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Archive for August, 2006


Izenda Ad Hoc’s web based Ajax Report Designer

Izenda (www.izenda.com) Ad Hoc offers a web based Ajax Report Designer.  Its a simple web based solution that an average business user can utilize to put together reports on the fly that can saved or the contents exported out to PDF, Excel, CSV, Word, RTF, XML or open Office.

The program offers a free Express edition or multiple license packages that start at just under $800. The program takes about an hour to install and deploy. Izenda is an Atlanta basec Microsoft Partner. They provide an excellent product demo video that walks a potential user through the navigation of the product.  There are many products coming onto the market to help people manipulate their data faster and easier, an Ajax web based solution is definitely worthy of serious consideration.  Its fast and flexible and the upfront costs and short time to implement make it very easy to start getting a return on an investment almost immediately.

Today is always a good day to start working smarter!

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Amazon offers Microsoft Windows Vista PreOrder Pricing

If you want to see the Amazon approved pre-order Pricing for the various versions of Microsoft Windows Vista
, look no further.

Microsoft Windows Vista PreOrder

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Written by: Brett Bumeter, President

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SolidWorks Application Programming forums Spreadsheet-CAD.com

For the Maven’s looking for more information about SolidWorks’ API integration for spreadsheets, please take a look at www.spreadsheet-cad.com.

Spreadsheet-CAD offers forums, blogs, videos and short training courses in Spreadsheet aided engineering and SolidWorks/ excel integration using VBA.

They also offer a solid collection of some top CAD blogs fed together in one location.

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Apple iBook G4 catches Fire in Japan

Apple spokeswoman Michiko Matsumoto confirmed that an Apple iBook G4 caught fire in Japan causing the user minor burns. Japanese authorities have ordered Apple to investigate the trouble regarding Sony batteries and report back to them in a week.

Japanese authorities are also questioning other laptop makers besided Dell and Apple regarding the safety of their batteries.

Dell issued a recall for over 4.1 million laptop batteries after embarassing videos and photos showed a Dell laptop bursting into flames during a conference in Japan. Apple, who purchased the same type of batteries from Sony, the battery manufacturer, initiated a voluntary recall a week after the Dell recall. Apple recalled 1.8 million batteries. It is not know if batteries sold in Japan were covered in these numbers. Originally, 1.1 million batteries were recalled for the United States and 700,000 batteries were recalled abroad, but the other countries and their numbers were not specified.

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PricePirates helps compare prices on Ebay and other online shopping sites

Looking to perform a little pricing arbitrage on internet purchases. Not sure if you are truly getting the best price at your preferred shopping locations. Enter PricePirates 3.0 a price comparison tool.

Most people shop around for price on the internet. It is just too easy to do and it’s too practical.

You can load something into a shopping cart and then open up a half dozen tabs and check the price at other sites. For many its the sites that come to them at a moments notice. Most people go to the same sites over and over again to check price. Services like Yahoo Shopping and Froogle do provide price comparisons also showing the best prices across a dozen stores or more.

Unfortunately, they also often have teaser prices that don’t pan out.

PricePirates 3.0 is a search tool that allows users to compare prices at eBay, Amazon marketplace and Shopping.com with one click. This covers three wide areas of the market all at once. Users can still cover any other preferred areas knowing that they have covered their bases even more thoroughly.

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