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Friday, July 12, 2013

Review: Evoland compressed three decades of video game history in a game

Evoland, you play a nameless (until you finally unlock the ability to themselves the name) adventurers, who will move from a rapidly changing world, gut-wrenching monster and looking after chests without purpose (until you the feature "Storyline" unlock). Evoland began as a contest entry for 24-hour video game design and sufficiently well adopted, expanded Shiro games to a commercial product.

Evoland the opening screen. You have learned to move in one direction!

Evoland begins as a four-colour CGA-style 2D Scroller is designed to get color, graphics, and so revolutionary about "save points" and "Not die in one hit." The early upgrades come fast, but as the game progresses, you spend more time in a particular game style between radical changes.

Whether you believe it or not, were children, these graphics really impressive back in the day.

It is an excellent concept and Evoland maintains a gentle humor about some of the clichés and Tropics of the older games without in mockery. Gameplay is smooth and usually quickly: you have navigation keys and a single action button that does each context, different things. There are not many references or help that faithfully the period comprises the period Evoland. As well not know Automapping takes awhile, and more save games a feature.

Prepare all over the map to find out, what tromp.

The most important inspiration for Evoland is action RPGs, instead of the turn-based final fantasy style, though some play the game in this manner. Most of the time, you move around freely and breaking up the action button while trying to Dodge fireballs or other obstacles to your existence.

Evoland for players used to this kind of play probably relatively easy. I was never a big fan of timing/reflex based games (wizardry and Ultima were more my speed), occasionally frustrating, something I that might not apply to many players found to some of the areas.

The world is no longer flat.

The only real problem with Evoland is that although evolution and function unlock the concept of the game is great, deep gameplay is pretty slowly added. The first hour of the game, when changing the interface and graphics regularly, offer very few monsters, items, or options. On the other hand could a fast race preferable by legacy systems and styles, for some players, as on a kind of stale long enough and way to play, to remember why many older features have been changed in the first place.

The world is no longer grainy.

Evoland complexity and options to develop, in addition to the graphics, and it is to gain many achievements and find hidden areas. I highly recommend it.

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Review: Smideo HD 2013 makes smart-looking video slideshows

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Showing off your photos is easy enough. But showing off your photos and your videos together—including videos that you may have spread across different services—isn't always that easy, especially when you want to add custom audio files to the mix. Smideo HD 2013 can help: This (mostly) easy-to-use application allows you to create video slideshows that look polished and  professional.

Before you begin your first project, Smideo shows you how to get started.

Smideo's name comes from "Smart Video Creator," and it fits, as the application is smart. You can try it free for 30 days, but the trial version will not allow you to create HD videos. You have to pay a little over $26 to unlock that feature.

Smideo lets you add files from your camera, hard drive, or those stored in various online photo and video repositories.

Smideo's step-by-step approach makes it easy to get started with your project. First, you have to create a Smideo library by populating it with the photos and videos you'd like to use in your slideshow. You can add individual files, entire photos, or download content from YouTube or Flickr. Anyone looking to create an instructional video will appreciate that Smideo lets you film your screen and share that screencast as part of your video, too. Once you have your files ready, you select the ones you'd like to use and move on.

If your video isn't the right file type, Smideo handles the conversion for you.

If Smideo gives you the option of cutting any video you've added into smaller chunks. When you move on to the next step—arranging the order of the slideshow—you can insert these smaller video chunks in with the photos you've chosen. You also can add text overlays to your content, and set the picture length as you desire. Next, you add any desired audio tracks to the slideshow. If you'd like you can record your own audio using your PC's microphone.

You can sort your photos and videos as you'd like, or let Smideo arrange them randomly.

When you're finished, you select the video effects for your finished product: relaxing or dynamic. This changes the transition between the photos and videos in the slideshow, either speeding them up or slowing them down. It would be nice to have more options here. Rival Fantashow, for example, allows you to preview the transitions and lets you use different styles in a single slideshow.

Still, Smideo will appeal to home and business users who want control over the look and feel of their slideshow. Unlike Fantashow, it doesn't require that you select a theme the slideshow; Smideo lets your content shine. But its options may prove overwhelming for casual users, who will likely be more comfortable with the hand-holding that Fantashow offers.

Liane Cassavoy is a veteran technology and business journalist. She contributes regularly to PCWorld and has written about business issues and products for Entrepreneur Magazine and other publications. She is the author of two business start-up guides published by Entrepreneur Press.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Review: Defishr removes fish-eye distortion from video

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Is your video giving you the evil eye? The evil fish-eye? Well, Prodad's Defishr has you covered. A companion to Prodad's Mercalli V2 and Mercalli Easy video stabilization software, Defishr renders your fish-eyed video into the flat-horizon variety without a whole lot of work on your part. Defishr costs $99, and has a free demo.

