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Need SharePoint training for work? Start out with the free stuff!

If your job responsibilities include administering SharePoint at all, you’ll most likely want to find some good quality training. That’s true whether you are the administrator of the whole SharePoint farm, a site collection, or even just a site. SharePoint is one of those technologies that is not just “intuitively obvious,” and it takes a [...]

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Living on the Web with the Google Cr-48 Chrome Notebook

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On Valentine’s Day, the UPS man dropped off a suspicious package. I wasn’t expecting anything, and there was really no indication on the outer box to tell me who it was from. Once I opened the inner box though, I started to get excited…could this be a Chrome notebook? I’d registered for Google’s Chrome Notebook [...]

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10 Amazing Invoicing Apps for Freelancers

This is a guest post by Melissa Tamura. You can find out more about Melissa at the bottom of the post. As a freelancer, one of your biggest obstacles is ensuring that all your clients are invoiced as needed. You will find that there are a large selection of invoicing apps available, but finding the [...]

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Dr. Don Stewart and DS Art – MiscBytes Niche of the Month!

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What if you’d already not only finished college, but had graduated from medical school and even completed an internship at the Mayo Clinic, then finally admitted to yourself that your passion was not the medicine and surgery you’d spent all that time and effort and money training for, but

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Personal Development for Smart People

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This book is not fluff or platitudes. Steve is an extremely intelligent man who started programming computers at age 10 and is a very analytical thinker, and he examines personal development as a field that must obey universal laws just like physics does!

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9 mm SFX Custom Contact Lenses – MiscBytes Niche of the Month!

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This month’s niche of the month is 9 mm SFX , a custom contact lens company which specializes in theatrical and special effects contact lenses. Their contact lenses are responsible for a lot of the cool ocular special effects we see in many, many movies, commercials and music videos, and in fact 9 mm Special [...]

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Flatland – colorful math fun for all ages

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I saw FLATLAND: THE MOVIE a few weeks ago, and as a math lover I found it very geeky cool and wanted to share.  Apparently I am not supposed to buy the personal copy of the movie then display it for the rest of the world here, go figure.   So I’m going to embed the [...]

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Google Wave Sandbox – I have a login!

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Google has granted me access to the Google Wave Sandbox now, and I started exploring it late last night. I’ll be doing more posts on Google Wave as I learn about it. I just wanted to share with you the little I’ve done so far so you could see the screen shots for yourself! By [...]

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MiscBytes unusual niche of the month

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I’ve already told you I really love to see and hear about peoples’ niches, whether an occupation or hobby, and sometimes a niche is so unusual it makes me want to tell others about it. I’m not one who likes to commit to stuff too far in advance but I’m going to go on and [...]

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NASA now has web site where we can see objects approaching Earth!

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a new web site that will provide a central resource where we can see information on near-Earth objects  - asteroids and comets that may approach Earth. The Asteroid Watch site also contains links where we can subscribe to the asteroid RSS feed, sign up for an email newsletter for select asteroids, [...]

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