Intel is revamping its Atom processor platform in a move that will yield more powerful netbooks, better efficiency and smaller designs. Will Intel set off another netbook boom?

On Monday, Intel made its overhaul of its Atom platform official (statement, Techmeme). The biggest item is that the Atom will integrate graphics with the CPU for the first time—something the Federal Trade Commission may notice. Intel said the new Atom has lowered power consumption by 20 percent from the previous generation. Meanwhile, there’s an army of netbooks set to be released Jan. 4 at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The chip giant notes it has 80 design wins lined up. Simply put, there’s another armada of netbooks coming your way—and maybe even a few desktops.

Intel’s new Atom processor, the N450 rides shotgun with a new chipset designed to lower power. Atom also has a lineup for entry level desktops—the D410 or the dual core D510. Atom’s role for the desktop will be to facilitate smaller designs, fanless units and unique all-in-one PCs.

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When using Windows XP and previous operating systems one could easily send messages from one computer to another by using the "Net Send" command from the command prompt. Typing a command like this:

Net send Support "Please contact help desk immediately!"

Would result in the computer searching for the location where the user Support has last logged on, or in case of a computer, where the computer called Support is listed, and would send that message to that user or computer. You should note that this method of sending messages was made available by the Messenger service running on the target machine. Without it, there could be no messages transmitted to that computer.

Note: Windows XP SP1 (or was it SP2? I can't remember right now) disabled the Messenger service by default. So does Windows Server 2003 SP1.

Long story made short, when using Windows Vista one might go looking for the "Net send" in Vista and wonder where it went. There is NO "Net send" command in Vista… However, there is a solution. You can use MSG.EXE instead.

Note: Apparently Windows Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions do not have the msg.exe command installed. It does work on Vista Business, Enterprise or Ultimate edition.

Click on the Start button, type CMD in the search box and press Enter.

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Slide Show for Excel 1.0

With this small program, you simply create a Slide Show with your Excel sheets. In full screen mode and with time selection.

To install an Excel 2007 add-in, click on the Office Button, the big round decoration in the top left of the Excel window.

This opens the Office Menu. Click the Excel Options button at the bottom of this menu.

The Excel Options dialog opens up. Click the Add-Ins item in the list along the left edge of the dialog to see the Add-Ins panel.

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