Tuesday, November 19, 2019

How to draft a seating plan for college formal dinner using PerfectTablePlan

1. Open a previous plan file
2. Delete all the guests
3. import a csv file with the guests for this dinner, make sure you use the correct column for group ID (usually the host column)
4. Merge groups whose members request being seated next to each other
5. Manually drag group members to corresponding tables
6. check proximities or conflicts by holding down the corresponding buttons

Thursday, November 14, 2019

how to add CRUK office 365 email to outlook client on Mac

1. Outlook -> Preferences... -> Accounts -> +
2. type your email, it should automatically recognize that it is an Office 365 email and ask you to type your password in a new window that has CRUK logo there.

How to set up Sanger email on Outlook office client

1. Outlook -> Preferences -> Accounts -> +
2. Choose Exchange as the type of email if not defaulted to
3. type your email address, username should be SANGER\[Your username]

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

How to use EBI VPN

after you set up your VPN following the instructions searchable at tsc.ebi.ac.uk,
open a browser and show the passcode
click on the green "s" logo on top right
EBI VPN -> connect
primary password is the one from the browser
secondary password is your EBI password

Saturday, November 2, 2019

how to stop Dropbox app from uploading photos from iphone

1. Open Dropbox app
2. Personal (bottom right button)
3. Camera Upload, select off

Friday, November 1, 2019

How to show unread emails only, on Mac Outlook 16.16.15

Click on the email folder / inbox you are interested in
Click Home tab
Click Filter Email drop down menu and select "Unread"