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I was looking for information about customizing the “My Places” bar, and found this great article. It seems to actually be a sample chapter from a book. I found lots of great tips in here. I hope you do, too. BTW, customizing My Places is a real time saver if you have several efforts going on at once!

Office File Management for Experts

(Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of Que).

Without a sensible file-naming strategy and a clear understanding of where and how Office stores files, you’ll quickly be overwhelmed by the sheer number of files that Office programs generate. Fortunately, as you’ll learn in this sample chapter, Office 2003 integrates well with Windows Explorer, the essential file management tool used throughout the operating system.

In this chapter:

* What’s New in Office 2003
* Setting Up Office File Storage Locations
* Managing Files and Folders on a SharePoint Server
* Creating New Files
* Using and Customizing Common Dialog Boxes
* Storing Document Details
* Searching for Office Files
* Working with Multiple Files
* Setting Up Automatic Backup and Recovery Options
* Troubleshooting
* Secrets of the Office Masters: Details, Details

Social Media Will Change Your Business

Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later

Editor’s note: When we published “Blogs Will Change Your Business” in May, 2005, Twittering was an activity dominated by small birds. Truth is, we didn’t see MySpace coming. Facebook was still an Ivy League sensation. Despite the onrush of technology, however, thousands of visitors are still downloading the original cover story.

So we decided to update it. Over the past month, we’ve been calling many of the original sources and asking the Blogspotting community to help revise the 2005 report. We’ve placed fixes and updates into more than 20 notes; to view them, click on the blue icons. If you see more details to fix, please leave comments. The role of blogs in business is clearly an ongoing story.

First, the headline. Blogs were the heart of the story in 2005. But they’re just one of the tools millions can use today to lift their voices in electronic communities and create their own media. Social networks like Facebook and MySpace, video sites like YouTube, mini blog engines like Twitter—they’ve all emerged in the last three years, and all are nourished by users.

Much Ado About Google

A closer look at numbers showing that Web surfers are clicking on Google and Yahoo! ads less frequently than in the past underscores why counting clicks may not be the best way to measure the effectiveness of Internet advertising—and suggests concern over an online ad slump may be overblown.

SANS Institute – Community SANS Atlanta 2008SANS is pleased to announce Community SANS Atlanta, where we will teach
Security 401: SANS Security Essentials, in our signature bootcamp style,
March 17 – March 22, 2008. This course will be taught by Atlanta native
Richard Biever, for the third consecutive year. The previous two
classes sold out early. For complete course description details, and
to register, please visit http://www.sans.org/info/24358.

Security Watch: Why software still sucks – CNET reviews

In his 2000 article discussing software and complexity, Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane, wrote: “The technology industry is driven by demand for features, for options, for speed. There are no standards for quality or security, and there is no liability for insecure software. Hence, there is no economic incentive to create high quality.” What’s more, Schneier ends the paragraph by saying “…unless customers demand higher quality and better security, this will never change.” Eight years later, there remains only modest gains in software security–less on the subject of better coding practices, and more on the subject of vulnerability disclosure.

Windows Server 2008 Is Microsoft`s Leanest, Meanest Yet
“Faster” and “slimmer” are two adjectives to which few software product upgrades can lay legitimate claim—particularly if the software upgrade in question is a Windows operating system.

And, yet, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, which recently hit the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone, demonstrates that Microsoft is capable of producing a lean, mean server machine—and doing it, no less, atop the same code base that backs the company’s oft-maligned Windows Vista client operating system.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2008

This is an advance notification of twelve security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on February 12, 2008.

This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the February bulletin summary on February 12, 2008. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.