17×8 i guess

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Yep, today is the 24th of November… so just 1 month left until Christmas… But I say lets celebrate Christmas in November!!! So in the spirit of christmas, the firetraps will now reward you with small and big gems, depending on which sort of Crate you toss at them

No… not really

Actually, it wasnt really in the spirit of christmas, but hey ho It was my plan all along that the crates would eventually give rewards of some sort And today seemed a good day to finally figure out how to do it, and add it in the game

But you guys had no way of knowing what was coming in the future, or what was being developed.

So to remedy that, as well as to motivate myself. I have now added a Suggestions/To-Do page. You can find the page at the top of the blog, or in the right side of the blog at the Pages section.

Dont hesitate to let me know what you think. (And yes, I am aware that the rotation on the gems are a bit … woogy I am working on that)

First off, with the overhaul of the UI my current one is completely hosed.  Luckily, I just happen to follow the LOTRO Interface RSS feed and noticed the Multibar Clean Toolbar UI.  This only works with the Mirkwood client, but for me I really like it as it is nice and clean.  Notice the buttons on the bottom are customizable just like the normal UI – I’m not sure I’ll stick with those, but I’ll usually either have my whole inventory up or just the first bag.

I also decided to check out one of the survival skirmishes – sadly the only one I had access to was the small fellowship one, but figured I’d give it a go.  Sadly real-life was not cooperative and I didn’t get very far, but it is a very cool idea that I can’t wait to check out more once live hits.

I’ll also include some stat comparisons, which aren’t 100% accurate as my legendaries from live and bullroarer aren’t quite exact nor are my traits.  However, I did notice that on live I’m at 19% incoming melee so I’ll have to figure out what I’ll dump to get back down to the cap.  Most likely it will be runes/settings but I haven’t decided yet.

Live stats:

Bullroarer (mainly the thing to look at here is the UI and morale jump)

MPF is offcially starting to launch Beta! Soon their will be a beta item that every one can get! If you go into all the rooms,you can see fireworks!

Cool,egh?
-Zerosk8der,Cheats MultiPlayerFunPlace Owner

Muchas veces nos ha sucedido que después de muchos ruegos y llamadas, logramos realizar una gran entrevista que no podemos subir a Internet porque no sabemos como o en donde encontrar un sistema de Podcast flexible y gratuito para colgarlo en la web.

Pues, les cuento que después de tanto buscar, iVoox audioKiosko es uno de los mejores sistemas gratuitos de Podcast en Internet. Está operativa en beta desde mediados de Noviembre de 2008.

En resumidas cuentas, esta herramienta es una página para escuchar, una plataforma donde poder reproducir, descargar y compartir audios de todo tipo de temáticas (historia, deportes, humor, …), y géneros (programas de radio, podcasts, audiolibros, conferencias, …).

Este podcast es gratuito. Pero para evitar malos usos, actualmente tiene un límite de subida por día, pues no en un disco duro virtual donde intercambiar discografías musicales. Pero no te preocupes, porque dicho límite será más que suficiente para podcasts amateur: el equivalente aproximado de 2 horas diarias de emisión.

El funcionamiento de esta herramienta digital es muy sencilla, muy 2.0 y muy Youtube. Podcast y programas de radio organizados por categorías que puedes escuchar directamente en la página sin necesidad de ir a la fuente original.

Gracias a el podemos saber cuántas personas se han descargado nuestro Podcast, posibilita que haya un enlace a los blogs en los que escribimos y hay un sistema de votación que ayuda mucho a saber si lo grabado tiene o no resultados eficientes.

Una de sus principales características es que las personas que se suscriban lo podrán hacer por temáticas, en lugar de tener que hacerlo sobre los programas o podcasts completos. Por ejemplo, te interesa el periodismo, podrías suscribirte a todos los nuevos audios que vayan apareciendo de esta temática, independientemente de las fuentes que los generen. Pero por supuesto, si lo prefieres, también podrás seguir haciéndolo sobre los programas de radio o podcast completos.

