There has been a lot of talk about Windows 8 recent, as it was announced that Windows Store will be integrated into all Microsoft products including Windows 8. However, when this was announced they accidently released that the Windows 8 beta will be available in late February 2012. Obviously Microsoft is yet to officially confirm this, but it is nearly 100% accurate.

This release date is much less consistent with a August or September release, so we are expecting Windows 8 to be officially released January 2013 (as seen with Windows Vista).

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There are some great PDF to Word converters out there. PDF to Word Converter Facebook edition allows users to convert from PDF documents to Word document inside Facebook. Users are able to upload files after logging in to Facebook and the software will do the rest.

PDF to Word Converter is completely free and just requires a Facebook profile.

Click here to check out the Facebook converter applications.

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“We’re thrilled to partner with Microsoft and AOL and bring to market what we believe will be a more efficient, effective and more effortless way to access true premium inventory and formats,” says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP of the Americas. “There has a been a significant shift in how inventory is bought and sold, and we’re now 100% focused on controlling our own destiny, working directly with marketers and agencies and driving better returns for our advertising partners.”

via – Yahoo

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We hope to have more details on the release in the coming days.

• Samsung Rumoured to be Acquiring Nokia – June 8, 2011
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• Microsoft Entering the Mobile Games Market – August 15, 2010
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• Xbox Kinect 360 With Over 5000 Swarovski Crystals – September 24, 2011
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Obviously there are gamers out there that just have to have a Microsoft Kinect 360 that is Blinged to the max. Here is an Xbox Kinect 360 that has 5000 Swarovski crystals.

• Avatar Kinect: Virtual Meeting on Your Xbox 360 – September 26, 2011
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Windows XP is getting old. Time to upgrade to Windows 7!

• Enable IPv6 On Windows XP – February 7, 2011
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IE10 supports CSS3 Positioned Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop, File Reader API, Media Query, Listeners and initial support for HTML5 Forms.

IE10 will only work on Windows 7, so you will need to upgrade if you are still running Vista or XP.

Download IE10 Platform Preview 2

• Test Drive Internet Explorer 10 – April 22, 2011
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Transformers 3 is going to be one of the biggest movies in 2011. Transformers: Dark of the Moon has just released their own theme for Windows 7. The theme includes some amazing wallpapers.

Download Transformers 3 Theme for Windows 7

• Microsoft offers Free Harry Potter Theme – December 5, 2010
• Wanna Earn $25k? Just Spot the ‘Twins’ in Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon – May 17, 2011
• Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon Trailer to Release with Fast Five This Friday! – April 29, 2011
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• Windows 8 Beta Late February 2012: Official Public Release of Windows 8 in January 2013 – December 8, 2011
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• Halo 4 Teaser Trailer Released at E3 2011 – June 7, 2011
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As you can see from the template users will be able to see tweets, frequencies, search queries and a lot more.

• Perform up to 5 parallel Twitter Searches (limited to 1500 results per query per day).
• Drive ad-hoc analysis of tweets by day, by hour, by tweeters, by #hashtags and @mentions.
• Customize your views (using slicers, DAX formulas or reference tables).

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There are a lot of reports this morning that Samsung are preparing to acquire Nokia. Nokia recently signed with Microsoft to produce Windows Phone 7 devices and it seems like Microsoft could even be a potential buyer. However, it seems as though Samsung are interested in Nokia and very close to closing a deal.

I cant see Microsoft acquiring Nokia and making their own device, so Samsung is the perfect match for the company. Im quite surprised HTC havent thought about putting together a syndicate.

• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 Mobile Phones Coming Next Week – October 24, 2011
• Nokia Windows Phone 7 Devices Expected 2012 – March 16, 2011
• Windows Phone 7 Theme for Your WordPress Blog – May 31, 2011
• Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion in Cash – May 10, 2011
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Expect Halo 4 during the Christmas season in 2012.

• Video Preview of Microsoft Windows 8 Tablet PC – June 14, 2011
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Check out and download the theme here for free.

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• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 Mobile Phones Coming Next Week – October 24, 2011
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• Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion in Cash – May 10, 2011
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In the world of commerce, losing important contact details can be catastrophic. Scrabbling around in drawers looking for a crucial business card, without which a project will simply grind to a halt, can be a terrifying prospect. Even in our personal lives we’ve seen our list of phone numbers almost double over the last couple of decades as people have steadily acquired mobiles. Whichever way you look at it, the age of paper phone books is slowly drawing to a close (according to the Local Government Association, unwanted copies of the Yellow Pages create 75,000 tons of waste paper annually).

There are plenty of ways to store such information electronically – you could just type a long list in a Word document, for instance. However, this is not nearly the most functional or efficient method.

