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Office 365 integrates Skype for Business chat and calls on the Web

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 7:36 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, office 365, skype

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Microsoft has updated its Office 365 productivity suite on the Web with integrated Skype for Business chat and calls. It’s also brought notifications, settings and help within easy reach across the app. Fire up the revamped Outlook, OneDrive for Business or the calendar app and you’ll be able to launch Skype for Business by clicking on the icon in the top right hand corner. You can then chat or ring colleagues without leaving your current window. Office 365 also has a new notifications pane that slides out from the right to display system alerts, personal reminders and new emails. Similarly,…

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WebPonize for Mac automatically converts images into Google’s WebP format

Jun09
by on June 9, 2015 at 7:21 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mac, os x, WebP

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Google introduced the WebP image format in 2010, as a new open standard to speed up page loads. But it’s not been easy to convert PNG and JPEG files to WebP. That’s precisely what WebPonize does. The simple Mac app, which has just been released in alpha, lets you drag and drop images to quickly get them into the right format. WebP provides lossless and lossy compression. Google says that means images that are 26 percent smaller than comparable PNGs and 25 percent to 34 percent smaller than equivalent JPEGs. You can grab WebPonize from the link below, where the developer is also soliciting…

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