Hi,

diese Mail zum Start des neuen Avira Beta Test Program erhielt hier heute Nacht:

Hallo joerg,

Am 2.11.2009 24.11.2009 beginnt der Betatest für die Avira Produkte Premium Security Suite und AntiVir Professional. Zum Test bereit steht dann die Version 10 dieser Produkte, die im Frühjahr 2010 veröffentlicht wird.

Mit der Teilnahme am Betatest haben Sie also die Gelegenheit, die neuen Features dieser Produkte schon vor dem offiziellen Release kennenzulernen und zu testen. Zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wird auch der Avira AntiVir Server (Windows) in den Betatest einbezogen.Die Betaversionen sind in deutscher und englischer Sprache und in 32 Bit Versionen verfügbar. Die Produkte können auf Windows Desktop Platfformen von Windows 2000 bis Windows 7 eingesetzt werden.

Im Vordergrund des Testes stehen das neue proaktive HIPS-System (=host based intrusion prevention system), die neu in die Avira AntiVir Professional integrierte Firewall und die Konfiguration der Produkte.

Sie sollten also ihre Aufmerksamkeit zunächst auf diese neuen Funktionen und Bereiche richten. Bitte beachten Sie, dass das HIPS System nur in der 32 Bit Variante zur Verfügung steht.

Melden Sie Probleme, Auffälligkeiten und Fehler wie üblich über den Betaportal Menüpunkt “Bug melden” an unsere Betatest-Abteilung.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Avira Beta-Test-Team

Avira GmbH

Lindauer Str. 21, D-88069 Tettnang, Germany

Telefon: +49 (0) 7542 500-0

Telefax: +49 (0) 7542 525-10

Internet: http://www.avira.de

Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter: Tjark Auerbach Sitz der Gesellschaft: Tettnang

Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 630992

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ALLGEMEINE GESCHÄFTSBEDINGUNGEN

Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen (AGB). Sie finden sie in der jeweils gültigen Fassung im Internet unter http://www.avira.de/agb ==================================================

Na dann, Viel Spass beim selber Testen!
CU

Microsoft office 2010 is the new version of Microsoft’s popular office software suite, due to be released next year. at the moment it is only a beta testing software but it’s looking good. one of the thing that is cool about office 2010 is that Microsoft have now put the tab menu system in outlook.

In office 07 outlook is the only but of software that still had drop-down menus. It is nice to see the tab menus in outlook. but a lot of it has not really changed, this is not a bad thing because office 07 was pretty good anyway. but just some little change and tweaks have made it a lot better. one of the really cool thing that you can now do is save file directly to Microsoft SharePoint or Skydrive or publish the file straight to a blog.   

This feature also works in PowerPoint, Publisher, Excel and Access. The only problem we’ve had is that outlook crashed when it tried to send an E-mail but the problem was fixed quickly. So that was a quick look at Microsoft Office 2010. We are looking forward to this versions release and we will do a full review when it is.

If you would like to try the Beta out for yourself, Then Click Here  

Thanks

Tiger Reviews Team

Rucola

Raketsla – beter bekend als rucola – in ‘t klein is nieuw bij marqt.

Kok vindt het wel wat, dit soort nieuwe dingetjes. Een kooktrendje in wording. Meer ook niet, want de nieuwe producten buitelen over elkaar heen tegenwoordig. Dus ook deze trend zal over twee maanden wel weer voorbij zijn.

Het zijn levende plantjes en ze blijven twee weken goed in de koelkast.

La semana pasada fue “una de esas semanas” en las que no paras y no das abasto, razón por la cual no he tenido tiempo hasta ahora para comentaros algo que ha supuesto un gran hito para nosotros: el miércoles pasado por fin lanzamos en abierto la beta de Wipley en el marco del FICOD09

Para los que no hayáis leído nunca este blog, deciros que Wipley es una red social para videojugadores que pretende servir como punto de encuentro para todo tipo de información relacionada con los videojuegos. Nuestra intención es que los jugadores sean capaces de gestionar y acceder a información acerca de videojuegos, pero también de sus personajes, las plataformas e incluso grupos de jugadores. También queremos que las páginas de los videojuegos puedan servir como agregadores de contenidos, de manera que se pueda acceder de una forma directa e intuitiva a los últimos vídeos de Youtube, las últimas entradas en los blogs de Bitácoras.com o los últimos comentarios en Twitter acerca de cada juego.

Pero además queremos facilitarles la búsqueda de información proporcionándoles recomendaciones basadas en sus preferencias, como por ejemplo qué juegos les pueden interesar o qué usuarios de Wipley comparten gustos similares. Para ello estamos utilizando nuestro propio sistema de recomendación, por lo que todas las mejoras que vayamos integrando en él se verán reflejadas en Wipley.

Hemos tenido en cuenta también la gran cantidad de contenidos en inglés que se generan en Internet en el mundo de los videojuegos, por lo que nos hemos decidido a lanzarnos desde el principio en español y en inglés.

Desde aquí no me queda más que invitaros a Wipley para que lo probéis y, si es posible, lo disfrutéis. Sabemos que aún quedan muchas cosas que mejorar, y sin duda habrá fallos que corregir, pero seguro que con vuestra ayuda conseguiremos que se pueda convertir en un sitio imprescindible para todos los videojugadores.

Hey guys,

I have some awesome news to share with you! Recently, I have made Stick World into a program!

What does that mean? Well, it means you can still play Stick World from our blog, and chat.

It also means that now you can download the game and play directly from your Desktop!

If you want to download the game, click here!

Hope you enjoyed this cool update!

~Hygt5
Stick World Team

My Windows 7 on my desktop just told me I might be running a counterfeit copy of windows and asked me to buy a new one, I clicked on remind me later. It really isn’t a pirated version, it was the beta download Microsoft had on their website last summer.

Windows 7 is Vista just more stable and way faster with more customization options and a different look. I do like it I just don’t understand what people had against Vista, I tried xp on my tower before windows 7 just to go back and use it again, it was like going from a 360 to playing the first NES, Vista is a nice smooth running operating system always has been for me on my notebook even before the service packs.

Have you ever heard of Cripz? Well, I just saw him in Club Penguin and took a screen of him. Heres his picture:

Laptop tanpa OS (operational sytem) bagaikan saya tanpa celana, mau liat saya tanpa celana ??? gak mau kan ! Gak bakalan bisa kemana-mana, gak ada gregetnya ! Kata orang Public Relation “performance kita kurang jek !”Mmmm.. sepertinya kalimat terakhir kurang oke. Lupakanlah !! OS merupakan jantungnya software ! kalo gak ada OS, laptop ato computer cuman hanya bisa jadi pajangan lemari aja, ato cuman bisa jadi telenan utk motong-motong bawang merah kalo mau masak. Yg mau lebih ekstrim sih, laptop juga berfungsi utk lempar tikus kalo lagi iseng lewat depan kita. Itu kalo gak pake OS !

Pertama kali mengenal computer saya menggunakan OS windows98. Dulu dah keren banget. Serasa saya nie jago banget yg namanya teknologi. Bolehlah Bapak saya jago bongkar pasang motor dan rumah. Tapi utk urusan teknologi computer ! di jamin Bapak saya gak pernah tau. Setelah windows ME muncul, saya pun beralih demi guna mengikuti jaman. Dan jaman berkembang lagi, si jaman ini selalu berkembang. Ibunya Jaman memang beri nutrisi yg tepat, sehingga pertumbuhannya pun sangat pesat ! (ngawur) teknologi berkembang, saya pun nangkring utk OS windows XP yg saya cintai.

Ngemeng2 teknologi. Saya liat pegawai negeri sipil yg sudah senior pun banyak yg belum ngerti computer. Senioritas masih mengakar di kalangan PNS. Kalo bisa kasih saran sih. Pemerintah sekarang mestinya dah serba komputerisasi, jadi yg gak bisa computer sangat terpaksa utk dirumahkan. Memang sebagian departemen sudah komputerisasi. Dan saya liat dah banyak juga pelatihan2 utk keahlian PNS utk menggunakan alat yg dinamakan computer. Tapi masih saya banyak PNS yg “buta” akan teknologi yg sudah mulai di butuhkan semua kalangan tersebut.

Sebagai raja OS, Microsoft hampir kehilangan pamor dengan gagalnya Vista. Walaupun dikata Bill Gates waktu e’e aja masih dapet duit. Beliau juga khawatir kalo perusahaan yg dibangun dengan susah payah kehilangan pamor ato kalah saing dengan perusahaan2 software yg bermunculan. Saingan mereka Apple dengan ciri khas theme yg oke2 banget mulai menjamah pasar Indonesia. Bisa dikatakan, pengguna OS di Indonesia dah kebagi beberapa kelompok. Karena Microsoft lebih mudah dan familiar dikalangan masyarakat Indonesia yg segalanya ingin mudah, maka Microsoft lah yg masih mendominasi dan dibutuhkan oleh orang2 sini.

Tepat agustus 2009, Microsoft meluncurkan OS baru yg katanya penyempurnaan vista yg mengecewakan. Window Seven namanya. Apa yg saya rasakan ? sabar ! akan saya ceritakan kelak. Sebelum peluncuran agustus 2009, Microsoft dah membagikan versi BETA kepada user seluruh dunia. Dan tidak sedikit yg mencoba install OS ini kedalam laptopnya. Mereka bilang, windows seven cukup keren dan tidak terlalu berat kayak vista. Laptop udah berat dibawa kemana-mana, ditambah lagi OS yg berat. Ancur nie pundak kalo berat ! atas pemikiran itulah, saya beralih ke Windows seven. (bukan berat kayak beras dodol !)

Tepat seminggu lalu, saya beralih ke OS ini. Tentunya masih bajakan *jadi malu… kesan pertama langsung membuat saya jatuh cinta. Dulunya saya tak pernah percaya jatuh cinta pada pandangan pertama utk software, selalu saya pelajari dulu baru jatuh cinta. Tapi utk yg satu ini, ahhhhh…uuuuuhhh keren !!! oke.. oke.. itu dari segi penampilan. Bagaimana dengan performancenya ? saya mungkin tak bisa menceritakan banyak, karena saya kurang ahli di bidang software.
Untung proses penginstalan tidak jauh beda dengan vista. Itu kata teman saya, karena saya belum pernah ngistall vista di Acer 4935. Dengan proses yg cukup mudah menurut saya, pasti seseorang yg belum pernah install windows akan bisa menjalani dengan perlahan. Pasti gak kesandung deh, asal tau aja perintah2 yg dikeluarkan pake bahasa linggis yg lumayan ribet. Kan ada kamus JEK !

Windows seven meminta hardisk 16 Gb utk systemnya tok ! cukup banyak, tapi tak apalah. Bagaimana dengan status bajakan. Sejak peluncuran pada bulan agustus kemaren. Windows seven yg sekarang sudah ada application khusus yg dibuat oleh para hacker2 mania. Windows seven ultimate punya saya sudah Active dimata Microsoft dan tanpa batas A.K.A Permanent. Padahal bajakan, Hidup PIRACY !!!! hehehe…. Pengen sih beli yg originalnya, tapi masih mahal banget…nget..nget…

Karena baru meluncur pada bulan agustus, tidak semua software yg bisa nangkring. Tapi utk software2 kebutuhan saya yg dulunya di gunakan di XP bisa jalan kok. Seperti Software accounting dan E-SPT pajak yg digunakan utk laporan pajak. Padahal dulunya di Vista gak bisa. Dan sekarang saya pun merasakan Windows seven sama kenyamannya dengan XP. Hanya saja security Seven lebih oke dari XP. Bisa dikatakan Penyempurnaan dari Vista yg gagal. Pada awal januari 2010, para perusahaan software pasti melengkapi patch-nya yg mendukung windows seven ini. Karena penjualannya bener-bener telah memperbaiki pamor Microsoft di mata teknologi. Contohnya Acer, perusahaan ini telah menambahkan patch drivernya yg tak support Window seven. Jadi ada sebagian driver harus kita download dulu.

Seminggu telah bersama OS ini, Alhamdulillah belum ada kekurangan yg saya temukan. Segala kebutuhan saya dalam bekerja sudah sangat dipenuhi oleh windows seven ini. Termasuk saya update Office 2010. Dari segi penampilan gak jauh2 amat ama Office 2007. Perbedaan hanya sedikit jika kalian sedikit teliti. Outlook express misalnya, apa yg bisa saya katakan utk ini ? KERENNNNNN! Yup hanya itu.

Utk penjelasan lengkap tentang OS ini silahkan minta bantuan paman Google, saya hanya menulis unek2 setelah menggunakan OS ini. Saya hanya bisa bilang dan kasih saran. Kalo laptop ato PC anda ingin lebih keren dalam hal pengoperasian lebih mudah dari apapun. Pake OS ini aja. Gak ribet dan gak cerewet. Sip, see u, oke, bubbuyeee.. !

Hey guys it’s AC. I’m back from vacation and am exhausted but here is a sweet sneakpeak of Ginormous Ridonculous’ new show! I will write a complete post of all the updates and will be up later tonight or tommorow.

-Agent

I got into the PS3 beta for Battlefield Bad Company 2.  GameSpot.com is giving 65,000 keys out.  Download it and installed.  When I went and tried to play it asked for a password.  Had know idea what it would be or how to get it.   I looked back on GameSpot’s website it said it was open to U.S. residents only.  I was like, “shit”.  Then I got thinking may be my Battlefield Heroes password would work, it did.

So far I have tried 1 and a half rounds.  From what I have tried the map is huge, there is a lot going on and it looks great.   Like most online fps games I play I die a lot and have know idea were I got shot from.  I did manage to get a total of 8 kills. LOL.  All so like most online game you can hear the people with head sets yelling and bitching.  That can be funny but most of the just plain annoying.

Another day with a decent amount of tweaks and updates..

Extra Lives now display a little text when you pick them up, making it immediately known to you that you picked up an extra life.

Timer mode now resets to 300 seconds everytime you switch a level or you die (effectively giving you 300 seconds for every attempt you do at completing a level…)

Ended up spending most of the morning trying to figure out why the bloody Timer mode refused to reset on level 3 but worked fine on lvl 1 and 2… made absolutely no sense… and ultimately I didnt find out why.. But I did get it fixed… go figure

Here is a video for the lazy folks

And once again, please dont hesitate to post a comment or let me know what you think of the game or the latest updates… It is really the only way for me to figure out whats good and whats not so good

Or what you would like to see changed or added to the game

…waarom er geen verse makreel te vinden was gisteren. “Niet geleverd” zeiden de visboeren (2x). Is dat dan alles wat je aan antwoord krijgt? En wat zegt dat over warenkennis van de vakman?

Jammer, maar dan maken we de volgende keer de ceviche met een ander visje.

Ostatnio trafiłem na nowy pomysł google:

Google image swirl

Taki obraz zobaczymy po wyszukaniu przez tą wyszukiwarkę wybranej frazy…

Tak wygląda wybór grupy zdjęć…

tu po przejściu do kolejnej podgrupy…

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Mnie osobiście trochę spodobał się pomysł, ale jest on nie dopracowany.
Ponieważ pusta powierzchnia powinna być czymś zapełniona.
Takie przeglądanie daje mi dostęp tylko do paru zdjęć a nie wszystkich.
Przeglądarka myli się i nie zawsze prezentuje to co chce wyszukać.
Chaotyczny wybór galerii.

Ja bym proponował z boku utworzyć okno takie na 1/3 lub 1/4 monitora i tam prezentować zdjęcia, na które najeżdżamy myszką, ułatwiło by to przeglądanie malutkich miniaturek. Z prawej strony, coś na zasadzie miernika: ile zdjęć znaleziono, jak głęboko jesteśmy i co jest po za tym co przeglądamy, a wiąże się z danym słowem. No ale to moje sugestie

Jak na razie nowy pomysł Google jest w fazie testów, więc oczekiwać wiele nie można.

“There is a new update available for download (ver. 2.2.1). To install, click the link below.”

Ahh…updates. No, I’m not talking about me writing a blog post to say how much work I’m not doing, nor to ramble on about things happening in my life. I’m talking about technical updates for programs, hardware, software, and most importantly…operating systems. Because this is a tech post. And unless you’re a nerd, it will be boring. Go read something else.

Okay, so I’ve been beta-testing the new Microsoft Office 2010 programs for the past week. I have two words: HOLY CRAP. Microsoft, since they’ve fallen sadly behind Apple on the popularity chart, has to begin ramping up the actual quality of its products, because people don’t just buy Windows stuff without thinking anymore. And I’ve heard so much whining about the interfaces on the 2007 products in my own circles, I can’t imagine how many whiny, spoiled people complained to Microsoft about it themselves. (Personally, I really liked the 2007 change. It was new, well-thought-out, and gave a fresh rejuvenation to a very old and firmly-established product line.)

But when people got wise to the design flaws (tabs were sometimes confusing, buttons were placed oddly, less customization was possible, etc.) and began having Windows ME-like daymares with Vista, talk began to circulate of a savior to the common man oppressed by poor programmers: CollabNet’s OpenOffice!

OpenOffice is a free, community-driven suite of programs that run the MS Office files, Mac files, Linux files, and basically any other file you can possibly find on any computer since 1985. The suite contains equivalents for Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, and Publisher, is compatible with almost every operating system, has peer-created content by the gigabyte, and is laid out just like the good ol’ days of MS Office 2003. Wow. What a great find. And best of all, it’s FREE. Yeah. Check it out here.

I’ll admit: I tried it. I already have Office ‘07 installed, and I already really like it, but I thought, “Why not?” Thirty minutes later, I realized why not.

(In my opinion:) It’s terrible. I don’t really know why. But it bugs me the heck out. Everything seems so…Linux. Which is correct, I guess, because it is. What else would be compatible with everything? The interface is old and decaying, the file extension process is confusing and not for surface users, and the running programs are hefty and awkward. Seriously, see for yourself. (If you like it, more power to you. If not, maybe you’ll agree with me on the next few paragraphs.)

I don’t think Microsoft will quickly release its hold on the word processing business. I know Apple is developing new software, and that Adobe is getting in on the cloud-processing, but Microsoft loves its money. And the Office programs can reach $680 for its “Ultimate” package. Huge business will buy thousands of licenses for these programs, and that’s hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit for the Gates kingdom. And now, with the server technologies developing into multi-billion-dollar revenue-generators, they’ve kept ahead of the game with their OneNote and SharePoint programs, their Office Live online suite and collaboration, and the release of betas for testing by the general public. It’s really incredible business.

