Archive for the 'Office' Category

KOffice comes to Windows: A brief loook at KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8

The K Desktop Environment, or KDE, is best known as a user interface and software suite for Linux. But for the past few months a team of developers has been tough at work porting KDE applications to Windows. When we looked at the KDE on Windows project earlier that year, it was still in the earl…

Attention fragmentation and computing health risks - Emailers Anonymous

Previously in this series we discussed the user interface advancement of collapsing emails in the same thread together, and how that can help to deal with a high volume of incoming newsletter. It’s worth asking whether that is really a solution unto itself, or whether it is perhaps just a way to…

Extreme Notebook Makeover - Protecting your notebook from random searches

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Small trade public don’t travel without laptops. On July 24, 2006, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that US Customs and Border Patrol Officers …

Flipping the Linux switch: Text editors for new users

First, a little experiment. What are the first three applications you think of when someone mentions text editors?

If you can only reply Notepad, Notepad and Notepad, there’s help for you yet.

True, the ubiquitous Notepad is a text editor. public who regularly use text editors often find N…

Google Docs adds new features

Google promises a feature-packed 2008 for Google Docs and we believe them. Not even a week into the new year, Google Docs has already implemented some new features. The most striking additions affect Google Presentations, the newest arm of Google Docs. Although we were impressed with Google Pre…

Five Small trade Tech Resolutions for 2008

Start out 2008 with a commerce bang! Get free online tools to help in everyday and long-term technology chores. Here are some suggestions for the best free small trade tools available for a 2008 launch for your commerce.

Keep track of your software licenses
Every duration you buy a Microsoft…

Sync Microsoft Office documents with Google Docs using DocSyncer

The wait is by, DocSyncer is out of beta and open for all to use. that downloadable application allows PC based users of Microsoft Office and Google Docs to seamlessly sync documents.

DocSyncer is a downloadable application that sits on your computer and automatically finds and syncs all of y…

Study: 73% of Americans have never heard of Google Docs

We spend a lot of moment talking about Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Zoho, and other online office suites. For the most part they don’t have all the features of Microsoft Office, but they attempt to assemble up for that in convenience (access them from any computer) and price (usually free). B…

Save your OpenOffice.org docs to Google Docs (and vice versa)

If you find yourself typing some documents up on your desktop and others using the web-based office suite Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you might find it tough to keep organized. With your documents spread all by the place, it’s easy for a few things to get lost in the shuffle.

While OpenOf…

Live Documents, a peek at the next online office player

We covered habitable Documents, the new online office documents competition final month, that is about to invent a move to steal some market share aware from Zoho, ThinkFree and Google.

Live Documents has released some screen grabs from its interface, giving a little increasingly insight into…

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