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How to take a graph from Excel and save it as a jpg

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

You'd think this would be easy to do, but it's not... If you want to take a graph from an Excel spreadsheet, and then save it as an image, here's a few easy steps to make it work on most PCs:

Microsoft doesn't make it very easy to take a graph from Excel and then save it into a graphic.

Here's one way to do this, however, using the Paint program, that comes with all PCs...

1. In Excel, view the graph at 100%. Press ALT-PRTSC (Alt-Print Screen)
2. Open up an image editing program. Photoshop is probably the best, but Paint also works, and comes with all PCs.
3. In Paint, open a new window (File --> New)
4. Paste in the image with Ctrl-V (Paste)
5. Use the rectangular select tool to select the area of the graph you want to have saved as an image.
6. Right click and select "Cut"
7. Open a new file, and press paste (Ctrl-V)
8. Go to File --> Save As --> save as type jpg

I'm sure there are other ways, too...

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 11:35 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

Google Voice is a joke...

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

I received an invitation to sign up for Google Voice. Great concept - one phone number that can ring all of your numbers, have integrated voicemail that will transcribe it into text.

The big problem? The phone number I selected doesn't work. Each time I try to call it, I get a message that says, "We're sorry. Your call cannot be completed at this time. Please hang up and try your call again later."

When it comes to reliability, this service has a long, long way to go. I tried sending feedback, but unfortunately there is nobody to talk to and my question has gone unanswered for more than 24 hours.

I'm sure they'll get it together soon. But for now, Google Voice is a pass.

I also just tried to create a new calendar in Google's Calendar system. After typing in all of the information, I got a message: "Oops, we couldn't save changes, please try again in a few minutes." (UPDATE / Note: I later closed my browser, and restarted it, and the errors for Google Calendar seemed to go away).

What is up with Google today?

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 11:47 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

One Earth Future Site Launches

Monday, June 29, 2009

We're thrilled to have launched a new website for One Earth Future, and be part of the solution for world peace...

Here's more information on them:

The One Earth Future (OEF) foundation’s vision is to achieve a world beyond war within one hundred years, by creating and implementing more effective systems of global governance.

The current system of global governance, with only nation-states as legitimate actors in international relations, clearly no longer works effectively. OEF intends to create new architectures of global governance that include business societies and civil societies in addition to nation states in the decision-making process. OEF believes that these inclusive structures will be more effective and efficient at solving global problems. more

OEF intends to focus particularly on bringing business to the global governance table. In order to bring in business as partners, OEF will show, through active multi-stakeholder projects and case studies, how business societies benefit from reliable and effective governance architectures. OEF will then encourage them to use a portion of that benefit to support the creation of such systems, resulting in systems that are not only inclusive, effective, and efficient, but also replicable and self-sustaining. more

Visit the One Earth Future site -- click here >>

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 8:48 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: Is this what you were looking for?

My friend Liz Ryan and I sat down for lunch... but just before, she tried to find my phone # to confirm. Here's her article that describes how our search engine personalization module, built into our PageDirector system, allowed her to find me quickly and easily...

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jun/29/career-confidential-is-this-what-you-were-for/

Thanks, Liz!

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 8:38 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

Michael Jackson's Death Crashes Twitter + Causes Google To Think It's Under Attack

Friday, June 26, 2009

The King of Pop died... and there was so much traffic that, according to the BBC:
  • Traffic was so thick with people sharing news that Twitter crashed.
  • Even Google, the search giant, believed it may have been under service attack.
Crazy! Not to date myself, but I still remember the Michael Jackson record (LP) where he was in a white outfit on one side, and a red one on the back.

Update: here's a great story that gives more details of this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195651/How-Michael-Jacksons-death-shut-Twitter-overwhelmed-Google--killed-Jeff-Goldblum.html

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 8:37 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

Web 3.0 Semantic Web - RDF Conversations Going Back and Forth

Thursday, June 25, 2009

One of the things I try to become involved in is looking forward to the future of what's next on the Web and what we need to start laying the foundation for 3-4 years from now in the future.

I'm involved in conversations on RDF (Resource Description Framework) language that essentially is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications designed as a metadata model using XML but has evolved to be used as a general method of modeling knowledge, through a variety of syntax formats.

Here's the article thread for those interested in joining in...
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2009Jun/0222.html

Thanks,
-- Jeff

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 2:26 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

Boulder Jews - Common Calendar For Jewish People in Boulder, CO

Friday, June 19, 2009

Boulder Jews - Common Calendar For Jewish People in Boulder, CO

Here's a new site that we created to synchronize Jewish event calendars in Boulder, CO. Still in the early stages, but is a lot of fun!

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 1:40 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

New Combined Calendar for Boulder Jewish Events in Boulder, Colorado

Thursday, June 18, 2009

We recently took the calendars from five different Jewish organizations here in Boulder, Colorado, and created a combined calendar, so Jewish people in Boulder, CO can view all of the events from the different congregations. Not everyone is on it yet, but it's a fun way to keep everyone on the same page.

Check out the combined Jewish Events Calendar in Boulder, CO:
http://www.adventurerabbi.org/boulder/

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 9:48 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

ComScore: Bing is Still Going Strong

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

I saw this posting and thought I'd pass this along:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/comscore_bing_is_still_going_strong.php
Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 17, 2009 10:27 AM

bing_logo_may09.pngRight after Microsoft launched Bing, we already saw some indications that users were quickly warming up to this new search engine. Just a few days after its launch, Bing had already passed Yahoo as the #2 search engine in the U.S. according to StatCounter. On StatCounter, Bing is now back in the #3 position, though with almost double the market share that Microsoft's Live Search ever had. According to the latest data from comScore, however, Bing's daily 'searcher penetration' has slowly moved up in the last three weeks since the launch and is now at 16.7%.

comscore_bing_data_jun09.png

In addition, comScore found that Bing's share of search results pages in the U.S., which it sees as a proxy for overall search intensity, climbed to 12.1%, up from 9.1% from where Live Search was just before Bing launched.

When Bing moved up quickly in the rankings just after launch, we wondered if this was due to a lot of interest in the launch, but it looks like Bing can stand on its own and that Microsoft is doing a good job at retaining new users. Of course, Microsoft's multi-million dollar advertising campaign is surely helping here as well, but the general quality of the search results on Bing is quite impressive. In most cases, it rivals what users can find on Google.

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 3:59 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

New Multilingual Site Launches

Monday, June 15, 2009

We've just launched a new multi-lingual site for our client, CTI Inks (http://www.ctiinks.com/).

The site is in both English and Spanish... with a Mandarin version coming soon... This is using our PageDirector content management system to keep everything organized.

posted by Jeff Finkelstein @ 2:50 PM 0 Comments Links to this post