FileMaker is a popular and powerful desktop database application toolkit. Recently, FileMaker, Inc. released a beta version of the FileMaker API for PHP, which allows PHP to more easily talk to the FileMaker Server Advanced product. Learn how to leverage FileMaker’s strengths to deliver complex Web applications in a fraction of the time it would take using a typical SQL database.
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WinTask is a task automation tool ; you can automate all the things you do in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista. WinTask is a powerful, flexible platform for building automation solutions on a stand-alone or networked PC. You can, for instance, launch an accountancy package, integrate data from other programs, calculate results with this new data and then print them.
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This manual is a complete guide to CANSIM in E-STAT — the authoritative Canadian socio-economic database. Easy to learn and to use, CANSIM offers you data on:
agriculture
arts, culture and
recreation
business enterprises
communications
construction
education
energy
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A computer virus is a parasitic program written intentionally to alter the way your computer operates without your permission or knowledge. A virus attaches copies of itself to other files and, when activated, may damage files, cause erratic system behavior, or display messages.
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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to manage numerical data. Excel spreadsheets are made up of columns that are named by letters, and rows that are indicated by numbers. Rows and columns can be labeled. The intersections of rows and columns are called cells. Every unique piece of data will be placed in a cell. Formulas are used to perform mathematical functions on data in a group of cells
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Excel is Microsoft’s Spreadsheet program. Spreadsheets are often used as a method of displaying and manipulating groups of data in an effective manner. It was originally created for accounting. Excel is useful when you have a very large set of data and need to perform the same operation on each Series / Set of it. It is well-suited to tasks such as sorting, alphabetizing, and performing more complex mathematical functions on data such as adding 2 columns together.
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Here is an example of an attempt to plot parametric data in a scientifically meaningful way, using Microsoft Excel. This example describes an experience using the Office X version for Macintosh. The details may change with different versions, but the principle stays the same – the author must control the appearance of all aspects of the figure. We cannot count on programmers to have correctly guessed our intended use of the application.
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In the beginning, the World Wide Web (WWW) was flat. It was an electronic library where academics and scientists posted dissertations and dusty data for reading with clunky, text-only browsers. With the advent of graphical browsers, the consumer oriented Web took off. Content became vastly more colorful. Remember where you were the first time you experienced the exciting blink and marquee tags? (I bet you wish you could forget those gems!) Anyway, the Web has evolved as a rich, interactive, and personalized medium. In the new version of Web (Web 2.0), functional pages aren’t enough. User experience (abbreviated as UX in geekspeak) is hot, and sites are cool. This chapter looks at Microsoft’s tools and technologies for creating and delivering engaging Web content.
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