Download Free Microsoft Office 2007 Templates

Microsoft released a set of free designer templates for creating professional spreadsheets, documents, letterheads, invoices, email, newsletters and business cards.

The free download available online has  6 designer templates with option to customize the colour scheme before downloading. The best part is each design has matching template sets for presentations to invoices and emails to newsletters that will look sharp, consistent and powerful.

How to download the templates

1) Go to free templates web site

2) Choose your design by selecting one among the six preview thumbnails shown along the top

3) Customize the colour of the template by choosing one among the 9 colour options available along the bottom

4) Click on Download Template image to download a zip file of template set

How to use the downloaded templates

The instructions for using the templates are documented in a PDF file available at here and here.

 

Microsoft Free Office 2007 Templates [via Lifehacker]

 

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Learn To Use Windows Live Writer [Video]

Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop application from Microsoft that allows bloggers to post content to blogs as simple as creating a Word documents. Live Writer supports posting content to almost all the popular blogs like Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, live spaces, etc.

Microsoft has released a video that demonstrates the various features of Windows Live Writer and also how to use those features.

For bloggers who don't know to use Windows Live Writer this is a must watch video.

>>Download Live Writer   >>Live Writer Home   >>Live Writer Plugins

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How To Convert Microsoft Word Documents to PDF Files Online

It's no more required to install software on your computer to freely convert Microsoft Word documents to Acrobat Reader PDF files. Many free services are available online that convert Word to PDF quickly. The output PDF file will look exactly like your source document retaining all the text formatting, colours and images.

One of the best free online services that converts Word to PDF file format is Google Docs.  Let see how to use Google Docs

Using Google Docs To Convert Word to PDF

Google Docs, the online word processing and spreadsheet from Google is rapidly eating Microsoft Office share. This online service has a nice feature that allows us to upload word documents and download them as PDF files. Here is the step-by-step guide for conversion

1. Login to Google Docs service using your Google Account

2. Click on the Upload link

3. Use the Browse button to locate the source Word document that you want to convert to PDF

4. Upload the source Word document by clicking on Upload File. Wait till Google Docs completes uploading and opens the document(this operation takes few seconds depending on your Internet speed and size of source word document).

5. Select the option File --> Download the file as... --> PDF and choose the location where you want to save the converted PDF document

 

If you are interested to install free software that converts virtually any file to PDF use Cute PDF or for other way conversion(PDF-Word) use this application.

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How Google Detects Web Spam? - By Matt Cutts[Video]

Matt Cutts, a prominent Google Employee explains how Google detects Web Spam and the kind of systems they use to defend against it.

Via Google Blogscoped

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Microsoft Gives 91% Discount On MS Office 2007 If You Own .edu E Mail Address

Microsoft is giving 91% discount on retail price of Microsoft Office 2007 to all the students in United States who own a .edu email address. Most college alumni offices give their graduates .edu addresses.

The actual price of Office 2007 Ultimate is $680, and now  available at $60 for students until May 16th.

If you meet the following criteria then you can right away check this site to order cheap Office 2007 copy

1. Individual must possess a valid e-mail address at a U.S. educational institution which contains the domain suffix .edu;
2. Individual must be a student at a U.S. educational institution and must be actively enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrolment upon request.

The Ultimate Steal [via Lifehacker]

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Firefox 2 Refuses to be Default Browser After Uninstalling Firefox 3 Beta - Problem & Solution

Problem

Recently I installed Firefox 3 Beta application on my Vista Laptop. It was nice playing with Firefox 3 new features but I could not continue using it as most of the Firefox Add-ons  are not yet supported on version 3.0 beta. So I uninstalled Firefox 3 beta application.

After Firefox 3.0 uninstall, to my surprise I noticed that it is not able to set Firefox 2.0 as default browser. Even though I try to set Firefox as the default browser, it is automatically reset to Internet Explorer.

When I try to click web page links on applications like Word, Outlook, GTalk, Skype, etc..IE displays the web page.

I had a terrible browsing experience(sorry IE guys, I love Microsoft but not Internet Explorer) for 2 days as I was not able to set Firefox as default  browser.

Solution

My search on the Internet for tips to solve the problem proven vain. The only option left to me is to override the installation of Firefox 2 by downloading latest version of Firefox 2. I tried the final option and luckily It worked.

I've chosen to override Firefox 2.0 installation instead of uninstall and then install process. It is to make sure that I'm not going to loose any of Firefox bookmarks, add-ons & other settings.

