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Comment on Music Pricing – CD vs. Digital Download by technokratos

technokratos — Mon, 03 May 2010 08:04:39 +0000

I know some people who believe that it’s right to spend more on a download for the convenience of it. Personally, I don’t see why one should undercut another because then it gives an incentive one way which is surely what the companies don’t want to happen.

Comment on Apple Marketing and the iPad by Tom

Tom — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:56:53 +0000

I can certainly see a place for it in a busy family kitchen – replacing the calendar on the wall – if the iPhone calendar is anything to go by, it can sync with online calendars – so could easily be a house-centre display unit with email, calendars etc and beat the Joggler at it’s own game – as the joggler can’t sync with web calendars…

I have a chumby, which normally displays a weather forecast, my day-calendar, clock and the news headlines – and as a “home centre” display, which you can pick up and use as web-browser, it might have a niche…

As a giant iPod touch, I think it may have missed it’s mark, especially with no USB ports…

(IMO Apple missed a trick here, a couple of strong magnets on the back and you could actually stick it on the fridge)

Comment on Apple Marketing and the iPad by Chris Chapman

Chris Chapman — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:15:47 +0000

Good comparison between the Joggler and Chumby. Although it’s easy to overlook, as Apple are marketing it more as a netbook alternative, rather than a multimedia viewer. Convergence isn’t always the best solution, it tends to result in unnecessary compromises when compared to stand alone alternatvies.

Comment on Apple Marketing and the iPad by Tom

Tom — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:59:50 +0000

Absolutely agree with you – this could have been so much more – It’s nothing more than a glorified iPod touch looking for a market.

Maybe it could compete with the O2 Joggler, or the Chumby – but it won’t compete with eInk machines for readability (unless the screen is really really good – and we won’t know that until we start seeing them for-real in the Apple shops)

I’ll be waiting for a multi-touch Windows 7 tablet that can handle flash, MS Office, has USB ports, for example, the HP TouchSmart “hybrid” tablet/laptops – which will I suspect be a nice compromise of tablet and laptop…

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Comment on OffiSync – Google Docs Meets Microsoft Office by Allen Falcon

Allen Falcon — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:15:42 +0000

Good Day,

OffiSync will run with the Office 2010 Beta. If you have troubles, let us know.

Plans for Mac are in the works.

Premium version lets you connect to Google Sites, which preserves Office document formats.

Coming soon … format preservation with Docs and real-time collaboration, both will require OffiSync Premium.

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Allen
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Comment on OffiSync – Google Docs Meets Microsoft Office by Chris Chapman

Chris Chapman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:34:12 +0000

@Tom Microsoft have supported add-ins in Office for some time; althoughthis is the first third party one I’ve used before. As long as they haven’t removed the ability to create add-ins for Office 2010, I think OffiSync would be able to release an update if they wanted to. However, productivity suites, like operating systems, have reached a point that such releases are more/less subtle refinements than major leaps forward.

@Andrew Shame it doesn’t work with Mac. I’m not sure whether they have any plans to do so or not, but it may be worth dropping them a line on their feedback form: http://www.offisync.com/feedback.html

Comment on OffiSync – Google Docs Meets Microsoft Office by Andrew Welch

Andrew Welch — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:01:56 +0000

I have seen this before and it looks like an excellent product. Useless to me without an Apple version – for Microsoft Office on Mac – any plans to add this compatibility?

Comment on OffiSync – Google Docs Meets Microsoft Office by Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:09:02 +0000

Office 2010′s sync will likely only connect to Microsofts own LiveOffice…

OffiSync’s word component seems to work well for the couple of spreadsheets I have on the Google Docs service – I’ve not tried anything complicated with it – but for what I’ve used it for, it’s great.

Comment on OffiSync – Google Docs Meets Microsoft Office by Chris Chapman

Chris Chapman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:04:29 +0000

I forgot to mention that Office 2010 will likely include something like this to tie in with it’s own online office suite. However, since OffiSync isn’t available for the beta of Office 2010, I haven’t really checked out the features.

Let us know how you get on with Excel.