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QuickBooks update offers greater efficiency

September 7, 2010

The latest version of Intuit’s small business accounting software, QuickBooks 2011, focuses on the fact that time is money for entrepreneurs. With that in mind, the update offers a host of new features aimed at streamlining important accounting tasks. Namely, QuickBooks 2011 hopes to make invoicing and collecting payments even faster and easier than before. [...]

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Catching Up on Zune News

September 7, 2010

With the sales of Windows 7 continuing to be strong and the upcoming release of the restarted Windows Mobile platform: Windows Phone 7, the consumer product which has inspired the mobile OS reboot continues to take a back seat in the headlines even as it continues to progress. Zune may not be the most popular Microsoft brand [...]

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Making the web more accessible, one step at a time

September 7, 2010

From text that is too small to read, to user interfaces that do not offer keyboard navigation options, users with special needs face a lot of challenges when trying to access websites they are interested in. We believe that extensions can complement the work we are doing to make Google Chrome more accessible and can [...]

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Skype updates latest beta with 10-way video calling

September 6, 2010

Skype invites you to try out its latest beta. (Credit: Skype) The latest release of Skype’s 5.0 beta will let you make video calls to as many as 10 people at the same time, according to details posted on the company’s Thursday blog. The 10-way calling is an upgrade from the first 5.0 beta, which [...]

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Image of Windows Phone 7 Cloud Companion Service Appears

September 6, 2010

An image has appeared online at WMPowerUser.com showing the companion cloud service for Windows Phone 7, the services are the same as for the current MyPhone service, but carry a Windows Phone 7 accent.  The screenshot shows features that will prove very useful for anyone who ever loses their phone (even if its just under a pile [...]

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PowerShell V2 Open Panel Discussion Tonight

September 6, 2010

Tonight’s version of the PowerScripting Podcast is going to be an Open Panel discussing PowerShell V2 including the following topics: PowerShell 2.0 adoption Are you happy with version 2? Favorite v2 resources: books, bloggers, tools, etc. PS v2 Remoting vs administering remote PCs without PowerShell installed (lead into PowerShell myths?) And anything else YOU can [...]

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Windows PowerShell in Bing Visual Search

September 6, 2010

Beginning today, there’s a new way to look at Windows PowerShell cmdlets. You’re used to looking at them this way: Or, perhaps, this way: But would you like to look at them this way? What if getting a list of the remoting cmdlets was as easy as clicking a category name? And you could filter [...]

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Sling webs and run for your life: iPhone apps of the week

September 5, 2010

(Credit: CNET) As we close out a week that brought us a new line of iPods, an upgrade to the Apple TV, and news of several new features via iOS upgrades, we’re pretty happy here at CNET to be on the eve of a three-day weekend. With the extra day of leisure in mind, I’ve [...]

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How to Use KDE Plasma Activities

September 5, 2010

“When activities were introduced into KDE 4, they did not make much sense in isolation. In addition to having virtual desktops, there were activities, which the user could create and configure to have different wallpapers and different widgets. Much of the virtual desktop functionality of KDE 3 was absent and not directly connected to Plasma [...]

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What its like writing a Windows 7 book, Pt4 “Editing”

September 5, 2010

There’s been a bit of a gap in this series which was caused by delays in the editing process and my copy editor was changed.  This left me with a three week gap when nothing seemed to be happening with my new book, Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out from Microsoft Press. The editing process for [...]

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