Watermarks are very useful when documents need to be printed out in a secure manner.  Watermarks can describe confidentiality, intended recipients, and even the quality of the document, like a draft, so that the reader is fully aware of how the document...

I particularly like the “8.2fps” attention to detail ROFL!

Create Tables to Your Own Specifications Want to add a table with specific dimensions to your Word document? Here’s how: Position the cursor on the area of the document where you want to insert your table. On the Insert tab of the Ribbon, click Table...

Microsoft will sell roughly 30 million Windows Mobile phones this year.  We are the #2 manufacturer of smart phones trailing behind Nokia and beating both RIM and Apple.  I state this because it’s amazing that we get less press as the no. 2...

I came across this little add-on from FedEx that allow businesses to manage their FedEx accounts directly from Outlook.  To quote their website, “FedEx has developed a fast and convenient way for you to easily access some of the most popular features...

The Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI) provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft's entire Web Platform, including IIS7, Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition, SQL Server 2008 Express Edition and the .NET Framework...

The Web Pitch has a pretty good overview of Steve Ballmer’s London keynote session.  Some of the Q&A questions quite tough.  The thing I found most remarkable was the directness of Ballmer’s responses.  He didn’t fudge the responses.  Watch the video...

Is you missed Part I , you should read it to learn about the other sessions. Session 3 – V8 Javascript Engine in Chrome This was the best session of the day because it had everything a developer would want to know about JavaScript architecture at a 200...

Generate a PivotDiagram from Excel Data In Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007, you can now generate a PivotDiagram from data such as a Microsoft Office Excel worksheet. A PivotDiagram has very similar functionality to an Excel PivotTable, but it...

Add More Levels of Undo You can go back farther in Microsoft Office PowerPoint to undo actions. 1. With PowerPoint open, click the Office button, and then click PowerPoint Options . 2. On the Advanced tab, change the Maximum number of undos from the default...

Continue on to Part 2 if you want to read about the Visualization API and Chrome V8 Going to Google Developer Days was exciting simply because I knew of the eagerness of web developers to use new Software+Serveices technologies. It definitely had a warm...

There has been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere around some of Ballmer’s statements while on his ‘good will’ tour of the UK.  Ballmer’s mentioning of Microsoft’s “cloud” services soon to be announced at PDC has put all web companies on alert. ...

It was big news a few weeks ago when Microsoft announced that US citizens could use their XBox 360s to register for the 2008 United States Elections .  The eligible youth vote has always been a segment with one of the lowest voting turnouts on election...

I read an interesting article showing how Google analyzed the terms being searched by the minute during the Vice Presidential elections .  It was fascinating to see a minute by minute graph with highly searched terms and really goes to show how the...

I’ve been asked by the academic team to speaking at the Graduates in I.T. event in Canary Wharf on Oct 30th.  I can’t wait to tell them all about the exciting world of IT, off shoring, Software + Services, and the role they play in it all! ...

Price Waterhouse Coopers has released their 2008 Global State of Information Security Study titled “safeguarding the new currency of business.”  The report called out the UK and the neighbour across the channel, France, for failing to make meaningful...

I shouldn’t say “finally” because it has always been the case, but it amazes me that so many people do not know that Office Home & Student 2007 can legally be installed and used on up to 3 PCs.  You get Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote all...