Kenneth Lo, PMP

Caffeinated Thoughts on SharePoint, Knowledge Management & Social Media

Entries for the ‘Software’ Category

SharePoint 2010 Beta Hardware & Software Requirements

The long-awaited SharePoint 2010 Beta was finally released this week. It has set the entire community on fire! Many new features have been added and existing ones improved. I will be posting a series of blog posts next few weeks as the adventures take place. Stay tuned!
Before you start installing the beta in your sandbox [...]

How to Effectively Create a Work Breakdown Structure in Microsoft Project and Visio

The Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Modeler Add-in enables effective integration of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 by providing a new approach to creating, editing and modifying project plans graphically in Visio 2007. The WBS Modeler offers the ability to manage project elements in a graphical [...]

Best Free Unified Instant Messaging Desktop Programs

Instead of running various Instant Messaging (IM) tools that clutter up your desktop and kill your bandwidth, you can stay connected with your contacts on MSN, AIM, GoogleTalk, and other IM networks with a single tool. This blog entry aims to help you find the ultimate unified IM tool.
Trillian
Trillian is a powerful Instant Messenger that [...]

Best Free Twitter Applications for iPhones

I was struggling to find a handy application that allowed me to tweet effectively on my sexy iPhone 3G S. After some intense research and experiments, I have come up with three of my favorite iPhone Twitter applications. This will save you hours of legwork. Send me some cookies if you insist!
Twitterific
This solid application has [...]

Best Free Twitter Applications for Desktops

If you have been using Twitter for any amount of time, you probably have wondered whether there is a better tool to manage your tweets than the Twitter website. How about managing multiple Twitter accounts? Perhaps you find yourself constantly logging in and out of different accounts in the web browser.
There are easier ways [...]

Chance to Preorder Windows 7 at Substantial Discounts

Sick of Vista? Relief is on the way!
Microsoft on Wednesday announced retail pricing for Windows 7 that’s at or below comparable Windows Vista prices, while also offering a chance for people to preorder the software at a substantial discount, between June 26 and July 11.
The offer, however, is limited in both duration and by the [...]

How to Delete K2 blackpearl Workflow in K2 Workspace

The entire article is available on eHow.
If you are building workflow applications with K2 blackpearl for a while, you probably have a good number of working instances of workflow in K2 Workspace. Knowing how to remove these is particularly handy during development and testing when you have multiple instances of workflow with different deployed processes.
By removing [...]

Microsoft Word 2007 Tips: How to Paste Text without Formatting

If you do a lot of copy and paste operations in MS Word 2007, you probably have asked for an easy way to control whether the formatting should be perserved in the destination document. That feature is actually built-in. Until I discovered this feature today, I had to use the old faithful NotePad as an [...]