By Helen Bradley at PCWorld…
PowerPoint is practically synonymous with presentations. The application has all the tools you need to make a professional-looking slideshow that pops with audio, video, and custom animations. However, some features for designing a slick presentation are hidden deep beneath PowerPoint’s interface.
via 10 Secrets to Punch Up Your PowerPoint Presentations | PCWorld Business Center.
Okay I admit I’ve been to the Apple store and would love to have the new iPad. You know, the one that is not called the iPad 3? Meanwhile, I continue to be amazed at what the iPad 2 does for me. This article, and some of the comments from readers, validates many of my thoughts about what the iPad is and is not. What it is for sure is interesting.
By Thorin Klosowski at Lifehacker.
The iPad gets a bad rap as a device designed specifically for consumption. After all, its main purpose is to keep you connected to the world. Despite that, the iPad has risen up as a creativity tool and serves as an integral part in many people’s toolkit. To get an idea of when these devices are being used, we talked with a cadre of creative types to find out not just how they’re using iPads to make things, but why.
By Selena Frye at TechRepublic…
Takeaway: The source of this infographic on identity theft complaints in the U.S. is the Federal Trade Commission. See a breakdown of the numbers by age group and region.
This infographic, courtesy of Zone Alarm, details the ever-increasing problem of Identity theft in the United States. Complaints about identify theft to the Federal Trade Commission have tripled over the decade between 2001 and 2011. And for whatever reason, as the graphic shows, Florida leads all other states for the number of complaints.
via Infographic: The who, what, and where of identity theft in the U.S. | TechRepublic.
By Jaikumar Vijayan at Computerworld…
A recent data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 255,000 people in Utah has once again highlighted the longstanding but often underestimated risks posed to organizations by weak and default passwords.
via Weak passwords still the downfall of enterprise security – Computerworld.
Free and open-source fans rejoice, the first stable release of Calligra was announced yesterday,
By Michael Kan at CIO.com…
IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau) — Intel is working with 10 undisclosed Chinese and global vendors to design Windows 8 tablets using the company’s chips, a senior company executive said Wednesday.
via Intel Working with 10 Vendors to Release Windows 8 Tablets By Year-End CIO.com.
from RT.com…
An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity.
via Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web — RT.
By Meridith Levinson at NetworkWorld.com…
Workplace performance expert Jason Womack says changing the way we do our work to improve our productivity is hard because our processes have become habit, and in many cases these habits have made us successful (even if they drove us to the edge of sanity in the process).