May, 2009

You Booze, You Lose

Channel 4 is embarking on a groundbreaking project with Digital Goldfish, the Dundee-based developer. “You Booze You Lose” will be an iPhone/iTouch game that enables players to track their weekly, monthly and yearly alcohol consumption. The game will then display the effects of your habits, such as weight gain, liver disease and the financial and emotional impact…..

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4ip – a new initiative to encourage innovation on digital platforms and reinvent public service media for the digital age.

Add A Line Break To Your Cell in Excel

One of the most irritating features of Excel is that when you press Enter, it does not add a line break within a cell. Instead, it places the cursor in the cell below. This can become very annoying as you try to enter in data !!! If you want to add a line break within a cell, use Alt + Enter, instead of just Enter.

Transferring a Word bibliography to EndNote

For researchers who have a bibliography that they created in a Word document, which they would now like to convert into an EndNote library the University of Queensland provides this handy guide – I tried it this morning and it works a treat ……

….but unfortunately you still need to manually edit each reference :-(

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Are you smart enough for wolfram alpha?

Edward Albro of PC World.com thinks – I Am Not Smart Enough for Wolfram Alpha – and adds:

“After playing with the very early version of Wolfram Alpha for a few hours, I agree that it’s not your average search engine. What is it? I’m not sure I’m qualified to say: Not only did I not understand all the answers I got from Wolfram Alpha, I couldn’t even comprehend some of the questions I could ask it”

Only 5 days until launch and then we all get to play !

Wisdom of Patients: Healthcare Meets Online Social Media

Social media on the Internet is empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers, according to a new report, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media, published by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)……

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Source : www.asahp.org