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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Businesses that deal in foreign currencies benefit if they know how to create a currency converter with Microsoft Excel. If the spreadsheet is able to convert currencies it helps speed up calculations and minimize mistakes. There are now downloads required, a simple formula will do it. All you have to ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
If you know how to change the orientation of text in Microsoft Word you can do it by first creating a text box, entering text in the box and then altering the direction of the text in the box. It is a simple procedure knowledge of which can help you ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Solver is an add in tool found in Microsoft Excel. If you know how to use solver in Microsoft Excel then you can use it to determine the maximum or minimum value of a problem, which is assigned to a cell in an Excel spreadsheet. In optimization, Excel Solver is ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Business Integration is key for those businesses that wish to obtain a birds eye view of their processes and get into a position where they can take decisions holistically and fast. Your IT integration will help you save costs and keep tabs on complex business processes that are essential for ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
One of the most critical performance aspects of an application is the actual SQL statement that either the application or the end-users execute to retrieve the data from DB2. Roughly 75% of all application performance problems result in poor performing SQL. The difficulty is that there are many semantically equivalent ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
ActionScript is a scripting language that is used for developing websites on the Adobe Flash Player platform. ActionScript was developed by Macromedia but is now owned by Adobe. In June 2006, ActionScript 3.0 debuted with Adobe Flex 2.0 and its corresponding player, Flash Player 9. ActionScript 3.0 was a fundamental ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
OpenOffice users can create a PDF quite easily as there is an option in the File menu ‘Export as PDF’. For other applications, a procedure needs to be followed. It starts with the installation of cups-pdf which helps produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a PDF printer ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
The book Foundation ActionScript Animation:Making Things Move! by Keith Peters is an excellent guide to basic animation theory and informs readers about math behind it. The guide works well for experienced animators as well as newbies and those who do not quite relish the idea of reading math.
You learn ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
This is a guide for converting music files into a format, namely MP3, which is compatible with several portable music devices. At the heart of this guide is the TuneClone, which is an audio converter application. TuneClone offers you a virtual CD drive to which you can burn the music ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Oracle SQL is a very popular dialect of SQL and one that has many extensions. This collection of tips on Oracle SQL is a handy reckoner for Oracle database programers and is worth printing out and fixing it at your workstation.
Tips and commands at your fingertips for easy reference so ...
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