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A Deep Look into Microsoft Office Web Apps

Posted by Taylor Ling On August - 2 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Have you ever run into a situation where you need to have an urgent modification on your word documents or excel sheets but found your Microsoft Office just doesn’t work for you at that particular moment? Or the Microsoft Office trial version just expired and you are looking for some similar services at zero cost?

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Intro A Deep Look into Microsoft Office Web Apps

With the release of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft have started to offer a free Cloud-based Office Web Apps which consists of four main applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. With Office Web Apps, you can now create, view, edit, share and collaborate on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote documents in the cloud, and all these can be done from virtually anywhere with a supported browser (yes, even a smartphone browser.) You do not have to install any plugins of software to enjoy the service; Office Web Apps only requires you to have a Windows Live ID–that’s all. Not only that, with Office Web Apps, you can have your precious 25GB of free storage space provided by SkyDrive filled up with your documents or notes, edit and share them on the fly, isn’t that sweet? Read the rest of this entry »

Free “I’m a PC” Icon Pack

Posted by Stu On August - 2 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

197 7 256x256x32 thumb Free “I’m a PC” Icon Pack

(Download link updated )

If you hang out Windows Forums, you may recognise these as my avatar.

Here is a pack of 9 free, differently coloured “I’m a PC” icons/avatars for your enjoyment.

Each is 512×512 and comes in .ICO & .PNG format.

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Best Free Backup Programs

Posted by Rich On August - 2 - 20109 COMMENTS

mozy Best Free Backup Programs

Backup is essential and you should have a backup solution in place. If, however, you do not, this guide is for you. This guide covers the top five free backup programs available, for Windows, to help protect your data.

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Stalled Printer Repair – Detects and Fix Failed Printer Jobs

Posted by Thomas On August - 2 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Don’t you just hate it when your printer messes things up ?

I do, every once in a while a document gets stuck in the spooler system, resulting in total havoc. No documents will print. And if you don’t catch it right away you end up with a stack of documents piling up in your print dialogue.

Usually that is a lost cause. Especially if you are not able to delete the document that is causing the problems. Cutting power to the printer (and unplug the USB cable) might enable you to delete it. But the worst case scenario is to power off everything. Loosing every print job in the queue, and start all over. Ahh lovely days huh…

If you experience this regularly or every now and then – well, I might just have the very solution you need.

Stalled Printer Repair – portable freeware application to Detect and Repair Stalled Print Jobs

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uTorrent 2.2 Beta Gets a New Look

Posted by Stu On August - 1 - 20102 COMMENTS

utorrent+dock uTorrent 2.2 Beta Gets a New Look

I’ve been a fan of uTorrent for a while now. It’s free, fast, lightweight, highly configurable, cross-platform and now, looks great.

A new look isn’t all uTorrent brings to the table. Apps have been introduced thanks to Project Griffin meaning extra functionality without bogging down the core client.

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Kill Explorer in 2 Clicks [Quick Tip]

Posted by Stu On August - 1 - 20103 COMMENTS

explorer Kill Explorer in 2 Clicks [Quick Tip]

The usual way of killing Explorer for most users would be to spark up the Task Manager, right click explorer.exe and choose "End process". Previously we’ve covered how to add a context menu item to restart Explorer, which makes short work of the command.

Want an even easier way to kill it? In Windows Vista and Windows 7, that’s no problem.

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