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Instead of addressing project problems as they crop up, you can use Pareto Analysis to spend your time more wisely. 

Due to the bad economy, fewer people are using the word “no” in the workplace.

With the real or imagined specter layoffs, employees feel that turning down any project or responsibility will mark them as dispencible, so they keep taking on new duties until they’re turning in 60- or 70-hour workweeks and missing deadlines.

Even the self-employed are not immune. Even though you may sense that the assignment is simply the wrong thing to do — fear of poverty may propels them to take on the task anyway.

If you really want to fine-tune your Firefox functionality, you have to roll up your sleeves and tinker with the about:config page. Jack Wallen shares some simple hacks to make Firefox work the way you want.

In the 90s they said the PC computer was dead, replaced by thin client and dumb terminals. Today they say that Netbooks and the Cloud (application and storage on the internet) is the final nail in the PC coffin. And there are a lot of high-profile companies with big stakes in both technologies pushing with all of their might to end the PC reign. Is this the end of the PC?

Back in the day of the written letter, people might have been advised to put certain types of letters in a desk drawer for a few days before mailing it — you know, the emotional ones, the accusatory ones, or anything that might serve to offend or upset the recipient. The thought being, of course, that if you think about what you wrote for a few days, you might decide that discretion really is the better part of valor and that you should throw it in the trash instead of in the mailbox.

Sometimes, it’s handy to get a quick view of data that matches up between two columns. By combining an Excel function and the conditional formatting feature, you can easily accomplish this.

We recently encountered two situation where the user could not check spelling in a document that was originally created by someone else. When running Spell Check, they received a message that said "The spelling and grammar check is complete. Text marked with 'Do not check spelling or grammar' was skipped.

This is what we did to fix the Spell and Grammar check:

When the best security measures aren’t possible (or necessary), you can implement less robust security measures to protect your data and design. Just keep in mind that the following tips prevent accidents by honest users and the mildly curious with enough knowledge to be dangerous. These tips don’t offer reliable security, in and of themselves. But by combining a number of them, you can get a level of security that’s better than no security at all.

Takeaway:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin—what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?

If you are not using strong passwords a hacker can crack it in less than 20 seconds. And just because your computer is behind a locked office door doesn’t mean it’s safe. A hacker can use your computer and login password over the internet to get into your office network, and that is why a strong password policy is so important.