April 3, 2009

The “Smooth” Presentation Quick Move

If you use MS PowerPoint presentations as frequently as I do, you probably find it best to know as many little tricks as possible to make each presentation go smoothly. Am I right?

I'm sure most of you have discovered the tools in the bottom left hand corner of your presentation. You know, the ones you use with the mouse to navigate, draw, etc.

Those are certainly handy gadgets to have, especially if you're trying to jump to a slide somewhere else in your presentation.

I like them just fine, but for moving to another slide, I've never really liked that my audience can see me search through a list of slides to make a jump. It always seems "unpolished" to me.

However, buy viagra online canada if you know the number of the slide you need to jump to, you don't need to go through the tools. You can avoid the "unpolished" effect they may cause!

To jump to any slide while giving a presentation, simply enter the slide number and then hit the Enter key. (I realize that means you'll need to know the number of the slide you want to go to, but if you have a few key points of interest, those numbers may be easier to remember than what you think).

Yep, that's it!

If you want to go to slide number 26, type in the number 26 and hit Enter.

Now, that's what I call a smooth move!

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March 4, 2009

Shape Up Your WordArt

Do you often find you want WordArt in your document, but you actually only want it to appear to be inside a shape?

What did you do?

You could create the shape and the WordArt separately and then group them together. With older versions of the MS Office Suite, that's pretty much what you're going to have to do.

But if you have one of the newer versions of Office, you could actually put the WordArt inside the shape pretty much the same way you'd enter regular text into a shape. (Just a side note: I couldn't get my Office XP to do this trick, so it will have to be newer than that).

Now, I'm sure someone out there is wondering why you'd want to do this at all.

That's a good question and I think I have a pretty good reason as to why it's a good plan!

It's a purely practical reason if there ever was one. If the WordArt is actually inside the shape as its text, when you resize or move your shape, it also affects the WordArt. One stop formatting works for me, how about you?!

Assuming this sounds like a good plan to you, here's what you need to know to make this tip work for you.

  • First, insert the shape.

  • The second step is to right click on the shape and choose Add Text from the menu that pops up.

  • You'll now find your cursor inside the shape. While it's still in there, you need to start and create the needed WordArt.

That's it! Once the WordArt is created, it's in the shape and it will change as necessary to match any changes made to the shape.

I found that if I changed the size of the WordArt, the shape would adjust in size too.

On the other hand, if you change the size of the shape, the WordArt stays the same size and adjusts its position within the shape, just as regular text would do.

However, when relocating the shape, the WordArt always goes with it.

I should add that there were very few times I tried this one and wasn't happy with the outcome. So, it's not perfect, but overall, I love it and it's definitely worth the time to learn how to do it!

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March 3, 2009

Cloud wars: Microsoft-Google scrum isn’t zero sum

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:09 am

Microsoft Online Services’ GlaxoSmithKline win is a nice victory for the software giant, but it may be a bit premature for too much chest thumping over Google Apps. On the other side of the equation, Google is likely to have a helluva a battle on its hands. 

But the cloud is big enough for both players–especially if you believe that Google and Microsoft play in two entirely different markets. 

As Phil Wainewright noted, Microsoft 100 mg viagra Online Services, the company’s hosted Exchange, Sharepoint and LiveMeeting division, won a 100,000 seat deployment. In addition, Microsoft Online Services are going global (statement). Meanwhile, Ron Markezich, corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services, took a few shots at Google’s efforts to penetrate the enterprise. Markezich said:

“Google we really do not feel is ready for the enterprise. They’re offering three-nines SLA and they’ve missed three of the last six months.”

Last week, Gmail outage backs that statement up a good bit. 

And honestly, I don’t think Google is enterprise strength. Microsoft won because its hosted business already plays to its enterprise strength–Exchange and Sharepoint. Google has no real answer for those applications. 

Instead, Google will play in the small office, home office market and appeal to small businesses. As these small fries grow up perhaps they turn into big businesses. For now, however, Google Apps will play downstream. If anything, Google Apps is designed to take on Office. But Microsoft will have an answer for that too. 

Add it up and you have:

  • Microsoft continuing to be the enterprise juggernaut whether it’s hosted or on-premises apps;
  • Google continuing to be a pain in Microsoft’s rear by giving it a small run with Google Apps. But let’s get real: Google Apps is there to distract Microsoft from search. 

What would change that equation? A Google acquisition of Zoho. Zoho could be a real pain to Microsoft and could give Google entry into higher end SaaS markets. But even then Microsoft has the enterprise leverage. The real battle between Google and Microsoft will be for the next generation of corporate America. My hunch is that both sides could win simply because they are massive and well capitalized. While zero sum outcomes may be good entertainment it’s highly unlikely that Microsoft or Google will grab all the spoils. 

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February 28, 2009

Download Windows Internet Explorer 8 RC1

what is cialis professional 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 140%; padding-top: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif”>Designed to be enterprise-ready, Internet Explorer 8 can help reduce security risks, includes a backward compatibility mode, expanded management capabilities, and deployment support. Find new features such as a cross-site scripting filter, the SmartScreen Filter, improved ActiveX technologies, 100 new group policies, and an application compatibility toolkit.

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February 21, 2009

More email security tips

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  • Date: November 11th, 2008
  • Author: Chad Perrin

Email security is about a lot more than just using a good password on your POP or IMAP server. Perhaps the most important part of email security is ensuring you don’t shoot yourself in the foot.

In February this year, I listed five basic email security tips that everyone should employ. The following is a list of five more good pieces of email security advice:

  1. Turn off automated addressing features. As communication software accumulates more and more automated convenience features, we’ll see more and more cases of accidentally selecting the wrong recipients. A prime example is Microsoft Outlook’s “dreaded auto-fill feature“, where it is all too easy to accidentally select a recipient adjacent to your intended recipient in the drop-down list. This can be particularly problematic when discussing private matters such as business secrets.
  2. Use BCC when sending to multiple recipients. It’s a bad idea, from a security perspective, to share email addresses with people who have no need for them. It is also rude to share someone’s email address with strangers without permission. Every time you send out an email to multiple recipients with all the recipients’ names in the To: or CC: fields, you’re sharing all those email addresses with all the recipients. Email addresses that are not explicitly meant to be shared with the entire world should, in emails addressed to multiple recipients, be specified in the BCC: field — because each person will then be able to see that he or she is a recipient, but will not be able to see the email addresses of anyone else in the BCC: field.
  3. Save emails only in a safe place. No amount of encryption for sent emails will protect your privacy effectively if, after receiving and decrypting an email, you then store it in plain text on a machine to which other people have access. Sarah Palin found out the hard way that Webmail providers don’t do as good a job of ensuring stored email privacy as we might like, and many users’ personal computers are not exactly set up with security in mind, as in the case of someone whose MS Windows home directory is set up as a CIFS share with a weak password.
  4. Only use private accounts for private emails. Any email you share with the world is likely to get targeted by spammers — both for purposes of sending mail to it and spoofing that email address in the From: field of the email headers. The more spammers and phishers spoof your email address that way, the more likely your email address is to end up on spam blocker blacklists used by ISPs and lazy mail server sysadmins, and the more likely you are to have problems with your emails not getting to their intended recipients.
  5. Double-check the recipient, every time — especially on mailing lists. Accidentally replying directly to someone who sent an email to a mailing list, when you meant to reply to the list, isn’t a huge security issue. It can be kind of inconvenient, though, especially when you might never notice your email didn’t actually get to the mailing list. The converse, however, can be a real problem: if you accidentally send something to the list that was intended strictly for a specific individual, you may end up publicly saying something embarrassing or, worse, accidentally divulging secrets to hundreds of people you don’t even know.

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