Excel and Access are perhaps the best tools for the job, and today we’re going to look at how you can use the latter to create an electronic phone book.

For the purposes of this tutorial we’re going to assume you are using Microsoft Access 2007. If you have a different version of the application, there may be some subtle variations between the programs but the fundamentals remain the same.

Step by Step: Creating an Access Phone Book

As with many of the Office applications, you’ll be no doubt pleased to hear that Access does most of the hard work for you. There is a template for precisely the task we’re about to undertake together, and it couldn’t be simpler to perform. Read on however, and we’ll run you through each step in detail. You’ll need to be connected to the Internet to follow the template wizard.

- Open Access (this should be under the Start menu in the Microsoft Office tab)

- When Access opens, you’ll be faced with the Getting Started window in which you should see the Featured Online Templates section. Here you’ll be able to select the Contacts option. This lets Access know that we are looking to download a template with editable contact information.

- Before hitting the Download button, choose a name for your phone book. Once this is done a new window titled Getting Started with Contacts will open – feel free to watch the videos giving you more information on the process, or close it and move on to the next step.

- Now we get to the data entry portion of the task at hand. Click on New Contact which will produce a Contact Detail window with a variety of tabs. If you’re not there already, select the General tab. From here we can put in contact details for each individual we wish to archive, including addresses and phone numbers.

Don’t feel that you have to create two separate databases for both work and home – you’ll notice at the bottom of the window that you can specify whether a contact is for personal or professional use. Afterwards, you can filter your search for either when searching through your phone book. With this system, you can keep the addresses and contact numbers of your family members in the same place as your colleagues’ details.

- After completing the first lot of details, select Save and New. This will give you a fresh Contact Detail window in which you can repeat the last step for as many times as necessary. Once you’re finished added contacts, hit Save and Close.

- You can now specify how you want your contacts appear in the database by utilizing the column headings. Typically, your contacts will be displayed in alphabetical order by name.

Five minutes later, and you’re done! Hit Phone Book to finalize the database and take a look. You can search through your new contacts database using the Access control panel, quickly jumping to the exact person you need without having to flip through a notepad or rolodex. In fact, now you’ve got everything safely backed up on the computer you can delight in chucking all those hastily-written scraps of paper in the bin. One less piece of clutter on the desk is always worth a few minutes of your time!

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Soon we will be able to use video calling on Video Kinect, Live Messenger, Windows Phone 7, iOS, Android and more. Thus, there will be no reason to not stay in touch with your old friends and family.

• Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion in Cash – May 10, 2011
• Avatar Kinect: Virtual Meeting on Your Xbox 360 – September 26, 2011
• Xbox Kinect 360 With Over 5000 Swarovski Crystals – September 24, 2011
• Microsoft LightSpace: Moving Files with your Hand – October 9, 2010
• Fring: VoIP for Your Mobile, Now also Do Video Calls – November 27, 2009

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It has now been confirmed that Microsoft have acquired Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Microsoft and Skype are yet to confirm the deal themselves, but a press conference is expected later today.

This is a great result for all investors in Skype who were starting to get a little nervous about their anticipated IPO later this year.

Who were the big winners in this deal:

• If the price is $8.5 billion. eBay received around $2.55 billion for 30%. Great result!
• Founders – Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis made about $1.19 billion for their 14% stake.
• Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) own 56 percent of the company and that stake is worth $4.76 billion.

It will now be very interesting to see what Microsoft can do with Skype. There is already a lot of talk about Skype on Kinect and we will post a little something about that within the next hour.

Why did Microsoft buy Skype:

• Great enterprise tool that uses Skype voice call, video calling and sharing options
• Relationship with carrier who are looking to partner with Skype
• Mainly for Windows Phone 7. Skype will offer Microsoft a competitor to Google Voice and Apple Facetime

• Microsoft Acquisition of Skype Could Really Help Video Kinect – May 11, 2011
• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 Mobile Phones Coming Next Week – October 24, 2011
• Avatar Kinect: Virtual Meeting on Your Xbox 360 – September 26, 2011
• Xbox Kinect 360 With Over 5000 Swarovski Crystals – September 24, 2011
• Samsung Rumoured to be Acquiring Nokia – June 8, 2011

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So what do you do if you get hit by this lovely virus? A non-techy person could take it to a computer repair shop and spend anywhere from $85-$150 to get it fixed. Or for you geeks, you could fix it yourself using the following steps:

(Please note the following steps are for experienced users only – if you are not comfortable performing any of the below steps, take the computer to a professional!)

