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Microsoft’s OneNote for Mac and iOS apps now let you insert Office docs, reorganize notes, and more

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by on July 29, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Microsoft wants everyone to use its productivity software, regardless of the hardware or operating system they use most frequently. Today it’s catering to Apple enthusiasts with a hefty OneNote update for Mac, iPhone and iPad, introducing deeper OneDrive support, better notebook organisation and attachment options. For starters, you can now access notebooks stored in a OneDrive for Business account. Using OneNote for Mac, you can now open these pages and edit them, as well as create new documents and share them with other people. They’ll be accessible alongside your existing notes from a personal OneDrive account, resulting in a single, unified repository. Across…

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Google Shopping now features product ratings in ads, blurring the lines between organic and paid search

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by on July 29, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Shoppers in the US will soon see ratings in Google’s Product Listing Ads, as the search giant looks to lure more companies on board with the promise of better click-throughs. While the temptation for you and me may be to skim over anything ‘Sponsored’ in our online searches, this is an easy way for Google to further blur the lines between organic and paid search, as it gives the listings an extra air of authority. And it also makes the ads more useful for shoppers, as it pulls on real review data from across the Web. “We believe these ratings…

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The value of meaningful connections

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:46 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Paul Jarvis experiments with words and design. His latest book is called The Good Creative: 18 ways to make better art. The internet isn’t a meritocracy, where we can just do good work, put it on a website and hope others will find it and buy it. Nothing will do this for you — not social media, not Kickstarter, not Medium, not Amazon, and not your blog. Unless you hire yourself to be the publicist/head marketing person for your work, it’s going to lavish in obscurity (which is next door to the land of broken dolls in a really bad part…

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Asana’s productivity platform gets a native mobile app, redesigned and optimized for iPhone and iPad

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Productivity platform Asana is unveiling a brand new native iOS app today, rebuilt and redesigned from the ground up. And yes, it’s optimized for iPads too. To recap, Asana is the slick collaborative task and project management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-Facebooker Justin Rosenstein. While it has had a presence in the App Store for almost three years now, and has previously undergone top-to-bottom revamps, a shift away from HTML 5 into pure native marks a big advance for the company. How it looks When you first launch the app, you’ll be presented with the ‘Today’ view, outlining what…

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Product Hunt’s first custom leaderboard lets you help rank the teams at today’s 500 Startups demo day

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Product Hunt, a kind of ‘Hacker News for products’, has taken the startup world by storm over the past few months. While at its heart it’s focused on a daily contest in which users vote up and discuss their favorite new products, today it’s being used in a more timely fashion to highlight the startups presenting at 500 Startups‘ demo day in Mountain View. There’s nothing special in terms of features here, just a chance for the teams to compete not just for the attention of press and investors at the demo day itself, but also for upvotes from the…

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