Now, for a review of the Office 2010 beta:

Beyond satisfactory. Microsoft is beginning to impress me with their innovation. The new big thing is user themes (the user can create their own theme by selecting pictures, colors, module positions, etc. for their programs), and ‘10 now caters to that idea. The modules, very similar to 2007, are now much more user-maneuverable, and the options everything on the interface now offers are tremendously helpful. Searches have been streamlined to work better for less-experienced users, and return a wide variety of inputted results. Programs like Outlook now offer email string collapsibles, much like advanced coding programs. Contacts have the ability to be connected to and from popular social networking sites via developer kits and smart people. The tabular layouts have been kept, but dumbed-down for the more-confused user who can’t just look at pretty pictures. Word provides easy access to much-used properties; Excel looks excatly the same, but better; PowerPoint won’t confuse anybody anymore, ever; and Access is full of brand new awesomeness that I never actually compared to 2007. It’s probably exactly the same, too. But everything has the look of a cleaner, polished, “this isn’t a test anymore” program, and it’s about time, since Apple has made more headway in the last three years than probably expected.

If Microsoft wants to stay on top of the game in the upcoming battle for customers, they need to quit thinking like they own everything forever. Because even if they do, it’s not an excuse for lukewarm quality. And there’s plenty more companies willing to get in on the action when something bad happens.

A note to consumers: Don’t settle. Don’t ever settle. Look around for programs that fill your needs, and do so with the least amount of discomfort to your and your hard drive. OpenOffice is a great example of teamwork and Linux programming. Adobe’s Acrobat.com is good example of web-based word processing. I’ve been using it for over two years, and it hasn’t failed me yet. And there’s tons more freeware programs to check out. But personally, until I either have no money for Office, or someone designs the most beautiful alternative, I’m sticking with Mr. Gates on this one.

The PS3 beta started Thursday, and the videos I’ve seen all look pretty sweet. It definitely looks like it’s going to be a kick ass game. The game comes out in February 2010, and a PC beta begins in December followed by a multiplayer demo for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 sometime in January.

Any of you get a beta code and have played this game? If so, tell us your opinions of it in the comments. If you played the first Bad Company and are currently playing the beta, are you liking the second one more than the first one?

• 500 MHz 32-bit or 64-bit processor or higher
• 256 MB of system memory or more
• 3.5 GB of available disk space
• 1024×768 or higher resolution monitor
• DVD-R/W Drive
• Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit)
• Windows Vista with SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Microsoft Office 2010 is the next generation in the ubiquitous Microsoft Office suite. Since its original release in 1981 with only Word, it has grown into a powerful collection of industry-standard applications. With the Office 2007 release (version 12), Microsoft introduced the popular Ribbon interface, which has continued into both the Windows API and, not surprisingly, Office 2010. The most notable features released in the entire suite (2010) are Backstage, a re-vamped full-screen file menu replacing the Office Button, and the introduction of free, web-based, lightweight versions of selected programs in the suite called Web Apps. In this post, we will see the major new features coming out in Office 2010.

The Office Suite

There are several key changes made to the entire Office suite, all of them simply excellent. By popular demand it is now possible to completely customize the Ribbon, to add new tabs, groups and buttons, possibly even to assign those buttons to user-defined macros. It has ditched the Office Orb it had in 2007 and brought back a bigger and badder file menu, called Backstage. With an insane Print tab, Backstage is simply awesome. You can now insert screenshots of specific windows right from the Ribbon, and can remove the background on those images if desired. There are new Smart Art designs, new shapes, new everything – there is even a new animated splash screen for all the Office products. Now available in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) editions, it now takes advantage of all the power your processor has. It is expected that all of the programs in the suite will take advantage of Windows 7 Jumplists, but it is confirmed only in Outlook 2010.

But the honor of the greatest improvement in the suite, which may possibly redeem Microsoft from its reputation as Mi¢ro$oft… possibly – is the introduction of the Office Web Apps, lightweight versions of the popular Office programs that run right in the browser. They are not as powerful as their desktop counterparts, but for students and users on the go, they are simply perfect. And best of all, they’re free. That’s right – free. This is a new high for Microsoft, and we are proud of them. Or at least I am…

The Office suite has also added better tools for media editing, which will be explained in the next section.

