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Help! That’s exactly what I felt like in this situation. I was working in Excel 2010 on a workbook with multiple sheets when I suddenly couldn’t interact with the Insert or Data menus (they were entirely greyed out), I also couldn’t interact with my PivotCharts at all. I spent half an hour scouring the Internet [...]

Rob Macintosh is a freelance website and graphic designer based in Cambridge, UK. He’s recently launched his freelance portfolio: “I’ve been freelancing for several years now, and have 6 years website design experience. I work on a wide variety of projects, including working with small new businesses looking to establish themselves and their brand on [...]

If you’re an avid Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you might notice that the “telnet” command no longer works – this is because it’s disabled by default in Vista and above, for security reasons. You can however simply re-enable it from the control panel: Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features [...]

Orijin Design is based in Cambridge and they’ve been designing and developing websites for nearly 6 years. They work with a multitude of local cambridge individuals, businesses, charities and not-for-profit organisations. Their websites are beautifully designed and search engine friendly, they offer a broad range of flexibility, which makes for a healthy working relationship for [...]

This is something most people may not think about, but it’s interesting if you’re an f1 geek. Each driver is assigned a number – the previous season’s champion is assigned number 1, whilst his team-mate number 2. Number’s are then assigned in order according to each team’s position in the previous season’s constructors’ championship. Curiously, [...]

I posted almost exactly 3 months ago with my opinion of the new season, it’s teams and drivers, new rules, and a prediction for the end of the season. Has any of it changed? Here’s the original post, have a quick read. My prediction then was: 1. Lewis Hamilton 2. Sebastian Vettel 3. Mark Webber [...]

Westboro Baptist Church are well known for their anti-homosexual propaganda/pickets, and at a recent picket they received an un-expected visit from comedic journalist Brick Stone. Watch the video, you’ll not regret it. If you’re not familiar with Westboro Baptist Church, read more about them on wiki, or take a look at their hilarious website: Wikipedia [...]

Some people use MySQL day in day out, some use it sporadically – if you ever play with web systems (blogs, knowledgebase software) or generally anything that needs a good database/backend, you’ll at some point need to know the basic/common commands and syntax. Below when you see # it means from the unix shell. When [...]

One of the reasons I love last.fm in addition to being able to listen to pretty much anything for free, and having a good community, is the way it allows you to track your music listening habits. Any music I listen to in my car, on my phone, on my computer is all synced to [...]

Hamilton and Button visit the McLaren garage and take a look at Senna’s 88′ car (the McLaren MP4-4), stunning video – keep them coming McLaren!