productivity

Microsoft confirms Office 14 runs in browsers

Crave After years of questioning the value of Net-based productivity applications, Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that it will offer new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that can run from within a standard Web browser.

Tags: microsoft, products, editing, customers

28 October 2008, 16:25

New camera round-up: Six of the best

Crave Now that's productivity. It's been a big week for digital camera announcements. There's been a veritable raft of new cameras announced, but are they any cop? We pick out six we're looking forward to. Nikon launched no less than eight new Coolpix...

31 August 2007, 13:27

Vista has landed! But it won't take off

Crave Will the talk of the office party be how much Vista Business has increased productivity and morale, or will it simply be the usual form of getting drunk, groping your boss, then going home to bitch about how XP is a load of rubbish?

Tags: microsoft, vista, windows xp, windows vista

30 November 2006, 11:15

Crave Talk: BBC to stream live World Cup games

Crave This could be the biggest productivity zapper since Ebaum's World. Employers across the UK gasped a collective sigh of exasperation as the BBC announced its plans to broadcast all its World Cup games on the Internet.

Tags: bbc, broadcast, cup, world cup

2 June 2006, 13:37

High IQ: O2's clever XDA smart phone

Crave The XDA IQ uses Windows Mobile 5, and has a host of productivity software including Mobile versions of Microsoft Word and Excel. In the UK, there are more mobile phone handsets than there are people, and it's hardly surprising -- nary a day goes by...

Tags: o2, wi fi, xda, megapixel

4 May 2006, 10:46

You sleep at home, i-sleep at work on a laptop pillow

Crave Another problem the i-sleep doesn't address: many bosses don't understand the concept that a ten-minute nap is not laziness, but in fact aids productivity -- though that doesn't really matter since this is just an idea for a project at Berlin's...

Tags: product, air, vents, sleepy

9 October 2008, 9:54

Laptop Desk 2.0: Groin protector

Crave It'll let you select one of five ergonomically comfortable typing angles and raise the screen height of your laptop by 95mm, increasing productivity and reducing back and shoulder pain. It may seem like a slow news day when the world's finest...

Tags: laptop, desk, protector, lap

15 December 2005, 11:07

Vista Service Pack 1: Things Microsoft forgot to fix

Crave The ability to have multiple desktops or spaces, each themed with a specific set of application types can help improve productivity and reduce the amount of clutter. Some are saying SP1 improves Vista's general meh-diocrity, while others, including...

Tags: desktops, hard drive, windows vista, flip

19 March 2008, 14:27

Crave Talk: Is Origami the future?

Crave It's too small to be used as a home video player, too large to be used as a portable media device and far too fiddly to work as a serious office productivity tool. When Kevin Costner's corn field whispered "If you build it, they will come," it was...

Tags: microsoft, field, ultra, host

15 March 2006, 8:00

WannabEees: Eee PC vs Elonex One vs OLPC vs EasyNote XS vs MSI Wind and more

Crave The whole thing runs on the Linux Linos 2.6.21 operating system, which comes with a variety of productivity, media and education software. Bored with making MacBooks for Steve Jobs, one day Asus decided to create its own stylish laptop and flog it...

12 March 2008, 11:17

Photos: Acer Aspire One is quite literally 'the one'

Crave Note how it's all separated into categories: Connect (for Internet and instant messaging type apps) Work (for office productivity), Fun (for games and media management) and Files (for managing, er, files).

3 June 2008, 15:31

AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 gaming CPU: tested

Crave It's already proven its worth in everyday multitasking and productivity applications, but AMD says it will also begin to establish itself as the clear choice for gamers as games developers begin to exploit the potential of dual-core CPUs.

Tags: amd, core, processor, cpu

26 January 2006, 15:28

Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac

Crave MyExposé replicates the mouse-in-corner tiling goodness from the Mac, laying all your windows out in front of you like a great big productivity smorgasbord. As we move further into the 21st century, one issue divides the world more than any other.

26 November 2007, 8:52

Top ten obsolete ports

Crave While everyone was struggling to load Windows 3.11 off a crazy-slow IDE 5,200rpm drive, Mac users were enjoying the productivity afforded them by drives with much quicker data transfer rates and which could be daisy-chained in far greater numbers...

25 March 2008, 11:02

Matrox TripleHead2Go: Three-way monitor action

Crave If one monitor just isn't enough, then you may want to take a look at the Matrox TripleHead2Go. This device lets you connect up to three monitors to your PC's graphics card simultaneously for a combined resolution of up to 3,840x1,024 pixels.

Tags: connect, graphics, flight, graphics card

17 July 2006, 11:03