February 23, 2010
A few PDF tools have succeeded in carving out some space from Adobe’s omnipresent software ““ the Adobe Reader. Is Adobe rueing the fact that they made the PDF document format open? We wouldn’t know, but the openness has brought popularity and made the PDF format the de facto way to exchange files across all [...]
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February 19, 2010
Didn’t know it had one? Well, I also thought it went missing when I started out with MS Word 2007. Of all the Microsoft Office suite applications, I use MS Word the most. For keeping tabs on numbers and crunching them though, it’s destination Excel for me. The second way is of course to use [...]
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February 13, 2010
Sometimes the old ways are the best. Word provides too many features to throw it aside for web documents all the time. If you need to share a rich document with someone else, it’s hard to beat it as a platform. Track Changes lets you share your documents with other users and track changes and [...]
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February 8, 2010
It’s very likely you don’t have an attention deficit disorder or suffer from reading disabilities. It’s very likely that you might dismiss a reading aid software out of hand. But take ReadPal out for a run through a few blocks of text and you will be pleasantly surprised. ReadPal is about a better reading experience. [...]
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February 6, 2010
Change is coming. One thing to look forward to would be the launch of Microsoft Office 2010. Come the middle of this year, the new version of the Office Suite will part the curtains to emerge from the backstage. I have given the Public Beta a miss and am still hashing away at my old [...]
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January 30, 2010
With ample hard disk capacities at disposal, its only natural if one gets complacent about deleting older documents. However, such a habit requires efficient management so that you can find the file you are looking for quickly and don’t have to go through pile of unneeded files to find out what you were looking for. [...]
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January 27, 2010
I’m not really the type of person that sends faxes all that often. There may be an occasion or two when I have to forward information to my insurance company or the Human Resources department at work, but those times are very few and far between. However, since I don’t fax very often, whenever I [...]
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January 21, 2010
With 100,000+ apps in the App Store, we can find apps for a variety of uses, such as turning your iPod Touch/iPhone into a professional camera/photo editor (for iPhone), an external hard drive, a reference book, or a radio, yet productivity apps that integrate with Google services, which are free and which we can use [...]
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January 11, 2010
Wuala is definitely one of the most under-reported start-ups, and there’s no good reason for that. It takes the best features out of both Dropbox and Mozy to create a must-have online file storage service for anyone with a computer. Developed by Dominik Grolimund and Luzius Meisser, the technology behind Wuala is truly amazing. By [...]
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December 20, 2009
In today’s collaborative professional environment, teams often need to work on documents at the same time. The Track Changes feature of MS Office works only if each reviewer updates a document and sends it to the next reviewer, but this rarely happens in real life. Instead, we end up with multiple versions of the same [...]
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November 12, 2009
Not using the cloud is almost impossible these days. You can use the cloud for emails, document publishing and of course storing, backing up and sharing files as well. We have reviewed quite a few online storage services in the past. Microsoft’s offering Skydrive is right up there with others when it comes to storage [...]
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November 6, 2009
The world of business is a tough one indeed. Anyone will tell you that. From the guys at the top earning billions per year to the lowly freelancer, tucked away in a small home office. The big jobs are often the easiest. There’s nothing like landing a huge contract or finishing off that job you [...]
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November 3, 2009
The two, Word and “˜Word Blindness’ don’t gel together in a single sentence. But for me, it was a fact for quite some time. I was not familiar with some of Microsoft Word’s most common features and the way they could be tweaked or extended. It was only after I was forced to stay on the [...]
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October 27, 2009
Clothes make the man (and always, the woman!) but how much care do you put into dressing up your documents? Is it all title, headings, subheadings, bullets and paragraphs or do you put some more thought into the Word document? There are a lot of things which can go into creating a professional looking document. [...]
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October 22, 2009
When it comes to word processing, Microsoft Word is one of the most popular names in that business. But that is not the only name there is. There are many other great products available, each with its own unique features. One of the alternatives that we could use to create documents on a Mac is [...]
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