The News Review:
- IBM PCs for the poor
- Review: Apple iWork ’08
- Helio File Viewer Let You Read Microsoft ffice Adobe PDF Plain…
- Helio cean Becoming a Better Smartphone Competitor
- Road to Mac ffice 2008: PowerPoint ’08 vs Keynote 4.0 [Page 3]
IBM PCs for the poor
Business Standard – Nov 20, 2007
Students up to 15 years of age who don’t have any knowledge of computers are introduced to the computer as a tool meant for education and fun. While students up to 25 years or with some exposure to computers are taught some essential software usage which have business utility and potential value to a prospective employer. So IBM teaches them Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint and Internet in detail. About 100 IBM employees are involved in training. IBM has also introduced training sessions on English communication.
Review: Apple iWork ’08
The Age – Nov 19, 2007
Changes to the Pages word-processing application include arevised interface that shows only the toolbars and buttons relevantto what you’re doing: table options appear only when you’re editinga table for example. Changes to documents can now be trackedwhile a layout view enhances Pages’s role as the best way to dobasic desktop publishing on a Mac. Smoother and superior animationsand graphic effects in the Keynote presentation program ensure yourslideshows pack more pow than Microsoft PowerPoint. Delivering what most of us would need from an office suiteday-to-day iWork ’08 is a delight to use. A free 30-day trialversion is available from Apple’s iWorks website.
Helio File Viewer Let You Read Microsoft ffice Adobe PDF Plain…
SlashPhone – Nov 19, 2007
In addition to being able sort files in various ways for quick retrieval the File Viewer allows users to zoom move and page up or down quickly once in a document. Members can also view documents in landscape or portrait mode on cean’s large (2. 4") QVGA screen as well as fit to width fit to height and rotate for optimized viewing of a file. Helio’s File Viewer leverages Picsel’s advanced technology to view files at higher quality resolutions and without time-consuming preprocessing and load times.
Helio cean Becoming a Better Smartphone Competitor
Brighthand – Nov 21, 2007
It also serves as an image viewer (BMP GIF JPEG PNG WMF EMF). File Viewer uses technology from Picsel to allow users to zoom move and page up or down quickly once in a document. Members can also view documents in landscape or portrait mode on the cean’s 2. 4-inch QVGA screen.
Road to Mac ffice 2008: PowerPoint ’08 vs Keynote 4.0 [Page 3]
Apple Insider – Nov 16, 2007
Rather than looking exciting and interesting the new PowerPoint in particular looks like a reheated application salvaged from the late 90s and in need of a complete overhaul. That’s bad news considering that this “new version” of ffice is supposed to be a fresh reworking of ffice for the Mac. It really looks like Microsoft should just dump PowerPoint and consider other components it could build from scratch for Leopard similar to FileMaker’s new Bento effort. It appears that PowerPoint has survived mainly to carry on the ffice brand but no amount of marketing can float a really bad product. Microsoft should rework its development efforts to deliver a fast functional version of Word and Excel on the Mac that work as well as the Windows versions and bury PowerPoint alongside File FoxPro Vizact and Bob. Apple’s iWork ’08 suite which includes Keynote 4. 0 is available from Amazon.