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Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is a free editor and web design program from Microsoft for SharePoint and other websites. It is a part of the SharePoint family of products. SharePoint Designer shares its codebase, UI and HTML rendering engine with Microsoft Expression Web, and does not rely on Internet Explorer’s Trident engine, which is less standards compliant. One of its differences from the general web design application, Expression Web, is that it does include only SharePoint-specific site templates.

SharePoint Designer 2010

On April 24, 2010, the latest version of SharePoint Designer was launched, which was named as SharePoint Designer 2010. With SharePoint Designer 2010, you can build complete, rich, reusable, process-centric applications on the SharePoint platform that integrate external data. SharePoint Designer 2010 makes it possible to build composite applications by configuring or designing components such as data sources, lists, content types, views, forms, workflows, and external content types—all without writing any code. Further, SharePoint Designer 2010 now provides tools for all the important components in a SharePoint solution.

The user interface of SharePoint Designer 2010 has been completely redesigned to “put the ‘SharePoint’ into SharePoint Designer.” Now all of the important components in a site or solution — lists and content types, views and forms, workflows, data sources and external content types, page layouts and master pages — are easy to find. The new File tab makes it easy to open existing sites or create new sites. You can also open pages or sites that you have recently worked with, and add new components such as lists and workflows to the current site. Every site has a summary page where you can change settings or manage various aspects of your site. For example, you can now manage permissions directly from SharePoint Designer 2010. The Navigation pane makes it easy to find and navigate to all of the important components in a site that you use to build a solution Gallery pages make it easy to find and edit any of the important components of your solution. The Ribbon makes you more efficient and productive in SharePoint Designer 2010 because the Ribbon surfaces all of the important features in the right context for what you’re working on. Another new user interface in SharePoint Designer 2010 focuses on surfacing all of the important components in a SharePoint solution. If you used the Folder List in previous versions of SharePoint Designer, you can still have the experience of working with the files and folders in a site by using All Files view.

This is not just all about SharePoint Designer 2010. There’s lot more to SharePoint 2010. Take advantage of SharePoint Designer and other useful features of SharePoint 2010 hosting, SharePoint Foundation hosting or SharePoint Server 2010 – with shared or dedicated hosting by a SharePoint 2010 hosting provider.

The death of “The King of POP” though very much a surprise to the whole world, it again tests the internet to the limit causing Google to crash and prevent the biggest search site from returning results regarding Michael Jackson for about an hour. This is the main problem with the internet, the total unpredictability of the whole system which is made of several thousand or so individual components that have to work together to give you in a mere milliseconds the search results you expect. Google is known to be the largest or one of the firms with the most extensive data centers the world over that has remained secret as to location and many other details. Continue reading ‘Search Overload’ »

The site is a web service similar to Nokia’s site where you can back-up your phone’s contents for restore at anytime. There is also a function that allows people to share pictures and other messages as well as contact information to all you deem important. The site says customers will get 200MB of free storage for their files and records as well as scheduling information that may be contained within your scheduler software. You can edit and update your phone book through the site for upload to your mobile at the press of a button. Continue reading ‘Microsoft Set to Launch MyPhone’ »

Adobe, though quite late in the game has launched adobe.com a part of their strategy to take web publishing into their own hands. It allows digital documents to be made, collaborated and edited in real-time similar to capabilities of GoogleDocs that has offered the first online-real-time editing. The ability to have documents available to people all over the world, open by all and edited as needed, it makes it more productive to many. Business love the concept of such functionality for it shows in real-time, progress that is being done to resources that is spread over the globe. Continue reading ‘Adobe Takes on the WEB’ »

Rolling out soon is another version of the much used FireFox Browser from Mozilla, one of the world’s biggest names in browsers that took the crown from IE. Microsoft has released IE8 but still many prefer the open-source counterparts due to their apparent speed compared to IE. IE has been known to guzzle up resources and tends to have a huge overhead but surprisingly, testing resulted in FireFox having a little more in terms of disk space consumption when it comes to the temporary files it saves on disk. Continue reading ‘Firefox 3.5’ »

The current buzz in Microsoft right now has much to do with Windows 7, which is largely seen as a response to the mediocre performance of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows Vista. In the same vein, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which is currently at version 7, isn’t receiving good reviews anywhere, and is being trumped by Mozilla’s Firefox 3 and Google’s new browser, Chrome.

This is why there is Internet Explorer 8, which is still in the works, but is set to be released in its finality sometime in March. It boasts a faster performance that is set to rival (or maybe surpass) its contemporaries, and easier user interface controls and a much sleeker, cooler look. Parental controls have also been a major feature of IE 8, as well as a host of other features that Microsoft hopes will win back the hearts of internet users around the world.

The need for a reliable yet secure way to store information on the ever growing internet has prompted the introduction of off-site secure back-up which is currently being offered as part of some security suites like Norton’s 360. The program offers a sizable secure online storage space that can be used to store, say your contacts information or your company’s master list of clients and finances for safekeeping. Considering that threats (malware) comes in troves in today’s wired world, this may be a better option than having to copy all these files and placing them onto dvd’s which are then carried by somebody to a select location for safe keeping.
Continue reading ‘Will Off-Site Data Back-up Be Secure Enough?’ »

One of the great innovations for the web was the Instant Messengers. There are quite a lot of IM clients out there but it was limited to what you are currently using. With meebo, you can chat with people using other IM clients and it had no downloads required.

Meebo is an instant messaging software that runs inside a Web browser, as AIM Express, which supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk. Meebo makes instant messaging services more accessible to users who are unable or unwilling to download the software necessary to implement them.

So Meebo is the one for you if you think that downloading another program to your hard disk drive and still want to chat with your friends.

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MySpace is still the biggest social network in the U.S. for this year at least. MySpace is owned and operated by News Corp. But the news is not all that good. Because it is also observed that the overall traffic has only grown by 1 % since September 2007. As of this writing, the entire hits is just under 60 million visitors. While its biggest rival, the Facebook has grown by 116 % in the same time frame.

Here is a list of other top social networking sites.

• Classmates Online
• LinkedIn
• Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces
• Reunion.com
• Club Penguin
• AOL Hometown
• Tagged
• AOL Community

The fastest growing social sites, meanwhile is dominated by Twitter which sees a 343% growth since September 2007. Next is Tagged, followed by Ning, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Facebook, My Yearbook and Bebo respectively.

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New technology has made it affordable for medium and small businesses to take advantage of data storage. Some companies even specialize in storage for home networks and individual computers.

The storage companies send off site data backup software to the new customer to install. This enables the user to select the files to be stored and how often copies will be uploaded over a LAN or the Internet. The off site data backup software is different for different companies. High-end off site data backup software is able to backup open files without any add-ons, including the complex files for database programs. Some off site data backup software comes ready for multi-site backup for small businesses with multiple office locations.

Very good off site data backup software even offers online access to the user’s files. Most off site data backup software is ready to backup a variety of platforms and set the online schedules for automatic copying. Once a user understands how much data storage he needs, he’s ready to select his storage company and its offsite data backup software.