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Topic: Productivity Software

  

Enterprise Users Are People Too: Google Apps Expanded to Include Picasa, Blogger, Reader, and More

Google's enterprise suite of software, Google Apps, is great, offering a cheaper, cleaner, cloud-based change from traditional products like Microsoft Office. And now they're adding even more Google services to the mix.READ MORE

Get Your Work to Go

How is the future of work like ordering take-out Chinese? For work to go, put your files online, leave your laptop behind, and wherever you land, dial in for your order. It's ready when you are. (But you'll have to work again in an hour.)READ MORE

Check your Project Checklist Twice Before Posting New Year’s Greetings

If you plan on sending a quick happy new year greeting out to your thousand or so closest online contacts this year, take heed of some seasonal advice and check your project checklist twice before you start sending holiday cheer out ...READ MORE

Pacific Edge Projects Itself

CEO Lisa Hjorten and her colleagues make software that helps project teams run on time and on budget, with attention to detail and with a crisp sense of discipline -- which is an awful lot like how Pacific Edge runs itself: "We practice what we preach."READ MORE

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Software From Uktechstore.com XML Paper Specification (XPS) A file format that preserves document formatting in a fixed layout and ensures that when the document is viewed or printed, it will retain the exact original format; ...READ MORE

Web Based Project Management Software for Small and Medium Business

Web based project management software allows small business teams to keep projects on track, monitor budgets and share files and other information with co-workers from anywhere in the world where online access is available.READ MORE

Work Smart: 3 Apps for Syncing Home and Office

You're at home and want to edit a file that's on your work computer. You're on the family PC and want to see a photo you saved on your laptop. Most of us use several different computers on a day-to-day basis, but our files aren't ...READ MORE

Why You'll Care About Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft's just previewed the Office 2010 productivity suite. It seems MS is responding to the challenge of Google Docs with a full browser-based system that expands on Office 2007.READ MORE

PowerPoint of Fact III

FC Now reader Cliff Atkinson emailed earlier today about a Financial Times article about the ouster of Rentokil Initial's newly installed CEO -- in part because of "death by PowerPoint." Atkinson respondes by offering some ...READ MORE

PowerPoint of Fact II

Thanks to Frank Patrick for referring us to Michael Hyatt's roundup of useful PowerPoint resources. If you must use the presentation tool, these resources will help you do so with skill and savvy -- not sleepiness. These Web sites, ...READ MORE

PowerPoint of No Return III

Ramon Ray, a member of the New York City Company of Friends group, today transmitted a pointer to Sunday's New York Times Magazine article about how "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb." The piece opens: In August, the Columbia Accident ...READ MORE

Effective Project Management Software Travels with Project Managers

Printing out a map to take with you on a business trip is so last year, really!  People rarely carry printed versions of documents with them on business travel anymore, and even flash drives which are still very popular with ...READ MORE

Taking Microsoft Office Online

How is Microsoft going to keep people from leaving Microsoft Office and moving to, say, Google Docs and Spreadsheets or Zoho? Well, Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President of Information Worker Group at Microsoft, tells me how ...READ MORE

The Corporate Shrink

Why are we obsessed with PowerPoint?READ MORE

PowerPoint of Fact

Leaders at the University of Tasmania tried and tested several online learning platforms before deciding that their best bet was PowerPoint. Educators there say that it's a wonderful tool for self-paced, case-based learning -- and ...READ MORE

Time to upgrade my laptop; what has changed since the last upgrade?

I'm at a cross roads--it's time to upgrade my laptop. The world has changed since the last time. What am I considering doing now?READ MORE

PowerPoint of No Return

In September, I mentioned some interesting perspectives on PowerPoint in response to an entry by Seth Godin criticizing the popular presentation application. Kicking off chapter six of this month's Readers' Choice Award winner, ...READ MORE

Blame It on Microsoft

Yes, Powerpoint presentations are a disaster. And in this article in today's NY Times, The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide, Dan Leach, who's responsible for PowerPoint at Microsoft, and should know better, says, "I feel like ...READ MORE

Are You Ready for Linux?

It's tough. It's fast. It's free. It's Linux -- the most hyped operating system since OS/2. Tech heads love it, but does Linux really mean business? There's only one person who can answer that question: you.READ MORE

iMac, uMac, Can We All Mac?

Sure, it's a PC world -- but that doesn't make Mac lovers outcasts. Meet three hard-core Mac addicts who can teach you the shortcuts and tools that you need to make your Mac "pc."READ MORE

Presentation Package Picks

Pick the presentation package that best suits your needs.READ MORE

UKtechstore

Best Deal From UKtechstore Color categories A new feature in Outlook 2007 that gives you a quick, visually distinctive way to customize e-mail, calendar, and task items and to search or sort by color. Contextual ...READ MORE

Social Networks Online Marketing Project Management Tools

Sales and marketing professionals who are using social network tools to create a dialogue with customers can link their programs to online marketing project management software to keep program details and customer correspondence ...READ MORE

Virtual Reality for Business with Virtual Project Management Software

Virtually anyone who has a basic understanding of virtual reality can understand the concept of workspace virtualization. Virtual project management software allows businesses to create and use a digital workspace, something like a ...READ MORE

Project Coordinators Benefit from Improving Project Management Skills

Project coordinators who consistently work to improve their organizational skills will find the skills can lead to promotions, expanded employee benefits, perks and increases in pay.  Productivity software can be used to improve ...READ MORE