office

Open-source software rated: Ten alternatives you need

Crave The Good: For the home and for the office, VLC will work for you. The bad: Microsoft Office comes with Outlook, which is vital for most business users. Paid-for version: WinZipOpen-source alternative: 7-Zip 7-Zip is a file archiver that handles not...

19 November 2007, 8:00

Ears-on with Audio Technica's ATH-ANC7 noise-cancellers

Crave We've tested them on London's Tube, on overland trains, in the office and out on the street. And in our office the unnecessarily loud air-conditioning system was reduced to silence. We're no strangers to noise- cancelling headphones, and we're...

Tags: audio technica, testing, noise, headphones

15 May 2008, 10:29

Rory's Christmas Shopping: Followit tracking

Crave Better still, you could secrete it amongst the lip-gloss, makeup and other miscellaneous junk in your girlfriend's purse to see if she really is going to the hairdressers and not nipping off on a sordid weekend with some rich banker she met while...

Tags: value, christmas, tracking, sim

20 December 2005, 14:00

Crave Talk: Is Origami the future?

Crave It's been  billed as the ultimate 'lifestyle' PC -- one that is highly portable, capable of displaying video, audio, television and still images, and be just as adept at handling office tasks as your existing laptop.

Tags: microsoft, field, ultra, host

15 March 2006, 8:00

Hands-on with the Sennheiser PXC 350 headphones

Crave But in our office space we got good results: the rumble of air conditioner was as good as dead and keyboard tapping was muffled. Voices were quietened, though not severely -- we could still hear colleagues across the office over the top of Widor's...

Tags: sennheiser, noise, headphones, bass

14 November 2007, 10:47

Parrot DS1120 Bluetooth speakers: Wire-free music

Crave The controls are touch-sensitive, and there was a moment of slight embarrassment when we were testing them when we accidentally turned them to full volume in the middle of the office. Our in-office hands-on yielded some pretty good results.

Tags: parrot, volume, bluetooth, hands

31 March 2008, 11:24

Photos: Hands-on with the Sony Vaio BZ Series (VGN-BZ11VN)

Crave Instead, with an opening price point of roughly £799, Sony's essentially pitching this as the kind of businesstop (yeah, we made up a word) that could be deployed en masse around the office, given its decent spec, solid build and, above all, the...

16 July 2008, 16:21

Crave Talk: Location, location, location

Crave But so far, despite advancing years and various office reorganisations, I've held onto that much mental competence -- when I do finally lose it that badly (on current trends, sometime in mid-September) I'll be too busy emptying out the drool tray...

Tags: wi fi, location, sale, san

9 August 2006, 10:25

Sennheiser RS130: high wire artists

Crave If you're in the office and drop the headphones to sit round your neck, the volume knob usually catches your shoulder, sending the volume up to maximum in the process. The headphones in particular look a little too pretentious for the office, and...

Tags: charge, signal, powered, pair

7 September 2005, 10:34

Hands-on with the iPod touch January software update

Crave The Wi-Fi-assisted location finder worked really well in west London at the Apple event, and it worked really well finding our office just now. You can bookmark certain locations, too, so if you always want to find locations to places from your...

Tags: apple, screens, locations, maps

17 January 2008, 9:41

Rory's Christmas Shopping: Poor man's Xbox 360

Crave Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX 512MB graphics card -- £339.98 Asus A8V-E SE motherboard -- £57.99 AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU -- £195.84 512MB DDR SD-RAM -- £41.06Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 60GB hard drive -- £38.26 LG GCC-4521BB 52x32x52x16 CD-RW/DVD-ROM...

Tags: microsoft, console, hard drive, value

2 December 2005, 17:00

Google Spreadsheets: Microsoft, be very afraid

Crave Why pay upwards of £200 to get Office on your new computer if you can get the same functionality online for free? With the release of Google Spreadsheets (which you can find on Google's site), the search giant has moved a step closer towards...

Tags: google, spreadsheets, excel, spreadsheet

12 June 2006, 9:16

Five phones that changed the world

Crave This large-screened device, with its full Qwerty keypad, kept you in touch with the office and paved the way for a mobile office revolution. With all the hype surrounding the incoming iPhone, it's easy to forget that mobile phones haven't been...

20 June 2007, 11:56

NEC LT20: Mini Me Projector

Crave If I was in your office, I could easily be smuggled out for a weekend of Bond movies and a 24 marathon. "Look at me, I'm tiny! NEC's LT20 is a projector so small you might lose it down the back of the sofa, and its slinky body houses one of the...

Tags: nec, sort, fans, body

4 August 2005, 10:06

S-Master Home Audio System: MP3 phone hi-fi

Crave But alas, all too soon you're outside the office, staring at the Gates of Hell, knowing your musical moment must come to an end. But like a good featherweight boxer, it packs a mean punch for its size, and its sound quality and volume were perfect...

Tags: sony ericsson, silver, volume, desk

9 June 2006, 11:43