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PowerPoint 101

I just spent a bit longer than I would have liked helping someone fix a PowerPoint slide. To be fair, this wasn't her fault. While she's not exactly Tweeting with Ashton, but she's come a long ways and is holding her own quite handily with the tech. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Presentations, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Google updates presentation application, still falls short

You can't expect a product to transform into something amazing overnight, but the set of "updates" made recently didn't make any drastic improvements to the already less-than-spectacular service. The new features include: Selecting a background image or color Organizing and reordering...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Talk, Google Presentations, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Office, Internet, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-11-21

Additional Resources

SOMESSO: social computing meets financial services

Next Monday and Tuesday I will be attending SOMESSO in Zurich. This is an event that covers the intersection between the financial services industry and social computing. According to the blurbs: Day 1 is reserved for corporate workshops for Finance and Banking professionals Finance Masterclass on the...

Tags: Financial Service, Social Computing, Fidor, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-30

Data center design 101

I don't have to design data centers, but I do have to play a knowledgeable wonk on the Web from time to time. With that in mind, I attended two data center presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium to see what I could learn. My knowledge about...

Tags: Data Center, Tiers, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Remote Buddy 1.15 (Mac)

Remote Buddy turns the remote control in your hands into a key to your entire Mac. No matter, whether you want to control applications and presentations, browse and playback your music- and video collection, watch TV with EyeTV, browse the web or your filesystem, make the globe turn in Google...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Video, IOSPIRIT, Corporate Communications, Mice, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Saying goodbye to OpenOffice.Org

RE: Saying goodbye to OpenOffice.OrgMS Office appears to be a really expensive trap. Your solution: Softmakerhttp://www.softmaker.comSuperior compatibility with all MS versions. No bloatware. Simply solid German engineering.If this came from a credible author I would be confused too butMr Kusnetzky has an habit of interspersing his zdnet stream with...

Tags: goodbye, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Unrealistic expections and the latest Gmail outage

So Gmail went down again this morning. It's a bit of a bummer, but I keep telling myself that it's OK, since I don't have to actually do anything to make it come back up again. All I have to do is check on the Apps Status page:...

Tags: Google Gmail, Outage, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Groupware, Collaboration, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Remote Buddy AJAX Remote 1.14.1 (Mac)

Remote Buddy turns the remote control in your hands into a key to your entire system. No matter, whether you want to control applications and presentations, browse and playback your music and video collection, watch TV with EyeTV, browse the Web or your filesystem, make the globe turn in Google...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Music Library, IOSPIRIT, AJAX, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0

Software downloads 2009-09-24

3D Cube For Developers 5.1 (Windows)

Classic among 3D animations now with unique performance features. A wide variety of configuration options and over 600 effect combinations are at your fingertip for creating individual 3D Cube presentations. All images on the 3D Cube are displayed in pin sharp quality without flickering, even during rotation. Obtain highest quality...

Tags: Developer, 3D, Microsoft Windows

Software downloads 2009-09-14

(Microsoft trains Best Buy Linux assassins)

despair?Are MS in despair?..Linux has better hardware support than windows.They forgot wine too. This disgusts me. The day Gates comes near me and holds out his hand expecting me to shake it is the day I rip it off.Keep in mindThat the users that these best buy employees will be...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Best Buy Co. Inc., wine, Microsoft Corp., Best Buy Linux, Best Buy Linux assassin, assassin

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

Gmail FAIL - What it says about Google and email in general

A little perspective...2 hours of downtime since May. That's at least 3 months of uptime if the May outage happened to fall on the last day of the month. Applying a little math, that tells me that GMail has had an uptime percentage of 99.999%. That's the...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Gmail, Google Inc., Gmail FAIL, uptime, downtime, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Opera 10: Worth deploying in schools?

No. After the whining and crying they did to the EU over Microsoft they should not be allowed in any school. I recommend everyone who did have it remove it immediately.There are major issues with Opera and deployment. There is no way to deploy it without going to...

Tags: Web browsers, Opera Software ASA, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Kingsoft Office 2009 6.3.0.1739 (Windows)

Three essential and full featured office applications: Writer, Spreadsheets and Presentation are designed with the familiar Microsoft Office 2003 user interface and functionality. You will be surprised that many features work exactly the same way as Microsoft Office. Switching from Microsoft Office to Kingsoft Office requires no re-training. The Integrated...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Spreadsheet, BinaryNow, Kingsoft Office, Integrated Google Search Toolbar, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-19

View and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF files in Google Android

Microsoft partner DataViz has announced that it is now shipping Documents To Go 2.0 for the Google Android mobile platform. The new version of the popular office suite brings the enterprise-grade productivity tool to Android devices such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G, T-Mobile...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Word, Google Android, Adobe PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Dead-Finger Tech: Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch unibody, 2009)

When it comes to "dead-finger tech" -- that is, technology that's so integral to your life that you'd have to pry it from your cold, dead fingers -- the choice for me is clear: the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro. ...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Dead-finger tech: Google Apps

Dead-finger tech: Google AppsIt's a Google world...I can't imagine living without Google.Not that there is anything wrong with Microsoft. I doubt whether I would trade in Windows for Chrome OS. In short, nothing beats a good Windows-based PC (especially Win7) combined with a lot of Google stuff and a few...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Google Apps

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Another "death of the PC post" - but I think it's true

Another "death of the PC post" - but I think it's trueThe PC as originally designed is already dead...... we just changed the meaning. When PC were first designed, they were stand-alone entities. Now if you were to ask 100 random PC users if they are connected to the internet,...

Tags: Desktops, Corporate communications, PC, video

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Gmail loses beta label; Google "removes doubt" that Apps are enterprise ready

Gmail loses beta label; Google "removes doubt" that Apps are enterprise readyGmail loses beta label; Google "removes doubt" that Apps are enterprise reaTranslation: Enterprises are smarter than Google and could not be tricked into using their services while Google didn't have to make any promises or support for it.It's...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Tos, Google Inc., beta label, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?Good for casual readingI picture myself lying in bed and projecting the pages of an ebook on the ceiling.Display technology is there, but not the powerThe prototype I saw had to be plugged in to project, otherwise it would drain the battery...

Tags: Projectors, Scanners, projector, laser, Pico projector phone, Microvision, image

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Semantic Technology Conference kicks off with Keynotes from Open Calais and Siri

This year's Semantic Technology Conference got fully underway this morning, with Keynote presentations from Tom Tague of Thomson Reuters' Open Calais Initiative and Tom Gruber from Siri. Despite the wider economic situation, attendance for this fifth year of the event feels a little up on last year, and there's...

Tags: Web, Advertisement, Tool, Siri, Tom Tague, Tague, Enterprise Adoption, Virtual Personal Assistant, Virtual Personal Assistant Paradigm, Podcasts, Channel Management, Productivity, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-16