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Office Tweaks

Archive for August 2007

August 31st, 2007

Project Scheduling with MS Excel

Proper project management aids business people to meet objectives in a timely manner. Speaking of time, it is necessary to consider adequate time allocation per activity involved in a project. Common method of allocating time or so called project scheduling with visual aids is by Gantt Chart of PERT Diagrams. But, I will be give you […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

August 28th, 2007

Converting files to PDF, the easy way

Many of you, I suppose, sometimes plan to do documents in PDF formats but your office suite does not have the ability to save it directly to PDF whether it be of word document, presentation slides, spreadsheet, pictures, or any data.
PDF or also known as Portable Document Format, a file format created by Adobe Systems […]

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August 27th, 2007

NeoOffice 2.2.1 released

For Mac lovers, here is an office suite that will meet your demands if you can’t afford iWorks or MS Office for Mac. It is called NeoOffice.

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated […]

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August 26th, 2007

Skype Small Business Pack

Just this month, Skype had a serious technical network problem and brought many users offline and it affected some business transactions. Their official announcement said that it was due to algorithm issues. The issue has now been resolved.
Few days later, Skype, the famous VOIP company owned by eBay which offering free VOIP services (with some […]

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August 25th, 2007

Zoho Writer now goes offline

Zoho is yet another online office suite which offers a lot of features and functionalities similar to your favorite desktop office suites, a rival of Google Apps perhaps. Just yesterday, Zoho released additional feature of Offline Support & Comments in Zoho Writer. Below is the detailed story of these updates:
Offline Support:
We are taking our […]

By Jerome Locson -- 3 comments

August 24th, 2007

Google Apps gets into business

Google Apps offers online office suite to meet different organization needs. Now they offer 3 editions to its users: Standard Edition, Premier Edition, and Education Edition. Both Standard and Education Editions offers it for free but Premier Edition charge around $50 / user account / year (they have limited time offer for 30-day trial). Some […]

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August 23rd, 2007

Nvu, the web authoring tool alternative

As a web developer, I always find ways to do my coding and designing in a comfy and flexible development tool like Dreamweaver. But sometimes, companies require to do the development of websites in a Linux environment, not in Windows. But no more worries because there is an open-source tool that will help web […]

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August 22nd, 2007

Sticky Windows v2.3.4

Sticky Windows v2.3.4 helps you extends the tab browsing experience to the desktop.
Sticky Windows is an application for Mac OS X Tiger which extends the tab browsing experience to the Desktop. Sticky Windows shrinks your windows into tabs when you drag a window towards the edge of your screen, providing you with a completely clutter-free […]

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August 21st, 2007

The Moviestar of Adobe

With the ever increasing popularity of online video streaming, Adobe - the software giant, is launching its new upgrade version of Flash Player 9 dubbed as Moviestar. This aims to deliver high-definition video technology due the demand.
“Moviestar” will support the H.264 codec video compression standard which is famously used on different platforms including HD-DVD […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

August 21st, 2007

Windows Live SkyDrive(beta)

Windows Live Folders, which is an online storage service by Microsoft, was released a few months ago in their test drive mode. With this, you can now save your documents, images, and music files online and have them access anytime, anywhere. This is similar to Google Online Storage service.
Early August 9, 2007, they launched […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment