Direct Download Links for MS Office 2007/2010 Suites

Here are some quick links for downloading full setup installer for Microsoft Office 2007  suites and other related applications:

Office 2007 Direct Download Link

• Microsoft Office Professional 2007
• Microsoft Office Small Business 2007
• Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
• Microsoft Office Standard 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007

You will need to provide the installed Office program a genuine and legal product key to successfully activate it.

Microsoft also publishes the trial version of Office 2010 suite products at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/, which allows free usage for 60 days. A free product key will be given, and user is required to activate the trial version of Office 2010 within the first 30 days after the installation to utilize the full functionality of the Office 2010. The 60 days trial period will begin only after Office 2010 is activated.

Office 2010 Setup Installer Direct Download Links

Microsoft Office 2010 (Retail Channel) Single Image

• English 32-bit (x86): X16-32007.exe
• English 64-bit (x64):X16-31970.exe.

Microsoft Office Standard 2010

English 32-bit (x86): X16-32324.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32361.exe

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (Retail Edition)

English 32-bit (x86): X16-32250.exe
English 64-bit (x64): X16-32213.exe

Is Java really bad for your computer’s health?

I had a couple of clients ask me about whether they should be turning off Java in their computers as has been suggested they do by the Homeland Security announcements this past week. At first the only articles that I saw was the NPR posting and no one else seemed to be talking about it. This weekend shows a torrent of opinions out there suggesting that if you don’t need Java access online business functions you should probably consider turning off Java Scripting in your browsers. If you feel that you could be a target and have critical information that could be compromised then by all means turn this off. Be aware though that this kind of issue is not just associated with Java.

Hackers also use other popular programs for their exploits as well. This is one of the reasons we suggest our CCI Security Suite Software product to insure that your system is always up to date with the latest patches and multiple anti-malware products. The response from Oracle is that the problem only exists with people that have installed the Java Development Kit and that leaves most of us out. But if you are concerned take a look below on how to turn off this feature in your favorite browser.

Chrome

Type "chrome://plugins" into your address bar. This will bring up a new tab. Find the item on the list that reads just plain "Java" and click below it where it says "Disable" in blue. Restart your browser.

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Safari

Choose "Safari" and then "Preferences" on the taskbar or hit control and comma simultaneously (⌘-,). Click "Security" on the top row of the new window. Uncheck the box that reads "Enable Java" if checked. Restart your browser.

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Internet Explorer 8,9, and 10

Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Manage Add-ons." Go to the left of the window that pops up and in the drop-down box below the heading "Show:" select "All Add-ons." Scroll down the list on the right of the window until you find a subheading under the category "Group" that reads "Oracle America, Inc." Select each item and disable it with the "Disable" button in the bottom right-hand corner of the window. Restart your browser.

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Firefox

Go to the "Tools" menu and select "Add-ons" or hit ctrl, shift, and the letter 'a' simultaneously. Select "Plug-ins" on the left-hand side of the new tab that shows up. Scroll the list on the right-hand side of the screen until you find an item that reads "Java (TM) Platform [somethingsomethingsomething]." Click the "Disable" button on the right. Restart your browser.

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And there you go. If you really, really want to, you can uninstall Java entirely as well, though that's not necessary. You can find the official instructions for how to do so on OS X here, on Windows Vista, 7, and XP here, and on Linux (!) here.

Is A Bookless Library In Your Future?

An article published in GIZMODO brought to my attention that San Antonio is planning a new kind of library for their patrons. While my preference is to read or listen to books electronically I this isn’t what the majority of the people out want to do. Take my daughter Jennifer, every time that I bring up the discussion of how I consume my literature she tells me that she can’t do it that way. She thinks that the best thing to do on a rainy day is to lay on the couch and read a good book. My mother, after my father’s passing, is slowly shedding herself of some of the technology items that he had. One as the Nook that he used to read with. She would rather go to the library to get the book. I believe she uses it as another excuse to get out of the house and to meet and greet people. You know, socialize.

But, I am firmly in the camp of the group of people that if I can get it electronically, that is my preferred method of consumption. I like having my whole library at my fingertips. I purchase all of my technical books that way so that I can have them available on any device that is at hand. I have even convinced my wife to come over to the dark side, we both have our own kindles on the same account so we can easily acquire and share books together. Its great to see or hear about a book and have that instant gratification of downloading to your device the moment that you want it.

With the advent of the library electronic book sharing system, it has gotten even less expensive to grab that new book or old classic and to have it on your device for a couple of weeks to read it leisurely before it terms out and is brought back into the system. You don’t have to actually visit the library to do this, just sign up for a library card. (Don’t forget to send in your donations to support these kinds of services).

San Antonio’s new book-free library comes with a special name called “Biblio Tech” and they intend to open the first one in the fall of 2013. This is all a part of the a Bexar county wide project. They are not forcing you to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) either. They plan on supplying e-readers (e don’t know which one at this date) to their patrons. This brings up the worry of theft but hopefully they will be able to work that one out as well.  The system puts a time limit of two weeks that you can have the e-reader before it goes dead, and since the library has the patron’s phone number and address in their records this should be enough of an incentive not to be negligent in returning the devices to the library.

This is an interesting new direction for the public library system to take, but there is still something to be said to going into a library to do research using the old tomes that can be found there. In Ligonier where I grew up, the town Public Library is not just a place to get a book. It is also a place to come and socialize. To get away and maybe sit down with the weekly paper or a magazine. We tend to forget in all of our running around and attempts to streamline our lives that there is something to be said in the simple browsing that you do as you walk through the shelves of books in a physical library. So as you may have noticed through this article that I have a slight change of heart from the beginning to this last paragraph on my feelings about a totally digital library, I feel that Library that still has books on its shelves is an important part of our culture but making available the ability to access books electronically is also an important future service that should have available by our libraries.