TechRepublic Mobile for May-13-2008 11:31:00
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1. How do I... Spice up a list in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation?
Blog post: Most of us use bullets or numbers to introduce specific ideas or points. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are rather ordinary. In a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you might want to forgo the ordinary and go with something a bit more novel, an......
2. Facebook mentality coming to business apps
Blog post: I've been able to ignore Facebook and social engineering sites of that ilk for the most part. I know they're out there, and more power to the folks who use them, but they're just not for me. I just don't get it. So you can imagine my puzzlement when I ......
3. TR Member Spotlight with Neilb
Blog post: The TR Member Spotlight shines on one of the most requested interviewees from the women in the TR community (eat your heart out, jdclyde). That's right, folks - prepare yourselves for the wit and wisdom of Neilb. Find out how Neilb made the transition ......
4. Top 10 IT headlines for May 13 -- Microsoft looking post-PC, counterfeit Cisco routers from China, Sprint nosedive continues
Blog post: Top 10 IT headlines Microsoft desperately trying to break free of the PC (TechRepublic) FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk "IT subversion" (ZDNet Microsoft adding 10,000 new data center servers a month (ZDNet) Sprint Nextel continues to bleed c......
5. HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion, takes on IBM in IT services
Blog post: This is a guest post from Larry Dignan. You can read the original article on Larry's blog Between the Lines on TechRepublic's sister site ZDNet. Hewlett-Packard made it official on Tuesday: The company is buying Electronic Data Systems for $25 a share.......
6. Microsoft desperately trying to break free of the PC
Blog post: Microsoft has been trying, with varying degrees of success, to break free of their PC based roots for quite some time now, but their latest machinations almost smack of desperation. The failed bid for Yahoo seems to have set off a virtual explosion of r......
7. Geek Trivia: Five for (Saturn) five
Blog post: Thirty-five years ago -- May 14, 1973 -- saw the end of an era: The last Saturn V rocket ever to fly was launched from Cape Kennedy. By almost every measure, the Saturn V was the most powerful rocket ever to fly. The Soviet N-1 was a bit wider, and the So......
8. Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for May 13, 2008
Blog post: If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Gee......
9. A scalpel specially designed for PDFs
Blog post: A few months back, I posted an article detailing some of the software tools that I use to provide support for PDFs in my office. My goal was to avoid shelling out big bucks for the expensive, bloated and buggy packages from Adobe. Turns out that many of y......
10. Onsite IT consulting: Do you charge by the hour or per day?
Blog post: As I've mentioned before, I don't go onsite very often; I do almost all my IT consulting work from my home office via the Internet. Some of my clients I have never even meet in person -- one of whom is right across Puget Sound in Seattle! When I do go ......
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