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Microsoft Project Training - Where Do I Start?

Microsoft Project is the world's most popular project management software - but even regular users would often benefit from a better understanding of its full capabilities. Moreover new reporting and communications features in the 2007 release are well worth understanding. Non users know it might be handy for drawing project...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Training, Focus, Microsoft Project, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Big Three Automakers get Wall Street Fever: give us more money

Forget $25 billion for the U.S.-owned auto companies. Small change. They've upped their request from the feds. GM alone now wants $18 billion. Doesn't that raise your confidence level that these guys are really on top of the situation? Oh, by the way,...

Tags: Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., CEO, Hummer Brand, Focus, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Cycling Manager 4 1 (Windows)

Cycling Manager 4 from Digital Jesters lets you control every aspect of managing a team of cyclists as you compete throughout the world in prestigious races. You can also follow the entire career of an individual cyclist and watch as they improve and become the next star of the sport....

Tags: Team, Microsoft Windows, Focus, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2004-07-13

Chaos League 0.13 (Windows)

Chaos League is a new kind of game, combining real-time-strategy, RPG, and sports elements. In a fantasy heroic universe, Chaos League offers new gameplay possibilities. Don't look for notions of fair play or the command Help opponent back on his feet, because they don't exist in this game. However, if...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Focus, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-05-21

Additional Resources

SOA should enable diversity inside and uniformity outside: what does that mean?

Is hiding IT system complexity too narrow a focus for SOA? by Joe McKendrick

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-29

Apple Store fails the Nordstrom test

Yet another Apple horror storyOnce again, an Apple horror story, trouble straight out of the box (forget "it just works").Most of the Apple afficionados I know have such horror stories. There's a massive one right now with the new iMacs. On the other hand, I know very little such stories...

Tags: Desktops, UNIX, Apple Inc., Apple Store, Nordstrom Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-27

What you see is what you get: Water flow management made easier with visualization technology

Water management is focus of green-tech projects highlighted by IBM, Wolfram Research. by Heather Clancy

Tags: Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-11-27

Facebook Chat 1.0 (Windows)

The extension monitors Facebook chats while browsing other pages, without having to switch tabs all the time. It's simple, but does the job. You need to be signed into Facebook for it to work properly. Since each time the extension loses the focus, the page will be reloaded, meaning your...

Tags: Facebook, Brass2TheMax, Microsoft Windows, Monitors & Displays, Recruitment & Selection, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Are small cars doomed to fail in the American market?

Well, Americans will at least buy cars that get better gas mileage, and aresmaller when gas prices rise. It was not that long ago that US manufacturers had big problems with people switching over to Japanese crossover SUVs when gas prices spiked.Maybe the very smallest and best gas mileage will...

Tags: standout, car, small car, SUV

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Five Helpful Green Printing Tips

Taking the Green Route to Printing EfficiencyIt is, of course, important that organisations choose the most environmentally efficient route for their commercial printing. Dependent on the size of the job, there are always occasions when it makes sense to outsource printing. If a company needs 1,000 sets of a 30-page...

Tags: Document management, printing

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Samsung partners with NYT for Go netbook and digital subscription deal

Me - NoAssuming I were interested in paying for news (the article does not state the length of the subscription - kind of a key piece on info) I would look for the best device for me AND the best news source for me. I just don't get the bundling...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., netbook, NYT, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Nikon ViewNX 1.5 (Mac)

ViewNX is a software application for viewing, rating, and organizing images. ViewNX offers the following 3 modes for viewing images. Thumbnail Grid mode for viewing image thumbnails. Image Viewer mode displayed a selected image at a larger size. Full screen mode displays an image...

Tags: Nikon Corp., Apple Macintosh, Image, ViewNX, Nikon Transfer

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Mellel 2.7.2 (Mac)

Mellel is the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on writers, scholars, technical writing and multilingual word processing. Mellel is regularly updated and offers advanced features such as cross-referencing, bibliography and citations, footnotes and endnotes, advanced multilingual options, and more.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, ReleX, Mellel, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Word Processors, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-25

Toribash 3.82 (Mac)

Toribash is a turn-based fighting game. Create your own martial arts movies in single player sandbox mode, or join the competition in the multi player modes. Focus is on tactics rather than reaction and button mashing. The game features physics, full dismemberment, decapitation and comic style blood.

Tags: NABI, Apple Macintosh, Toribash, Games, Tools & Techniques, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-25

HP Pavilion dv6-1375dx

Editors' note: This review is part of our 2009 Retail Laptop and Desktop Holiday Roundup, which covers specific fixed configurations of popular systems found in retail stores. HP had better hope its Pavilion dv6-1375 is not sitting on retail store shelves directly next to the Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F/S. Both are...

Tags: Desktops, HP Pavilion, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2009-11-24

XMIND 3.1 (Mac)

XMIND, with clean and kind interface, is a revolutionary Presentation/Mind Mapping/Brainstorming software application. It enables users to capture various ideas and manage information easily with revolutionizing way. Your work will become simple and efficient. In XMIND, you can plan your meeting effortlessly by creating an agenda and finalizing details...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Map, Idea, XMIND, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Word, Branding, Word Processors, Team Management, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-24

SOA Manifesto: Manes explains manifesto's aims

Of the 17 original authors of the SOA Manifesto including yours truly, Anne Thomas Manes was one of the most -- if not the most -- powerful and influential voice shaping the formation of the final document. Anne just posted her analysis of the Manifesto document, which...

Tags: Interoperability, SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?

Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...

Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-23

Falling behind in science? No kidding!

Our school district is providing H1N1 shots to any students whose parents request it. It's an easy way to build some so-called "herd immunity" in the age group most vulnerable to this particular flu strain. In fact, my 7-year old was the very first in the district to...

Tags: Vaccine, Flu, H1N1 Flu, Science Education, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Is Wikipedia maxed out?

Interesting....I don't see a reason Wikipedia would max out considering that every day new younger participants are entering the field. It's timeless relevance could diminish as new and younger editors focus on more up-to-date matters as Twitter, Sexting and Cloud computing, and less on the Roman Empire, the Great Depression...

Tags: Wiki, Achilles, Wikipedia, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-23