A Certain Blog

+Truston Ailende  the Nigerian Desktop and Web game developer has released his second free game for both Windows desktop and HTML5. The game is called Maths Magic. You can download the desktop version here and also try your hands on the web version if that is your preferred. The simple game is designed to test arithmetic skills of a player. The web version however at the moment is still being worked on to optimise and render well on mobile devices so prepare for some uncomfortable feel if you open it on your small screen mobile device. Find the game in action in the demo video

In my attempt to explain and demonstrate the usefulness of #GAS, we have taken a look at how to use it to: Add / Delete Calendar Events ; Add Custom Menu Buttons to our functions . We will now take a look at how to Send Bulk Emails using Google Apps Script. Please don't spam people with this!!!

You have written your first Apps Script and it runs perfectly from the script editor, good job so far. But did you know you can add custom menu items to your Spreadsheet ? I briefly explained this in the post " Add / Delete Calendar event with Google Apps Script " and I will explain further here how the method responsible for adding menu works with an example script.

+Guy Kawasaki , a silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author and Co-founder of Alltop.com  is giving away four of his books for free to celebrate the New Year. The books are: What the Plus!, The Macintosh Way, Database 101 and the Computer Curmudgeon. Download copies here .