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  • Women’s History Month: Trailblazers in technology

    7 Mar 2011
    March is Women's History Month, with March 8th being the traditional day International Women's Day is celebrated. There are many, many women who have contributed to the technological advances and work regarding mathematics, computers, and software. Today I've chosen three to highlight. Grace Murray Hopper...

  • Updated! Interactive Excel files on web pages: An Excel PM explains

    25 Feb 2011
    Update: See near the end of this post for the latest Office how-tos on embedding Excel and PowerPoint files. Hi everyone, My name is Larry Waldman and I'm a program manager on the Excel team. This week, the Crabby Office Lady was nice enough to let me combine a couple of Office's cool features to highlight...

  • Become a silver surfer: Computing for senior citizens

    21 Jan 2011
    Last week and this week I spent most of the time researching and writing about accessibility in computing. (You can read the first post and go from there if you're interested.) During my research I came across many references to computing for seniors (seniors being a group that also often prefers and...

  • Office 365: Get in the cloud...and keep one foot on the ground

    1 Nov 2010
    In a nutshell: Office 365 combines the Office suite you're familiar ( Office Professional Plus ) with cloud-based, versions of our communication and collaboration services: Exchange Online (for emailing and calendaring), SharePoint Online (for portals and document sharing), and Lync Online (the artist...

  • RSS subscriptions versus e-mail

    13 Oct 2010
    I'm going to go over what RSS means and why it's the best way to get the web content you want. But first things first: I cannot subscribe or unsubscribe you to my or anyone else's RSS feed. I keep getting letters sent to my email account asking me to do so. Now that we have that out of the way, what...

  • Updated! Make sure your interactive embedded files really ARE interactive

    6 Oct 2010
    Updated: See the bottom of this post for the latest Office how-tos on embedding Excel and PowerPoint files on web pages. OK, so you read yesterday about how to embed an interactive Excel file on your web page using the Excel Office Web App to do it. But somehow, it is NOT being interactive (although...

  • Crabby Monday tip: Call someone out on their big fish story

    4 Oct 2010
    Today's tip isn't really about Office, per se; it's about the deluge of phishing scams flooding your Hotmail, Live, or MSN inboxes—and how can fight back, one message at a time. She doesn't appear to be a burglar, a thief, a scammer, does she? Didn't your mother ever tell you to NOT judge a book...

  • Dear Crabby: Watch out for clickjackers and tabnappers!

    20 Aug 2010
    A Crabby blog reader calling himself "Curmudgeon" writes: "Are you familiar with clickjacking and tabnapping ? On some web pages, the URL which will actually be used by the browser to fetch the next page when you use a link or a "button" is concealed by what you perceive as the actual link. So if you...

  • Who’s falling for Internet scams? Not my readers

    12 Aug 2010
    I've written about five basic scams—a few of my favorites—that have been circulating over the years. Most of these are bona fide financial scams designed to empty your bank account and rid you of any goodwill you had toward your fellow man or woman. Some of these scams and rumors have been...

  • Being e-nagged? Suffering from link rot?

    9 Aug 2010
    Here are a couple of strange Internet terms to whet your appetite. At the end of this post I'll link off to some of the others I found. e-nag You know when you have something on your mind, something that is really needling you? Of course it's always better to get it off your chest and tell the one who...

  • Come fly with Crabby: Office Web Apps

    1 Jul 2010
    When you use Office Web Apps (convenient little companions to the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote), all your documents are created, edited, and stored on a server...a server located somewhere near...in the clouds... This is where the term " cloud computing " comes in: web apps...

  • Demystifing some strange language of the Internet: Crabby's Daily Tip

    4 May 2010
    I can promise you that the terms below are all valid, and don't forget, "Language is a virus from outer space." (William Borroughs) Sheepdip In the world of ranching and farming (not pharming), sheep dip is a nice stroll through insecticide used to protect sheep from all sorts of nasty creepy crawly...

  • Avoiding Internet scams: Crabby's Daily Tip

    5 Apr 2010
    Here are three of the more common scams curculating today: Helping someone get money out of a foreign country, of which you'll get a bundle…for a large fee: You get an e-mail from someone claiming to be a government official or even a member of the royal family of some country you're pretty sure...