How we can change as ‘paperwork’ has changed. A new book has an interesting take on how culture and business has changed as paperwork and filing has changed. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork by Ben Kafka is about bureaucracy and paperwork, something rarely considered by historians. These days ‘paperwork’ has changed […]
How to keep getting your Gmail even when it’s not working Gmail had another outage which continues as we type this, at least that’s how it was reported. In fact the core Gmail system was still working, only the web interface was broken. This has happened before and Office-Watch.com has talked about how to workaround […]
Delving more into the problem of Worldmate and Microsoft Outlook with time zones. As we noted in our brief look at Worldmate, the calendar import into Outlook isn’t as good as it could be, in fact it could be downright dangerous! The Worldmate calendar data can be off by an hour as in this example. […]
Worldmate is a clever travel organizer which talks to Outlook. One of the tedious parts of travelling is entering all the details into Outlook calendar. Typing in flights, hotels etc is a pain but necessary because once in Outlook the details will appear anywhere you have the calendar synced like a smartphone. Worldmate is one […]
The Intel based Microsoft Surface will cost more than you think or Microsoft pretends. The upcoming Surface with Windows 8 Pro costs even more than it first appears because Office is missing and so is the keyboard. Surface with Windows RT is the ARM chip based version of Microsoft’s tablet device. It has decent battery […]