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Need to find out what grub your co-workers prefer for an office potluck? Trying to find out your friends' preferences on music? For simple data-gathering, building a linked spreadsheet and database can be overkill, and plain ol' Microsoft Office has a decent set of form-creating and data-gathering tools built in. CNET's Workers' Edge blog shows you how to create a form from scratch, distribute it to those you're polling, and gather all the data in a Comma Separated Value file that's readable in most any data-management program you choose. The tools used in the guide require Office 2003 or 2007.Create a simple form in Microsoft Word [CNET Blogs]
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CNET blogger Dennis O'Reilly is using Google Docs to manage his NCAA basketball pool; the bracket spreadsheet he put together is public and free for anyone to copy and use.
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Tech site CNET knows that finding the cause of a hanging or crashing application can be difficult, so they've rounded up several tips for hunting down the culprit when an application starts acting up. For example: Often the problem is not the software's fault. Bad memory modules cause many programs to hang. Chris Brady's Memtest86 is a free program that diagnoses memory problems, though it requires that you copy its files to a floppy disk or disk partition, and then run the program from there. Microsoft's Windows Memory Diagnostic loads easier onto a floppy or CD from which you boot to run its tests automatically.When you get an obscure software error, your first instinct may be to head to Google to see what it means. When you do, d read more »
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Google Earth has updated and integrated Google Maps Street View, meaning that not only can you soar over the globe with Google Earth—you can also hit the streets and look around when you get tired of flying. In addition to Street View, Google Earth 4.3 promises time-lapse videos of sunrises and sunsets, improved speed, and better 3D graphics. It's also added new first-person controls so using the software feels closer to what it feels like to play a video game. Google Earth is freeware for all platforms.
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Before you head out on the town tonight in New York City, find out where to get your thirsty hands on your favorite hard-to-find beer at BeerMenus.com. This menu search site just launched with over 150 beer menus, which include over 1200 beers. Browse by neighborhood, brew, or bar to get a beer menu that lists price (by bottle and tap), alcohol content, and brewery, plus a map of the location, web site, hours, and phone number. BeerMenus.com is New York only (so far?) and isn't yet comprehensive in its coverage there, but it's off to a great start for beer-lovers in the Big Apple.
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It was only a matter of time until the Mountain View-based company started looking for new worlds to explore so, after reaching the earth and the sky, Google gets ready for the ocean. Elinor Mills of CNET reports that Google may be interested in developing a 3D version of the ocean which would be integrated into Google's downloadable tool, Google Earth.
A few weeks ago, Google rolled out Google Earth 4.3 beta, a brand new version of the application which incorporates many new functions ... read more »
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A few weeks ago, Google rolled out Google Earth 4.3 beta, a brand new version of the application which incorporates many new functions ... read more »
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Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like "what is a life hack" or "paintings by Salvador Dali" and Powerset extracts those answers from Wikipedia and lays them out on an attractive page. CNET reports:
Powerset's natural language search technology is based on patents licensed exclusively from PARC and its own proprietary indexing. Powerset's engine has read 2.5 million Wikipedia pages and extracted "meaning" from the sentences, creating a navigation and semantic layer on top of the popular Web encyclopedia.
In my tests, Powerset was slow to respond (no doubt suffering from launch overload), but you can check out a video of Po read more »
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CBS Corporation was happy to announce today that it had reached an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States. According to the terms of the acquisition, CBS will acquire CNET Networks for roughly $1.8 billion, getting access to a combined 54 million unique users per month.
Being one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States, CBS has declared that this is a unique opportunity that they can't waste. Leslie... read more »
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Being one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States, CBS has declared that this is a unique opportunity that they can't waste. Leslie... read more »
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