Preezo, developed by Jason Roberts under Adaptix Technologies, LLC, is an Ajax web application that gives you the power to create and share professional quality presentations over the web without software or plugins.

Preezo also allows you to create presentations, access and reuse them anywhere, share and collaborate it with others. We now have Google Docs Presentation, Zoho Show, ThinkFree Docs ShowFX, and now…. let’s welcome Preezo! The list is getting longer eh?

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Preezo, yet another presentations for the web

If you happened playing with this two desktop publishing tools and want to work Microsoft Publisher files directly into Adobe InDesign, here’s a thing to try – PUB2ID – Microsoft Publisher To Adobe InDesign.

PUB2ID (Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign) is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign. It provides a quick, easy and affordable method for you to migrate all your Microsoft Publisher content into new Adobe InDesign documents. The conversion is enabled with a single click using the InDesign File->Open menu. No more re-creating documents from scratch; PUB2ID gives you a big head-start. (more details here)

There is no trial version but you can request a demo. Markzware, the software publishing company, hopefully will soon have a trial version download. PUB2ID v1.51 is compatible for Macintosh and Windows PC. You can buy the licensed software at a cost of $199.00 single license.

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Microsoft Publisher to Adobe InDesign file converter

Add an RSS Feed through Windows Internet Explorer 7

When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Office Outlook 2007, you can add RSS Feeds from either program as well as view the feeds in either program.

1. When you browse to a Web page that contains RSS information, Button image appears in Windows Internet Explorer next to the Button image Home button.
2. Click . A list of all available RSS Feeds on the Web page is displayed.
3. Click the RSS Feed that you want to add.

Tip: You can also click , or, in the Web page.

Add an RSS Feed through the Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Account Settings dialog box

1. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings.
2. On the RSS Feeds tab, click New.
3. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type or press CTRL+V to paste the URL of the RSS Feed. For example, http://www.example.com/feed/main.xml.
4. Click Add.
5. Click OK.

Add an RSS Feed sent to you in a sharing invitation e-mail message

1. When you receive an RSS Feed sharing invitation, click Add this RSS Feed.You can click the button at the top the Reading Pane, or if you open the message, on the Share tab, in the Open group, click Add this RSS Feed.

Click OK to confirm adding the RSS Feed to Office Outlook 2007.

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Adding RSS and Atom Feeds in your Outlook

During its launch, Bill Gates said, “In the next decade, sweeping technology innovations driven by the power of software will transform communications. Working with partners, we’re making rapid advances that will enable fundamental advances in the way people communicate and collaborate at work.” Here are the following Unified Communication software:

Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007.
Software that delivers VoIP, video, instant messaging, conferencing and presence within the applications people already know and use such as Microsoft Office system applications and upcoming versions of Microsoft Dynamics™ ERP products and the Microsoft CRM release due later this year.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.
Client software for phone, instant messaging and video communications that works across the PC, mobile phone and Web browser.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
The next version of Microsoft’s advanced conferencing service that enables workers to conduct meetings, share documents, utilize video and record discussions from virtually any computer.

Microsoft RoundTable™.
A conferencing phone with a 360-degree camera that captures a panoramic view of meeting participants, tracks the speaker and can record meetings

Service pack update of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
The industry’s leading e-mail, voice mail, calendaring and unified messaging platform.

“Unified communications software will transform business communications as fundamentally as e-mail did in the 1990s. Today, Microsoft is in the VoIP game, and our customers and partners are already winning with better economics and new business opportunities,” Jeff Raikes said, President of the Microsoft Business Division.

Click here to read more about this press release.

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Microsoft’s Unified Communications

According to Greg Robbins’ blog entry, Software Engineer at Google Picasa, “While our first release used a private API to talk with the Picasa Web Albums server, the new version is built on the public Google Data API interfaces and our Objective-C GData Library. This will make it easier for us to keep up with Picasa Web Albums’ new features. For example, the iPhoto export plug-in now can convert keywords in iPhoto to tags in Picasa Web Albums.”
Download it now.

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Picasa Web Albums plugin for your Mac iPhoto

Paul McDougall Senior Editor at InformationWeek posted a news entry in the site and says, “The service, part of Microsoft’s broader Windows Live suite of Internet-based tools, lets users add graphical templates and maps to slickly formatted event invitations they can e-mail to friends and associates. The available templates include designs related to national holidays, sporting events, birthdays, and religious observances. The service is free to Windows Live users.”

