So to veer off the SharePoint theme for a moment I wanted to share something that I borrowed and improved.There's a Google Doc template that I found to make a loan amortization table. It shows you the progress of your loan on a monthly interval; How much interest and principle you pay each payment and when the loan will end.I took this template and I made my own template of something that would work for my needs. I wanted something that would also allow me to add additional amounts at different time periods to see how that would affect my... [Read More]

I recently purchased a Giada A50 Nettop with the new AMD Fusion chip in it. I was wanting something small to replace a rather large desktop I was previously using as an HTPC. I had considered purchasing a Mac Mini because of it's size and specs until I ran across this nettop. The price was nice too.Here's the unboxing of it:Here's the windows experience index: Here's the windows experience index for a studio xps laptop with a 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo: [Read More]

This morning I was trying to add a discussion board to a site that I created with the Publishing with Workflow template. I couldn't seem to find the discussion board web part. I eventually figured it out and below are the steps that I took to do it.1. Go to Site Actions > Site Settings2. Site Actions > Manage Site Features3. Enable Team Collaboration Lists4. Site Actions > Edit in SharePoint Designer > Lists and Libraries5. SharePoint List > Discussion BoardNow if you go back to a page and try to add a web part then you should be able... [Read More]