What Windows taught a Linux user, simple ways to customize Excel, the case for hiring a chief cloud officer

10 Things TechRepublic Member | July 20, 2012

10 things I've learned from using Windows Longtime Linux user Jack Wallen shares a few Windows-inspired revelations. Read more Resource of the day Free 2011 Salary Report IT Professionals - Register on activeTechPros for immediate access Business Professionals - Join the activeBizPros community to view the report 10 Excel defaults you can customize to work the way YOU want You don't have to adjust every Excel workbook to meet your needs. By changing a few settings, you can make all your workbooks automatically conform to your preferences. Read more 10 reasons you might need a chief cloud officer Capitalizing on the benefits of the cloud -- while managing its many challenges -- may require a specialized job role. Here's a look at what a CCO could do for your organization. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Review: UniBlue SpeedUpMyPC Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC can increase the performance and extend the life of a PC. Read more Bring back the 40-hour work week While it looks good to be the first to arrive and the last to leave work each day, it turns out that putting in 60 hours of work each week may do more harm than good in achieving end results. Read more Can IT really focus on business-facing initiatives? Scott Lowe addresses some reservations with the automation of certain IT functions. Read more Featured Webcast Social Meets IT - Using Online Communities to Reduce Help Desk Costs Your customers are an untapped source of knowledge about your products. Leverage social media to tap into this "free" resource. View this webinar and learn how you can improve customer satisfaction with easy access to user-generated content. Today's recommended downloads Free 2011 Salary Report Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Analytics and the Smarter Planet (IBM) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Social Meets IT - Using Online Communities to Reduce Help Desk Costs (Citrix Online) Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Coming to a business near you Manufacturers of the $40 Raspberry Pi Linux computer have lifted restrictions on bulk purchasing, opening the door for businesses to buy the boards for their firm. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! TechRepublic UK TechRepublic Australia Wrapper Web Designer The Enterprise Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise Google in the Enterprise

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What Windows taught a Linux user, simple ways to customize Excel, the case for hiring a chief cloud officer

10 Things TechRepublic Member | July 20, 2012

10 things I've learned from using Windows Longtime Linux user Jack Wallen shares a few Windows-inspired revelations. Read more Resource of the day Social Media Analytics: Making Customer Insights Actionable Check out this white paper to learn more about social media analytics and what they can do for your business. 10 Excel defaults you can customize to work the way YOU want You don't have to adjust every Excel workbook to meet your needs. By changing a few settings, you can make all your workbooks automatically conform to your preferences. Read more 10 reasons you might need a chief cloud officer Capitalizing on the benefits of the cloud -- while managing its many challenges -- may require a specialized job role. Here's a look at what a CCO could do for your organization. Read more Additional TechRepublic resources   Review: UniBlue SpeedUpMyPC Uniblue SpeedUpMyPC can increase the performance and extend the life of a PC. Read more Bring back the 40-hour work week While it looks good to be the first to arrive and the last to leave work each day, it turns out that putting in 60 hours of work each week may do more harm than good in achieving end results. Read more Can IT really focus on business-facing initiatives? Scott Lowe addresses some reservations with the automation of certain IT functions. Read more Today's recommended downloads ESG Lab Validation Report: Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease using NetApp FAS2240 (NetApp) Social Media Analytics: Making Customer Insights Actionable (IBM) The Business Value of Post Warranty Contracts (Hewlett-Packard (HP)) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) AC vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers (APC by Schneider Electric) Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Coming to a business near you Manufacturers of the $40 Raspberry Pi Linux computer have lifted restrictions on bulk purchasing, opening the door for businesses to buy the boards for their firm. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! TechRepublic UK TechRepublic Australia Wrapper Web Designer The Enterprise Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise Google in the Enterprise

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[TechRepublic] Costumes at Comic-Con 2012

Geekend TechRepublic Member | July 20, 2012

Some of the best costumes at Comic-Con 2012 Resource of the day Free 2011 Salary Report IT Professionals - Register on activeTechPros for immediate access Business Professionals - Join the activeBizPros community to view the report Additional TechRepublic resources   Comic-Con 2012 highlights and photos: The Hobbit, Game of Thrones, costumes galore At Comic-Con International 2012, attendees were treated to The Hobbit footage, Game of Thrones announcements, the Firefly reunion, and more. See photos of fans in unusual and geeky costumes. Read more Geek Trivia: What was the last astronaut wake-up song ever played aboard a space shuttle? Find out the last song ever used by NASA to awaken astronauts aboard an orbiting space shuttle. Read more It's time to build the USS Enterprise Read about one engineer's proposal that we should build a ship that resembles Star Trek's USS Enterprise within the next 20 years. What do you think of his idea? Read more Space holidays: How tourism is saving manned space flight Get ready for the ultimate package tour: Nick Heath talks to the companies developing the spaceplanes that could soon be taking you into orbit - if you can afford the ticket. Read more The great milk shake-up: Farm robots that toil till the cows come home As an IT pro, sometimes it's fascinating to see the application of technology in industries that are so different to one's own. Read more How to replace a broken screen on your iPhone Cracking your iPhone's front glass or the display might not stop it from working, but can make it difficult and unsafe to use. Here's a step-by-step guide to fixing a broken front panel on your iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S. Read more Featured multimedia   Unusual costumes at Comic-Con 2012 Comic-Con 2012 was held in San Diego, CA, on July 12-15. Here are some of the more unusual costumes from this year's event. View on site Eyes in the skies: Drones of today and tomorrow Unmanned aircraft were out in force at this year's Farnborough International Airshow. TechRepublic went along to check out drones old and new. View on site Featured Webcast Social Meets IT - Using Online Communities to Reduce Help Desk Costs Your customers are an untapped source of knowledge about your products. Leverage social media to tap into this "free" resource. View this webinar and learn how you can improve customer satisfaction with easy access to user-generated content. Today's recommended downloads Free 2011 Salary Report Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Smarter Planet Leadership Series: Air Canada (IBM) Free Inventory Reports with the Ratify Discover Engine - Software Download (Ratify, Inc.) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software) Perennial favorites   My first comic book: What got you hooked? Five more Avengers who are ready for their close-up, Mr. Whedon The 25 most quotable geek films...ever! Know your science-fiction subgenres Connect with TechRepublic Raspberry Pi: Coming to a business near you Manufacturers of the $40 Raspberry Pi Linux computer have lifted restrictions on bulk purchasing, opening the door for businesses to buy the boards for their firm. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! TechRepublic UK TechRepublic Australia Wrapper Web Designer The Enterprise Cloud Tablets in the Enterprise Google in the Enterprise

