Category: General

I was reading an article today “‘Clunky’ government covid app used ‘minimally’ in Marlborough, businesses say“ I thought about building one with GlideApps. Then I thought about it some more and realised that GlideApps does not actually access any of your Phones features, its only a web page. Then I saw the video below and

I’m thinking of trying to do an NZ map of regions where cases are. I’m using link to Wikipedia 2020 coronavirus pandemic in New Zealand page for data on region data. I have been looking for polylines for these regions and also centroids for region polylines. No luck so far with centroids but I got

After looking at all the tutorial videos and doing the basic exploring features of setting up a Ribbon tab from tutorial code it is time to try and do something. I crashed and burned trying to adapt some code for selection and colouring and realised I was over reaching a bit. So I need to

This is a cool video on methods of presentation using background images, pre-set view templates, text as objects, filters and layering views over views, some in realistic and some in simple to give a mixed media feel, as well as using finishes and transparency to create filters. Very good and quick. Different fonts as objects

I have played with Power BI and Data Studio (DS) is Google’s equivalent, and its Free. Since I’ve been playing with GlideApps I have been working in the Google Docs environment with Sheets and Google App Scripts (GAS) and find the Google environment is versatile and has lots of features. An extension of learning to

I think I’ve been posting onto LinkedIn for at least a year. Every time I created a post on my website or created a video I also put it up on LinkedIn. Followers Generally I had about 7-8 followers, I couldn’t see the sense in lots of obscure followers, I just got a lot of

Google sites are free websites you can build and have hosted by Google. They reside on your Google Drive. My Recipe Site I wanted to create a site for some recipes that I’m trying out. I have been bookmarking videos and recipes and also using the Firefox sidebar add-ins like Notes and 5 notes to

I was reading an article about integrating Google Apps with WordPress  and one was  a plugin  for Google Forms and decided to investigate it. When I went to install the plugin I came across Calculated Fields Form plugin for WordPress and decided to install that too. I’m glad I did, this is a great plugin.

There seems to be a few plugins that will take your article in Google docs and post on a WordPress site. The first one I came across was an addon in Google Docs called WordPress.com for Google Docs. This requires you to have the Jetpack plugin on your WordPress site. I’m not keen on that

I came across this YouTube video that I thought was quite enlightening “5 Things You Can do in Sheets That You Can’t Do in Excel”: I was rather intrigued by it and decided to look into some of the functions more deeply. So far I have only played with the GOOGLEFINANCE() function and SPARKLINE() My