1)      Immediately boot into Safe Mode (with networking) and do not leave this until you are done! (Mashing F8 at the boot screen will do this on most computers – read the boot screen if F8 doesn’t do the trick)

1. If you have to reboot at any time, make sure you boot back into Safe Mode!

2)      Download and run RKill: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/anti-virus/rkill. This will terminate the virus from running and allow you to clean up the computer. Any of the download links should work – they just have various names to confuse viruses.

3)      You need to be able to see the folders/files which are hidden. To do this, do the following:

1. Click your start menu
2. In the ‘run’ field, type “cmd” and hit enter
3. Type: c:*.* /d /s –h

• **The virus may make files read-only as well. If so, include –r.
• **If the virus makes files system files, add –s.
• Do NOT add any unnecessary –r or –s commands. Only use these commands if needed.

4)      Make sure you have the following programs installed and updated:

1. Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/)
2. Super AntiSpyware (http://www.superantispyware.com)
3. Remove ANY other antivirus program you have as most don’t live up to their promises and often do more harm than good (ESPECIALLY Norton, McAfee and AVG).

5)      Run a FULL scan on both Security Essentials and Super AntiSpyware.

6)      Clean up your registry! (If not comfortable with this, pay for a professional cleanup!)

1. Go to Start –>Run–>’regedit’ and hit enter, then ‘Ok’ or ‘Yes’
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER–>Software–>Microsoft–>Windows–>CurrentVersion–>Run
   i.      Remove anything which looks suspicious and is not a file you recognize. For instance, an entry with a name like FKA546542EJJAL and stored in a temp file is probably a virus (EXAMPLE ONLY). This is also a good time to remove unnecessary programs from starting up at boot time.
3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER–>Software–>Microsoft–>WindowsNT–>CurrentVersion–>Winlogon
   i.      Again, remove anything suspicious. If you don’t see anything obvious, DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING.
4. Go to HKEY_USERS–>’user name’ or ‘.DEFAULT’–> Software–>Microsoft–>Windows–>CurrentVersion–>Run
   i.      Remove suspicious files as mentioned above
   ii.      Do this for EVERY user
5. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE–>SOFTWARE–>Microsoft–>Windows–>CurrentVersion–>Run
   i.      Remove suspicious files (be EXTRA careful here as some of these files are necessary for system files to run at startup. Again, if not sure, take it in for a professional cleanup!)
6. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE–>SOFTWARE–>Microsoft–>WindowsNT–>CurrentVersion–>WinLogon
   i.      Double click on ‘Shell’ and make sure it ONLY says ‘explorer.exe’. If there is anything after it, delete it!
   ii.      Double click on Userinit and make sure it ONLY says ‘C:Windowssystem32userinit.exe,”. If there is anything after it, delete it!

7)      Lastly, do a quick file cleanup

1. Go to C:WindowsSystem32
   i. Sort by Date Modified – click twice so you see the most recent date on top
   ii. Going from the date you got infected (hopefully you are doing this the same day or the next day) remove any files which look suspicious (yet again, if you don’t know what you are doing, take it to a professional!)
2. Go to C:Windows and do as above but look at folders as well as files
3. Delete cookies and temp files (any self-respecting geek knows how to do this already)

So by now you have:

1)      Made your files viewable and usable again

2)      Removed the virus and any associated viruses or malware through using the recommended software

3)      Removed registry entries to prevent anything bad from loading on startup and thus re-infecting your machine

4)      Removed any negative system entries which may also be contributing to the problem.

You might have even discovered you had other spyware, malware or viruses you didn’t know about throughout all this. But if you did everything correctly, you should be clean. If not, now is definitely a good time to take the computer in for a professional cleanup as your machine likely has bigger problems than you were aware of. Good luck!

**Please note that running these commands will make EVERY file on the system viewable and editable, including previously hidden system files you shouldn’t mess with. Use extreme caution when working with files after doing this. If you aren’t comfortable with this, consider paying for a professional cleanup.

• How to Easily Implement a Centralized Antivirus Solution Using GFI VIPRE Antivirus – February 9, 2011
• Microsoft Free Antivirus Releasing Today – September 29, 2009
• Windows 8 Leaked Image: Looking Sames as Windows 7 – March 16, 2011
• Old Windows XP – September 5, 2011
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Internet Explorer 10 preview required Windows 7 to test out all the cool new features. Internet Explorer 10 supports full HTML5 standards and even supports CSS Flexbox, CSS3 Grid Alignment, CSS3 Muti-column, CSS3 Gradients on background images. You can try these features at IE testdrive site to get a feel of it.

• Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 10 Preview 2: Download Now – June 30, 2011
• Internet Explorer 9 to be Available to Download March 14 – March 11, 2011
• Internet Explorer 9 Launch February 10 – February 1, 2011
• Create Your Own Firefox and IE Toolbar – April 15, 2011
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Microsoft seems to be the latest company to get App Store fever! There have already been a few Windows 8 leaked images and here is the latest. The above image is leaked from Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 and its of the new Windows App Store.

It seems like Microsoft is trying to bring together the designs of IE9, Windows and Windows Phone 7. The Windows App Store seems very similar to the design of Internet Explorer 9.

• Windows 8 Leaked Image: Looking Sames as Windows 7 – March 16, 2011
• Windows 8 Beta Late February 2012: Official Public Release of Windows 8 in January 2013 – December 8, 2011
• Windows 8 with Nice Blue Screen of Death – September 15, 2011
• Download Windows 8 Now – September 14, 2011
• Old Windows XP – September 5, 2011

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Microsoft has just released some official Windows Phone 7 stats. The stats look very impressive and it seems they are gaining on a lot of other platforms.

Numbers:

• 11,500 applications
• 7,500 paid applications
• 36,000 developers
• 1,200 new developers being registered every week

Windows Phone 7 has shown some great growth, but the are still a long way behind iOS with 300,000 applications and Android with 100,000 applications.

“We recognize the importance of getting great apps on our platform and not artificially inflating the number of actual apps available to customer by listing “wallpapers” as a category, or perhaps allowing competitor’s apps to run on the platform to increase “tonnage.” We also don’t believe in the practice of counting “lite” apps as unique quality content. (…) Finally, we don’t double and triple count apps which are submitted in multiple languages.,” he explains in the blog post.

[Windows Phone Developer Blog]

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There are a couple of caveats: you need to be a US resident, and you need to have an Xbox 360.

Microsoft’s Major Nelson also says being a paid Xbox Live Gold subscriber will help your cause too, so bear that in mind when signing up.

If you are selected you will also receive a free copy of Halo: Reach.

So click here to signup.

• Avatar Kinect: Virtual Meeting on Your Xbox 360 – September 26, 2011
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Microsoft has convinced Nokia to adopt Windows Phone 7 and it seems like more and more app developers are moving over to the platform. I really think that Microsoft could start to use Windows Phone 7 in the same way as Apple are using iOS on all of their devices.

When can I see a Windows Phone 7 device without a phone?

The new iPod Touch has been a great product for Apple and has really pushed them forward in the world of music players. Since Microsoft recently announced they would be no longer making Zune music players, why not create a product dedicated to the Windows Phone 7 platform, but specifically for a music player and app tool?

• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 Mobile Phones Coming Next Week – October 24, 2011
• Samsung Rumoured to be Acquiring Nokia – June 8, 2011
• Windows Phone 7 Theme for Your WordPress Blog – May 31, 2011
• Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion in Cash – May 10, 2011
• Windows Phone 7 Numbers: Over 11,500 Apps with 36,000 Developers – March 31, 2011

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Foxconn parent company Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd has announced a great climb in profits. Hon Hai had a turnover of around NT$152.9 billion (US$5.2 billion) in the shortest month of the year. Over the first two months of 2011, Hon Hai’s revenues sit at NT$339.1 billion ($11.5 billion), a 31.5% increase over January and February 2010.

Foxconn has seen a great rise in revenues due to Apple’s iPad 2 and Microsoft’s Kinect, which are both manufactured by Foxconn.

• Foxconn Producing Over 30 million iPhone 5 Handsets in 2011 – September 9, 2011
• Foxconn Investing $12 Billion in Brazil to Manufacture iPads and iPhones – April 15, 2011
• Apple Announces iPad 2 Press Event for March 2nd – February 24, 2011
• Microsoft Buying Adobe? – October 9, 2010
• Microsoft Discourages PC Users from Buying Macs – August 12, 2010

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I find the revolving door of technology crazy at times. With IE9 only being launched only yesterday, IE10 rumours are already upon us. It is being rumoured that IE10 will be launch at the same time as Windows 8 (which would make a lot of sense).

Win7China claims to have a solid source that has released the information, and in the past this source has been on the money. If Windows 8 launch dates are correct, then IE9 will be a little over a year old when its expected that IE10 takes over.

• Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 10 Preview 2: Download Now – June 30, 2011
• Internet Explorer 9 to be Available to Download March 14 – March 11, 2011
• Internet Explorer 9 Launch February 10 – February 1, 2011
• Windows 8 Beta Late February 2012: Official Public Release of Windows 8 in January 2013 – December 8, 2011
• Video Preview of Microsoft Windows 8 Tablet PC – June 14, 2011

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