Jul 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
The ios 6 beta 3 is being rolled out and the biggest thing is that Apple is starting the transition from mobile me to icloud. For those who don’t know you can get get email address from apple @me.com but with the new transition you are going to receive a @icloud address. Don’t fret you will be able to make a perfect transition of your email address. So if you have jr@me.com you will be able to get jr@icloud.com. Apple had this to say on the subject : icloud.com email addresses are now available for iCloud mail users. Users signing up for new Apple IDs, or enabling Mail on their iCloud account for the first time, will automatically receive an @icloud.com email address instead of a me.com email address. iCloud users with @me.com addresses that have been used with iOS 6 beta 3 will receive an @icloud.com email address that matches their @me.com address.
Jul 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
So I as I said last week Microsoft will be going through sending out the office consumer preview well Microsoft is showing it off finally and broke out all of its fine nice features.
Office at Its Best on Windows 8
? Touch everywhere. Office responds to touch as naturally as it does to keyboard and mouse. Swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations. Author new content and access features with the touch of a finger.
? Inking. Use a stylus to create content, take notes and access features. Handwrite email responses and convert them automatically to text. Use your stylus as a laser pointer when presenting. Color your content and erase your mistakes with ease.
? New Windows 8 applications. OneNote and Lync represent the first new Windows 8 style applications for Office. These applications are designed to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet. A new radial menu in OneNote makes it easy to access features with your finger.
? Included in Windows RT. Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which contains new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, will be included on ARM-based Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface.
Office Is in the Cloud
? SkyDrive. Office saves documents to SkyDrive by default, so your content is always available across your tablet, PC and phone. Your documents are also available offline and sync when you reconnect.
? Roaming. Once signed in to Office, your personalized settings, including your most recently used files, templates and even your custom dictionary, roam with you across virtually all of your devices. Office even remembers where you last left off and brings you right back to that spot in a single click.
? Office on Demand. With a subscription, you can access Office even when you are away from your PC by streaming full-featured applications to an Internet-connected Windows-based PC.
? New subscription services. The new Office is available as a cloud-based subscription service. As subscribers, consumers automatically get future upgrades in addition to exciting cloud services including Skype world minutes and extra SkyDrive storage. Subscribers receive multiple installs for everyone in the family and across their devices.
Office Is Social
? Yammer. Yammer delivers a secure, private social network for businesses. You can sign up for free and begin using social networking instantly. Yammer offers integration with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics.
? Stay connected. Follow people, teams, documents and sites in SharePoint. View and embed pictures, videos and Office content in your activity feeds to stay current and update your colleagues.
? People Card. Have an integrated view of your contacts everywhere in Office. The People Card includes presence information complete with pictures, status updates, contact information and activity feeds from Facebook and LinkedIn accounts.
? Skype. The new Office comes with Skype. When you subscribe, you get 60 minutes of Skype world minutes every month. Integrate Skype contacts into Lync and call or instant message anyone on Skype.
Office Unlocks New Scenarios
? Digital note-taking. Keep your notes handy in the cloud and across multiple devices with OneNote. Use what feels most natural to you ? take notes with touch, pen or keyboard, or use them together and switch easily back and forth.
? Reading and markup. The Read Mode in Word provides a modern and easy-to-navigate reading experience that automatically adjusts for large and small screens. Zoom in and out of content, stream videos within documents, view revision marks and use touch to turn pages.
? Meetings. PowerPoint features a new Presenter View that privately shows your current and upcoming slides, presentation time, and speaker notes in a single glance. While presenting, you can zoom, mark up and navigate your slides with touch and stylus. Lync includes multiparty HD video with presentations, shared OneNote notebooks and a virtual whiteboard for collaborative brainstorming.
? Eighty-two-inch touch-enabled displays. Conduct more engaging meetings, presentations and lessons, whether in person or virtually, with these multitouch and stylus-enabled displays from Perceptive Pixel.
With this new office suite it is a no brainier that Microsoft is making a big hit into the cloud and social networking. Let?s hope this products full release will not have as many bugs as seen in many versions of its other products.
Jul 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Most of the time if not all the time you don?t have the time to watch every single item in your News Feed on a daily basis. Because of that, you may miss out on some pretty awesome events like a wedding or engagement. Luckily, Facebook?s algorithm can pop those status updates up if a bunch of people interact with them, but things can still be missed.
Well facebook has announced a feature called ?Weddings and Celebrations? which will make sure that you don?t miss a wedding or engagement ever again. It works like Facebook?s birthday feature, which shows up in the top right-hand side of page when you log in. This feature will show you when people have changed their relationship status to engaged or even married.
Jul 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
At the beginning month, Apple promised that a new Food and Drink section would be going live in the App Store in the coming weeks. Like clockwork, Apple?s new App Store section has gone live. The new section currently holds about 3000 apps that relate to finding food and drinks, recipies, cooking and more, but does not include food subjects like dieting, shopping, and coupons. It is a surprise it took this long for a section like this in the app store as food is a big part of anyones life and apps like open table and others like are used for most people’s dining and restaurant reservations.
Jul 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Report from USAToday suggests that Microsoft will finally unveil Office 15, the company’s next generation office productivity suite, to the public. Office 15, or Office 2013, was originally rumored to hit a Consumer Preview stage later this month. This preview will be big for Microsoft. Every time they start a new office suite it is always interesting what they have done to make it worth spending the money on the upgrades. This consumer preview will be launching this month.
Jul 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Have you ever upgraded your operating system and did not back up your data? Well Microsoft is making a windows 8 to go version that rests on a usb stick. It will be a 32GB stick that let’s you run windows 8 off of the stick as long as you are running windows 7. The best part is that it saves your apps and data so you can take the stick anywhere with your files.
