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Back to School Gadget Buying Guide: 18 Fun and Productive Suggestions

Back to School Gadget Buying Guide: 18 Fun and Productive Suggestions

| August 16, 2011 | 1 Comment

Students are gearing up to go back to school all across the United States. Some tech buying will take place in addition to picking up those Trapper Keepers and new sneakers. Here are some recommendations for tools that might make going off to college, high school or any educational experience, more productive and fun. Verbatim Tuff N [...]

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How to create your first Microsoft Access database

How to create your first Microsoft Access database

| July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment

Many of you have Microsoft Access installed on your computer and aren’t taking advantage of it. But a database can be a tool that solves many of your problems. What is a database? A database is a container which stores a variety of information. The principal way of storing information in a Microsoft Access database is with [...]

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How To Get Windows 7 Professional for $29.99 [Student Discount]

How To Get Windows 7 Professional for $29.99 [Student Discount]

| April 12, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you haven’t upgraded to Windows 7 yet because you can’t afford it and books while in school, Microsoft has a special educational pricing deal for Windows 7 Professional. Right now students can get this deal for $29.99. Windows 7 Professional normally costs $200 to upgrade from previous versions of Windows. The difference between it [...]

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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 SP1 Coming Next Week

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 SP1 Coming Next Week

| April 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

Microsoft is apparently planning an update to Office for Mac 2011 next week, according to The Loop. The update will be in the form of a service pack (SP1) and contains some bug fixes and a new functionality. The biggest change will be Outlook syncing with Apple’s built-in Sync Services, which allows users to sync [...]

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Windows 8: Details, Features and Screenshots

Windows 8: Details, Features and Screenshots

| April 5, 2011 | 3 Comments

Windows 8 is the next operating system from Microsoft, and a followup to the well received Windows 7 OS that currently runs on most modern notebooks and computers. Windows 8 is just making its way to close Microsoft partners for additional testing, but we already know quite a bit about the next version of Windows. [...]

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How To Request Free Copies of Microsoft Office and Windows for Charities

How To Request Free Copies of Microsoft Office and Windows for Charities

| February 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you work with a non-profit charitable origination you might be eligible for a free copy of Microsoft Office or Microsoft Windows. In order to be eligible you must be an organization that is both non-profit and nongovernmental. The charity must have a “mission to benefit the local community” in the following ways: Helping people [...]

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How to Find Windows and Office Product Keys

How to Find Windows and Office Product Keys

| February 2, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you’ve ever switched over to a new computer and spent half a day searching for your Windows or Office product key, hidden away on a paper sleeve somewhere, you’ll be happy to know you won’t need to dig through boxes in the future. Enchanted Keyfinder is a free tool that will scan your system [...]

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Plug Hub Power Strip Organizer Keeps your Surge Protector and Cords Tidy

Plug Hub Power Strip Organizer Keeps your Surge Protector and Cords Tidy

| January 31, 2011 | 0 Comments

If you’ve been looking for a better way to organize all of those cords that snake down the side of your desk to a power strip, take a gander at the Plug Hub. The Plug Hub is a cord management system that is available for pre-sale on Quirky.com for $23.95 that can sit under your desk and keep the [...]

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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac with a Reliability and Stability Update

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac with a Reliability and Stability Update

| December 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac has been updated to version 14.02 offering some stability and reliability enhancements. The udpate is not a major one, but does fix a few problems users might be facing. Fixes the reliability of opening Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac documents in third party applications. They might not have opened but [...]

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What’s Better? Office 11 for Mac or iWork 09 for a New Mac User

What’s Better? Office 11 for Mac or iWork 09 for a New Mac User

| November 30, 2010 | 0 Comments

For a new switcher to the Mac, one of the early questions to answer is this: “Should I buy iWork or Microsoft Office for Mac?” The Unofficial Apple Weblog has a good article that attempts to help Mac users answer just that question. The decision centers around three basic issues – cost, environment, relationships and tolerance. [...]

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