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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 1:03 PM

Office 2007 on 64-bit OS - what do you lose?

I upgraded to Vista 64-bit about 2 months ago now. For the most part, no major problems. I was hoping that it would show all 4GB of memory I've got, but it turns out that it isn't an "addressable space" issue but a "crappy old chipset"
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Monday, October 29, 2007 12:04 PM

IRM in Office 2007

Windows Rights Management Services is a very cool feature of Windows Server 2003. But like all server technologies, it is so much cooler when it is hidden behind the svelte rich Office client UI.With RMS and Office you can make sure that emails or documents
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:35 PM

Note001 (or How I learned to love OneNote Mobile)

a picture of my keyboard i am really digging onenote right now! I composed the above section on my Samsung Blackjack, via OneNote 2007 mobile. OneNote is one of my top used applications (the only apps I use more are Outlook and Groove) - and being able
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:53 AM

Robert Downey Jr is Tony Stark

I just saw the trailer for the upcoming Iron Man movie... looks good, and even funny. Iron Man is the thinking man's super hero. No special powers, lots of special problems and a penchant for robot suits. What is not to like? Check out the trailer below:
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Sunday, October 28, 2007 8:54 AM

Link Your Live IDs Together!

As someone that has multiple hotmail/passport/live.com accounts, I think this is really really cool! Do you have multiple Windows Live IDs? Maybe an older one and a new one, one for work & one for home? A public one and a private one? If so, you know
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Friday, October 26, 2007 12:35 PM

Synchronising IE favourites via Groove

Groove is an awesome collaboration tool - but I am constantly finding new and interesting ways to use it. Did you know that you can use Groove to synchronise your IE favourites? Here's how: On the Options menu, click Preferences , and then click the Synchronization
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:36 PM

Making Big Word Docs out of lots of Little Word Docs

Generate a document from a database of snippets crack open the docx and chunk up the content.xml file just use the INCLUDETEXT field. Please use option 3 - ( or option 2 if you're hardcore ). There is a great article from some intrepid MVPs here: How
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:08 AM

Allow Facebook 'or staff may go'

CONSTRUCTION giant John Holland says allowing employees to access social networking site Facebook can play a role in attracting and keeping young workers. Allow Facebook 'or staff may go' | NEWS.com.au Business What I find interesting about the massive
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:43 AM

New Course: Implementing Groove Server 2007

  A new elearning course is available for anyone interested in taking their Groove knowledge to the next level... the server! Collection 6452: Implementing Microsoft® Office Groove® Server 2007 In this 12 hour on-line collection IT Professionals
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 2:06 PM

PowerPoint Prototyping Toolkit from Long Zheng

My life revolves around PowerPoint slides at the moment. Long Zheng has posted a really cool slide deck demonstrating how you can use PowerPoint as a low fidelity prototyping tool. PowerPoint Prototyping Toolkit (release 0.2) - istartedsomething My thoughts?
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Friday, October 12, 2007 11:32 AM

Excel 2007 Display bug fixed

Unless you have been on a deserted tropical island, you would have heard about the Excel 2007 bug whereby =850*77.1 would display 100000 instead of 65535. The issue occured when displaying numbers in the ranges of 65534.99999999995 to 65535 and 65535.99999999995
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Friday, October 12, 2007 11:15 AM

Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007

I am pretty much on my laptop and wifi'ed 90% of my waking hours. So it is always a conscious effort to channel my non technical self and relate to the majority of Microsoft Office users that are not developers or IT pros. The idea of printing out a calendar
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:35 AM

Facebook killing Blogs?

Twelve months ago, everybody (+ dog) was blogging - these days it seems like the pace of posts is really starting to drop. Was blogging a fad, and have people turned their attention to new fads? It would seem a shame for the firehose of human creativity,
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 7:25 AM

Geo-collaboration with Groove

Firstly, if you haven't heard of Groove, you will. Groove (the product and the team) is fairly recent addition to the Microsoft Office family but fills a very interesting niche. Groove is a tool to support collaboration any time, any place without the
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 6:31 AM

They don't call it bleeding edge for nothing!

One of the best things about my job is that I'm surrounded by cool technology that will be on every desk in a few years time. it is great to travel around Australia, take out my laptop, plug in my prototype VOIP handset (arguably not designed for the
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:52 AM

SilverPoint

Find out more about Silverlight & Sharepoint at the Sydney SharePoint User Group on the 16 October 2007
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