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Read These instructions once, then follow along with the images. Create a spreadsheet with 3 columns column with current name column with future name paste in equation  ="ren "&A1&" "&B1 Open the start menu, click in the search field and type CMD Open the program called CMD, it should open a little black screen. Go to the folder where the images exist. In the top bar, right-click folder name and select " copy address as text" Back in the CMD program type CD then right click to paste the address that you just copied. Press enter In your spreadsheet, copy the entire column 3 that includes the equations you made. It should resemble ren currentname.jpg goodname.jpg Back in CMD right click and paste your equations in. it should automatically rename everything for you. 

Google's answers usually get me the best result first. Here is a chrome shortcut how to get to "i'm feeling lucky" first result! 1. Copy this URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&aq=f&oq= 2. Go to Chrome Settings 3. Go to Manage Search Engines 4. Scroll to bottom and you'll see blanks to create new 5. In first box type "I'm Feeling Lucky" 6. In second box type "iflucky" or "ifl" (whatever you type here will be your shortcut in the search bar. 7. In the third box paste the URL i asked you to copy It should look like this image below.  Now it should work. Open a new tab and in the search bar type "ifl best waffles"

I sell lots of things to hardware stores. Retail stores keep track of items by their own internal number. We refer to those numbers as 'customer numbers' because we have lots of customers and customers each have their own numbers. They each call them the SKU number aka STOCK KEEPING UNIT. I had 450 image files listed by model number(our number) that needed to be changed to customer numbers(their number). Here's how i did it. Create an excel spreadsheet with current filename(with file extension) in column A Put the filename you want in column B. Put an equation in column C that is "ren " and column A and " " and column B. spreadsheet should look like this: Current Filename Filename You Want ="ren "&A1&" "&B1 10036.jpg B000HJDBAU.pt01.jpg ren 10036.jpg B000HJDBAU.pt01.jpg 10038.jpg B000VRDIA6.pt01.jpg ren 10038.jpg B000VRDIA6.pt01.jpg 10040.jpg B000BQ7UW4.pt01.jpg ren 10040.jpg B000BQ7UW4.pt01.j

My email used to be exchange, but we recently were moved over to outlook365, this post is to help people who use outlook365, but also people who think they're using exchange who are using outlook365. I wanted to create some emails that automatically forward to other people in the office. Often companies use these 3: info@example.com sales@example.com orders@example.com First visit portal.microsoftonline.com  - if you have never used this, you might not have the same capability.  Click "Home": Click "Options": Click "Manage Myself" and change to "My Organization" Click "Distribution Groups" Here is where you can Edit or Add new Alias Email Accounts on outlook365. To Create New: Click "New" Display name - This is similar to account holder name. Just put "sales" or whatever, you can change this later. Alias is the internal name for the group, should be unique and descriptive so every

Something Ventured is a great ride through the 50's, 60's, and 70's of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Its the techcrunch and pandodaily of our time because it eloquently frames the businesses and deals in a format comparable to current companies. You can tell that money and value grows in the same pace as memory grows in technology. it doubles every 18 months. if one company is worth 50million today, the next biggest company will be double. ok maybe thats a stretch. but you can tell that powerpoint was the instagram or siri of our time. being purchased and swallowed into huge companies to become giant parts of the business. there are always businesses that have had bullshit ideas that pivoted and created a valuable business. There are also genius ideas that truly satisfy a huge need and reduce friction for current lifestyles. Basically, its a great documentary for anyone that reads techcrunch/venturebeat/pandodaily/mashable/AOL(jk)...

Google put out some videos about learning python. A decent tutorial and discussion. Setup and materials Lecture Videos 1.1 Introduction, strings 1.2 Lists and sorting 1.3 Dicts and files 2.1 Regular expr 2.2 Utilities 2.3 Utilities urllib 2.4 Conclusions