The News Review:
- Komando’s Q & A: Make DVD slide shows
- Test Center Analysis: Playing the Netbook S Game
- Diffuse those PDF web land-mines with DocShots
- Microsoft kills Equipt subscription suite
Komando’s Q & A: Make DVD slide shows
USA Today -
I’d like to have it play in a standard DVD player. I’m thinking about using PowerPoint to do this but I’m not sure how it would work. Can you help me?Answer: This is certainly something that Microsoft PowerPoint can handle. However I recommend Photo Story a free program from Microsoft. It’s designed for creating slide shows. You can add music narration and cool effects. And it’s a lot easier to use than PowerPoint.
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Test Center Analysis: Playing the Netbook S Game
ChannelWeb NY -
Small sleek and often available in a variety of bright colors like “Blossom” “Snow” and “nyx” (pink white and black for the uninspired) perhaps what’s attracting most devotees are the relatively low prices. Netbooks range from $300 -$800 for higher-end models falling somewhere between smartphones and notebooks in functionality. They are good at what they are designed for: surfing the Web checking e-mail using a word processor or perhaps creating a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Reviews of a variety of notebooks in the Test Center have proven that while netbooks are useful at doing the aforementioned tasks they are not ideal for doing those tasks simultaneously. Still the Test Center set out to quantify the differences. To get an idea of how different operating systems would perform in an apples-to-apples comparison the Test Center built its own hardware test bed to simulate a netbook performance experience. Not content to use standard vendor-branded systems as our only means of benchmarking operating systems here the Test Center used the Intel D945GCLF2 Essential Series Mini-ITX retail board with Intel’s Atom processor at 1.
Diffuse those PDF web land-mines with DocShots
VentureBeat CA -
n a page with DocShots installed when you hover over a link to a document the document will show up on the page alongside the Docstoc document page navigation structure so you can view documents with multiple pages all on this overlay. ne nice feature is that when you add the DocShots code to your site’s template it will enable this on-page viewing functionality for all of the document links already on your site. The service supports a variety of file types including. doc (Microsoft Word). ppt (Microsoft PowerPoint) and. xls (Microsoft Excel).
Microsoft kills Equipt subscription suite
Computerworld MA -
Equipt was billed by Microsoft as a package to give consumers a “core set of services” for their PCs and by others as the company’s answer to the free online applications popularized by. But since Equipt’s appearance Microsoft has announced plans to.