Gaming Can Make a Better World

My only gaming experience comes at the hands of my nephew, Cole. Each time I visit him, he has a new game to humiliate me. I’ve crashed luxury race cars, fallen over cliffs racing cows and been boo’ed out of the guitar band. Don’t even ask about flying airplanes! So this TED talk fascinated me. Gamers can save the world?!

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.  “My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.” (Jane McGonigal)

Jane McGonigal TED presentation.

5 Productivity Tips for Windows

Here is a great article I've found on Microsoft at Work that has some tips for Windows.   Read the article to find out how to print more easily, find files faster, and send email right from your desktop.

Read the full article.

Did You Know?

The color on the bread tab indicates how fresh the bread is and those colors are in alphabetical order: b, g, r, w, y.

6 Useful Windows Tricks

You know that feeling you get when your friends or family see you do something on your computer that they've never seen before? If you’ve had this experience, you know that “world's coolest power-user” feeling. But if you haven’t, start here. Knowledge is power!

Read these six tips for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP that will keep you schoolin' your friends and family.

Read full article from Microsoft at Home.

PowerPoint 2010 Power Shortcuts Videos from Lynda.com

Discover the power shortcuts the pros use to navigate PowerPoint 2010 with ease. Author Alicia Katz Pollock shows how to customize views, work with text, format slides, and publish your final presentation. The course also includes her top 10 tips for working with presentations, including autofitting text, creating custom bullets, and using shapes to mask images and video.

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Excel 2007 - Navigate Between Worksheets

Sometimes you have multiple worksheets and moving between the worksheets can be difficult, especially if not all the worksheets are visible.

Did you know there is a keyboard shortcut to move between worksheets?  Press CTRL and Page Down  to show the next worksheet to the right. Pressing CTRL and Page Up to show the next worksheet to the left.

Did You Know?

You can flip a toaster on its side and grill cheese in it.