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Archive for May 26th, 2025

Office suites trick I was unaware off: you can use images as background of shapes, then distort by moving the corner points

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/26

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The below example is in Excel, but it holds for many other drawing tools in other office suites as well (like the ones in OpenOffice and successors like LibreOffice, Apple Pages in iWork, and others from the list of office suites):

  1. Insert a shape
  2. Move the corners so it covers the area you want a screenshot in
  3. Modify the shape background to contain the screenshot as background

(you can exchange steps 2 and 3 if you wish, and even go for more complex shapes – including ones where you can add corner points – to better fit the area where you want the distorted screenshot to appear).

Example in (typo was indeed in the tweet) [Wayback/Archive] Excel Dictionary on X: “Are you ready for this Excel tip? Get ready to learn how to easily scew images. 🀯”: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Excel, Office, Power Point, Power User, Visio, Word | Leave a Comment »

Interesting take by Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … “” covering various platforms (both server and workstation) with tools that are easy and quick to install

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/26

[Wayback/Archive] Florian Roth on Twitter: “First security application I install on … macOS: LittleSnitch Linux Server: Fail2ban Linux Workstation: etckeeper Windows Workstation: GlassWire Windows Server: Sysmon — What are yours?”

Full thread atΒ [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @cyb3rops on Thread Reader App

Some interesting responses to the original tweet, hence me saving it.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, FreeBSD, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »