Using data from a live feed on the web is the best way to keep your Excel 2010 spreadsheets automatically up to date. This can come in handy if you are tracking the prices of something, or even your favorite sports teams’ score boards. Below is an example spreadsheet made by MSN money. Several cells pull live data of different stock indexes. All of this data is coming from the internet, and in this guide you’ll learn How-to do just that....

The way these payments are split isn’t the same from month to month, however. The more payments you make, the smaller your interest payments become. As a consequence, the amount that goes towards reducing your loan (the payment on principal) increases every month. If you want to know the proportion of your loan payment that’s going towards paying off your outstanding balance, you can use the PPMT function in Microsoft Excel to help you....

If you’re a responsible PC user, you probably don’t need a third-party solution like McAfee. There’s no reason to pay for a utility suite when you have one built-in for free. This is only true, however, if you’re using Windows Security properly. Here’s how to use Windows Security on Windows 11 for maximum protection. Check for New Windows Updates First, we’ll start with making sure you have the latest Windows Updates on your PC....

The Windows Phone 8X (pictured above) is the company’s top-of-the line smartphone running the latest mobile OS from Microsoft. It’s powered by a Qualcomm S4 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, helped by of 1 GB RAM. It has a 4.3 inch touchscreen with a 720p Super LCD 2 display with Gorilla Glass 2 for durability. The display actually has more pixels per inch (ppi) than Apple’s iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 display is 1136 x 640 pixel resolution at 326 ppi, while HTC’s 8xd sports 1280 x 720 at 341 ppi....

Hulu Plus costs $9.99 monthly, and your subscription includes HD Video, more popular shows, and the same annoying ads displayed on the free service. Yeah. Well, it looks like Hulu was listening to its users because according to the rumors circulating, Hulu will be releasing an ad-free service. Currently, we don’t have any further info regarding price or availability for the Ad-Free Hulu Service or if the Ad-Free service will have any other new features, but you can be sure we will keep all of you updated once the story breaks....

Utilize Word Tabs for Better Productivity Tabs stop the cursor at points in the document when you press the tab key, but it’s most potent when you set it up for specific document formatting. One of the most common usage scenarios where Tabs would be essential is creating a Table of Contents or a simple Agenda. I have worked in education and observed kids preparing school projects throughout the years; the amount of time wasted aimlessly pressing the period key is sad....

WHS 2011 Before you begin, there are a few things you need to know. First, unlike its 32-bit predecessor, WHS 2011 is 64-bit only and requires a minimum of a 160 GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM. Of course, these are the minimum specs – so at least double everything. Plus, since you’re going to back up your PCs, store multimedia, photos, and all of your documents on it, you’ll want a good amount of storage....

iOS 15 Requirements Devices Supported You can install the latest iOS update on lots of iPhone and iPod touch models, including iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr, iPhone X, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE (1st generation), iPhone SE (2nd generation), and iPod touch (7th generation)....

The most important improvement will probably be a quad-core chip, SIRI and 4G LTE (I hope). Several Android tablets on the market already have most of these new features including the Asus’ Transformer Prime. Apple will no doubt work to catch up with the market and release something amazing no one has really thought of before. The new iPad will also sport an HD screen, the best one in the range so far....

In a previous article, we talked about sharing screenshots through screencast.com using Techsmith’s SnagIt. Today I’m going to cover their free screen capturing tool Jing. Jing is built to be very user-friendly, even grandpa could get the hang of it with just a little bit of practice (although he may need help setting it up.) Jing allows you to EASILY capture and share (or not) your screen captures to your favorite friends and websites without any hassle....

Logitech has been producing PC speakers for a long time, and it recently announced a new set of wireless desktop speakers. Logitech’s MX Speakers have been aesthetically designed to complement Logitech’s other premium MX devices like the new CRAFT Advanced Keyboard with Creative Input Dial and MX Master 2S wireless mouse. Logitech MX Speakers The MX Sound speaker system allows you to connect up to two Bluetooth devices and/or use the included standard 3....

Launcher 8 free (fake wp8) Launcher 8 free (fake wp8) – this is the full name of the launcher – is one of the most interesting ideas I’ve ever seen on Android so far (and believe me, I’ve seen quite a few). This little launcher allows you to turn your Android smartphone into something that you could swear is a Windows Phone (at least at first sight). More than that, it doesn’t just look like a Windows Phone; there are many ways in which it actually feels like Windows Phone....

On Friday, Microsoft announced the dates they would be releasing Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. April 2010 the products will go RTM and probably made available to Technet/MSDN/MLVS etc. And May 12th, 2010 is the big “official day” of release. Here’s the blog post from the Sharepoint team blog: It’s an exciting time for us! We hope you can virtually join us on May 12th at 11am EST to listen to Stephen Elop, President of the Microsoft Business Division, announce the launch....

The entire rollout this time has been a mess, but everything should be fixed at this point. The company is slowly rolling out Build 17763.107 to the rest of the public starting today. However, Microsoft is urging people to wait for the update to become available naturally via Windows Update automatically and not rush to manually install it. In a blog post today, Microsoft exec John Cable writes: And to be honest, while there are some interesting new features in 1809, there isn’t anything that is “vital” to your computing needs....

Get Free Top 10 Albums in Windows 10 To get your free picks, just launch the Stor app in Windows 10 and go to the Music section. Scroll down a bit and you should see them in the featured gallery under Music Deals. Click Show All to see the complete collection of albums. The regular price is crossed out and shows they’re free. Click an album then click Free to download it....

Office 365 E5 Plan Features Advanced eDiscovery—Integrates Equivio machine learning, predictive coding and text analytics capabilities, to reduce the costs and challenges that come along with sorting through large quantities of data for eDiscovery purposes.Delve Analytics—Empowers individuals through rich dashboards that provide insights on time and relationships, with the goal of helping individuals get time back and spend it efficiently.Power BI—A business analytics service that enables information workers to visualize and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding through live data dashboards, interactive reports, and compelling visualizations....

Of course the Internet Explorer home page is set to MSN.com by default, and while users in the U.S. use other browser alternatives like Chrome, Firefox and even Opera, that’s not the case everywhere in the world. Chanced are that when you’re at work, MSN is the default page in Internet Explorer. For years MSN.com has provided a wealth of news on entertainment, current events, and sports and it gets a lot of eyeballs....

On Monday, Microsoft announced it launched a handy interactive website that will help you choose your next PC based on your specific needs. The site is aptly named Windows Help Me Choose. Here’s a look. Windows Help Me Choose The site walks you through a series of questions asking what your computing needs are and the features you want. After answering a series of questions, you get a list of suggested systems based on your answers....

Update: The Microsoft Office Diagnostics Tool is no longer part of Office 365 (now known as Microsoft 365). If you are using Office 2007 or 2010, you can use the following instructions to diagnose issues with the Office suite. Office Diagnostics Office 2007 To run Office Diagnostics in Office 2007, click Start » Microsoft Office » Microsoft Office Tools » Microsoft Office Diagnostics. The Office Diagnostic Tool comes up. Click Continue....

Ok, I know this isn’t a typical How-To article. However, I just couldn’t resist. It turns out Microsoft wants to BING your phone. This morning Microsoft released 3 three Bing-branded ringtones for your mobile phone. They are calling them BingTones. You can find the links here: Three Bing-branded ringtones for your mobile device (BineTones.zip)Three BingTones for your phone (BingTones-Internal.zip) Both are surprisingly the same 3 Ring Tones/BingTones, so my guess is the release manager made a mistake and released both on Microsoft Download....