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So you finally bought a new computer that came with MS Office 2007 or you decided to bite the bullet and purchase or upgrade to Office 2007.
At first look, everything is simply and fantastically better… and then you start working…

Click on Start and select Run

Type “gpedit.msc”

…more accurately wear it!

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• Glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength.
• Shows signal strength for 802.11b or 802.11g
• Black 100% Cotton T-Shirt
• Animated Decal is Removable (with hook and loop fasteners) for Easy Washing
• Battery Pack is Concealed in a Small Pocket Sewn Inside the Shirt
• Runs for hours off three AAA Batteries (not included)

So you have removed the bloatware that came from your computer and you are still wondering why this new machine w/ incredible hardware specifications still does not perform as you expected.

Questions start running through your head:

• Is the operating system that bad?
• Are there remaining software to be uninstalled?
• Did I get a malware or virus?
• Are my expectations too high?
• Am I simply that dumb?

Well, stop questioning yourself and start tweaking your VISTA operating system services:

1. Understand the services offered in Windows VISTA:
   Read the 3 part guide to Windows VISTA Services: Part 1, 2 and 3
   
2. Consider the “simple” 13 steps to turn your VISTA into VXP (hybrid of Windows VISTA and XP)
   http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=819
   
3. Jump into the world of the true “geeks” and tweakers, and visit BlackViper (the reference for tweaking your windows services):
   http://www.blackviper.com/

Doing some research on Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and 3.0, Open Data, I came across quite a few interesting articles and links about RDF, RDFa and one pointing to DBpedia…

DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.

The DBpedia data set is a large multi-domain ontology which has been derived from Wikipedia. The DBpedia data set currently describes 2.6 million “things” with 274 million “facts”

The DBpedia data set currently consists of around 274 million RDF triples, which have been extracted from the English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Finnish and Norwegian versions of Wikipedia.

  The benefits of lists compared to standard Excel ranges are as follow:

• Sort and filter lists    
  AutoFilter drop-down lists are automatically added in the header row of a list when the list is created.

• Ensure data integrity   
  For lists that are not linked to SharePoint lists, you can use the built-in data validation features in Excel.

• Easier data entry
  using a list will reduce keystrokes, typos and allow more flexibility on the cursor movement and use of forms.

• Format list objects   
  You can format cells in a list the same way that you format cells in a worksheet.

• Insert rows   
  Another action that is common when you work with a list is to add a new row.
  This interface element consists of a blank row, displayed directly below the last row of data, with a blue asterisk (*) inside the left-most cell.

• Display a total row   
  To display a total row, click the Toggle Total Row button on the List toolbar.
  This total row is displayed below the insert row when the list is active, and shifts up to the row just below the last row of data when the list is not active.
• Compatible with lists in Windows SharePoint Services   
  When you publish a list to a SharePoint site, you are creating a custom SharePoint list.
  If you choose to link the list when you publish it, or when you export an existing SharePoint list, you can edit that list offline and synchronize the changes to the SharePoint list at a later time.

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