The News Review:
- Microsoft goes off-planet with WorldWide Telescope
- Palm’s Hernandez sings Centro praise
- Application Development Trends – White papers
- Average User Rating:
- Alternative office suite
Microsoft goes off-planet with WorldWide Telescope
courierpress.com – May 30, 2008
worldwidetelescope. After the download start your own explorations and even save them to recall or share with others as sort of a universal slide show or PowerPoint. If you want to use Google’s just launch your Web browser and head to sky. Both played nicely together on a laptop with a gigabyte of RAM.
Palm’s Hernandez sings Centro praise
Inquirer – May 30, 2008
INQ: so what are the advantages with regards to messaging?Don’t all phones do SMS by now?MH: The Centro keeps all conversations in a chat-style viewjust like Instant Messaging so users can see the entire conversation unfold. Personal email such as Gmail and Yahoo is simple to access right out of thebox. And if users have to check their work email Microsoft Direct PushTechnology gives users access to their corporate email as well as the abilityto automatically update work calendars and accept or decline meeting invitesall on the go. INQ: And MP3 playback is also included?MH: Yes Pocket Tunes lets users manage music audio booksand videos. The camera also allows shooting your own pictures or videos andshare them with friends. INQ: From the specs I see DataViz’ Documents To Go is partof the bundle. Is that a demo or can users open Microsoft office files andattachments out of the box?MH: Yes the Centro can create edit and view Word and Excelcompatible documents as well as view PowerPoint and PDF files… The camera also allows shooting your own pictures or videos andshare them with friends. INQ: From the specs I see DataViz’ Documents To Go is partof the bundle. Is that a demo or can users open Microsoft office files andattachments out of the box?MH: Yes the Centro can create edit and view Word and Excelcompatible documents as well as view PowerPoint and PDF files. [For a goodinterview with regards to DataViz and the Centro read more. It can be used as a modem forconnecting a laptop to the Internet via Bluetooth so users can stay connectedanywhere within wireless coverage.
Application Development Trends – White papers
ADT Magazine – May 30, 2008
The SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes allows Notes users to drag-and-drop SharePoint content such as Microsoft Word documents Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations into Notes emails. Users can also drag-and-drop email attachments such as ffice documents to the sidebar inside Notes to update content in SharePoint document libraries. Mainsoft professional services offers custom solutions that solve additional integration use cases between SharePoint and Lotus Notes including email management calendars and offline access to SharePoint document libraries.
Average User Rating:
VNUNet.com – May 30, 2008
nce the content has been written simply import it into Publisher where it will be compiled into a finished eBook. You can add a cover page including an image and a table of contents allowing the reader to navigate through the book simply and effectively. With the built-in PDA emulator and Microsoft Reader for PC you can see exactly how your finished book will look when published without having to load it onto a PDA first. If you wish to publish professionally you will need to upgrade to the Professional edition (see website below for details)… nce the content has been written simply import it into Publisher where it will be compiled into a finished eBook. You can add a cover page including an image and a table of contents allowing the reader to navigate through the book simply and effectively. With the built-in PDA emulator and Microsoft Reader for PC you can see exactly how your finished book will look when published without having to load it onto a PDA first. If you wish to publish professionally you will need to upgrade to the Professional edition (see website below for details). VerdictA simple yet effective method of publishing your work onto the PDA platform. Good points: It’s free and open eBook compliant. Bad Points: Can be a little confusing at first.
Alternative office suite
iT News – May 30, 2008
No computer is properly complete without its own ffice package. fficeassists in the compilation of texts of all kinds in the completion ofspreadsheet calculations and in the preparation of expressive presentations. Inthese tasks Microsoft ffice is the generally accepted standard as its formatsare established and the functions it offers are continually required. However:many users are unable to afford the ffice suite. Ashampoo ffice 2008 only occupies a limited amount of storage space on thehard drive is very stable and still offers all of those ffice functions whichgenuinely need to be used in private or in business environments. It goes without saying that the most important thing is the fact that readingand writing in the original Word Excel and PowerPoint files without losses ofcontent or in terms of formatting presents no problem for the Ashampoo ffice2008. That means that every user of the Ashampoo ffice is able to open modifyand then save a Word file in exactly the same way as if the work had been donein Word itself… However:many users are unable to afford the ffice suite. Ashampoo ffice 2008 only occupies a limited amount of storage space on thehard drive is very stable and still offers all of those ffice functions whichgenuinely need to be used in private or in business environments. It goes without saying that the most important thing is the fact that readingand writing in the original Word Excel and PowerPoint files without losses ofcontent or in terms of formatting presents no problem for the Ashampoo ffice2008. That means that every user of the Ashampoo ffice is able to open modifyand then save a Word file in exactly the same way as if the work had been donein Word itself. Ashampoo ffice 2008 is supplied with the word processing program AshampooTextMarker the spreadsheet program Ashampoo PlanMaker and the presentationssoftware Ashampoo Presentations. As a word processing program TextMaker is able to cope with texts. Theprogram is able to lay out a table of contents an index and tables can importgraphics and is also able to place 3D texts.