As the old cliche goes, “a picture paints a thousand words” . The following “infographic” material “paints” a thousand words about our current obesity epidemic. It is causing havoc over our physical health, wreaking our financial state and damaging the fiscal state of the union.
My biggest gripe against iPad is its inability to run my favorite office applications like Microsoft Word or Excel. Although there are some alternatives like Apple’s Pages or Google’s Docs, I still want to see those beautiful “ribbons” or the familiar interface of the aforementioned Microsoft creations. As of this writing, there are no clear…
A few months ago, I mentioned in one of my posts how important it is for nursing informaticist to attend and conduct meetings online. Aside from it offers tremendous savings and reduces our carbon footprint (take note environmentalist), it also provides huge benefits for all parties involved.This meeting can either be with a remote team…
In Nursing Informatics, proficiency in Microsoft Office application is a required skill. It is as important as learning to swim before signing up as a NAVY SEAL. This is why we need to brush it up every day. You can buy books and try to learn new tricks and shortcuts daily. I tried it but…
Similar to clinical infections, PC viruses and other menacing malwares can also be transmitted through contact with an infected medium. In computer world, this medium can be your USB storage devices, cameras, cellphones and any gadgets with data storage capability. Infected files inside these devices can contaminate your PC and wreak havoc on your precious…
Document sharing is an integral part of our job as Nursing Informatics professionals. We send files to our boss, to our colleagues and sometimes to our vendors. The problem is that sharing files in its native format is cumbersome and can sometimes lead to problem such as version incompatibility or changes in formatting. Adobe addressed…
Although I am no longer an avid supporter of portable USB-based storage, I still believe that most of you still uses it. It is, therefore, necessary to, at least, show you how to properly use it. How do you use it? of course to store files! I know that, but my point is, do you…
In the past, I already talked about screen-casting applications like Cam studio and Jing Project. Unfortunately, I forgot to include screen2avi as another worthy option. Similar to its counterparts, it has the ability to capture any screen activity and convert it into an .avi file. In case you are not familiar with .avi, it is…
Anybody familiar with CSV files or comma separated values or comma delimited files, etc.? According to Wikipedia The comma-separated values (CSV) pseudo-file[1] format is a set of file formats used to store tabular data in which numbers and text are stored in plain-text form that can be easily written and read in a text editor….
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