Everything to Lose by Andrew Gross
Reviewed by Elizabeth from Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania.
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It’s been proven that the right background noise can spur creativity and keep you motivated as well as increasing your focus. The new kid on the block, Noisli, is the perfect tool to help get you more productive in the comfort of your own home. Noisli is a beautifully minimalist tool for generating background noise, with everything from rain, fire and wind to the familiar drone of a coffee shop to help you get working. It’s dead simple and is the most beautifully designed tool I’ve come across for the task. Over the last week, it’s helped me focus a lot more than…
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Not wanting to leave Microsoft Office users behind, Google has released a Hangouts extension for Outlook to help them schedule calls using the service. The move appears to be in order allow those that don’t use Google’s web interface as their primary email client to schedule meetings from Outlook directly, rather than jumping into Google Calendar to schedule calls. It also aims to help those that have rolled out the Chromebox to schedule meetings using the devices directly from their inbox. The Hangouts extension for Outlook doesn’t appear to support chat, instead opting to just help these users schedule video meetings on the service…
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It’s been a year and a half since Microsoft released Windows 8 and its ‘Modern’ interface to the world, but we’re still yet to see a touch-first interface emerge for the company’s Office suite, until now. In what can be only described as a slightly odd move, Microsoft Research has published an extensive document that details the company’s plans for ink-based computing but also happens to show screenshots of what appears to be our first glimpse at a truly touch-first Office interface. The PDF document, which goes into a lot of detail about how Microsoft believes ink based computing should work,…
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