Defishr's separate calibration module lets you optimize the process for your own cameras.

I tried correcting three fish-eyed videos from different cameras with Defishr, and it worked very well on all of them. The interface is simple, and lets you preview the either the original video, the de-fished video, or both side-by-side. If the video has stabilization problems, Prodad recommends that you take care of those after using Defishr. That said, I took care of it up front with decent results. Jitter and other artifacts are more noticeable in de-fished video.

While Defishr comes with 14 profiles, including one generic, to handle a number of cameras, you can also create your own by recording the provided calibration grid, then feeding the video to the program. There's an embedded link to an instructional video in the separate calibration module.

Defishr does have some rough spots, all interface-related. It's apparently not bright enough to discontinue the looping playback when you want to export a file. The program sat there, failing to export until I cancelled said export, stopped playback manually, and restarted the export process. The inability to paste in the product serial number rather than type it in is a nuisance, but at least it's just a one-time nuisance. Also, without the third-party codecs Defishr wants to add to your system during installation, Defishr wouldn't open MP4 files, even though I have Xvid installed to handle that particular codec(and the reason I initially skipped installing the others).

The Defishr interface is clean and lets you see the original and de-fish-eyed video side by side.

Minor annoyances aside, Defishr's core functionality is top-notch and the program is easy to use. You don't even have to take my word for it. The demo's preview function will let you see for yourself if it fixes your fish-eye problems. Video produced in demo mode is limited to five minutes and is watermarked.

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Jon L. Jacobi

Jon L. Jacobi has worked with computers since you flipped switches and punched cards to program them. He studied music at Julliard, and now he power mods his car for kicks.
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Friday, May 10, 2013

Review: Corel VideoStudio X6 eases creative video production

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Version X6 of Corel VideoStudio brings the super-intuitive and easy-to-use video editor/producer within into a virtual dead heat with the feature sets offered by its competitors. New tricks in its bag include animation overlays, controlling DSLRs for stop motion animation, free-form motion editing, layer swapping, motion tracking, support for 2K and 4K video, and variable speed.

VideoStudio X6 also supports 50p/60p editing, AVCHD 2.0, 3D, surround sound, Blu-ray and most everything you could ask for. One cool new feature for subtitling is a form of audio beat detection that allows you to sync subtitles to speech more easily. There's even a whiteboard capture for animation overlays. Creatively, the VideoStudio X6 is very well-rounded.

The VideoStudio X6 interface isn't revolutionary, but because it doesn't overload you, it's easier to use than those it might resemble.

Most video editors have dark, paneled interfaces that rightfully focus your attention on the video. However, VideoStudio X6 manages to do it more cleanly and intuitively than Cyberlink PowerDirector or Adobe Premiere. It helps tremendously that Corel hasn't sized the icons for microscopes and has used them sparingly.

VideoStudio X6 also has a nice simple storyboard view that makes adding and arranging items a more intuitive process. You then use the timeline to tweak location and lengths, and add audio, multi-tracking, subtitles, and the like. I've only mentioned a few of the logical interface design decisions, but all told, they make VideoStudio X6's interface friendlier and more intuitive than just about anything out there.

VideoStudio X6 has a ton of transitions, effects, title styles, and what Corel calls instant projects which are basically templates. Drag an instant project element to your project, then edit details such as the audio file to be used, colors, text, videos to be used, etc. It's a bit different from the automatic productions you get from Muvee and others in that it requires your participation and creativity, but it's cool nonetheless.

2. The storyboard view in VideoStudio X6 makes it easier to order scenes than the standard timeline, which is also offered.

The Pro version of VideoStudio X6 costs $60, while the $100 Ultimate version adds a boatload of very nice effects from NewBlue and proDAD, plus the latter company's excellent video stabilization technology. Ultimate X6 is likely worth the extra $40, especially if you're editing lots of home video that needs steadying.

Corel may not be the powerhouse it once was, but the company is still putting out some very good software and VideoStudio Pro X6 is the evidence. For the average user it delivers a significantly easier, more intuitive, and more creative video editing experience than its major peers.

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Jon L. Jacobi

Jon L. Jacobi has worked with computers since you flipped switches and punched cards to program them. He studied music at Juilliard, and now he power-mods his car for kicks.
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Review: WeVideo is a cloud-based video editor that makes editing in your browser fun and simple

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The cloud is all the rage these days. We've got email in the cloud, backup in the cloud, not to mention project management, image editing, and pretty much everything else that you use your PC for in the cloud. WeVideo wants to add one more type to the mix: A cloud-based video editor.

