Beta testing Office 2010
Hi all. I have just started beta testing Office 2010. My first impressions is..wow that’s a fast load time, followed by..sweet, the stupid Office button has been replaced with the uber cool File tab.
This time instead of a drop down menu we have a tab dedicated to all your opening, saving, templates, share and more. The integration with sky drive is working nicely. Once you have saved your file you are able to share via link, just like working with SharePoint. This post can be found as a .docx here: https://urjfnv.docs.live.net/fa128dbb016cfc74/Public/Beta%20testing%20Office%202010.docx
Another cool feature that may or may not have been present in 2007 is changing colour schemes. I have chosen the rather cool black…and just now discovered this feature was in 2007..fail me.
Beta issue number one is that lack of office online support. I don’t seem to be able to connect to the templates online, which really pisses me off L. I have sent a report to the dev team.
Wikis in University Teaching and Learning – Richard Buckland FULT UNSW
I wish we had wikis when I went to school.
with:public
I have been using Google Wave for a few weeks now. It got of to a slow start for me..my first wave was integrating with friends form IRC. I was more of a kill the wave fest than the collaborative experience we were expecting to have. But the wave is what you make of it and we didn’t make much at all. After paying around with the technology I starting hunting for more to do. I was hitting a brick wall of disappointment that I would have to assume that most people hit between being invited to Google Wave and discovering…..
with:public
……{with:public} opens up the world to public waves…add a keyword or phase and your away. Public waves are buggy and slow, but if controlled they can perform well. The key seems to be keeping your waves free of robots and extensions.
Google Wave is what I was expecting accept for one thing..it is far more social than I thought hit would be. I have been meeting new people, hooking up with old friends, and trying to hid from others. Discussions break off into branches, yet these branches are easy to follow even when the wave grows. Hitting the space bar moves you through the wave via the unread blips When you reach he end of one way he space bar finds the next wave with an unread blips and takes you there.
I’m a compete Google Wave fan boy.
Handy hint for Gmail uses
If you want to read your unread emails you can search for label:unread. Even better…create a quick link (you will need to enable this in labs) of label:unread.
Watch in HD
RvD2: Ryan vs. Dorkman 2 — HD
best lightsaber fight since Jedi 
Fresh Food Revolution
Fresh Food Revolution
Here is a video featuring some of my photos… unfortunately it features some of my bad photos.
GTA Fletch
GTA has a wonderful engine. It’s a shame the game is so violent. I would love to see the engine used to produce a game based on Fletch. Comedy, cars, situations…what more could you want. Instead of being on the hunt for a kill, why not on the detective trail. There are many applications for the city Rockstar have built. This has been but one.
But as long as the violence is there…….I had a ball playing GTA with Blueboy the other week. The aim of the night was to create a car park in the middle of Times Square, add a rocket and boom!
Childish but eh…what you going to do?
