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Remove Excel Spreadsheet Password
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Its late at night and you’re finishing up a report you’ve been working on all night when you go to open the last spreadsheet that you need suddenly up pops a password prompt. Your idiot co-worker password protected that crucial file you need. If that report isn’t in by the morning it will be your job. To your rescue comes Excel Password Remover 2008, this simple extension removes the passwords from your spreadsheets. This can come in handy when you are in a time crunch. If you are looking to remove the file level password they point you to Excel Key which I have also personally tried which is a pretty stout program. These password cracks work with Excel 5.0 to Excel 2007.
Where did windows help go? Vista ate it.
Where did windows help go? If you are using Vista it will happen to you eventually, you will need to read the directions on how to use a piece of software and it might not be there. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to axe their perennial Microsoft help system because “it wasn’t Vista compatible”. Hello Microsoft, its your own software, make it compatible. So rather than update their own software they decided to abandon the legions of software titles out there that rely on their Microsoft Help system to provide documentation. However weeks after Vista was a gold master they somehow reversed their assertion and allowed users to download the help system from their website (so was it Vista compatible?). So you now have a option to get the old version of Microsoft help from their website (you can also copy over a version from your XP), but wait there has to be other options right?
A company called HelpExplorer has created a free for single user title called Help Explorer Viewer which essentially installs a high powered version of help that can read .hlp, chm, and Microsoft Help 2.0 (.hxs) files. Featuring a super fast search engine and a customizable interface this is help documentation on steroids. Several of my previous help files didn’t even have a search function and I found this so much more useful than the old flat file I had to navigate. If you are software developer you can also redistribute this version and bypass Microsoft’s flipfloppy software distribution and know that your users will always have a robust help section. If your old software’s help no longer works Help Explorer Viewer is a must have.
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Microsoft infringing on one of Apple Patents?
Is Microsoft infringing on one of Apple’s patents? Its no secret Microsoft uses transparent windows in its new Vista operating system, and while no one thought they came up with idea, no one looked to find out exactly who did. During one of my searches of Google’s Patent search they have I found a interesting patent by Apple. The patent describes a situation where a window that covers another would allow a certain transparency when you move the window over another. In their words:
- “displaying a base image on said display screen of said computer system; and
- displaying a translucent image on said display screen which covers at least a portion of said base image, wherein said covered portions of said base image are at least partially visible through said translucent image simultaneously with said translucent image, the translucent image being always non-reactive thereby precluding user performance of image operations with the translucent image and permitting user performance of image operations with said base image without regard to the overlying translucent image.”
- Keep in mind I am not a patent researcher, and I am sure Apple is not going to sue Microsoft for abusing one of their patents, but it does at least look like Microsoft is abusing this patent.
Convert XLSX to XLS or Convert DOCX to DOC easily
It was bound to happen sooner or later, I knew I would get a document created by Office 2007. So what do you do if you get one of these gems of compatibility? Do you upgrade to graphical nonsense or keep working with tried and true Office pre 2007, well of course you do not upgrade. However the world being full of idiots you will find someone plunking down cash needlessly for Office 2007. So what do you do when you get that goofy file extension xlsx or docx file and need to convert it? Look to Microsoft and download their File Format Converters. This download can easily convert the file extension xlsx to a regular old xls. It also allows you to convert docx to doc and save back down if necessary.
There are also web based converters such as docx2doc.com or zamzar.com which will covert your docx to doc and email back to you.
