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Archive for May, 2008

Squeaky Wheel gets the Visual Basic

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Well Microsoft has finally caved in and realized they were wrong by not including Visual Basic Support in Office 2008. After some hand waving about Applescript blah blah, the reality is that some spreadsheets just won’t open on the Mac - So much for interoperability!

Anyway, now they are adding VBA support back - but not to the product you already bought. Oh no, it’ll be the next revision of Office.

Read about it from the source

FreeCreditReport.com trick

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Be wary of FreeCreditReport.com. If you don’t read the print on the left, you’ll miss that if you don’t call within 7 days, your “free” credit report turns into a monthly subscription.

So in other words, you get what you pay for, and the credit agencies are the ones tricking you.

Great country we live in, eh?

Here is their text, which is plain and clear, but you gotta read it as the page is designed to keep your eyes away from the text:

When you order your free report here, you will begin your free trial membership in Triple AdvantageSM Credit Monitoring. If you don’t cancel your membership within the 7-day trial period*, you will be billed $14.95 for each month that you continue your membership.

ConsumerInfo.com and Freecreditreport.com are not affiliated with the annual free credit report program. Under a new Federal law, you have the right to receive a free copy of your credit report once every 12 months from each of the three nationwide consumer reporting companies. To request your free annual report under that law, you must go to www.annualcreditreport.com.

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