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« Previous EntriesOneNote grouping objects : poor workaround for an essential missing feature
Dienstag, November 23rd, 2010ShareUpdate: 27.11.2011 Added workaround “Grouping objects in one image” Microsoft OneNote is a great application to gather information across other apps. Its also great because often it does things different and better than other Microsoft apps (example: no saving required). But unlike PowerPoint it has no functionality to group objects. That is a missing feature [...]
Posted in AcrossApps, Good Ideas, Issues explained, Recommended Products | 3 Comments »iPad as remote control for your media center : three conceptually different options
Sonntag, Juli 4th, 2010ShareUpdates: 16.11.2011: added Splashtop Remote 18.11.2011: link to related forum discussions added 23.11.2011: added video streaming ( AirVideo ) 23.11.2011: added printing ( AirPrint ) 27.11.2011: added the-all-in-one solution RemoteHD; article restructured and simplified 1) iPad as remote control for one specific application Software: “Remote” from Apple to control iTunes on a Mac/PC http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/; !the sound [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products | 1 Comment »iPad gaming potential shown in video: LAN multiplayer and cross platform
Donnerstag, Mai 13th, 2010ShareThis video is showing the potential of Apple’s iPad as a gaming platform. We are using the game Galcon Fusion to demonstrate cross platform multiplayer by running the game in parallel on Apple’s iPad and a Microsoft Windows 7 PC. Tweet this!
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links, Recommended Products | No Comments »Steam on Mac OS X : Great first impression !
Mittwoch, Mai 12th, 2010ShareSteam was already on Windows our preferred online distribution and gaming platform. Since 1 hour (12th May 2010) it is now also available on Apple’s OS X. So far VALVE promised that its own games like Half Life 2 and Portal would become available on OS X for free to those who bought previously the [...]
Posted in Recommended Products | No Comments »Google Reader power user tips : read it later, archive web pages, store bookmarks online
Sonntag, Februar 21st, 2010ShareGoogle Reader works great as a feed news reader. In addition Google Reader can be used easily as: Simple ReadItLater alternative to gather webpages you detected right now and that you want to come back to later when you have maybe some more time to read A very simple web archiving solution Simple cross browser [...]
Posted in AcrossApps, Good Ideas, Recommended Products | No Comments »Explanations for Twitter trending topics getting a trend
Mittwoch, November 25th, 2009ShareThis is part 3 of our Twitter related mini-tutorial (part1, part2). Twitter.com is providing a short list of currently popular keywords from within the most current stream of tweets. This list is called “Trending Topics”. It provides a convenient way to connect to what is currently happening on that global message bus called Twitter: Recently some [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products, Thematic Web Archives | 1 Comment »How to show all tweets related to a web page with a single click
Sonntag, Oktober 11th, 2009ShareTweets link often to web pages. The reverse direction works too: with one click you can see tweets that are related to the current page your browser is showing. This is the second part of our mini Twitter tutorial (part 1 here). You could use a URL Twitter enabled search engine like http://backtweets.com/search?q= to find [...]
Posted in Recommended Products, Thematic Web Archives | 1 Comment »What is twittering and how does it work ? Part 1 messages = tweets
Sonntag, Oktober 11th, 2009ShareWhat is a global stack of short text messages good for that is free to use and open for multi purpose ? There are two ways how you can get value from using Twitter: 1) Leverage all messages others putting right now on the global stack of messages 2) Publish your own messages for whatever [...]
Posted in Recommended Products | 3 Comments »How does Apple Genius work?
Montag, September 21st, 2009ShareThe Apple iTunes Genius feature can create personalized play-lists for your iTunes library and provide you with recommendations regarding media and other products that you maybe would like to buy. How does Apples itunes Genius functionality work? Apple is making no secret out of what Genius does, you can find it all here: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/us/terms.html We [...]
Posted in Issues explained, Recommended Products | No Comments »The value of application integration: Gmail Labs integrates Gmail, Calender and Documents
Sonntag, November 9th, 2008ShareWithout Gmail Labs from Google the Google Mail Beta user interface looks like this: Gmail Labs was introduced in June 2008. The feature it offered were not seen by everyone as interesting: “Gmail labs is live but also boring”. But the team behind Gmail Labs released some new features recently. With those new Gmail Labs [...]
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