“In addition to broadcasting invitations, Windows Live Events will let users create a Web page on which attendees will be able to post messages, pictures, and videos related to the event after the fact, ” he addeed.

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The New Windows Live Events

1. Launch Microsoft Publisher through the “Start” menu or from the Desktop and create a new file. Scroll down under the New Publication pane and click the right arrow next to Publications for Print. A list of choices will appear underneath and you will need to select Label.
2. Read down the list until you see “CD\DVD Labels” and select it by clicking on it. The right side of the window will display several types of labels for both the CD or DVD itself and the case of the disk. Make your choice of a pre-made template that you can edit or start fresh with a blank label. The margins are already outlined for both choices.
3. Add descriptive text to the CD or DVD label and case. Click “Insert” and “Text Box” from menu at the top of the page.
4. Save the label project. Click “File”, “Save As” and name the project in the File Name box and “Save.”
5. Print the project using the type of label that was suggested for use. Labels that are for the sleeve of the CD and DVD can be printed nicely on card stock since they do not necessarily have to be sticky back.

For more desktop publishing tips and tricks, visit http://www.ehow.com/articles_2209-desktop-publishing.html

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Tech Tip: Making CD/DVD labels using Microsoft Publisher

Within that post though, I expressed a little bit of concern over the code that would be used by Word when posting into the Word press site.

After posting and reviewing the post, I can say that the code itself is pretty clean. The only problem I really had with the code, was actually the formatting and naming of the images that were inserted into the post.

Although you probably can’t tell since you don’t know what I named photos originally, I can guarantee you that I didn’t name them “022607_0323_Bloggingwit1.gif” etc. I’m not sure why Word couldn’t leave file name alone. It got the file in the correct location, please leave my file names alone. I named them what I did for a specific reason, don’t change them!

One area I failed to mention the interface for within Word, is the assignment of categories to your post. It’s very intuitive as well, with the added benefit of automatically pulling in your existing categories from you blog or letting you assign a new one as you need.

The image above also reminded me of one problem I had with Word’s interface of images. The insertion of pictures as a whole was much easier within the Word user experience than directly within WordPress. A problem aside from renaming the file names was also not being able to see the image you’ve inserted into your post.

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Blogging with Word 2007: Part II

If you ever downloaded and installed Windows Live Writer, you’ll notice an almost identical interface and setup structure, which I’ve included screen shots of in this post.

As you can see, it’s pretty simple an interface to guide yourself through and setup. If you’re already familiar with the Word interface, extending your publishing options into a blog is basically a no-brainer.

The other benefit of blogging from within Word is offline composition and editing and waiting to publish to a variety of blogs all at once. This post is actually being composed within Word, but I’m sure you already expected that.

I’m liking this quite well, once I post this, I’ll look at the final post as it displays on the site and within the code itself in the WordPress editor. Hopefully it won’t have all the odd, screwy styling tags that normally appear if you paste anything from Word into an HTML editor.

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Blogging with Word 2007

Microsoft Office Lite, wouldn’t be much more than a collection of some of the free viewers they’ve already made available for core products in their suite. It’s also been mentioned by a number of other individuals around the Internet.

• FAQ: OpenOffice
• Microsoft Office ‘lite’ for the Web in the works?
• Best of Free Software – Sunday, August 27, 2006

Most of these mentions though have been quite awhile in the past and are only speculating the development of something like this from Microsoft. You get nothing if you search for “Microsoft Office Lite” on Microsoft’s website.

Let’s think this through though. What if Microsoft offered a free or $19.95 stripped down version of their core Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint and maybe Publisher? These apps could obviously open any of their original file types, as well as do 70% of the average tasks needed by users.

You’ve got somewhat this type of cooperation between Outlook and Outlook Express right now. For Word, it wouldn’t be much more of an upgrade from Word Pad, just let you save as a .doc type and not lose any formatting that someone else could see in the full-blown version. I say add Publisher to the mix because I’m frequently working with clients who have mocked something up for a website I’m working on in Publisher. Luckily I’ve got Publisher already, but I don’t have it installed everywhere, or I’m at someone else’s computer where I need to open a document real quick to share it with someone. Could be a great option for a “Lite” HTML editor as well, although they’ve ditched the FrontPage app completely.

I think doing this would also encourage more loyalty to Microsoft products and provide a potential stepping stone for people to upgrade to the “premium” versions of the software packages if they find themselves pushing the boundaries of the “Lite” app.

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Microsoft Office Apps Lite