Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Office Web Apps Offers Free Doc Editing with 25 GB Storage [Microsoft Office]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5557862/office-web-apps-open-for-use

Office Web Apps Offers Free Doc Editing with 25 GB StorageOffice Web Apps, the free, cloud-based viewing and editing suite that Microsoft promised would be available to everyone, has opened wide its doors. It's a decent set of basic-plus editing tools, powered by SkyDrive's generous 25 GB of storage space.

As you can see in the screenshot above, Microsoft's free editing tools, like Word, aren't anything close to a replacement for its desktop suite, but it is an experience fairly comparable to Google Docs. They've even added in real time collaborative editing, and, presumably, there's greater formatting compatibility with Office documents you upload.

Office Web Apps Offers Free Doc Editing with 25 GB Storage
Head to office.live.com in your browser—any browser, it seems—and you'll get a list of the documents you've uploaded to SkyDrive, with Bing-powered search and some basic filtering. Head there in a smartphone, and Microsoft promises you'll be able to at least view your documents in most smartphone browsers. If you're a Live Messenger users, there's additional functionality in store for you, and Hotmail die-hards should get some extra neat features soon.

Office Web Apps are a free set of tools to use, and require a Live account. If you're not in the U.S., UK, Canada, or Ireland, you can access a no-country-restricted version of the Web Apps here, though not in any language but English at the moment.

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Preview Google Maps Links in Gmail [Gmail Labs]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5558022/preview-google-maps-links-in-gmail

Preview Google Maps Links in GmailJust out of the Gmail Labs is a Google Maps preview function, which appends a miniature map—with full scaling, zoom, and other Maps features—to the bottom of any message containing a Maps link.

As always, you can enable the feature by heading to your Settings in Gmail and heading to the Labs section, where you'll find "Google Maps previews in mail" available to enable. The feature only works with U.S. addresses at the moment, but international support is being developed. By the same token, Buzz social network users get the same kind of instant preview of Maps links when posting their updates or viewing others'.

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Dual Monitor Tools Manages Your Multiple Monitors with Open-Source Tools [Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5558216/dual-monitor-tools-manages-your-multiple-monitors-with-open+source-tools

Dual Monitor Tools Manages Your Multiple Monitors with Open-Source ToolsWindows: There are some great multi-monitor management tools available but if you're trying to keep things free and open-source the pickings get a little slimmer. Dual Monitor Tools is a collection of open-source applications for managing your multi-monitor setup.

Dual Monitor Tools isn't a single application but a suite of individual apps. Load only the ones you need and conserve memory in the process. The suite currently includes four applications Swap Screen, Dual Wallpaper, DisMon, and Dual Swap.

Swap Screen enables hotkey management of windows across your multiple monitors like moving, minimizing, and rotating the contents of monitors from one to the other. You can also restrict the mouse movement to a single monitor. Dual Wallpaper is a simple wallpaper manager that offers different wallpaper on each screen or spanning wallpaper. DisMon allows for selective disabling of monitors—handy for gaming and particularly picky applications that don't play nice with multiple monitors. Dual Snap is a screen capture application designed for capturing images from the secondary monitors. As noted above each application stands alone so if you see at tool that interests you, you can pluck it from the suite and use it without the others.

Dual Monitor Tool is open-source, Windows only. For more multi-monitor goodness make sure to check out how to make the most of your multiple monitor setup under Windows 7 and the five best tools for managing your multiple monitor setup.

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Safari Extensions Catalogs Add-Ons for Safari [Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5558096/safari-extensions-catalogs-add+ons-for-safari

Safari Extensions Catalogs Add-Ons for SafariSafari: You checked out the new features in Safari 5, you enabled extensions, but now what? You need some extensions to play with. Safari Extensions is an unofficial catalog of available extensions to keep you updated until the official gallery goes live.

Apple won't be opening their extension gallery for Safari until later this summer. If you want to play with extensions sooner rather than later Safari Extensions is an unofficial catalog of available extensions.

The current offerings are small compared to the massive catalogs for browsers like Firefox and Chrome but with Safari 5 hot off the development press this morning we're not in any position to complain—especially in light of the fact that in the time it took to write this article the number of offerings doubled! Check out the extensions they have or submit extensions you've found in your travels. Safari Extensions is a free site and requires no registration. Thanks jwisser!

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Waachen Saves Online Videos To Watch Later, Is Like Instapaper for Video [Bookmarking]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5558385/waachen-saves-online-videos-to-watch-later-is-like-instapaper-for-video

Waachen Saves Online Videos To Watch Later, Is Like Instapaper for VideoWacchen is an online bookmarking service that saves and stores all the online videos you run across in one place via a simple browser bookmarklet. It works very similarly to bookmarking, article-saving service Instapaper, but for video.

Wacchen saves videos from over 70 web sites with the click of a bookmarklet, including video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, TED, and tons more.

Waachen Saves Online Videos To Watch Later, Is Like Instapaper for VideoOnce you have an account, grab the bookmarklet and place it on your browser for easy access. When you surf the web and stumble across an interesting video, click the "Watch It Later" bookmarklet. Wacchen will save the video on its website, where you can later access all videos for future viewing.

It's a great way to keep track of videos, when you don't have time to watch them right away or in the middle of something. Wacchen requires an account to work.

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