Office 2010 has just been released to the public, and many of us are excitedly upgrading to the latest version (especially students, who happen to get a really good deal ).  But what exactly does Office 2010 offer users?  Users of Office 2003 and earlier will notice major changes with the ribbon interface, but if you’ve already been using Office 2007 this won’t feel new.  So here are some quick videos from Microsoft...

Being a college student can be awful at times … between homework and rising tuition costs, it seems like you never get a break.  But guess what?  There are still some great advantages to being a student, and one of the biggest is the discounts you can get on software.  Microsoft gives very generous discounts to students on their most popular products, and even gives away their developer tools with the Dreamspark program.  College...

Cloud computing has taken the world by storm.  From the newly released Microsoft Office Web Apps and the popular Google Apps to collaboration tools such as Dropbox and Backpack from 37signals, more and more of us are using online applications and storing more data in the “cloud” every day.  But with our data scattered around between various services, we still keep large amounts of data on our computers.  Favorite mp3s,...

Are you ready to get started with cloud computing?  Whether you’re a developer wanting to tab cloud resources for your application or are simply a home user wanting to backup your files securely online, Windows Azure is a great cloud computing service from Microsoft that can meet your needs no matter how large or small.  You can use as little or much storage or computing power as you need, and be certain that your projects and...

Have you ever wondered which fonts are included with Adobe Photoshop?  I’ve recently been comparing Photoshop CS4, CS5, and Elements 8 with trial versions installed in XP on VMware Workstation.  This actually works very good for looking over the feature differences between each edition.  One thing I was especially curious about was which fonts Adobe included in each product.  I searched the internet and Adobe’s...