Wise Owl's monthly (ish) news tweet | Issue 86 - April 2025

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Congratulations to our own Sam (Lowrie) for achieving the Fabric Community Super User status

How do you become a Fabric Community Super User like Sam, and get a coat like this?

By creating 256 solutions and getting 258 instances of kudos, among other things. Read about what's involved in becoming a Fabric Community Super User.

A website allowing you to watch TV from round the world, and some goodies for fans of Severance

Want to know what they're watching in Kazakhstan right now (or any other country)? TV Garden lets you choose any country then any of its publicly shared TV channels:

Going from the general to the specific, fans of Severance can play Macro Data Refinement, shop for the new Apple Macro Lumon Terminal Pro and watch a couple of Severance related videos here.

Synthesia lets you generate corporate videos using AI in just a few minutes. But are they any good?

Creating corporate videos is expensive and time-consuming. How much better things would be if you could do this using simple software and AI? This is the promise on which Synthesia tries to deliver, so we gave it a whirl, creating this course video:

Experimental video generated in Synthesia

You can judge the results for yourself (and see our thoughts) here.

The Power BI update for March 2025 just squeaked in at the end of the month

The Cinderella that is the March 2025 Power BI update just got to go to the ball. Presumably the update was delayed to coincide with the big Fabric Community conference in Las Vegas, at which the Power BI DataViz world champion will be announced after a live model-off on stage between the 4 qualifiers:

The monthly update lets you create a range of preset formats for styles, using themes, as well as various other improvements to tables, chart reference lines and the new cards.

An addictive online game to while away those boring Zoom meetings: get rid of 368 chickens

Not since 2048 have I come across such a simple but addictive game. The aim of 368 chickens is to get rid of ... 368 chickens:

It's basically like Candy Crush, but without the graphics and levels - and strangely more addictive as a result. And if this doesn't tickle your wishbone, you can play the surreal Clickens game instead, using the same link as shown above.

This month's Easter quiz competition, and the results of (and winner of) last month's word search

This month we invite you to take our now traditional Easter Quiz. This consists of 20 questions. You should find them difficult! Don't worry if you don't get many or any of them right! Your score will be entered into our randomised Excel hat, with your chance of winning this month's £50 voucher weighted by how many answers you got correct (so everyone has a chance of winning).

Congratulations to Suzanne Fisher of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, whose name was the first picked out of the hat last month for correctly solving last month's word search competition - she wins a £50 voucher and this moment of fame.

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