the personal blog of adam spriggs
Here’s a nice trick if you want to toggle the case of a selection in Microsoft Word.
lowercase:
the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
sentence uppercase:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
uppercase:
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.
Here’s another installment in my Spriglet series.
Nothing’s more embarrassing than emerging from the bathroom with your zipper down. To combat this possibility, I always, just after opening the bathroom door, poke my finger inside the zipper flap directly under the button of my pants. If my finger goes in, I turn right around and take care of it. If it stops, I let out a sigh of relief and continue on to what I was doing before nature called my name.
Spriglet #5: Have a print job in Windows that just won’t go away? Here’s how to fix it:
®= right-click, © = click, © © = double-click
UPDATE: Check out the shorter batch file method in the comments below. Thanks, White Panther.
If you’ve ever seen my car, you’d know that it’s not something that I obsess over at all. In fact quite the contrary — I don’t care about it that much. It gets me from here to there. It’s not pretty but it’s functional.
I try to invest in it as little as possible. There’s more important things to spend money on, IMO.
So, anyway…I found a way to make my windshield wipers last longer than recommended (every 6 months). When they start skidding across the windshield, I stop (usually at the gas station) and take them off and 1) switch the right and the left and 2) flip them over so that the end that’s on the top is now on the bottom.
Turning off your car when the wiper blades are upright makes them a little easier to change.
Worked like a champ in the torrential downpour on the way to work this morning. Voila! No skidding.
Spriglet #3: OK, this is borderline O.C.D., but it’s something I’ve gotten into the habit of doing. Whenever I get out of my car, I always immediately put my keys in my pocket and then pat my pocket just to here the keys jingle. Guess I started doing it after I locked my keys in my car. Haven’t locked them inside it since.