Archive for May, 2006

Onenote 2007 and Outlook 2007 in the same bed

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Chris Pratley’s has a post showing the ways Onenote 2007 is best buddies with Outlook 2007
“From the beginning of OneNote we’ve
had a lot of requests to deepen our integration with Outlook. In 2003
we had several connection points: you could email notes directly from
OneNote if you had Outlook 2003, and you could create tasks from
OneNote items. […]

Microsoft Outlook 2007 promising?

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Chris Prillo has a post suggesting that Microsoft Outlook 2007 is showing lots of promise.
“I can’t believe this. I’m giving Microsoft Office Beta 2 a shot,
after receiving the DVD set at WinHEC yesterday. It’s running on my
Vista Beta 2 laptop right now. The first thing I did? Fire up Outlook
to see if they had addressed […]

getcals

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Calendar Swamp points out this cool little script that will allow you to sync your ipod with google calendar.
“Johnny Gizmo has a script called getCals that lets iPods (those with calendars) grab Google Calendars.”
Get it here

Microsoft live drive

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Techcrunch reports that Microsoft might beat google to the punch and release their online drive aptly called Microsoft Live Drive
“Microsoft is building an online storage service, code named Live Drive, says Ray Ozzie in an interview with Fortune:
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer
anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. […]

Microsoft Releases An Office 2007 Video Demonstration

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Cybernet blog writes:
“Microsoft has put together a very informative movie on the new Office
2007 that is supposed to be released in January 2007. They have many
key points that they cover to help new users familiarize themselves
before even receiving the software. Some of these key points are the
Office Menu, the Ribbon, and the Contextual Tabs. The […]

Google Calendar Data API

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Using the Google Calendar Data API
Google Calendar
allows client applications to view and update calendar events in the
form of Google data API (”GData”) feeds. Your client application can
use the Google Calendar data API to create new events, edit or delete
existing events, and query for events that match particular criteria.
There
are many possible uses for the Calendar […]

blackberry hacks

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Buzz points out an interesting book for blackberry users -
“I’ve been busy for the last several months working on a book for O’Reilly Media called BlackBerry Hacks. It will be published in O’Reilly’s excellent Hacks Series.
I am quite happy with the way the book turned out. It certainly
exceeded my expectations going into it. The […]

Task List coming in Google Calendar?

Monday, May 15th, 2006

downloadsquad point out the news that a task list is likely to be coming soon to google calendar.
Garett Rogers over at Googling Google discovered a few weeks ago that there is some dormant code in Google Calendar that appears to have only one possible use: completable events, otherwise known as tasks. For me, this is […]

Google Desktop Version 4

Friday, May 12th, 2006

The next release of google desktop has been released. I am downloading now, so can’t say much about it at this stage but am looking forward to playing around with the new features.
Come and join the fun here

onenote and origami

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Chris Pratley talks about using Microsoft onenote on a origami. This is the type of program that the origima was made for - a match made in heaven if you like.
You may have heard some of the buzz about the Origami project - an ultra-mobile PC initiative that Microsoft is spearheading. You can learn more […]