More buzz from BUILD – Developers get their devices!

I just got back from the Anaheim Convention Center where I got to see thousands of developers receiving their Samsung prototype PC with Windows 8 Developer Preview.

   

Christian Loredo, John Tobin, Johnny Gabbai where the first 3 people in line for their devices and got a special surprise: Steven Sinofsky stopped by personally to hand them their PCs. Not only that, but Steven also signed their boxes!

  

After the developers picked up their devices, they had an option of picking up a completely custom laptop sleeve made from recycled banners from past Microsoft events that are specifically designed and fitted for these PCs.

I have to say that it was absolutely incredible to see such excitement from everyone as they unboxed their devices.

Speaking of unboxing, Mike Angiulo, Corporate Vice President of Hardware & PC Ecosystem, stopped by Channel 9 earlier to do an unboxing of the device with Larry Larsen. Check out the unboxing video below:

I can’t wait to see the kinds of apps developers make for Windows 8!

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Password Roundup: Protection, what is their

We know that password want to find, but in the immortal words of the Crabby Office Lady, "I have not forgotten."

While we recover a lost passwordcan help you, we have support resources with passwords and password protection. So, roll up you, you follow the guidelines for Office password, and then select from one of these resources, set your sleeves to help you with, change and remove passwords with Office.

Outlook requires a password to the login, but you can protect your personal Outlook data such as messages and calendar items with a password, to prevent the display of other people. To learn more:

Set a password to protect of your Outlook information (Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007and Outlook 2010)

Remove a password from a personal folder file (. pst) (Outlook 2003)

You can protect a full workbook, a worksheet, or even ranges in a worksheet using Excel.

Password protect worksheet or workbook, Excel 2003, Excel 2007and Excel 2010.

Unlock specific areas of a protected worksheet (Excel 2010)Change or remove worksheet or workbook elements element protection (Excel 2007)

Secure a workbook with a password (Excel 2003)

Change or remove a workbook password (Excel 2003)

Overview of the security and protection in Excel (Excel 2003)

Secure and protect data in Excel (Excel 2003 course)

Protecting a document from unauthorized changes (Word 2003)

Password protection for a file (Word 2003)Password protection for documents, workbooks, and presentations (Office 2007)

Remove or change a password (Office 2003)

Demo: set a password to open or modify a workbook, document, or presentation (Office 2007)

Demo: use passwords to protect your files (Office 2003)

You have something that you would like with readers about passwords or password recovery to share? We want to hear from you.

-Leslie H. Cole

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Fonts I: the families and their styles

Welcome to my first post about fonts, the indispensable Tyepface-y things, you to need decisions about everyday (the one for this doc; the one for, the e-Mail; for whom, how large, how small, how readable,... etc..).

Today, we go over some basics about fonts and then, in the next post or two, we the difference between the different types of them in some of the more juicy topics such as where and how some other fonts (because you never have can be enough),, and even how to create your own font (to talk about, I recently read that schools in 41 States no longer italic handwriting teaching willbe.) How can that be? (My third degree, left-handed is scrawl, almost illegible, priceless!)

Nevertheless, we are talking today enter not write. Let's go font it up.

Traditionally, the terms "Writing" and "Font" separately used were, and were not the same. It was used to be that a script was of a printer or Publisher designed metal manufactured and put into a press. The script was the design appearance of the characters, while a font a certain typeface in a size, a style and a weight (Helvetica bold 10 point was a font and Helvetica bold italic 10 point was a different font). Printer-resident fonts change, every time, if they wanted to change the appearance of a Word.

Now, times have changed and we are talking here made not of type metal. These days, it is pretty sure of which assume that "Font" and "Writing" on the same mean - perhaps not for designers, but you and I, not designers who only want our work to do.

This picture shows four different fonts:

ArialFrench script MTLucida BrightCurlz MT

A font family is a collection of all the fonts in a font with different sizes, weights (such as bold), and kind is (such as italic). The image below shows some of the Arial font are members of the family in education.

ArialArial BlackArial NarrowArial rounded MT bold

Ah, style. Some of us have it. and some of us do not. (Of course, some of us who know, and some of us do not.) Fonts in this case are the owning; You all have style. And make like your daily choice between Gucci and gap, otherwise requires any text location.

 

BoldItalicUnderlineDouble highlighted (if you really mean it!)Strike-through

There are many other species such as such as small caps, lowercase and superscript. Sniff which Office version you use and try some of these things in the works.

I realize that this is all very easy (we must begin the Beguine, you know) and so in the next posts I'll talk about things such as where your fonts on your computer, such as more to obtain and install new fonts are stored, and some best practices.

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