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Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category

August 28th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2007 for Students: The Ultimate Steal Promotion is Back

Yes! The Ultimate Steal Promotion is back in the USA.
For as low as  $59.95 you can have the Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 package which includes Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Outlook 2007, OneNote 2007, Groove 2007, Publisher 2007, Access 2007, InfoPath 2007, and Accounting Express 2008.

To be able to purchase this product, you must […]

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August 24th, 2008

Embed Flash Movies to your Powerpoint

I have been asked by my friend if I know how to embed Adobe Flash Movies to a Powerpoint presentation. He wants to play a short animation embedded in his Powerpoint when his delivering the report. So, what I did was went to Google.com and typed “embed flash to powerpoint”. Then I found this link […]

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August 21st, 2008

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-051 Update

This is an update for this months Microsoft Security Bulletin - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft PowerPoint Could Allow Remote Code Execution.
This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. An attacker who successfully […]

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August 20th, 2008

Photosynth

Just checking over MSDN blog, I stumbled with this new cool app called Photosynth… not Photosynch. This is yet another application born from Microsoft Live Labs. This tool allows you to store and organize photos and render them in a 3-D environment. Cool eh?

To download, click here and just follow the simple steps. The […]

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August 18th, 2008

Speed up your productivity with Speed Launch

Most of us wants to be productive in our work. Personally, I usually tend to procrastinate instead of working with my tasks. I sometimes misplace my files and I have to spend time searching for it. But then, I must be productive and needs to find a ways to be more productive.
Just recently, Microsoft […]

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August 15th, 2008

Introducing pptPlex

Developed by Microsoft Office Labs, pptPlex is a research prototype in discovering new ways to present Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations.
This plug-in allows you to arrange slides on a canvas then zoom between the slides during the presentation. You can move around the canvas and show groups of slides, individual slides, or even zoom in […]

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August 13th, 2008

eXpresso Offline Excel® Plugin

Recently, eXpresso by eXpresso Corp., released a newer version of their Microsoft Excel Offline Plugin tool. With this Excel Adds-in, you can now access your online spreadsheets and edit it directly toy your Microsoft Excel environment. Still, it allows you to sync, share and collaborate with your colleagues.
Spreadsheets opened “off-line” in Excel® are locked […]

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August 12th, 2008

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary (August 2008)

This months’ security update by Microsoft yet again include some fixes for Microsoft Office and here’s the list and among which 4 tagged as critical and 1 as important.
Critical Updates:

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-041 – Critical
Vulnerability in the ActiveX Control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955617)
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-043 […]

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August 8th, 2008

Microsoft Scholarly Communication

Microsoft External Research recently released free tools that focuses in computing and scientific research authoring and publishing pertinent research data and facts. It is called as Microsoft Scholarly Communication which comprises the following tools:

 The Research Information Centre (Beta)
It was designed to allow research partners to store, share, discuss, manage, find, and track all the components […]

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August 7th, 2008

Configuring OpenOffice for Microsoft Extensions

Here’s a video tutorial on how to configure your OpenOffice to work with Microsoft Extensions:

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