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trips262 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:08:00 +0000

trips262 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:08:00 +0000

Welcome Windows 7

Bill said this week that Windows 7, would come “sometime in the next year or so”. According to a Microsoft spokesperson who was quick to correct Bill, the correct date is more like January 2010.

Personally, I think it will be more like Q4 2010 as Microsoft are notorious at missing product launch dates. Maybe, we should start a sweepstake as to Windows 7 actual launch date where the nearest guess wins!

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trips262 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:11:00 +0000

CELEBRITIES WEN THEY WERE KIDS

Celebrities Childhood

trips262 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:43:00 +0000

Inspect Your Presentation for Comments and Metadata Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

If you need to publish your presentation outside your organization, you may want to remove comments, notes hidden in the text, or other personally identifiable information. Often this type of information is added to the document in the process of creating it.

1. Click the Office button, and then on the Prepare menu, click Inspect Document. (If you haven’t saved your document yet, you will be prompted to do so.)

2. Select the items that you want the Document Inspector to look for. Most of these items will be selected by default.

3. Click Inspect to begin the inspection process.

4. You’ll receive a list of inspection results. Click Remove All next to any items you want to have removed from the document.

5. Click Close to close this wizard. You may want to resave your document now that this information is removed.

trips262 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:41:00 +0000

Convert Text to Tables

Sometimes you may find different types of information within the same piece of text, where the only thing separating the information is a space. Microsoft Office Excel makes it easy to redistribute this data by using different columns, and to display the data in a more digestible format.

1. Choose delimiters and column separators.

a. Select the cells containing the data that you want to separate.
b. On the Data ribbon, in the Data Tools section, click the Text to Columns button.
c. Select your preferred data type (that is, Delimited or Fixed width) from the options in the first step presented by the wizard.
d. In the second step of the wizard, select your preferred delimiters from the Delimiters options, or the column separator position from the Fixed width options.

2. Define the data format of your new columns.

a. In the dialog box of the wizard’s third step, select one column at a time and define its data format by clicking your preferred option under Column data format.
b. Click the Finish button. The text chains will now be distributed into columns according to your chosen data format.

trips262 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:40:00 +0000

Fill In the Blanks in Spreadsheets the Easy Way

1. Select all the rows in your Microsoft Office 2007 Excel spreadsheet data set.

2. On the Home tab, in the Editing section, click Find & Select, click Go To, click Special, click Blanks, and then click OK.

3. Click the equal sign (=) on the toolbar, select the cell above, and then hold down the CTRL key while you press ENTER. Blanks in the spreadsheet will be filled automatically.

4. Copy all the data, click Paste Special, and then click Values. This will overwrite the formulas and enable you to sort the data by filling in each empty cell with the same information as the one above. This tip will work on any size of data set.

trips262 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:16:00 +0000

It is TRUE… Photoshop Effects

trips262 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:56:00 +0000

MSN Messenger 7.5 -Try it soon….

The brand new MSN Messenger 7.5 is here. And trust me, it’s in your interest to upgrade (or download…whichever way gravity sends you).

It’s true. It’s just been over four months since our last public release, and there are fewer changes than you may be used to. The thinking is this: we built some features now, you should get to use them–Now. Screw the waiting.

***A mostly comprehensive description of new things in MSN Messenger 7.50299***

The Features

Dynamic Backgrounds:

Voice Clip

Freaking Awesome Audio Quality Improvements

Add a Contact link

Expanded Security Settings

Audio and Video Setup (used to be AV Tuning Wizard)

Transient Personal Messages from Device Clients

Voice Entry Point Improvements

New Login UI and Platform

Patching

Setup Changes

Pre-installed Theme packs

Download Now…

trips262 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:52:00 +0000

5 GB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access.
Create personal, shared, and public folders — you decide who has access to each folder.
Windows Live SkyDrive works well on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher.

How we help protect your files

Your personal folders are password-protected with your Windows Live ID, so only you have access.
When you create a shared folder, the friends you’re sharing with need to sign in with their own Windows Live ID and password.
Just like at your online bank, all file transfers are protected using Secure Socket Layers (SSL).

Personal

Use personal folders to back up important files that are only for you.
Get to your files from any computer with Internet access by signing in with your Windows Live ID.

Shared

Shared folders make it easy to collaborate with coworkers or classmates.
You decide how much control each person has over each shared folder. Some can just read what’s there: others can add and delete files.
Everyone who is sharing uses their own Windows Live ID.

Public

With public folders, anyone on the Internet can view your files, but they can’t change them.
Want to show your public files to others? Just send them a link! Each folder and file has its own web address.

Sign-up Now…

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trips262 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:04:52 +0000

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