Aug 29

Microsoft To Stop Offering The Office 2007 Downloads Soon

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on October 06, 2006 by CyberNet.

Microsoft Office 2007 Logo ActiveWin posted some information today that was made available on Microsoft Connect regarding the future availability of Office 2007 Beta 2. According to the information Microsoft will stop offering the downloads on October 25 as they prepare to send Office 2007 to the manufacturer to be chiseled onto CD’s for its January release.

Here is some more information that was provided:

We are thrilled with the incredible excitement around the upcoming 2007 Microsoft Office system as is evident by over 3 million people installing the Beta 2 and later Beta2TR builds. With your help, we have far exceeded our technical participation goals. At this time, we are pleased to announce that the 2007 Office system will be released to manufacturing (RTM) in the next few weeks. We thank you for your participation in the planning, development, and testing of this new release. As we approach the end of the beta testing phase of Office 2007, we would like to make you aware of several upcoming events that will affect you.

  • On October 25, the Office Preview site will be closed down. Since this is the home of all Beta2TR product downloads, you will not be able to download Beta2TR after 10/25. All other information currently found on the Office Preview site will be migrated to the Office Online website (accessible via online help from within Office 2007 applications). This includes the FAQ, Product Guide, Top 10, Overview, the Demo tab, the New UI tab for programs, and other related information.
  • Will there be a release candidate or other beta release beyond Beta2TR?
    No. We are not planning to make any further builds available to technical beta testers. Office 2007 products will be available in retail channels early next year. The Beta2TR build is set to expire on March 15, 2007 for all client products and May 31, 2007 for all server products. This should allow you to use Beta2TR until you can upgrade to the retail version.
  • Will I receive a free copy of 2007 Office system products?
    Copies of 2007 Office system final product are not automatically distributed to all participants at the end of the Technical Beta. This program has been a volunteer effort by participants for the mutual benefit of you/your organization and the Microsoft Office team to enable feedback on your testing of ‘real world’ usage scenarios, and improvement of the final product quality for all Office users.

So there you have it…no free version for us. I knew that Microsoft wasn’t going to be giving out free copies of Office 2007 just because you participated in the testing process but that would be pretty cool. I guess the current version that I am running is good until March 15, 2007 so I can get by for a little while.

Download Office 2007 while you still can.

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Aug 28

Refresh Roundup: week of August 22, 2011

Posted in: Android, att, BlackBerry, firmware, firmware update, FirmwareUpdate, HP, HTC, leak, leaks, mango, mobilepostmini, motorola, nokia, refresh, research in motion, ResearchInMotion, RIM, roundup, rumor, rumors, Software, software update, SoftwareUpdate, Today's Chili, update, verizon, vzw, webos, windows phone 7, WindowsPhone7, Wp7

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery from the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

Official Android Updates

  • Motorola’s Photon 4G was the recipient of a minor over-the-air firmware revamp that offers improvements to responsiveness and voice calls, and offers more bug fixes and other enhancements. [via PhoneArena]
  • Want another bug fix update? The HTC EVO 3D is the next contestant, rolling out its second OTA refresh in as many weeks. This time it appears that a new “Corporate 4G” widget and a new radio have been added. [via AndroidCentral]
  • Gingerbread 2.3.4 is now rolling out to Bell’s Motorola Atrix 4G OTA. [via MobileSyrup]
  • Now that its official Gingerbread support page has gone live, Verizon’s Motorola Droid 2 will likely be receiving Android 2.3 in the very near future. [via AndroidCentral]
  • Sasktel’s HTC Incredible S is now the beneficiary of Android 2.3.3 in an OTA install. [via MobileSyrup]

Unofficial Android updates / custom ROMs / misc hackery

Other platforms

  • The Nokia N8 was recently blessed with Symbian Anna, but a few camera-related upgrades were left out. No need to fear, as an “experimental” update is now being offered, which adds continuous auto-focus and tweaks the UI to allow for faster access to the camera — among other improvements, such as a boost to 30fps. Check out the change log here. [via ZOMGitsCJ]
  • Given last week’s news about webOS, we were concerned the newly-launched Pre3 would be DOA, with no promise of future updates. HP’s proving this isn’t the case, however, as the device got a minor update that brought the phone’s help center live and fixed a few bugs along the way. [via PreCentral and PhoneArena]
  • Research in Motion released an upgrade to its Tablet OS for the BlackBerry PlayBook. Unfortunately, it’s not the 2.0 version we saw leaked screenshots of earlier this week, but it still brings a nice feature to the tablet: differential updates. This means that in future OS refreshes, only the affected sections will be changed. In addition, the new version, dubbed 1.0.7.2942, will improve WiFi connectivity via WEP and enhancements to BlackBerry Bridge. [via RIM]
  • WP7Mod showed a video of the HTC HD2 booting up with Windows Phone Mango’s RTM build installed. We’ve been told that it’s almost ready for any daring souls interested in a new challenge for their Windows Mobile device. [via WMPowerUser]

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Aug 26

CyberNotes: Taking Notes With Your Browser

Posted in: CyberNotes, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 22, 2006 by CyberNet.

CyberNotes
Time Saving Tuesday

I am a pretty organized person and I view hundreds of sites each day. Through all of those sites I find several that I will eventually come back to but I don’t want to clutter up my bookmarks when I will only view once more. That’s where notes come in.

Google Notebook For the past few months I have been using Google Notebook and it has been great. It offers me the ability to create notes on a Website and be able to retrieve them later. An extension is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer which makes it even easier to manage your notes without ever pulling up a Web page.

I have always used Google Notebook because I have never thought to search for another note taking solution. Heading over to the Firefox Extensions page helped me to find a few more that give Google Notebook a run for it’s money.

 

Scrapbook Firefox Extension The first one that I came across was Scrapbook and it appeared to be very well put together looking at the screenshots so I gave it a shot. This extension is very unique because it will store your “note” directly on your computer. It does not send any information to a server which is good from a privacy aspect but may not be favored by people who constantly use more than one computer.

Scrapbook Firefox Extension Scrapbook will also let you highlight text and even add your own comments. This is one of my favorite features of this extension because it will give you a floating window that you can move around and type your comments into. It even has a small amount of transparency to it so that you can still see the text located behind the sticky note. Very well done.

 

Internote Firefox Extension Okay, so maybe you like the idea of the floating sticky notes but you don’t want to store the site on your computer in order to use the feature. Then you need Internote. It allows you to place a sticky note on any site and you can choose from a nice range of colors for the background and text.

Internote also has a built-in manager which makes it easy to see all of the notes you have sprawled out over several sites. Then you can edit, print, or delete the them at your leisure.

 

Diigo Firefox Internet Explorer Diigo is kind of a combination of all of the above. It has a Firefox and IE extension but they also offer a bookmarklet that makes it easy to take nice notes without ever installing a thing. Much like Google Notebook this service allows you to store your notes as either public or private. They are trying to become a large social network which means they really want you to store your notes as public so that their network will continue to thrive.

Unlike the other note taking solutions Diigo allows you to tag your notes. I definitely like that idea because finding that specific note later on will be a little bit easier. Another unique feature is the ability to simultaneously bookmark/note a site at multiple sources. Yep, you can bookmark a link at del.icio.us, Shadows, Yahoo, and more with just one click!

 

So those are the different kind of solutions that I had come up with. Browsers like Flock (demo available) and Opera (demo available) both have built-in note taking capabilities. That must mean this is a pretty highly requested feature. If you happen to know of another solution we would love to hear about it.

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Aug 26

CyberNotes: Minimo Is The Firefox For Your Pocket PC

Posted in: CyberNotes, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 30, 2006 by CyberNet.

CyberNotes
Web Browser Wednesday

Minimo logo I have been the proud owner of the HP iPAQ 5455 for over a year now and it is great having the built-in wireless capabilities. One thing that every Pocket PC lacks in my opinion is a great browser. Opera has a nice mobile browser that I played with but I wasn’t compelled to purchase it after the 30-day trial. NetFront is also really nice but I ran into the same problem…I didn’t use it enough to fork out the money.

For a few months now I have stuck with Internet Explorer because I only browse the Web on my Pocket PC for no more than 20 minutes a day. Last week I took a stroll over to see how Minimo (Mozilla’s mobile browser) was coming along. I had checked on it a few months ago when it was in the very early/almost unusable stage and I thought it would be time to take another look at it. They had some nice screenshots up and I thought so I would give it a shot (yes, screenshots are an amazing selling point with me).

Being that it was only version 0.016 I didn’t have much hope that it would be a success. A primary reason I was installing it was because they provided a CAB installer for the Pocket PC, which meant I could download it directly on my iPAQ and install it without ever needing to dock it to my desktop PC. After the short download and installation I had it running…and I was very impressed.

Playing around with it more and more made me realize that this is truly a mini-Firefox. Checkout these screenshots and judge for yourself:

 

Overall I would have to say that it runs pretty smooth even though it does seem a little sluggish if I open multiple tabs, but I don’t do that on my Pocket PC much. I won’t be trading this browser in because it is a much better alternative to Pocket IE! Hopefully Mozilla will see a value in making a mobile browser and will continue to fine tune it.

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Aug 25

Download Picasa 2.5 Beta 3 – New Features

Posted in: Pre-Release, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on August 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Picasa 2.5 Google has finally released Picasa 2.5 Beta 3 and it has some nice new features. The most notable of the features would be the screensaver option which can be found under the Tools menu. This feature was in Beta 2 but there are some additional tweaks that you can do to it.

When you click the “Configure Screensaver” option from the Tools menu you will see the Display Properties window pop-up and it should look similar to the screenshot that I took. You can then click the “Settings” button and it will let you customize multiple options. You can choose which folders Picasa will grab photos from, have it display images from your Picasa Web Albums, and choose the visual effects for the screensaver. I think the new “Pan and Zoom” visual effect is the best.

There are also a few improvements that they have made, such as to the movie file support, but it looks like they are nearing another release. The number of changes keep getting smaller and smaller so I would imagine that the final version is right around the corner.

Download Picasa 2.5 Beta 3

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Aug 25

Helpful Tip: Clean Your Keyboard & Mouse

Posted in: Freeware, Software, Tips and Tricks, Today's Chili

This article was written on November 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

ToddlerTrap Ashley has already covered the different ways to clean your keyboard, but have you ever tried to clean your keyboard or mouse while the computer was on? I’ve done it, and the result is programs and files unexpectedly being opened, or even worse getting deleted. It’s almost like closing your eyes and typing on the keyboard … you just don’t know what’s going to happen.

What I normally do to get around this is lock my computer or put it in standby, but I thought to myself that other people had to be having the same problem as me. So I ventured out looking for a program that would lock both the keyboard and mouse so that they could easily be cleaned. That’s when I came across Donation Coder’s ToddlerTrap. The program requires no installation, and you don’t need to have AutoHotKey installed if you download the EXE (click the little floppy disk symbol on the site).

The program basically intercepts any keyboard or mouse inputs and makes the computer think that the key was never even pressed. The entire program, pictured above, consists of a text box and a close button. The text box is a little bit deceiving because it shows what key is currently being pressed on the keyboard. My initial thought was that this is used to create some sort of hotkey for the program, but it actually serves no real purpose.

The keyboard and mouse lock is automatically activated once the program is started, and it is disabled when the program is closed. Don’t worry, you can still move your mouse around the screen with ToddlerTrap activated, and the red X on the program is the only thing that is clickable.

So now you have an easy way to clean your keyboard and mouse without having to suffer from adverse effects. And I guess you could use this program for its intended purpose, which is to prevent young kids from messing anything up on the computer. ;)

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Aug 25

MyFive: Firefox 3 Chrome URL’s

Posted in: Firefox 3, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on June 24, 2008 by CyberNet.

Firefox’s interface is cleverly designed using JavaScript and XUL, and using what’s referred to as chrome URL’s you can actually open specific windows in a tab or the sidebar. This includes things like the management windows for bookmarks, saved passwords, downloads, extensions, and more. They can even be bookmarked for quick one-click access to them in the future.

Below we’ve got our top 5 chrome URL’s that can be used in Firefox 3, and all you have to do is copy the URL into the address bar to see what each of them do. Don’t forget to bookmark the ones that you’ll use frequently, and here are some instructions if you want them to open in the sidebar.

Note: The URL’s will obviously only work in Firefox.

1) Bookmarks Management

Used for: Managing bookmarks, tags, and history.
URL: chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul

firefox chrome bookmarks-2.png

2) Downloads

Used for: Managing past and active downloads.
URL: chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul

firefox chrome downloads.png

3) Extensions

Used for: Enabling, disabling, and uninstalling extensions, themes, and plugins.
URL: chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul

firefox chrome extensions.png

4) Saved Passwords

Used for: Managing passwords stored by Firefox.
URL: chrome://passwordmgr/content/passwordManager.xul

firefox chrome saved passwords-1.png

5) Preferences

Used for: Configuring different options in the browser.
URL: chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul

firefox chrome preferences.png

Runner Up: Browser inside a Browser

Used for: Displaying a browser inside a browser. This is more for fun than anything else.
URL: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

firefox chrome browser.png

[via Firefox Facts]

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Aug 25

Linux Turns 20 Today—And Shut Up, Yes, It Still Matters

Posted in: Linux, open source, Software, Today's Chili, top

We get it. Linux is just for nerds. Not mere nerds—we’re all nerds—Linux nerds. It’s a hobbyist OS for contrarians. It’s an antique. An oddity. Pointless. Right? Very, very wrong. Happy birthday, Linux—let’s celebrate you like we should More »

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Aug 25

Microsoft: front facing cameras, Skype integration coming with Mango update (video)

Posted in: Android, camera, ios, mango, Microsoft, mobilepostcross, os, phone, skype, smartphone, Software, symbian, Today's Chili, VoIP, windows phone, WindowsPhone

When Microsoft unveiled the SGH-i937 Mango Windows Phone 7 handset last month, we noticed what appeared to be a front facing camera perched atop the Galaxy S II-like device. Now, the company has confirmed that forthcoming Mango flavored phones will indeed feature face-gazing shooters, along with Skype integration. The confirmation came at Redmond’s TechEd event in New Zealand, where two employees also revealed that Microsoft’s Lync VoIP client will soon expand to other platforms, including iOS, Android and Symbian. As for that Skype integration, the reps assured the audience that it’s coming soon, though it remains unclear whether it’ll come in the form of an app, or a subsequent update. You can watch the TechEd session for yourself after the break, but be warned that parts of it are somewhat inaudible.

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Aug 25

Helpful Tip: Show Connected Drives & Devices in Mac OS X Dock

Posted in: Mac, Software, Today's Chili

This article was written on June 09, 2008 by CyberNet.

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One of the things that I found interesting when getting used to my Mac was that Apple didn’t include a way to quickly access the connected drives from the Dock. Sure they place the shortcuts on the desktop for everything that’s connected, but navigating to the Dock is much faster in my opinion.

I didn’t think adding any connected drives and devices to the Dock would be too difficult since you can already add any folder, which will then create a stack. After a little searching I came across an easy solution on the MacRumors forum:

  1. Open Finder and press Shift+Command+G
  2. Type /Volumes into the window that appears, and press Go
  3. The Finder window should now display a hidden folder called Volumes located at the root of your hard drive, and in it are shortcuts to all of the connected drives/devices
  4. Drag the Volumes folder onto your Dock to create a stack from it (switch to column view in Finder if you don’t see the Volumes folder)

Whenever you click on the newly created stack it will pop-out with any DVD’s, USB drives, cameras, and external drives that might be connected to your computer. Pretty cool, huh?

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