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Marc Orchant has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for 25 years. A recovering graphic designer, Marc is currently the Storyteller at VanDyke Software, a co-host of On The Run With Tablet PCs, a weekly podcast, and a self-admitted "productivity maven, gadget freak and software addict"....- more about Marc Orchant »
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- iWork '08 - no Office killer 'cause it's not supposed to be
- I picked up a copy of iWork '08, the new update to Apple's productivity suite, the other day and have been noodling around in it since I installed it on my MacBook and my wife's iMac. It's a worthy upgrade for two principal reasons in my opinion: the significant improvements...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iWork, Marc Orchant
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- Microsoft delays Office 2008 for Mac until... 2008
- Jim Dalrymple, reporting at MacWorld announced the following news from Microsoft's Mac Business Unit:Microsoft will delay the release of Office 2008 for Mac until mid-January 2008, representatives of the company's Macintosh Business Unit announced Thursday.The long-awaited Intel-native Office, featuring programs such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage, was originally scheduled...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Office 2.0 Conference - an iPhone for every attendee
- I've been working with Ismael Ghalimi, Oliver Starr, and Brian Solis on developing a Mobility and Productivity track for the upcoming Office 2.0 Conference. We're still in the early planning stages in terms of content for that track but Ismael made a bombshell announcement yesterday that is tremendously exciting. Every...
- Tags: Productivity, Mobility, iPhone, Events
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Share OneNote notebooks online
- OneNote has long had the ability to create shared notebooks but a newly released OneNote powertoy from Microsoft developer Dave Tse allows you to export a OneNote notebook as an interactive website. Even better, the project has been deposited at CodePlex for community input and enhancement. The exported notebook is,...
- Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Uncategorized, Software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-07
- Fake Microsoft security bulletin in the wild
- If you or someone you know receives an e-mail about a zero-day exploit affecting Microsoft Outlook do not, under any circumstances, click on the links embedded in the message. It's a phishing scam folks. The Security Bulletin (MS07-0065) it points to doesn't exist. And just because it can never be...
- Tags: Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Powerful and free CSV export utility for Outlook
- CodeTwo Outlook Export is a free add-in for Microsoft Outlook (98 - 2007) that provides much greater flexibility than the built-in export feature in Outlook. All folder types are supported including Post and Journal and the utility provides an easy interface that will be instantly familiar to anyone who's poked...
- Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Microsoft Office, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- New OneNote Powertoy adds search and replace
- Daniel Escarpa has just released a new Powertoy for OneNote that adds a basic search-and-replace feature to the application. I've long wished for this ability in OneNote. The add-in currently supports text only (no support for searching against pre-recognized text which makes sense in a certain way since what would...
- Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Software, Tablet PCs, Uncategorized, Utilities and Add-Ins, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-06-23
- Work virtually from anywhere
- Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Tim Sanders' PowerPoint epiphany
- Tim Sanders ran into an all-too common problem at a speaking engagement. The sequence of speakers at a conference was running behind schedule and he found himself facing a hungry, tired crowd just before lunch.Faced with these circumstances, he made the snap decision to ditch the PowerPoint deck he'd prepared...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Productivity, Software
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- What's in your Tablet PC?
- Fellow Tablet PC MVP and GottaBeMobile.com contributor Warner Crocker wants to know what software applications you consider essential on a Tablet PC or UMPC. Hes posted his list here. My list has some overlap with Warners but diverges a bit based on the different ways he and I use the...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- First look: Mindjet MindManager 7
- Mindjet announced yesterday that MindManager 7 will be released on May 30. Ive been using the pre-release version for a couple of weeks and have have found it very easy to use and stable enough, even in pre-release form, that it’s replaced version 6 on both my Tablet PC and...
- Tags: Windows, Tablet PCs, Software, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Turns out the best PC I own to run Vista on is...
- Turns out the best PC I own to run Vista on is... my MacBook. Thats as good a definition of irony as I can come up with.Now before anyone reading that gets too hot under the collar, let me add the following qualifications to the statement above:I didnt say fastest,...
- Tags: Tablet PCs, Software, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac, Windows, Vista, Productivity, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- A cautionary OneNote tale
- I received an urgent voice mail message from my friend Eric Mack last night. Apparently his daughters had been working for hours on a script in OneNote and cut the text to paste it into Word. Then it vanished. Ctrl+Z Undo didnt work. The Clipboard Manager (a badly behaved piece...
- Tags: Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- How to: Link Outlook and OneNote
- Eddie VanDerbeck at GottaBeMobile.com offers a short and sweet tip on using the new Outlook-OneNote integration. This is one of my favorite things about the Office 2007 upgrade and I use it all the time. In fact, at last weeks ETech Conference I subscribed to the event calendar, added the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Events, ETech
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #36 is now online
- OnTheRun with Tablet PCs #36- the shout-out show!Listen here ( MP3, 17.4 MB, 50 minutes) or Subscribe to the show with this link RSS James Kendrick and I are back with show #36 and shout-outs are in order all around with the shipping of my...
- Tags: Windows, Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Podcasts, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry
- Blog posts 2007-04-01
- Lenovo X60 Tablet PC on the road
- I had my first real opportunity to put the Lenovo ThinkPad X60t to work as a conference machine this week at the OReilly Emerging Technologies conference in San Diego and Im more impressed than ever with how useful this machine is for someone who needs a perfect balance of portability...
- Tags: Vista, Utilities and Add-Ins, Tablet PCs, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Gadgetry, Events, ETech
- Blog posts 2007-03-31
- What a long strange trip it's been
- With apologies to my favorite band, thats exactly the feeling I had last night when I arrived home from ETech in San Diego to find a box from Wiley and Sons waiting for me in the front hall. In it were copies of my book, The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft...
- Tags: Mastering the Inbox, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- How I solved my Outlook-Google Calendar issues
- Working on a number of different PCs and connected devices introduces all sorts of complexity. A constant issue is how to keep all of the information I need access to at hand, regardless of the device I happen to be using. E-mail is pretty easy - between Gmail and IMAP...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mac, Mastering the Inbox, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Tablet PCs, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Web Apps, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- First impressions: Lenovo X60 Tablet PC
- Ive had the Lenovo X60 Tablet PC for about a week now and the system is configured for my trip to Seattle for the Microsoft Global MVP Summit next week after a quick weekend in Phoenix to see some spring training baseball and an Eric Clapton show. Im happy to...
- Tags: Hardware, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Tablet PCs, Vista, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- TechNET guide to DST fixes for Windows
- Microsoft TechNET has compiled a pretty comprehensive guide to the various patches and updates related to this weekends Daylight Saving Time DST switch. Reproduced here for your convenience, but follow the link to the original and complete listing. What time will your organizations computers think it is on Sunday? Or,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Microsoft TechNet, KB932590, Microsoft Windows, Daylight Saving Time, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
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