Since decades now, Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting feature is applied on cells based on what those cells contain. However, one often comes across situations where this feature limits you from what you’d like your Excel to do for you. The idea is for MS Excel to enable conditional formatting to work on cells not only… Continue reading “Microsoft Excel conditional formatting feature to work on cells based off what other cells contain”
Category: Digital World
Ideas that are meant for the digital world
“Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric for white space percentage on slides”
For those of us who build presentations as part of our day jobs, it is important that we find the right balance between information (read overload) and design (read visual appeal). The idea is for Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric in their status bar which calculates the percentage of white space on the slide.… Continue reading “Microsoft Powerpoint to add a metric for white space percentage on slides”
“Microsoft Outlook to track duplicate attachments across emails”
I have long believed that emails are amongst the easiest ways to create a lot of storage requirements at the click of a button. Most of us use Microsoft Outlook at work where we are limited to certain mailbox sizes as set by administrators. Outlook should have the ability to track how many attachments are… Continue reading “Microsoft Outlook to track duplicate attachments across emails”
It’s time for media platforms to go beyond their subscription-only revenue models by enabling microtransactions
It is no secret that the media industry is in trouble. Human beings have moved away from scheduled consumption of content, whether it’s television or print media, to a world where news is live and everything happens in real-time. The advent of the Internet and the proliferation of mass media consumption that happens through our… Continue reading It’s time for media platforms to go beyond their subscription-only revenue models by enabling microtransactions
“Amazon to enable peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle books”
As a consumer, I’ve usually been at the forefront of the digital revolution that has taken over the world in the past 2 decades or so – an early-adopter of technologies, if you may. When it comes to Amazon, this means that all my book purchases have been on Kindle since a while now, and… Continue reading “Amazon to enable peer-to-peer lending & borrowing of Kindle books”
Going beyond just character names in the Wikipedia plot description
They say elephants never forget a face. And dogs never forget a name. Scratch that… I think the latter isn’t true. In any case, it turns out that humans are a lot more varied in their ability to remember faces, names or context. Personally, I’m terrible at remembering names, especially after I’ve just been introduced… Continue reading Going beyond just character names in the Wikipedia plot description
“Swiggy to build a ‘tongue print’ for every user”
Swiggy should look to build a ‘taste fingerprint’ for every user based on their order history. This ‘tongue print’ will represent the unique food preferences of the user, which will differ for everyone, based on the distinctions in our choices. Based off this ‘tongue print’, Swiggy should then look at identifying dishes that are best… Continue reading “Swiggy to build a ‘tongue print’ for every user”
“Pocket app to offer removal of query parameters & duplicates and allow easy export/import”
I have been using Pocket to bookmark URLs for a while now. And one of the annoying things I find is the fact that Pocket adds the following string at the end of all URLs I save with them – “?utm_source=pocket_shared”. At the very least, Pocket should provide users with the ability to strip away… Continue reading “Pocket app to offer removal of query parameters & duplicates and allow easy export/import”
“The flip side of Google’s always-on single sign-on experience is the lack of privacy when you need it the most”
Most people who use personal laptops stay signed in to their email & social media accounts, and Big Tech firms like Google encourage & enable this behaviour – for instance, Chrome asks you to ‘sign in’ to your browser by using your Google account credentials. That allows Google to keep all your content & browsing… Continue reading “The flip side of Google’s always-on single sign-on experience is the lack of privacy when you need it the most”
The 3 Rs that Microsoft Powerpoint needs – Rearrange, Resize & Reorder
As time goes by, most of us corporate slaves find ourselves spending more time with Microsoft Powerpoint and less time with Microsoft Excel. I must also admit that after a lifetime of being in love with Excel, I’m definitely warming up to Powerpoint, slowly but surely… And as all relationships go, after the initial honeymoon… Continue reading The 3 Rs that Microsoft Powerpoint needs – Rearrange, Resize & Reorder