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If you write regularly on different devices like iPhone, iPad and desktop computers, you eventually face the problem of how to manage the same text on those devices. You need to access the same document on several devices and keep the same contents updated on all of them. To do that, a reliable text editor with good sync capability is necessary. Simplenote, a free iPhone and iPad app, is a noteworthy software for such document sharing and also for nice interface.
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OpenOffice 3.1 has been around quite sometime and now there is an updated version 3.2 just released on Feb 11th, 2010. Many companies like Oracle (earlier Sun), Red Hat
, IBM etc have worked on this community driven Office Software suit. Great features and extra stability have been introduced post OpenOffice 3.0. Here is our review on OpenOffice Calc, a worthy alternative to the most popular Spreadsheet software, Microsoft Excel.
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Again to sum up, TechEd 2009 has brought us fresh headlines for Windows 7, Office 2010, and Windows Mobile 6.5. So, what else is worth talking about? How about the Microsoft Surface. The company quietly (sans press release) announced that Service Pack 1 for the super-duper coffee table has been released. Apparently the service pack is the result of feedback from more than 180 partners in 11 countries who are developing on the Microsoft Surface. SP1 is meant to make development on the platform faster and easier: the SDK supports development on any .NET framework and is optimized for WPF and XNA.
Surface can run multiple applications simultaneously, but only with SP1 is it easy to tell if an application in the background needs your attention, thanks to a small notification on the side. Surface is also now easier to set up since you can calibrate without needing to plug in an external display. SP1 gives users more visual feedback about where they’ve touched and where they should have touched to select a specific item. Also, where applicable, Surface will let the user know that he or she cannot zoom into a specific object by showing lines leading away from the object. Below is a quick list of features that have been added; I think the Microsoft Update one is the most important one (and it probably should have been there from the start):
Intel’s Linux-based Moblin platform, which is designed to run on Atom-based netbook devices, has gained the backing of numerous Linux distributors. Novell jumped on the Moblin bandwagon last year and has participated in the development effort. In an announcement on Thursday, Novell revealed that it has signed an agreement with Intel and plans to boost its involvement with the project.
In an effort to make the project more inclusive and transparent, Intel recently invited the Linux Foundation to host ongoing Moblin development. Novell was a vocal supporter of this move and expressed enthusiasm for Moblin and the project’s potential capacity to accelerate the advancement of Linux in the mobile space. As part of the company’s new agreement with Intel, Novell has committed to build its own Moblin-based distro to offer to hardware makers.
Novell will also establish its own Linux labs in Taiwan to collaborate with a Moblin development facility that Intel launched in the country last year as part of a partnership with Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs. Intel is building a very strong presence in Taiwan, where the company is investing in both Moblin development and a major WiMAX rollout.
Apple today released the first public beta of Safari 4, which sports a redesigned interface that resembles Google’s Chrome, as well as support for all of the major Internet standards, and a large range of new and enhanced features. Among these new features are a reimagined start page with a speed-dial interface similar to what Opera and Chrome are currently offering, a Cover Flow-like interface for browsing your bookmarks and history, and the ability to perform a full-text history search of your bookmarks.
Overall, Safari 4 feels a lot like the love child of iTunes and Google Chrome. It takes some of the best UI elements of both and mashes them up in a browser that can now easily compete with Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer – though, of course, it does lack the third-party developer ecosystem that has sprung up around Firefox.
Granted, most of the new features in Safari 4 are not exactly new, but, as Apple does so often, it exceeds at putting all of these features together in a very attractive package.
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