Most of us wants to be productive in our work. Personally, I usually tend to procrastinate instead of working with my tasks. I sometimes misplace my files and I have to spend time searching for it. But then, I must be productive and needs to find a ways to be more productive.
Just recently, Microsoft Office Labs launched a new project named Speed Launch. It is a tool that helps you organize files, documents, applications and websites. It is some sort of a bookmarking tool for your desktop. Once installed, it can be accessed by pressing Windows+C keystrokes or via the ‘bullseye’ icon. You can even create custom functions for your Speed Launch.
Speed Launch is an application launcher that extends the functionality and usability of Microsoft Windows. With Speed Launch, users can select their own words to open frequently used websites, documents, and applications. The most compelling feature of Speed launch is the use of a drag and drop interaction model to make this advanced functionality more intuitive to novice computer users.
Please take note that this tool only runs under Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 with .Net Framework 3.0. For more information and detailed instructions, please visit their FAQ page.
Yet another improvements from Google Docs, making users feel more comfortable and productive. Now, Google Docs created a new menu called ‘Form’, allowing them have instant access in form creation without opening spreadsheet instead a direct menu access.
Adding fields or questions to your form is now easy with a dropdown box. It gives you the option to add text, paragraph, multiple choice, checkboxes, lists, and scaling.
Developed by Microsoft Office Labs, pptPlex is a research prototype in discovering new ways to present Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentations.
This plug-in allows you to arrange slides on a canvas then zoom between the slides during the presentation. You can move around the canvas and show groups of slides, individual slides, or even zoom in to show a particular section of a slide.
For more detailed and clear instruction on how to go around pptPlex, visit their FAQ page.
Recently, eXpresso by eXpresso Corp., released a newer version of their Microsoft Excel Offline Plugin tool. With this Excel Adds-in, you can now access your online spreadsheets and edit it directly toy your Microsoft Excel environment. Still, it allows you to sync, share and collaborate with your colleagues.
Spreadsheets opened “off-line” in Excel® are locked for editing by other users. Once the spreadsheet owner has saved any changes made back to eXpresso and closes the spreadsheet, the lock is released.
This months’ security update by Microsoft yet again include some fixes for Microsoft Office and here’s the list and among which 4 tagged as critical and 1 as important.
If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and wants to take Google Docs with you, you can download MiGhtyDocs and install it instantly. It’s a free utility tool developed by Thomas Post (aka v1ru8) and you can download it directly via iTunes, just click this link. iTunes will open and will directly you to iTunes Store where you can download the tool and install it to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
With the power of Google Docs Offline access, you can now have access to your documents in your pocket. You can view and make changes to your documents and when there is an active connection it will automatically sync to your account. Documents are stored in your iPhone cache, but if you want to erase those files manually, just clear the cache.
Currently, this tool online supports Google Documents. The support of Presentation and Spreadsheet are still to come.
If you’re a programmer and needs to have an environment where you can code anytime, anywhere. Now, with the technology of portability, you need not to install anything to your system but have it in your USB disk. This tool is called Notepad++ Portable, now part of the PortableApps.com Suite. It supports multiple programming languages as well.
Features:
Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, CSS and more)
Microsoft External Research recently released free tools that focuses in computing and scientific research authoring and publishing pertinent research data and facts. It is called as Microsoft Scholarly Communication which comprises the following tools:
The Research Information Centre (Beta)
It was designed to allow research partners to store, share, discuss, manage, find, and track all the components of a research project—including data, references, papers, bookmarks, proposals, internal messages, information, and findings—within a simple interface.
Article Authoring Add-in v1.0 for Microsoft Office Word 2007
The Article Authoring Add-in enables authors and editors to open and save Microsoft Office Word files in the National Library of Medicine’s NLM XML format, a file format that is used in the publishing and archiving of scientific and technical articles.
Creative Commons Add-in v1.0 for Microsoft Office
The add-in allows an author of a Microsoft Office document to choose a Creative Commons license from those available on the Creative Commons Web site (by using the Creative Commons Web service).
Microsoft eJournal Service (Alpha)
It is designed to simplify the self-publishing of workshop and conference proceedings and smaller journals, as well as online collaboration between authors.
Research Output Repository Platform (Alpha)
Research output repositories are increasingly in use on university campuses and in research communities worldwide.
The Microsoft Math Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
The Microsoft Math Add-in enhances Microsoft Office Word 2007 with computational and graphing capabilities
Microsoft Scholarly Communication aims to help the research academia with the following goals:
Optimize for data-driven research and science
Enable broad community engagement through greater interoperability
Help ensure that data storage is reliable and secure for the long term
Build on existing community protocols, practices, and guidelines
Harness collective intelligence through social networking and semantic knowledge discover
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