In this article I will have a closer look at the Waterfield Sleevecase for a Lenovo T61p with an extended 9 cell battery.It will not only be an in-depth look at the product and its features, but I will also highlight the pre-sales advice and its underlying process. … [Read more...]
Endnote X4 – Thomson Reuters’ excellent customer service using an open strategy ?
Last week I published a book review of Open Leadership - How Social Technology Can Transofrm the Way You Lead, the latest book of Charlene Li. In this article I will share some personal practical experiences about the use of social technology and some form of open strategy that was in place at the company. Introduction of EndNote X3 "problem" Since a few years I use Thomson Reuters EndNote to manage my references and easily include these in academic texts and … [Read more...]
Microsoft Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 Launch Event – The Future of Productivity
Wednesday I was fortunate to be invited to the local Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 launch event in the Netherlands. As you can read in the press release “Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010“: “Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010, as well as Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010, for business customers worldwide.” This has two implications: (1) the … [Read more...]
Microsoft Docs – Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps + Facebook > Google Docs ?
Last week Facebook announced the release of Microsoft Docs -a collaborative project of Microsoft and Facebook- during the Facebook F8 conference. In addition to the Microsoft Docs introduction of Lili Cheng, General Manager of FUSE Labs, you can read the following description of Microsoft Docs on the Fuse Labs website: "Discover. Create. Share. Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for … [Read more...]
Evernote PDF Search – New Premium Feature
I'm using Evernote software on multiple platforms since the early start a little more than a year ago, because one of the limitations of Microsoft Exchange Activesync is the ability to synchronize notes directly over the air to your Windows Phone. "Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere." The summary above already … [Read more...]
Lenovo X60 tablet – A Windows powered tablet as primary “notebook”
Over the past 1.5 years I've been using a HP Compaq NC6320, but recently I switched to a Lenovo X60 tablet as my primary notebook. I will provide some arguments for my choice and interesting facts about the device. After 1,5 years the HP/Compaq NC6320 is technically still a very robust and rock solid device. Windows Vista Ultimate ran on it without any problems. With a 1,83 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of RAM it is still a very good device to use. Also one of the reasons I choose the NC6320 … [Read more...]
BROWSERWARS: Google Chrome first impressions
Some among us remember the big browser wars in the late 90's between Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Research suggests that a second period of browserwars has started in 2003, and still is going on. [ref01] Today Google entered the battlefield, by opening up the beta to the big public of their webbrowser called Google Chrome. After installing the software, my bookmarks are simply imported from Mozilla Firefox (the current default webbrowser). The design is simple, some will … [Read more...]
TIP: Vista performance and tuning guide available for download
Since my HP Compaq NC6320 notebook was Vista-capable, I could order an upgrade for about E20,- being just the administration and shipping costs. Since that time I ran Windows Vista Business 32bit and later the Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit version. While in some large companies are still internally discussing whether to stay with the current Windows XP computer and notebook fleet or to upgrade to Windows Vista, there are many end-consumers and companies who have switched to Windows Vista. In … [Read more...]
