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Evaluating online Office Productivity Suites

For a while MLD Services has been looking at online office applications to move away from desktop applications, and has been looking for a way to see which word processor might be up to the task. We have narrowed our choices down to three; Google Docs, Microsoft’s Live web apps featuring [...]

Microsoft and the cloud for small buisness and the home user

Microsoft Office online web applications
Many of us in the IT arena were waiting for Microsoft to release a web-based version of their Office applications, and they have released versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, but was it worth the wait?

Google Docs, Zoho Buisness and others have been working for some [...]

Computer slow? Hard disk spinning, but getting nowhere?

Does your computer have problems?

The biggest problem with your computer might just be you!

When was the last time you ran a disk cleanup, defragmented the hard drive, or emptied the cache in Internet Explorer?

Sure there are a lot of third party tools that make a lot of promises and some do deliver, but today let’s [...]

A beginner's guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

A beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

Today’s article is the first in a series of short but informative articles on how to use a tool to collect information from different websites and bring them to your desktop for easy review and access.

So let’s begin this series with a simple question: what exactly is an [...]

Zoho Office as an alternative to Microsoft Office, Openoffice, or Apple iWorks

Whenever anyone talks about Office suites such as Microsoft Office, Openoffice, or Apple iWorks the first thing we think of is the Word Processor, a spreadsheet like Excel, or an email client such as Microsoft’s Outlook.

Since moving to Zoho the first tool that was used is the Word Processor. Zoho’s word processor is called Writer [...]

Online Backups and Remote Desktop Support are coming soon!

This week has been a busy one, working on leads trying to find new clients, support of existing clients, trying to help a nine year old with homework, and the other tasks that life presents to all of us, but I wanted to take this time to present a few updates on what MLD Services will bring to our [...]

Create Mailing Labels Easily Using Word and Exce

Create Mailing Labels Easily Using Word and Excel

Mailing lists are a great way to stay in touch with friends, loved ones, associates and are indispensable when composing your mails. If you thought mailing lists are used only in dedicated mail programs, think again. MS Office 2003 and 2007, Word and Excel, provide easy [...]

Silverlight 4 Beta client for Facebook

Microsoft does spring new surprises now and then, for instance, it has launched the Silverlight 4 Beta client for Facebook. This opens a world of opportunity for developers to develop rich internet apps and high quality media that is visually stunning and more functional for the users. Silverlight Facebook client will enable snazzy Facebook interfaces that will hold users interest for a longer time than the default and rather boring white and blue Facebook interface. So there’s something for everyone in this Facebook [...]

How to create envelopes, labels and other merged documents using Word 2007.

I see more and more people who have purchased the “Home and Student” version of Office, which is a great [...]

Windows 7 Hot Keys

Hot keys can be a real boon to get your work done faster. I really like to use my keyboard and stay off the mouse as much as possible and with Windows 7 the choices are overwhelming.

Here are some of my favorite hot keys in Windows 7.

a. Win+D: Shows the desktop.
b. Win+Spacebar: Shows the desktop [...]