collection of Excel Spreadsheets for Teachers - Examples & teaching aids - FREE Download. Posted on February 3rd, 2011 in Charts and Graphs , excel apps - 15 comments Way back in November, I received this email from Tom, a senior researcher at the Center for Learning Innovation in Australia. I’ve been developing & have published spreadsheet applications for teachers for some time now. In particular, I have animations, adventure scenarios etc that can be used to create games for the classroom. I need to promote these so teachers eventually try these and use them. … Perhaps you could post some of these on your site. What a noble cause, I thought. So I wrote back to him and invited him to share his files along with a guest article.

Tom acted quick and emailed me his article and Excel workbooks by Thanksgiving day. There are so many valuable tricks, ideas and powerful concepts buried in his workbook. What can you do with a spreadsheet? The spreadsheet was the original ‘must-have app’ that started the PC revolution because it allowed non-programmers to create loops. Thank you Tom. Excel 2010: Creating Complex Formulas - Lesson 9. Complex formulas Video: Creating Complex Formulas in Excel 2010 Watch the video (4:56). Simple formulas have one mathematical operation, such as 5+5. Complex formulas have more than one mathematical operation, such as 5+5-2. When there is more than one operation in a formula, the order of operations tells us which operation to calculate first. Order of operations Excel calculates formulas based on the following order of operations: Operations enclosed in parenthesesExponential calculations (to the power of)Multiplication and division, whichever comes firstAddition and subtraction, whichever comes first A mnemonic that can help you remember the order is Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

Example 1 The following example demonstrates how to use the order of operations to calculate a formula: Order of Operations example Example 2 In this example, we will review how Excel will calculate a complex formula using the order of operations. Order of Operations Excel example. PowerPoint Tricks.

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Already a member? Sign Into your Account Not a member yet? Top 7 must-haves for the mobile worker. Fri, Oct 05, 2012 7:17 AM Stem cell researchers have created viable eggs using normal cells from adult mice. Thu, Oct 04, 2012 12:09 PM Guyon designs telescopes to help find alien worlds. Thu, Oct 04, 2012 11:58 AM Rabalais has spent a lifetime documenting the effect of ocean 'dead zones.' Wed, Oct 03, 2012 3:04 PM To spot the paths of electrons, physicists looked at electrons on the surface of a semiconductor material.

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There are simply too many messages to handle—and I'm not even talking about spam from marketers (I use a separate address to collect those emails). The headache is the increasing number of legitimate business messages—it's a humongous time-suck that only seems to be getting worse. Two years ago I answered nearly every message. A year ago I downgraded to at least trying to read them all. Until, that is, I tried SaneBox. It's like Gmail's Priority Inbox feature in that it looks at your messages and prior history engaging with those senders and decides which emails you're likely to deem most important. When you turn on the Priority Inbox feature in Gmail, Google separates your email into three categories: Important and unread, Starred, and Everything Else; all the mail is still in your inbox, but the important messages are up top. Priority Inbox is trainable in this way, as well; the more you move stuff around, the better it gets at categorization.

SaneBox vs. SaneBox Now Has A Solution For The Enterprise Email Overload Crisis. Enterprise users get more than their fair share of unimportant email. To help this problem, SaneBox, a time-saving email product, is now targeting in the enterprise space. Two months ago, TechCrunch wrote how SaneBox was taming email overload with its smart email filtering service. Today, the Boston-based startup is launching SaneBox for Business. Enterprise customers will be able to setup SaneBox on existing systems such as Google Apps, Exchange, Outlook and Lotus Notes. SaneBox filters non-important emails out of your main inbox. It’s easily customizable and learns from your actions. Corporate email clutter is a big problem. SaneBox VP of Growth Dmitri Leonov, tells TechCrunch the reason email overload affects corporate employees more “is largely due to lots of internal emails that aren’t really important to each individual’s job.

The company has also launched an integration with Salesforce.com, that treat emails from top CRM leads as a high priority. 9 Lies Unproductive People Love to Tell. Email People all around the world are out doing productive things right now. You can be one of them if you choose to be. The first step is to stop telling yourself these unproductive lies: Reminder: We just released our new ebook 1,000+ Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently. 1.

Truth be told, the only person who can tell you “you can’t” is you. Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them. In the end, your doubts and your faith have something in common. 2. Doing nothing gets you nothing. An idea isn’t going to do anything for you until you do something with it. Progress is measured by the fact that you’ve taken new action. 3. Successful people have a habit of doing the things today that lazy people plan for tomorrow. The greatest enemy of productivity is the false belief that somehow tomorrow is a better day to get something done. Your real problem, then, is not your ability today, but your mindset. 4. So get comfortable with feeling a bit uneasy. 5. 6. 7.