The News Review:
- Snow Leopard preview at WWDC
- Major Changes Hidden in Microsoft PowerPoint Update
- IDF tells officers: Lose the PowerPoint presentations
- Around Acadiana
- Full-size sensor on DSLR camera has advantages
- Microsoft to plug holes in Windows IE Word ffice and Excel
- Ridgelogic issues beta release of online digital signage …
Snow Leopard preview at WWDC
CNET News
(Credit: Apple Inc. )Stacks will also see an upgrade including the ability to open and explore folders within the stacks window–the current version opened the Finder when a folder was clicked. During this part of the presentation Serlet also showed how Snow Leopard can now preview images videos and PowerPoint presentations even if you don’t have PowerPoint installed on your Mac. Support for Microsoft Exchange is a feature many users have been waiting for (a very long time) and with Mac S X Snow Leopard Exchange support is finally here. Simply add an account to Mail choose Exchange and your Mac will autodetect your Exchange information from your address book or you can enter the information manually. From there you will be able to use Exchange’s global list of addresses and drag and drop contacts into iCal to easily schedule meetings. Smart technology surrounding meeting locations enables your Mac to discover time conflicts and change the meeting time and location to work for everyone.
Major Changes Hidden in Microsoft PowerPoint Update
PC Magazine
In this case the Mac version is not yet ready but Microsoft decided to go ahead with the Windows version since the actual attacks going on in the wild are all Windows-specific. The Mac version will follow when ready presumably. The second point is that Microsoft has removed support for “the very old PowerPoint 4 converter (PP4X322. DLL)” with the release of this update. This program and the formats it supports are more trouble than they’re worth it would seem and it’s years since they have been the default format on any supported version of PowerPoint. They provide a registry hack you can apply to re-enable PowerPoint 4 support in current products but they advise that you unapply the hack afterwards. Finally file converter support in ffice 2000 and ffice XP has been upgraded by back-porting the latest code from ffice 2003 into it.
IDF tells officers: Lose the PowerPoint presentations
Ha'aretz
There is no reason to brand Arens a technophobe. The veteran minister simply concluded that computerized assistance compromises officers’ concentration – they had fallen in love with the new technology and struggled to discuss complex issues. Arens’ instructions were forgotten shortly after he left the Defense Ministry but now another senior defense official has picked up the torch. The deputy chief of staff Brig.
Around Acadiana
The Daily Advertiser
Patrons will meet in the new technology classroom containing 14 work stations with Microsoft ffice Suite and a data projector with screen. Classes offered include Basic Computing Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. For more information call 981-1028. Hazard mitigation meeting plannedUL has scheduled a second public meeting on its hazard mitigation plan as part of the Disaster Resistant University grant program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The gathering will be at 2 p.
Full-size sensor on DSLR camera has advantages
San Francisco Chronicle
There’s also another reason. If Nikon and Canon put full-size sensors in their consumer DSLRs – which boast many professional features as it is – they’d cannibalize sales of the more expensive models. Q: ccasionally I get PowerPoint files as e-mail attachments. I use Microsoft ffice but I never installed PowerPoint because I don’t have a use for it and I don’t want it taking up space. So how do I read these PowerPoints on my SX Mac?A: If you just need to view PowerPoint presentations you can use Google Docs – a free online office suite at google. You’ll need a Gmail account if you don’t already have one.
Microsoft to plug holes in Windows IE Word ffice and Excel
CNET News
0; and ffice SharePoint Server. It’s likely the PowerPoint vulnerability is the same one that Microsoft warned about. html” >in April and fixed in the Windows version.
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Ridgelogic issues beta release of online digital signage …
Digital Signage Today
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