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How to maintain your laptop?
இன்றைய மெட்ராஸ் பேப்பர் இதழில் “யானை வாங்குவோர் கவனத்துக்கு” என்கிற தலைப்பில் என்னுடைய கட்டுரை வெளிவந்திருக்கிறது. இந்தக் கட்டுரையை எழுத எனக்கு வாய்ப்பளித்து, எழுதியதை அவரது மோதிரக்கையால் செம்மைப்படுத்திய நண்பர், பிரபல எழுத்தாளர் திரு பா ராகவன் அவர்களுக்கு எனது மனமார்ந்த நன்றிகள். நண்பர்கள் கட்டுரையைப் படித்து விட்டு தங்களது கருத்துக்களைப் பகிரவும். நன்றி. முழுக் கட்டுரையும், இதழில் உள்ள மற்ற பல நல்ல கட்டுரைகளையும் படிக்க சந்தா தேவை, தமிழ் பத்திரிகை உலகில் தரமான எழுத்தியல் வளர உங்கள் சந்தாவும், ஆதரவும் பயனாகவிருக்கும். முதல் சில பத்திகள் கீழே: குசேலன் திரைப்படத்தில் நடிகர் வடிவேலு ரொம்பக் கஷ்டப்பட்டு ரஜினியுடன் ஒரு புகைப்படம் எடுத்துக் கொள்வார். உயிரைப் பணயம் வைத்து எடுத்துக் கொண்ட அந்தப் படம் உள்ள செல்பேசி தொலைந்து போய் விட்டால் எப்படியிருக்கும்? 2008-இல் அந்தத் திரைப்படம் வந்த காலத்தில் இன்றுள்ள அளவுக்குப் பலரிடம் ஸ்மார்ட் போன் கிடையாது. இப்போது நூற்றுக்குத் தொண்ணுாற்றொன்பது சதவீதம் பேரை அதுதான் ஆள்கிறது. வீட்டில் கணினி இருக்கும். கையில்…
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Present in Teams in PowerPoint
A #PowerPoint Tip. #MicrosoftTeams allows participant(s) to move between individual slides, while a speaker is presenting. As a speaker to enable this, you need to save your slidedeck (PPTX) in #OneDrive or #SharePoint, only then “Present in Teams” will light up in #PowerPoint. More details are at this Microsoft support page.
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Democratize development with Power Apps for Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon
In recent months I have delivered a few talks on low-code platforms and Microsoft Power Apps. Today it was at the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon 2021 event, which is a free, online, 60-hour event happening April 26-28, 2021. The event had content going the whole time with speakers from around the globe – In English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. I really enjoyed delivering a session on “Democratize development with Power Apps & AI Builder” for the #m365virtualmarathon conference on the Boston Marathon Track. I get so excited talking about the endless possibilities of #LowCode #NoCode Platforms like the Microsoft #PowerApps to empower businesses around the world.
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Developing low-code apps with Microsoft Power Apps and AI Builder
I think the future for the majority of the software being developed will be low-code (and by 2040 No-code) development platforms. Add to this the magic dust of Artificial Intelligence it becomes super exciting. In this connection, I was glad when I was invited to deliver a talk as part of a Microsoft India’s community event today. The title of my talk was “Developing low-code and AI apps with Microsoft Power Apps & Azure AI”. I demoed how easy it is to develop a simple blog viewer application, a blog sentiment analysis, text deduction from a newspaper clip and a food classifier to identify “Rasam” & “Papads”. Agenda: Why low-code…
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Activating correctly the Microsoft Office 2019 Home & Student edition
I am annoyed when companies design products to get the paying customer into doing things that are good for the manufacturer’s top-line and expensive for the customer. There is nothing wrong in upselling, but they need to be transparent on what is already provided and what’s the upgrade for. Unfortunately, this stealth mode operations are a common theme in the world of Windows PCs and Android Smartphones for decades. The excuse they provide is that there are wafer-thin margins in the business, unlike Apple, who operate on the higher end of the market. Though I am not a fanboy of Apple products, I admire Apple for remaining clean in this…
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A quick Tamil Dictionary in Microsoft Word 2019
I just realised that I can use Microsoft Word’s translate feature as a quick Tamil to English Dictionary for getting meanings. It works surprisingly well and even for a sentence (obviously as it is a translation feature and not a word dictionary). I am using the latest version of #MSWORD that ships with Microsoft Office 365 subscription, but I suppose it will work many earlier versions too as the feature has been around for quite some time now.
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Microsoft Excel – Auto calculation
For the last two hours, I was going crazy, as none of my Excel spreadsheets were getting updating. It was frustrating to type in a number, press save and then wait to see the recalculated sum appear below. I got the same behaviour for the Windows and Web version. I have been using Microsoft Excel for decades, yet here I am, getting tripped – thankfully my subconscious memory was telling me I knew how to fix this. It turns out, somehow the setting for auto-calculation has reverted to manual. I had to go to File->Options-Workbook Calculation to set it back to Automatic. Unless if the spreadsheet has millions of items,…
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Be in the Current Channel of Office 365 Software
Microsoft Office365 subscription provides users with latest features every month. Like in the October 2016 release where new grammar checking and research features were introduced for Microsoft Word for PC. After waiting for months and even contacting Microsoft support I was not getting the new updates. After some research, I found out the reason. The Office 365 ProPlus software that I had downloaded and installed in my PC was set to “Deferred Channel”, so updates were happening on a slower cycle. I switched to be in “Current Channel”, in the updates that came I got the new features. To opt for it go to [Office 365 Admin Center] -> [Office…
