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Archive for February 2008

February 29th, 2008

The Daisy Translator

Late last year, I posted something about the collaboration of Microsoft Office with the DAISY Consortium, where this plugin will translate text to speech files. So, to have an update to that and understand more about the DAISY Translator, please watch this 2 parts video where Reed Shaffner, Product Manager Microsoft Office, […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

February 29th, 2008

An Update with Microsoft’s Open XML Standards

Zoho Writer recently released an update with the support of DocX formats, which is the new Microsoft OOXML file format for Word documents. The update is good but what’s teh status of OOXML as a standard?
As Microsoft still pursuing OOXML to be credited  for international standard by International Organization for Standardization (ISO), let us see […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

February 29th, 2008

Adobe AIR™ and Flex™ 3: The Next Best Thing?

Just this week, Adobe released their Adobe AIR™ 1.0 and Flex™ 3 to developers. Adobe AIR which was part of Adobe Labs is now available for developers to develop rich Internet applications (RIA). AIR 1.0 runs using HTML, Flash and AJAX. On the other hand, the Flex 3 is as well an open-source development tool […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 27th, 2008

A bunch of Zoho Writer Update

Just today, Zoho Writer which is part of the Zoho Online Suite, released a bunch of updates that is of course to deliver more enhancement of the product to meet users’ needs. These new features update includes:

DocX Support - supports exporting to DocX, the new Microsoft OOXML file format for Word. Ofcourse, we already support […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 27th, 2008

OpenOffice.org OpenXML Translator

It is a fact that there are people who does not use Microsoft Office at all times, especially when we are not using a single PC for our document processing. One may be running a Windows-based system, the other runs Linux.  File format compatibility is now the main concern when doing editing of documents in […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 27th, 2008

Now AIRing: Xdrive® Desktop Lite beta

As the Adobe AIR technology is making some buzz over the web, AOL adapted the technology and offers a new Xdrive® Desktop Lite beta. Running with Adobe AIR, Xdrive now allows easy file management directly to your Xdrive accounts. And since, Adobe AIR platform supports Windows and Mac, both system now can interact to their […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 26th, 2008

Office 2008 Update, Delayed Open XML File Format Converter

The release of Office 2008 for Mac last January made many Mac users happy for the update during the Macworld Expo. As a routine to improve new software released from customer feedbacks and suggestions, the update was delayed further until March 11th, 2008. Along with this delay is the release of Open XML File Format […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2008

Magic Tricks with MS Word/Notepad

Guys, try this one… Just for fun and experimentation.
Over Yahoo! Messenger, my friend forwarded me a couple of tricks to do wit MS Word and Notepad and I would like to share this with you.
Trick #1:
Again this is something funny and can’t be explained… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why […]

By Jerome Locson -- 8 comments

February 25th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update

Released last February 12, 2008 is the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update which is part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin issued this month.
This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.
Applies To:   Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

February 25th, 2008

Microsoft doesn’t like Fasthosts’ Office SaaS

Just this month, the UK-based hosting company named Fasthosts offered an online Microsoft Office as SaaS. But Microsoft is not happy about it, claiming that there are copyright infringement violation offering Microsoft Office through software streaming.
But Fasthosts holds to its claim that there was no violation.  According to the article published by David Meyer for […]

By Jerome Locson -- 0 comments

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