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Coursera launches 18 new specializations to help you master specific subjects

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by on October 15, 2014 at 2:58 pm
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Online learning company Coursera has announced 18 new specializations, covering key areas such as entrepreneurship, software and healthcare. Coursera is a so-called ‘ed-tech’ company that works with universities to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs). It first announced specializations back in January, serving as a new kind of certificate program that lets students follow university-led tracks to become proficient in a given subject. The initiative kicked off with 10 topics, including ‘Programming Mobile Cloud Computing Applications with Android’. Coursera says that more than 1.5 million learners have participated in specializations since launch. The full list of specializations, and certifying educational body, are…

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Opera debuts a more beautiful bookmarking experience for its Windows and Mac browser

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by on October 15, 2014 at 2:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Opera Software has introduced a new, visual bookmarking system for its internet browser on Windows and Mac. When you hit the heart icon to the right of the address bar, Opera will now show a pop-up bookmarking window. Here, you can choose an image embedded in the current webpage and select the folder the link should be stored in. To see the new bookmarking panel, you just need to open a new tab and click on the ‘Bookmarks’ option from the top of the screen. It’s an attractive design, with a hierarchy of bookmark folders on the left and a…

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A Daily Overdose of Arrays

Oct15
by on October 15, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Links

snb, who wrote the detailed piece on dictionaries, has applied the same rigor to arrays.

I knew there would be something in there that I didn’t know (there was plenty). Under the section about identifying the existence of an item in an array, you can use a defined name:

6.2.2.3 The Excel-object ‘Names’

Assign the array to a Name’.
Excel creates an arrayformula, consisting of a string.
The item can be searched for in that string.
Embed the search string in quotation marks.
Embed numerical values in commas.

Names.Add "snb_002", a_sn
msgbox InStr(Names("snb_002").Value, """abcde""")>0
msgbox InStr(Names("snb_002").Value, ",1245,")>0

snb’s VBA for Smarties: Arrays

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Amazon Cloud Drive user? You can now access your photos and videos through Amazon Instant Video too

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by on October 15, 2014 at 1:32 pm
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Amazon Cloud Drive users in the UK, US and Germany can now access their files directly through the Amazon Instant Video app on the PlayStation 3 and 4, and through some LG and Samsung TVs. Similar to Google Drive and other cloud-based storage services, Amazon Cloud Drive is available in a number of countries and serves as a centralized repository for all your photos, videos, documents and more. While 5GB is available to everyone for free, the tiered pricing structure charges from $10 per 20GB up to $500 per year for a terabyte of storage. Amazon Instant Video, the service…

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Mac to the Future: Get 96% off a bundle of 8 OS X apps worth $961

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by on October 15, 2014 at 1:30 pm
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Do more with your Mac today, with these eight great apps from top developers in this fantastic bundle. For a fraction of their total value, you can: Learn to play your favorite songs with Capo Edit your photos professionally in AfterShot Pro 2, a full-featured 64-bit photo processing suite Add animations and interactive elements to your websites without coding in Lucid Schedule your events quickly and easily with Fantastical Organize and share images and screenshots across devices with Ember Access WiFi hotspots securely and browse the web anonymously for a year with Anonymizer Universal Recover lost data from your drives…

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