Google has released their online calendar program and for a first effort it’s very impressive. GOOGLE CALENDAR AND OUTLOOK Google has released their online calendar program http://calendar.google.com and for a first effort it’s very impressive. As regular readers might know, we’re not big fans of this headlong rush to Internet based systems. They have a […]
One of our favorite Powertoys gets an update. SyncToy was released as a beta in early August 2005 and we had a full review of it in Office Watch #10.31. Since then, the Microsoft developers have collected feedback and released a version 1.1 with some welcome features including: Support for UNC paths (Universal Naming Convention […]
You can take OpenOffice (an MS Office rival) on the road with a USB key. The open source Office suite OpenOffice now has a portable version, something that MS Office does NOT have. Portable, in this context, means having the programs and data stored on a portable drive (most likely a USB ‘key’ drive). You […]
We look at Google’s long-awaited instant messaging client “Google Talk”. A big move by Google is its long-awaited instant messaging client – a direct competitor to Yahoo and Microsoft. IM offerings from these two companies and from others don’t interact with each other resulting in a mix of technologies and incompatible systems. All the players have […]
Directly view the travel itineraries created by travel agents or airlines. Almost all the travel bookings you make either directly or via an agent get placed on enormous mainframe computers. In recent years these computers have become available to the public, but travel agents and airline like to keep it a secret! That’s a pity […]
