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A Cure for the Excel 2008 EURO symbol bug

Friday, May 16th, 2008, by moose

So, I posted a couple days ago about a really annoying bug where Excel 2008 documents with celles formatted using the € currency get “converted” to $ when you close and reopen them.
Well, I sort of found a cure. A workaround really… Well, two actually.
1) Simply save your document using the .xsl format instead of [...]

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iPhone tip: simulate “mouse over” actions

Monday, April 21st, 2008, by moose

Did you know that, on the iPhone, you can do “mouse over” events in Safari, like on a regular computer?
If a link has an “hover” or “OnMouseOver” property, simply touch and hold the link for a couple seconds and you will see a “tooltip” pop up with the word “Action” in it. Now you can [...]

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