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Excel isn't the only data charting software in town—you can add trend charts using Word, and then insert it into your document or distribute the chart on its own.

Example Sales Report: You are writing a sales report in Word and would like to include a chart that shows the latest sales trends for the North region. You have access to the worksheet data, which includes the latest sales results for the South, East, and North regions. Even if you don't have Excel, you can still create your chart in Word, and this is how we do it:

BotNet is a jargon term for a collection of software agents, or robots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is most commonly associated with malicious software, but it can also refer to a network of computers using distributed computing software. Distributing Computing means that part of the program runs of thousands of computers, and most folks don’t even know they are part of the BotNet network. While BotNets are often named after their malicious software name, there are typically multiple BotNets in operation using the same malicious software families, but operated by different criminal entities. Fact is, BotNets has become a billion dollar industry, and most of it is run by organized crime.  Is your computer working for organized crime? Let’s find out more….

Organic Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of crafting or improving a website to increase search engine ranking, resulting in higher volumes of traffic to a web site. The assumption is that the higher a site is presented in the search results, or the higher it "ranks," the more searchers will visit that site. So effective SEO improves ranking for specific target audiences.

I know many other people, in many different occupations, whose work has been made easier by the Internet. I know many others whose jobs wouldn't even exist if not for the 'net. But it's not just those of us with legitimate jobs who are aided by today's technology. Unfortunately, in our increasingly connected society, it's also easier for criminals to do their dirty work. And I'm not just talking about phishes and hackers and others who operate solely at a distance.Believe it or not, local thieves and con artists benefit from the internet as well...

There are now gibillions of mobile apps available across the  leading SmartPhone platforms: Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm, and Android. With all of those apps, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the good ones, especially for business users.

I’ve picked nine apps across a handful of categories that I consider the top mobile business apps for Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm, and Android SmartPhones.

In the past few months we have brought to you stories about American companies and the US Government implementing Open Source solutions. The article highlights noteworthy international Open Source projects.

An extremely handy function of Outlook is the ability to create new tasks and appointments from emails, and this is how we do it:

Sometimes, you may need to replace a formula with its results - either to preserve a static value or to optimize your sheet by reducing calculations. There’s a pretty simple trick for this, but a word of warning: Be sure you really want to wipe out a formula before you do it. (There could be undesirable consequences.)

If you need to send the same letter to people listed in two different database tables, you don't have to create two different mailing lists. You can use Microsoft Access's Union query to combine the two tables into one list.

Example:

In the last 2 years we learned that “shovel ready” doesn’t mean squat. But “earth moving” is a different matter, and there are several projects that affect the Summerville economy where earth is moving, tractors are rolling, pipe is going in the ground, you can hear it and you can see it for yourself. Here are 10 project you should know about: