Years ago I was walking through Central Park in New York City when a person working for Schick asked if I wanted to try a new razor. If you’ve ever lived in the Big Apple, then you know that freebies ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a PDF file, wishing you could just pull the data into Excel and get to work? Whether it’s a financial report, a client list, or a data-heavy table, PDFs can ...

As well as being a number cruncher, Excel's time and date functions mean the program can also work as a makeshift timekeeper. Let's look at Excel's two functions that calculate a week number based on ...

Often, you have to work with a Microsoft Access database, which uses the relatively new and default database format, .accdb. Opening such files in Microsoft Excel, an excellent spreadsheet editor, ...

Decimal notation describes numbers using the digits 1 through 10. Binary notation describes them using just two digits, 1 and 0, where each bit in a string represents a power of 2. The right-most bit ...

Abstract: All-optical 5-bit binary coded decimal (BCD) to binary converter has been designed with the help of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) — assisted Sagnac switches. Binary is handy because ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a time-to-digital converter (TDC) utilizing the cascaded time difference amplifier(TDA) and shows measurement results with 0.18um CMOS. The proposed TDC operates in two ...

Who doesn’t love tax-free income? When you retire with assets in a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k), you will be able to take retirement income from these accounts without getting hit with income taxes. That ...

There's a lot to love about Apple products, but since much of the working world runs on Windows, it can be frustrating trying to transfer files from one platform to the next. In fact, because you'll ...