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Entourage 2008 – Quite A Ride
We’ll I’ve been on Entourage 2008 for about three weeks now and the ride has had its ups and downs. I’m happy with Entourage for the most part, but it’s flaws are hard to ignore.
Things I love:
- Projects – Projects are cool in the fact that I can group emails together, file them away, yet have easy access to them. I need to dig into this more and use it.
- Full Calendar Support – No more Outlook meeting request issues or confusion. This was a big factor in changing to Entourage at work.
Logo Design At It’s Best – Or Not
One of the best comics around is Dilbert. If you work in an office place, you will probably find it quite humorous. They play off stereotypes and worse case scenarios quite often and it’s just funny.
Most employees have had a time when someone comes in and ‘simplifies’ their job. It’s bound to happen and when it does, it’s not quite as funny, but put it in a Dilbert cartoon, and it’s great.
See how the Boss works his design skills and creates a new logo. 
ZoHo – Online Office Applications
There has been lots of talk online about Writely, iRows and Google Spreadsheet lately that I though I’d take a moment and talk about the Zoho offerings. ZoHo is a company that makes an online word processor , spreadsheet application, polls, to-do lists, chat and more. Most applications are free and are all very good; and not invite only.
ZoHoWriter is basically the same as Writely. It’s a free online word processor that import & export Microsoft Word documents along with many other types of text files, export PDFs and it’s all web based. They deal with documents a little better though with a left hand menu that includes all your documents. All accessible from one screen and they can even open in tabs. Pretty sweet.
iRows : Web Based Spreadsheets
I searched for a web based Microsoft Excel today and I found iRows. All the basics, none of the bloat or cost!!
Today was a snow day and I was told not to come into work but rather work from home. Great idea except I treat my home computer differently than my work computer. For one, I didn’t install Microsoft Office.
I’ve had Writely for Word documents for a while now and it’s just amazing. Upload Word files, make edits, export them again and it’s all good. So, I went looking for a web based Excel. That’s when I found iRows.
Writely – Social/Web Word Processing
Recently I’ve been using a free service called Writely. Writely is a web based word processing application that is amazing.
Features include:
- Full WYSIWYG Editing (in browsers that support it)
- Import abilities for Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf) OpenOffice (.odt, .sxw), HTML, Text (.txt)
- Export abilities for all the above and PDF
- Sharing abilities with anyone.
- Social editing so that more than one can edit the same document.
- Privacy controls.
- Ability to ‘Star’ important documents. (like Gmail)
- Beautiful Interface
