Interloper View

One of the labs for Google Calendar known as flair has stopped working. Flair is great to add pictures and symbols on your calendar entries to make it easy for you to differentiate the events or highlight specific events. One alternative proposed in Google Group question on this problem is to paste image characters directly in the calendar event. This can be easily done using characters from this site . All characters are found in this page . Here are a few examples of image characters found on the site: ☃☎☂

Google platform provides a rich set of tools for management. In Part 1 , I focused on Gmail, Task and Calendar. I shall continue with other tools and how it complements my activities as a manager. Collaboration Google documents strength is in collaboration. It is very easy to create either a Document (Word), Spreadsheet (Excel) or Presentation (Powerpoint) and collaborate with either your team members or people in remote locations. I indicated the MS Office equivalent in parenthesis for those who are more familiar with the Microsoft suite of tools. When you share the documents, you can either give others the right to edit the document, comment on the document or just view the document.  In a meeting, the attendees can edit the document and everybody else in the meeting can view it. Comments can also be used to raise questions and highlight items for others to respond to. Each collaborator can activate a setting to trigger to inform them of any changes in the docu

When doing crossword, we sometimes have a fixed number of spaces and have specific words in between. This web site will help. The tip provided on how to use it is as follow: Use a hyphen (dash) to give the location of a missing letter: w-rd or -are Use an asterisk (star) for any number of unknown letters: lett* or *gry or ar*ct Exclude words containing the letters that follow a caret (hat): ma-e ^kt Or enter a few letters (without hyphens or asterisks) to see if they make any words.

If you have a scrambled word you need to unscramble here is a resource to help you do that.