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Access vs. Excel – Which should I use for my database?

April 23, 2009 — 10:10 am

By:  William Gee

As a Microsoft Office software instructor for fifteen years, I am sometimes asked whether to use Access or Excel to keep track of database information and calculate summaries, subtotals or complex formulas and functions with the data. The fact is that Excel, which is probably best known for its number crunching capabilities, has robust database functionality. Access, which is indeed a database program, can perform many of the complex math formulas and functions that Excel is known for. So which should you use?

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David Thomas

Free and Open Source Alternatives to Photoshop

April 22, 2009 — 10:20 am

Author: Martin Bloughkinski

For any web designer, Adobe Photoshop is a must on any wish list. Photoshop comes with a multitude of features that allow exceptional and professional photo editing. But the reason many designers do not use Photoshop is simply the price, which can be too expensive. Fortunately for designers, there are numerous open source and entirely free programs out there that do as much as Photoshop if not more.

Doodlekit is a fully hosted online free website builder and CMS (Content Management System) that helps you build a personal or business website. It’s perfect for anyone from first-timers to advanced web developers and web designers. Unlike other website creator tools, Doodlekit is all online. You don’t need to install any software on your computer, and you can use it from any computer, anywhere in the world that has internet access, at any time.

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Antivirus Software (Part 2 of 10)

— 9:05 am

Like spam, viruses are a problem which affect all computer users, choosing the right anti virus product means that you are getting the best protection for your money while also minimising the performance impact the software has on your PC.

It’s all too common to find people with reasonable spec PCs that are being bogged down by their antivirus software.  How many times have you wondered why your relatively new PC is running slowly?  There is a good chance that if you’re using one of the more ‘famous’ brands that this is killing your PCs performance!

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An Alternative to Microsoft Office – save £200 per user

April 20, 2009 — 8:58 am

A new small business faces a many spending decisions around infrastructure, facilities and professional services.   Of these the IT setup costs can be a significant portion.   One area of expense is software and in particular licensing each employees PC with the Micorosft Office suite of applications (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint).  It’s important for most businesses to be able to create and exchange Word and Excel documents and so this may seem like a spending area that has no other choice.

However an “Open Source” alternative exists that can be downloaded called OpenOffice.org and is available from here:

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