Sunday, September 23, 2012

Getting an MP4 file to show on PS3 using USB drive

Two simple steps that got this to work for me:
- Make sure to put it in an folder on the USB drive, not at the root level
- Before diving into a submenu on the usb drive, select the drive at the movie level, click the green triangle for options and select Display All.  Then all the files showed up correctly.

How to search in a specific site

http://www.techerator.com/2010/05/google-tip-how-to-search-within-a-specific-website-domain-or-news-source/

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Copying HTML tables to Excel

Forgot how I was able in the past to get complex web tables to properly get put into an Excel worksheet (my former MFL, aka Master Feature List).  I now remember, thanks to this post, that what I would do is:

  • Open the page in question in IE
  • Save locally
  • Add a stylesheet in the header to get the next step to work correctly
  • <STYLE type="text/css">
    br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
    </STYLE>

  • Resave the local HTML page
  • Open the local HTML page in IE
  • Copy and paste from IE into Excel
  • Wha la, just what I wanted.