The New Rubik’s Touchcube
November 11, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Electronics
Yep, I’ll admit it. I would peel the stickers off or completely break it apart to get it solved. The original Rubik’s Cube was all the rage back in the 80’s and now they’ve released a new version fit for the high-tech world we live in now.
The Rubik’s TouchCube brings the fun and challenge of the original Rubik’s Cube to the 21’s century. Using a grid of 45 LED backlit light squares, you can perform every action you could with the original cube, but with no moving parts. And in my case, no stickers or plastic blocks to take apart …read more
Google Spreadsheets Update
December 15, 2006 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I’ve been actively using Google Spreadsheets now for a couple of weeks. Working on a project with someone where we needed to both have access to a spreadsheet of names. I didn’t want us to keep e-mailing the document back and forth and trying to figure out which one was the most updated.
The problem though is that we’re both still using Excel. We’ll copy the Google Spreadsheets down to our local drive if we need to make any major changes to it, or more frequently I’ll manipulate the data I need in Excel and then paste it into the Google Spreadsheets online. …read more
Printing Labels
October 26, 2006 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
My wife needed to print some labels tonight and asked me how to do it with “the new Word”. I’d never done it before so I told her to give me a minute and I’d figure it out and show her.
Let’s just say I needed more than a minute.
With the new ribbon interface, I knew exactly where to go to get things done, but actually accomplishing the task was a little harder.
I’ve done this type of thing before with Word and it wasn’t too hard. It sometimes took me a few minutes to remember how to print different names on …read more
Support for Beta Users
July 9, 2006 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
For anyone that’s participating in the beta and isn’t quite sure where to go for support hopefully this will help. Don’t get me wrong, I love hearing about all the problems and challenges everyone’s facing, but we want to make sure the right people here the message. I’m trying to get more and more of the Office 2007 team to be aware of this blog and troll the posts and comments too.
Here’s a recap of some of the information I received via e-mail with my beta invitation, just in case someone else didn’t get it.
BUG REPORTS
When you encounter bugs, please …read more




