Switch between firefox tabs using mouse scroll wheel
Firefox 3 has a ton of extremely useful productivity features and as I keep using it, I discover more and more of them. Here is one I found extremely useful and simple: When you have lots of tabs open, in order to switch between the tabs, place mouse pointer on any of the tab titles […]
Excel Links of the week – What do you dream about? [Aug 19]
The other day my wife told me that we dream about a total of 6 years in our life, an average of 2 hours for everyday you sleep. [Source: wikipedia on dreams]. That is almost as much time as you would work in 30 years (30*50*40/24/365, assuming you work 40 hours a week for 50 […]
Polar clock using donut chart [Excel Visualization fun]
Smashing Magazine is one of daily hangouts for new design ideas, inspiration and ogle fun. When they featured Pixel Breaker’s Polar clock last Friday on Top 10 creative ways to display time, I knew this could be an interesting visualization to do in excel. So I have created a donut chart in excel that can […]
Photographic Fridays #9 – Here now, gone later
Took this in Columbus zoo almost 2 weeks back, still no fresh photos, hopefully this weekend I should put my d40 to some use. We are driving down to Niagara Waterfalls on the US / Canada border in few mins, see you all on Monday. You have a good weekend 🙂
Is this Google adsense ad misleading?
While surfing some of my regular reads on the google reader, I saw this feed ad from google adsense. The ad looks like a text ad with scroll bars. I have never seen scroll bars on text ads by google, so out of curiosity I clicked on the scrollbar and dang, it launched me to […]
Charts of the Week [Aug 15]
Every week, this blog features 5 of the best visualizations from the last week around the web. Average gas prices in US regions from 1993 plotted in dynamic bar Flowing data takes a look at the historical gasoline price data and provides us this eye candy. My friend Jon takes a look at this and […]
Plot your data around the clock [Excel charting idea]
If your reports include hourly distribution of data like, Customer footfalls in your store Page views of your site Customer service calls to your toll free numbers here is an interesting charting idea to show the data around the clock (literally) Update: Visualization pros Jon Peltier and Jorge Camoes took a critical look at this, […]