Now I'm back to happy browsing with Firefox. Hope this post is going to be useful to someone who is facing the similar problem.

If you are already a Firefox user you may be interested to check our useful Firefox Tips & Tricks. If you are not using Firefox, then I would say that you are missing a lot.

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YouTube is now in India!

Check out the new Youtube Indian edition, at www.youtube.co.in with entirely local experience and featuring the content most desired by the Indian users.

Youtube debuts in India with dozens of local partners, including Zoom channel, UTV and Rajshri Group, among other production houses.

"We are very excited to bring a local version of YouTube to India considering the passion of users here for music and entertainment," said YouTube's chief technology officer and co-founder Steve Chen.

India stands in the 15 position for the video sharing website with 5 million unique Indian users.

"India is the 20th country for YouTube to go local, and from now on all searches on the Indian portal would be specific to India," YouTube International Manager Sakina Arsiwala said.

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What is Common Between YouTube and Airtel?

Airtel is the India's largest Mollie service provider and YouTube is the famous video sharing website from Google. Okay now guess what is common between these two companies?

Let me tell you, both share similar logo design. The colour pattern of both the logos as well as the caption text is very similar.

This is an amazing coincidence. Via Digital Inspiration

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Tricks To Install Yahoo & MSN Messengers On a Computer Not Connected to Internet

The latest versions of Yahoo & Microsoft MSN Messenger are installed with the help of online installer applications.

An online installer application is a small file which is downloaded first; it will then launch, download the required program from servers and begin installation automatically.  This means that the  computer on which you are trying to install Yahoo/MSN Messenger should be connected to Internet.

It is not only Yahoo & Microsoft but also other software giants like Google & Adobe are making the assumption that users are connected to Internet while installing software.

The online installation has many benefits like automatically detecting the parameters of the  computer and downloading the required binaries for installation. But what about the computers that does not have access to Internet? How do we Install Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger?

Here are the direct links to bypass online/web installers of Yahoo & MSN Messengers and download the offline installers

Links to Download Yahoo Messenger Offline Installer

Download Windows XP Version

Download Windows Vista Version

 

Trick to download MSN Messenger Offline Installer

There is no direct link to download MSN Messenger offline installer but we can backup the installer from web installer. Follow these steps to take a back of MSN offline installer

1. Go to Windows Live Installer
2. Choose Messenger Application alone from the products list
3. Click on Install. This downloads a web installer and then it automatically installs MSN Messenger
4. Wait till the installation is completed
5. Open the folder C:\Program Files\Common Files\WindowsLiveInstaller\MsiSources
6. You will find a file with the name Install_{Random Name}.msi and size of the file close to 16 MB
7. Take backup of this file and rename it as MSN Messenger.msi
8. Use the backup MSI as stand alone MSN Messenger Installer

Thanks Ashish Saini &  Raymond

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Vodafone To Sell iPhones in India

The Gizmo freaks of India have a good reason to celebrate as Vodafone is going to officially sell iPhone to its customers.

The major Indian news paper Times of India and technology blog Engadget has confirmed that Vodafone bagged the rights to sell iPhone in India but the selling price and date are not yet announced.

iPhones are already available in the Indian gray market which are mostly smuggled from US & European countries and unlocked to work with Indian SIM cards.

If you are willing to buy an iPhone then you may be interested to check our iPhone vs Entire Mobile Industry post.

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Nokia N96 Preview Video

Cellulare Magazine, an Italy based company posted 10 minutes YouTube video of N96, the flagship mobile of Nokia's  S60 platform.

This mobile is based on the highly successful Nokia N95 model and expected to be available in market by 3rd quarter of 2008.

To know more information about this mobile you may read The Nokia N96 redefines "high-end"  or browse the images and technical specification available at Nokia N96 Official Web Page

via All About Symbian

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New York Times Articles Pop up Word Definition On Double Click - Excellent Feature Of NYT

New York Times, the famous new paper published in New York and distributed internationally has a nice feature on their web site. Readers of the articles on the NYT web site can double click on a word to lookup for word definition.

Here is the popup window displayed by NYT with definition when I double clicked the word Foe on one of their articles

To try this option, open the New York Times news article and double click on any of the words; you will see a popup window with definition of the double click word.

This is a very useful feature for people who don't have good command on English vocabulary

Via KillTechTips [ by Aseem Kishore ]

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