Have you been using Microsoft Office 2007? Have you had  a hard time trying to find all those options you knew in Office 2003? Do you wish you had access to some sort of interactive help program to show you where the most popular Microsoft Office related tasks are in the new Ribbon? Well if you answered yes to all of those questions then look no further then the amazing Office 2007 Interactive Command reference Guide! That’s right friends you to can find what you’re looking for with these five (5) reference guides and matching ribbon mapping Excel Workbooks today! Act now supplies are not running out and this is not a limited time offer, but if you don’t act now you will be another day without the knowledge to complete your tasks with ease.

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You may have noticed if you took those beta exams all the way back in December of last year that they still showed up as a “Tested” status in your Prometric Candidate History. Well start checking your stats because the scores are now finally being released. 71-625 is still a TS exam, however if you passes 71-626 you will notice it is not. Microsoft has stated that they are looking into what type of certificate you might get for passing the final exam when its released, so for now be happy if you passed, but it may be a few months before you find out what type of certification you earned.

for those that don’t remember thee beta exams, they were both based on Windows Vista and were aimed in a way at Big box stores like Best Buy for system sellers installers who use media Center products to integrate the modern home. This is the longest period of time I can remember waiting on beta results….And you may need ot wait longer, not all results are in as Prometric is still grading the exams now that Microsoft is done looking them over.

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So you want to get Microsoft Certified or maybe you just want to update your existing  certifications but somehow it all seems a bit bewildering with the new tracks. A couple years ago Microsoft began transitioning their certification tracks, as you may well have noticed by now tracks like the MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA and others are no longer offered for the newer technologies and you may be wondering as to the reasons Microsoft would make this change. And while I can’t personally speak for Microsoft or Microsoft Learning I can speak as to why I believe they’ve done this and hopefully alleviate some of your concerns and questions as to the flow of the New Generation of Certification. We’ll start by talking about the old certifications and work our way forward to the newer generation certifications like the MCTS, MCITP and MCPD.

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If you have a BlackBerry with a GPS chip and want to use Garmin’s GPS service you can now get a lifetime subscription for $99 (US) instead of paying $9.95 per month. It is a shame this is only for Blackberry users but it stems from a lawsuit Supreme Court of the United States Case 497, 2132 AD. Happy navigation.

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Now I know internal sales videos at corporations are supposed to be cheesy, but damn. This seriously has to be the worst ideas for a sales video I’ve seen since Benito Mussolini parodied Groucho Marx in an attempt to gain support for the Lateran Treaty. This is so incredibly brainless I now feel dumber for having seen it.

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San Francisco - A team including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Princeton University, and other researchers have found a major security flaw in several popular disk encryption technologies that leaves encrypted data vulnerable to attack and exposure.

“People trust encryption to protect sensitive data when their computer is out of their immediate control,” said EFF Staff Technologist Seth Schoen, a member of the research team. “But this new class of vulnerabilities shows it is not a sure thing. Whether your laptop is stolen, or you simply lose track of it for a few minutes at airport security, the information inside can still be read by a clever attacker.”

The researchers cracked several widely used disk encryption technologies, including Microsoft’s BitLocker, Apple’s FileVault, TrueCrypt, and dm-crypt. These “secure” disk encryption systems are supposed to protect sensitive information if a computer is stolen or otherwise accessed. However, in a paper and video published on the Internet today, the researchers show that data is vulnerable because encryption keys and passwords stored in a computer’s temporary memory — or RAM — do not disappear immediately after losing power.

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So you want to share files, but you don’t just want to let “Everyone” have full control. Understanding permissions can be difficult if you don’t pay attention. Let’s start by breaking down both the shared folder and NTFS File/Folder Permissions available to us. With the shared permissions you can choose form only three permissions, Read, Change, and Full Control. The NTFS Folder Permissions are Read, List Folder Contents, Read & Execute, Write, Modify, and Full Control and the NTFS File Permissions are the same minus the List Folder Contents. So alone it’s pretty easy to understand what permission would do what. For example if I gave you the NTFS Permissions Read, Write and Modify on a Folder it would be obvious that you’d have the ability to read, write, create, delete and modify files in that folder. The problem many inexperienced administrators run across is what happens when we start sharing folders and the permissions come together. It’s that convergence of permissions that is the single focus of this particular article.

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