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The next part of introduction of the MS Office 2010 package is dedicated to the mail manager, calendar, planner and task manager all in one – we will explore the innovations brought by Outlook 2010. A fundamental change – and maybe a shock for some – is the fact that the Outlook’s user interface completely changed over to the Ribbon tab bar.

I personally consider the PowerPoint presentation software to be the third most used program of the MS Office package. As a part of the series introducing innovations in MS Office 2010 Technical Preview, today’s article will pursue innovations and improvements offered by PowerPoint 2010, for example video editing, improved animations or new templates.

We will continue the introduction of with introducing features of the new version of the Microsoft’s office package by showing the improvements of the Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet processor. As with Word 2010, in Excel you will also find slightly modified user interface and functional improvements.

What innovations will the new Microsoft Office 2010 bring? After leaked versions in torrents and on warez download servers, the betatesters finally have an official Technical Preview at their disposal. Today we will go through new features in the Word 2010 text editor.

New version of the AVG Internet Security 9.0 antivirus program is now available in a form of a beta version, so that testers are able to acquaint themselves with the new features of AVG 9.0 and also to help with fixing possible drawbacks. The new version offers several new features, for example faster scanning or better support of the gaming mode.

Do you like the concept of a new panel in Windows 7, which are on the toolbar buttons with icons instead of labels and large icons only running programs? Just a simple feature you will have on Windows Vista or Windows XP.

Experienced Linux Users can skip this article, users who are just beginning to toy with Linux, or interested in trying it out, will find some helpful tips. Since the appearance of Linux many years ago, we have seen many variety's of distributions. While others have already come and gone, not making the final cut for a majority of users, new users who wish to try Linux all face one common problem.

Looking for consistent color profiles for your web site or other projects where you work with graphics? A selection of five colors may not be easy for everyone. A helpful hand is the online application called Kuler from Adobe.

Do you have a website that regularly gets pictures uploaded to? Graphics is a pleasant and necessary complement to text, especially in an event such as writing a guide. Many of today's bloggers have their own idea of how images should look like; Someone just hastily crops images, while some else will carefully work on images, and a third will take screenshots using Windows clippings.

Microsoft operates a large number of projects designed to create new interesting applications for desktop and the web. Most often we hear about the projects from Microsoft Research. There is also a group of employees who operate the activity under the bran Microsoft Office Labs. One of their projects is Speed Launch, which is an interesting tool designed for running programs, documents and opening web pages or searching on the Internet faster.

Anyone who operates a Web site will sooner or later meet with one of the most current head aches – spam in comments. However, there are many ways to prevent it and some solutions allow a fairly simple solution in the form of protection directly on the form to send comments, while other special services are using spam revealing comments.

The new version of Microsoft’s operating system, Windows 7, comes with better built-in functionality for burning the CDs and DVDs. One of its new features is direct burning of the ISO files.

Some interesting projects are emerging from Microsoft Research to my RSS reader every now and then. A few weeks ago an even more interesting program appeared: Microsoft AutoCollage 2008; designed to to create collages of your photographs. If you have some interesting photos from your holidays, just tell the program where they can be found and in a matter of seconds you will create a nice photo from the collage.

A lot of people praise the various extensions available for the Firefox web browser. Firefox is an invaluable tool for Internet enthusiasts and one of the most interesting accessories you can equip it with is the extension called FoxTab. Instead of the ordinary tab switching mechanism, you will be able to switch tabs using a modern 3D environment.