Archive for the 'software' Category

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

archivers such as winrar

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Chris Prillo has a rant about what is the best archiver program. I must admit that I too have long since stopped using winzip. There was a time when it was used extensively on my computer and it was one of the first programs installed. How times keep changing!

“I’m not usually passionate enough to stir […]

CSSVista

Friday, May 12th, 2006

CSSVista
CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. If you like this, you may be interested in our browser compatibility service, SiteVista. Yes, that’s why this software is free!
You can download it here.

web based mind mapping

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Might be worth it to check out Mayomi, a web-based mind-mapping app.  Still checking it out and might post a more detailed review here in due course.