Word

Possibly the most useful feature added to Word is the ability to truly edit images. Features include recoloring, color corrections, background removal, and various artistic effects. The Picture Layout gallery has also been improved, and a few more picture effects have been added. Another major addition, called Text Effects, is now replacing the classic WordArt. The effects include a variety of accents, shadows, reflections, and glows – all with Live Preview, introduced in Office 2007. In keeping with Microsoft’s ‘anti-undo’ goal for its suite, Live Preview has also been added to the Paste Options contextual menu, which was not available in previous versions.

Also added was another pane that includes the Document Map, Page Thumbnails, and now a more enhanced Find function. It is also possible to sort by content from this pane – to find all the graphics, tables, equations, etc. in the document.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint also was graced with several upgrades from the 2007 version. The most notable change was the ability to truly edit video. Similar to Movie Maker, PowerPoint 2010 has the ability to recolor entire videos, trim videos, add bookmarks to frames, brightness/contrast manipulation, apply familiar themes like the ones available for images, and can trim video borders to shapes. Honestly, however, it has a long way to go quality-wise. When adding a complex theme such as a 3D perspective playback is choppy, but this may be due to the graphics card I’m using (nVidia 9600 GT 1GB). It is fairly fast on simpler effects though. Supported video formats include AVI, WMV, and MOV.

Another truly wonderful feature is the ability to record slideshows to videos. Previously only officially available through CamStudio, the awesomeness is now available natively in PowerPoint, with no third party applications. Also available in PowerPoint 2010 is Presentation Broadcasting, which allows PowerPoint 2010 users to broadcast their slideshows over the Internet. The broadcasts are password-protected. There are also new animations, slide transitions, and now media compression for space-sensitive saving.

Excel

As of yet, I could not find anything exceptional in Excel 2010, but there are new in-cell graphs called Spark Lines, which are an extension of the Conditional Formatting available in Excel 2007. Another useful feature is Slicer, which gives the user a run-down of table data. It is now also able to add filters to Pivot Charts, instead of viewing everything at the same time. I may be adding more to this topic as time goes on, so check back often.

Outlook

Outlook 2010 has taken a leap in communications technology. Granted, it’s a leap almost five years overdue, but it’s a leap nonetheless. It now supports conversational threads, that is to say it tracks replies and forwards that were sent to you or by you. It is confirmed that Outlook 2010 now takes advantage of a Windows 7 feature called Jump Lists, short contextual menus for common actions right on the superbar (Windows 7 taskbar). As for its mobile counterpart, the 2010 release of Outlook will try to be more static across the platforms, hopefully allowing for a more seamless interchange between environments.

OneNote

Since its release in 2003, OneNote has come a long way. OneNote is perfect for anyone who needs to get organized quickly, and needs to be able to reorganize on a whim. The most drastic visual change from 2007 is the introduction of the Ribbon interface into OneNote, but the fun doesn’t stop there.

OneNote now introduces Dock View into the mix, and this has implications across the board, or rather the desktop… When in Dock View, OneNote 2010 will record what other windows is active when you begin taking notes in it, and will link that window to the notes. For example, if I was making notes on a document in Word that I needed to study, OneNote would record what document was open at the time of note taking and would link the document to the note. In PowerPoint, OneNote would even take note of what slide you were on. In Internet Explorer (maybe even other browsers), it would record what the URL was. No more random notes with unintelligible snippets of profound ideas taken out of context!

Several other small, time-saving features are out with the beta.

• Specific section targets when sending to OneNote
• Improved notebook searching (text or audio).
• In a shared notebook, OneNote will highlight the information you haven’t read yet.
• OneNote will also translate a foreign word for you by hovering over it with the mouse.
• Finally has decent contextual (right-click) formatting.
• Drag-and-drop page ordering and ranks (now three-tier).

Well, that’s about it for now. I will update this post as I discover new features, bugs, or anything else of significant interest. Until then, download the beta here and see for yourself how awesomely awesome the next version of Microsoft Office Suite 2010. The retail version is expected to be released in the first half of 2010.

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