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Five ways to address tablet security

Tablets in the Enterprise TechRepublic Member | July 19, 2012

Five ways to address tablet security for corporate board members Corporate board members increasingly want to use tablets during the course of their meetings. Will Kelly offers us five ways to secure your sensitive data on board member tablets. Read more Resource of the day IPR Extends Its ZoneIT Virtual Private Data Center Service With NetApp Storage A recognized leader in managed IT services, IPR International deployed new private cloud and data protection services on a flexible NetApp FAS platform. The result, reduced CPU load and storage requirements by 50% and improved storage performance. Posts from TechRepublic   Rethink corporate content distribution for tablets An influx of tablets into your enterprise means it's time to review how you distribute corporate content. Will Kelly offers points to consider when distributing corporate content to tablets. Read more Google needs to more tightly control Android for tablet success Patrick Gray thinks that Android needs to be more tightly controlled by Google in order to achieve tablet success. Do you agree? Read more Turn your Android tablet into a phone with GrooVe IP Jack Wallen shows you how to turn your Android tablet into a phone with the help of the GrooVe IP application. Read more Posts from ZDNet   Good tablet apps do one thing and do it well The Swiss Army Knife approach is good for many things, but not for mobile apps. Focus on one thing and do it better than other apps is the way to go. Read more Google: Your Nexus 7 will ship this week or next Lots of people are anxiously waiting word on when their shiny new Nexus 7 tablet will be shipping, while others are already receiving theirs. This is the official word from Google as of today. Read more Nexus 7: Finally, validation for the smaller tablet The Nexus 7 by Google is not the first small tablet, but so many are seeing it for the first time that you'd think there had never been such a beast. For those of us who have been enjoying small tablets for a while, the Nexus 7 may finally validate the smaller form factor. Read more How to make your Nexus 7 not suck Google shipped their new 7-inch tablet with a built-in handicap. Here's how to fix it. Read more Verizon Wireless Galaxy Nexus is a Wi-Fi tethering lemon Looking for a great smartphone and LTE 4G tethering combo? Forget the Galaxy Nexus. Read more Microsoft: The Evil Empire re-Surfaces Microsoft seeks to demolish the 30-year-old industry that it worked so hard to create, and to return to its monopolist roots. Read more Featured multimedia   Five easy-to-use archiving/compression tools If you're looking for a better app to handle your archiving and compression tasks, one of these tools might fit your needs. View on site Five open source tools for knocking out business tasks Word processing, accounting, image editing, scheduling, emailing -- there's an open source tool for just about every facet of office work. View on site First look: Microsoft Office 2013 On July 16, 2012, Microsoft made available a preview version of Office 2013. This new Office is tablet-ready and Windows 8 friendly. View on site Featured Webcast Social Meets IT - Using Online Communities to Reduce Help Desk Costs Your customers are an untapped source of knowledge about your products. Leverage social media to tap into this "free" resource. View this webinar and learn how you can improve customer satisfaction with easy access to user-generated content. Today's recommended downloads Have You Supersized Your Data Center? Avoid the Pitfalls of Oversizing (APC by Schneider Electric) Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization and Consolidation in Midsized Firms with Network Storage (NetApp) Analytics and the Smarter Planet (IBM) Remote support for PCs, Macs and Smartphones (LogMeIn) Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software (Uptime Software)   Message to subscribers The Tablets in the Enterprise newsletter is now a co-branded ZDNet and TechRepublic offering. In addition to TechRepublic bloggers' tips about tablet deployments and management and new products, you will get the latest from ZDNet Mobile News, Hardware 2.0, Between the Lines, and Tech Broiler blogs. We hope you enjoy this expanded tablets coverage. Connect with TechRepublic Microsoft and Google may not like it but they're marching to Apple's drumbeat Every so often a force appears in technology that carries all before it. For the moment, Apple is just such a phenomenon. TechRepublic newsletters   Get product reviews, tech news analysis, tips, and more in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Tech Sanity Check Google in the Enterprise Cracking Open 10 Things

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