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Saving an Excel File as XLSB Dramatically Reduces Size

Saving an Excel File as XLSB Dramatically Reduces Size

While we hope you never have to deal with Excel spreadsheets large enough to worry about file size, you may find yourself in the situation at a future desk job. Saving an Excel document using the XLSB format will reduce the size of the file while maintaining full functionality. The XLSB file type stores data ...

Coding Bootcamp Could Land You a High-Paying Tech Job After Nine Weeks

Coding Bootcamp Could Land You a High-Paying Tech Job After Nine Weeks

As graduation looms for the class of 2013, a new kind of school is preparing to transform code novices into employable Silicon Valley developers during a nine-week coding bootcamp. Designed to teach students exactly what they’ll need to land an entry-level developer position, coding bootcamps cut the fluff average computer science students encounter during college. ...

Android Malware Could Hack Your PC, Upload Phone Data

Android Malware Could Hack Your PC, Upload Phone Data

Windows users are accustomed to malware and the dangers it can present. An attack on your PC could easily put your personal data and online credentials at risk. Now, with mobile phone software becoming more sophisticated, malware is a problem that could follow us everywhere.  And an Android app recently discovered on Google Play, disguised as ...

Kno Adds SUNY Press to Digital Textbook Catalog

Kno Adds SUNY Press to Digital Textbook Catalog

Kno, an eTextbook retailer and education software company, has inked a deal with the State University of New York (SUNY) Press to bring thousands of the publisher’s titles to digital format. The SUNY Press partnership will allow Kno to expand its higher education catalog, particular in the areas of cultural studies, philosophy, political science, and ...

Ubuntu’s Phone OS will Turn Your Smartphone into a PC

Ubuntu’s Phone OS will Turn Your Smartphone into a PC

Canonical, the company behind the highly successful Linux distribution, Ubuntu, announced a new addition to their operating system line-up: a smartphone OS. Ubuntu for phones has been long overdue, coming nearly a year after the announcement of Ubuntu for Android, which runs Ubuntu alongside Android, allowing users to dock their phones to a monitor and ...

Run Windows XP from Windows 8

Run Windows XP from Windows 8

Windows XP is undeniably one of the best operating systems of all time. During its day in the sun as Microsofts flagship OS, XP garnered a reputation for ease of access, simplicity in design, and reliability in a way that few operating systems made before or since could match, so much so that a large ...

Skype Giving Away a Month of Free Calls, Today Only

Skype Giving Away a Month of Free Calls, Today Only

Skype, the world’s most popular internet video chatting program, is currently giving away a full month of video calls to new and current customers for free. But the offer is only on today, and it does come with a few caveats. Namely, you must enter a valid payment option that will be charged at the ...

Study Break: Jam with Friends on Chrome

Study Break: Jam with Friends on Chrome

Google has released a new, surprisingly addictive time-waster for it’s flagship browser, Chrome.  I cannot play a musical instrument. Like most people who can’t seem to commit to learning how to play I’ve owned at least three separate kinds of instruments in my life, one of which has been sitting on a chair some five feet ...

Get Soda PDF for Free, Today Only

Get Soda PDF for Free, Today Only

In celebration of Paper Free Day, designed as an initiative to encourage green and sustainable living, LULU Software is offering their PDF creation program called Soda PDF to anyone for free. The software itself is designed to be an easy way of creating, converting, editing, and viewing PDFs, including sporting the ability to view a document ...

Ubuntu (The Best Free OS Available) Updates to “Quantal Quetzal”

Ubuntu (The Best Free OS Available) Updates to “Quantal Quetzal”

Although the GNU-Linux system has been around for decades, the Ubuntu distribution of Linux has been getting increasingly popular these days, and for good reason. While Linux has a notorious reputation of inaccessibility for the layman computer user, Ubuntu has sought to change that in order to bring the projects wealth of refined freeware to ...

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