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Office for iPhone and Android phones is now completely free, Android tablet version coming ‘in the future’

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 8:14 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google

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In addition to releasing Office for iPad, Microsoft today also updated Office Mobile for iPhone and Office Mobile for Android with a major change: both are now completely free for home use. You can download the new versions now directly from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. Microsoft says the decision was made in order to align Office Mobile for Windows Phone with its iOS and Android counterparts. As a result, Office Mobile now lets smartphone users view, as well as edit, content on the go for free. An Office 365 subscription is no longer required for editing. No new…

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Office for iPad first look: Echoing the desktop with a touch-based twist

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 8:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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If you know Microsoft Office for the desktop, you already know Office for iPad. There are so many similarities between the two, that making the transition will be a seamless experience. Microsoft Office for iPad has that signature Microsoft look—Blue for Word, Green for Excel, and Orange for Powerpoint. The colors are the first, but certainly not the only visual cue. A nice, clean tabbed format is common to all of the apps. And all proved quick and responsive to traditional Apple touch gestures. We took the new suite for s spin directly after the presentation and are impressed with…

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Roku’s Streaming Stick is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and others in the US

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates

Google recently launched its Chromecast streaming dongle in almost a dozen new markets, but now Roku is offering an alternative. The company’s new Streaming Stick, which plugs into the back of your TV through the HDMI port, is now shipping from Roku.com, Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Target.com and Walmart.com. If you want to pick one up in store though, the company is sticking to its “early April” release date for now. We expect it’ll land in the next couple of weeks – Roku is also planning a launch in Europe next month, although we’re none the wiser for exactly when that will happen…

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Brain freeze: The science of procrastination and our ‘smart’ brains

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 7:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, LifeHacks

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Denis Duvauchelle is CEO and co-founder of team collaboration tool Twoodo. How many times have you read that procrastination is just a characteristic of a lazy person? That people try to be “busy” rather than “productive”? That only happy-go-lucky hippies get to take a brain break from life? For a few people, this may be true. But if we look a little deeper into why it happens, we can begin to see that it is actually our “smart” brains that make it happen. And once you understand the true nature of the problem, you can make sense of all the…

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Staff at Mozilla call for new CEO Brendan Eich to ‘step down’

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 6:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Mozilla employees are calling for new CEO Brendan Eich to step down over his support for the Proposition 8 campaign that opposed same-sex marriage in California. As Ars Technica reports, Chris McAvoy, project lead for Open Badges at the Mozilla Foundation, tweeted his disapproval of the appointment earlier today. It triggered a number of similar responses from other staff at Mozilla, perhaps planned, asking for Eich to resign from his new position. Have waited too long to say this. I’m an employee of @mozilla and I’m asking @brendaneich to step down as CEO. https://t.co/K3OqeImUnU — iamjessklein (@iamjessklein) March 27, 2014…

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