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Working more efficiently with Word 2007's new building blocks

With Word 2007's building blocks, you can assemble consistently formatted documents in a snap. Susan Harkins explains how to use built-in elements, such as headers, footers, and cover pages, and how to create, reuse, and share your own building blocks.This download is also available as an entry in our Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Word 2007, Building Block, Susan Harkins, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Download resources 2009-02-03

68 molecular building blocks of life

A researcher from the University of California at San Diego UCSD claims that 68 molecules can explain the origins of many serious diseases. After reviewing findings from multiple disciplines, he 'realized that only 68 molecular building blocks are used to construct these four fundamental components of cells: the nucleic acids...

Tags: Building Block, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Build a Document With Building Blocks

Fear the blank page no longer. With the new building blocks feature in Word 2007, users can create sharp-looking business documents more easily than ever. Users can assemble the document from galleries of predesigned parts, add the business information, and save the building blocks to use again and again. This...

Tags: Building Block, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Webcasts 2008-01-01

Building Blocks to Evolving Your Analytic Practice

Building a top tier analytics practice is an evolution. It should grow and strengthen from past experiences and vision on where one needs to go. Although many CRM systems claim they will answer all the analytic questions that are needed, many of the systems fall short of their promise. The...

Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, Building Block, Financial Planning, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software

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Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

MyUniverse Professional 1.0.8 (Windows)

MyUniverse Professional is a feature rich application you can use to take all kinds of information from various parts of your life and bring them together into one place in a creative, free form, visual and dynamic way which you can use at Home, School or Business. It is a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Rhok Solutions, MyUniverse Professional, RSS, Channel Management, Internet, E-mail, Investment, Web Site Development, Marketing, Online Communications, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!

Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

MyUniverse Personal 1.0.6 (Windows)

MyUniverse Personal is a new kind of application to help you take control of your digital information in a creative, free form and visual way for use at Home, School or Business. It is a highly flexible application for organizing and centralizing access to all kinds of digital information from...

Tags: Rhok Solutions, MyUniverse Personal, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-02

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...

Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

What's a brick?

CinderblockMany years ago a product called cinderblock was made from coal fire residue. It was similar to standard concrete block. In many cases, over time, it proved far less satisfactory. One big problem was degradation in a wet environment. It would get sort of mushy and...

Tags: ash, fly ash

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

Next-gen operating systems: Facebook on steroids?

Chrome OS is a key building blockThis is why I think the concept of Chrome OS is so powerful.Sure you will be able to use your web apps offline, like desktop apps (thanks to HTML5/Gears), but the core functionality of the apps will live in the cloud. And because the...

Tags: Operating systems, Chrome OS, Facebook, Next-gen operating system, operating system, Next-Gen

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge

IE "Hit"I never understood this...."Internet Explorer?s market share also took a battering, dropping by a massive 1.26%, taking its market share to a new low of 65.7%. This is a huge hit for Microsoft."What kind of hit? IE could go away and MS wouldn't lose a dime because it seems...

Tags: Web browsers, MarketShare, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Chrome, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...

Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

The top 10 reasons why Nehalem is ideal for the cloud

Intel officially launched the Intel® Xeon® 5500 processor (formerly codenamed "Nehalem") for servers and workstations. One of the most exciting uses of this new platform will be as a key building block in cloud computing infrastructure. Whether you've bought into the hype of cloud computing or are a jaded IT...

Tags: Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

Resource centers 2009-10-01

Imaging Suite 7.1 (Mac)

The Imaging Suite's modular approach to imaging makes building multiple images easy by building configurations from a library of custom packages. Utilizing the same set of operating system and application packages to create multiple configurations ensures that each configuration is made up of identical components. Most imaging utilities are based...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Imaging, JAMF Software, Imaging Suite, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2009-09-16

BluApple CMS 2.0 (Windows)

Features: * Content Management: With bluApple 2.0 you can manage content extremely easy. If you have used a CMS before I think you will be pleased with how easy it is to put manageable content blocks on your pages. * User Management: bluApple has enhanced user management with an API...

Tags: Role-based Security, Theme, Module, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, somethingJava.com, bluApples Role-based Security, Default Theme, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Search, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-31

ControllerMate 4.3.11 (Mac)

ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows users to add custom functionality to standard HID devices (joysticks, trackballs, gamepads, keyboards, etc.) Using a highly graphical interface and drag-and-drop editing, users can program controller buttons to perform complex keyboard and mouse sequences. Programming is accomplished using "building blocks". Each type...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mouse, Controller, ControllerMate, Keyboards, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-08-26

News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-08-19