Brought to my attention by Lily Ray on LinkedIn: Alertmouse. From the About page: “We make alerts. Really. That’s our whole thing. We’re not trying to upsell you. We don’t have a sales team. We’re just here to show who’s talking about you, make pretty graphs for your client/team/boss, and classify mentions so you can take smart next steps.” As always the pricing is a nightmare for […]

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MakeUseOf: I didn’t know Excel could do this with live data. “Excel is great for organizing data. But if you need information that changes constantly—like stock prices, weather updates, or cryptocurrency rates, you don’t have to copy numbers from websites every time they change. Luckily, Excel has two built-in functions, WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML, that can pull live data directly from the […]

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