Customer/Business Communications Use a virtual telephone system such as RingCentral or Grasshopper to forward your calls to cellphones and your faxes to emails. Add a live chat system such as SnapEngage to your website. Employee Communications Use an instant messaging service such as Windows Live Messenger or QQ. Do video conferencing through Skype or Google+. [...]
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Adding a Windows Explorer FTP Webserver Shortcut to your Computer
If you repeatedly do any kind of work on a webserver, such as updating files directly on the server, or backing up files by zipping them up and downloading them, you will probably benefit from adding an FTP shortcut to your ‘My Computer’ folder. What this means is that you can access your webserver files [...]
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Mouse Without Borders is a free Microsoft Garage utility that you to use one keyboard and mouse with multiple computers. It allows the cursor to fly off the edge of one monitor and appear in the other monitor where you can do stuff before flying the cursor back to the first computer’s screen. Below is [...]
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Other names; Indian poker, squaw poker, Indian head, baseball Blind Man’s Bluff is a simple poker game in which each player is dealt a single card and bets that his or her card is higher than the cards held by any other player. The unusual thing about this game is that the player can see [...]
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Number of Distinct 5-card Hands that can be Drawn from a 52-card Deck, while Ignoring Suit
How many distinctly-valued 5-card hands can be drawn from a 52-card deck when suit does not matter? In this case, the Jack of Clubs would be valued exactly the same as the Jack of Hearts. In this case, the following two hands are identical in value and thus count only as 1 of the number [...]
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How many distinctly-valued 4-card hands can be drawn from a 52-card deck when suit does not matter? In this case, the Jack of Clubs would be valued exactly the same as the Jack of Hearts. In this case, the following two hands are identical in value and thus count only as 1 of the number [...]
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How many distinctly-valued 3-card hands can be drawn from a 52-card deck when suit does not matter? In this case, the Jack of Clubs would be valued exactly the same as the Jack of Hearts. In this case, the following two hands are identical in value and thus count only as 1 of the number [...]
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How many distinctly-valued 2-card hands can be drawn from a 52-card deck when suit does not matter? In this case, the Jack of Clubs would be valued exactly the same as the Jack of Hearts. In this case, the following two hands are identical in value and thus count only as 1 of the number [...]
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Magento does not provide us with the ability to choose which attributes are included as columns in the Manage Products grid but it’s fairly simple to make the necessary code changes. The code that generates the Manage Products grid is at /app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Product/Grid.php. The first thing you need to do is copy Grid.php into to the [...]
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