If you have been searching for an excuse to update your iPhone (or finally make the leap and purchase one of your very own for the first time), the announcement from Apple yesterday on the new features and goodies it will include might just push you over the edge. The focus appears to be cleaning up a lot of the nagging little things that a user would anticipate being easy from the start.
Systemwide search- now you can find what you’re looking for from within one search interface, instead of having to detemine what you’re searching for first.
Copy and paste for …read more

I wrote recently about blogging from within the newest version of Microsoft Word 2007. In that post I had mentioned that the functionality of blogging in Word 2007 was very similar to what had been developed in the Windows Live Writer application. Not surprisingly, it would make sense to test functionality in a small, free program distributed via the web and get user feedback from that.
There’s now a new version of Windows Live Writer being developed and the Inside Microsoft blog got their hands on a copy of it and played with it a bit.
Verdict:  They’ve gone and taken what might …read more