Year: 2012

Maximize Keyboard, Minimize Mouse (and some keyboard shortcuts)

One of the most useful productivity enhancements I’ve implemented in the last year has been a shift to use the keyboard as much as possible, and the mouse as little as possible. You might think, “Really? How does that provide

Audio books: the best way to improve your commute (besides making it shorter)

Audio books are one of the best ways to recover a lot of otherwise wasted time each and every day. I live in Washington, D.C., where almost every one I know has a one-way commute of at least 30 minutes,

Um’s and Uh’s: Eliminating Verbal Filler When Presenting

I have seen many presentations in my life, and one really bad habit that I have seen afflict presenters of all ages and experience levels are verbal fillers like Um and Uh.  These little devils can find their way into

Avoiding auto-align issues while cropping in PowerPoint

Recently I’ve been working on a PowerPoint presentation that has images which fit the width of the slide.  I wanted to make a set of images, each on a successive slide, consistent with each other (making the axes on the plots appear

Setting the default font for data tips in MATLAB

For quite some time I thought that it was impossible to change the font size of the data tips you can add to plots in MATLAB.  This was very frustrating because I would use these figures in reports and the

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