What makes it potentially hard to get off the ground with a cloud-based video editor is that all of your raw footage must find its way into the editor. A decent five-minute video could require hours of raw footage to create. Since most users have connections with slower upload than download speeds, you could be uploading footage for hours on end before you can even begin editing. Fortunately, WeVideo's seamless connection with Dropbox and others cloud-based file storage services makes this less of an issue.

Erez ZukermanWeVideo makes it easy to export to connected cloud services, but its free option is watermarked.

When I use my Galaxy S III to shoot footage, it is automatically uploaded to Dropbox. The upload takes time, but I don't need to think about it or do anything to make it happen. Once the files are in Dropbox, I only need to point WeVideo at them, and it pulls them into the editor very quickly. Feeding WeVideo with a gigabyte of footage took less than ten minutes, once it was all on Dropbox.

Once your footage is in the editor, the editing experience is simple and pleasant. WeVideo offers a timeline you can drag clips onto. It is easy to trim clips as needed and add transitions, and there's a rich library of soundtracks you can use. Fading audio in and out takes just a couple of clicks, and the whole system felt responsive and would be familiar to anyone with experience with desktop video applications.

One advantage of WeVideo's cloud-based nature is collaboration: You can invite friends to upload footage to your project, and even create different edits based on the same footage. This collaborative workflow is one of the service's main selling points.

Once you're done editing, it's time to export your work. Free accounts can only export very low resolution (480p) watermarked video. I understand the limitation, but I wish WeVideo was more upfront about it and made it clear as part of the registration process, rather than reveal it at the last possible moment when the editing work has been done. It is easy to connect WeVideo to YouTube and other Web video services, so you don't have to download a file and upload it to YouTube yourself–WeVideo does the whole thing on its own.
If you need to collaborate on a video project with a distributed team, WeVideo offers important benefits and can let you share footage and edits in ways that aren't possible otherwise. It can also come in handy for the occasional solo project, as long as you don't mind uploading your footage to the cloud prior to editing.

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Erez Zukerman

Endlessly tweaking his workflow for comfort and efficiency, Erez is a freelance writer on a mission to discover the simplest, coolest, and most effective software and websites to make tomorrow happen today.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

PowerPoint 2013: Shining a spotlight on video and audio

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You want to say something, but your bullet points and graphics aren’t quite cutting it? Sometimes the best way to make your point is with video or audio clips. PowerPoint 2013 has a bunch of improvements that make video and audio easier to include in your presentation. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how we’ve brought multimedia to the PowerPoint Web App, as well as how we’ve made multimedia better in PowerPoint 2013.

You asked for it, and we delivered. Many of you loved our first version of the PowerPoint Web App, but you wanted to see and hear the video and audio in your presentations. We’re happy to tell you that the PowerPoint Web App now supports multimedia playback!

If you’re using an HTML5-capable browser or have the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in installed, then you can now view your presentation’s multimedia in the PowerPoint Web App. The Web App also now supports playback of online Flash videos (e.g. YouTube) that you’ve inserted in PowerPoint 2010 or 2013. Want to see all this in action? Check it out in the embedded presentation below!

We didn’t keep the multimedia love to just the PowerPoint Web App. We also gave PowerPoint 2013 a major upgrade to its multimedia infrastructure. What does that mean for you?

Out-of-box playback support for the ubiquitous H.264 video and AAC audio codec standards Older versions of PowerPoint previously required third-party installs to play these back. Better, smoother playback performance of your high definition videos in slide show Higher quality output when we optimize or compress your videos

We’ve also made it easier to find and insert online videos with a new Insert Online Video experience. If you have your video stored on SkyDrive or Facebook, you can insert them directly from PowerPoint. If you don’t have a video already, you can search through other online videos with Bing Video Search or YouTube:

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Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy using video and audio in your next big presentation.

--James Yamat, Program Manager, PowerPoint Team


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Friday, December 28, 2012

You always want to know another shortcut (video)

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Shortcuts are like jokes in a comedy club: they’re great when you hear them, but can’t remember them the next day. So, let’s try to refresh your memory—or give you some new memories—of 3 nifty shortcuts to move around and find your stuff in the Excel.

I did this, and a few more videos, for the Small Business Group. You can find more videos, plus many more helpful tidbits at the Microsoft Business Hub.

--Doug Thomas


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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Impress your teacher: Use conditional formatting to highlight data (video)

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He's no slouch!  Melvin Corpuscle shows his accounting teacher a thing or two by walking him through how he used conditional formatting to make low and high sales numbers stand out.

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Not Your Company's Office: Must Try Enterprise-Ready Tips with the New Office [VIDEO]

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The new Office provides powerful new capabilities and advancements that enterprises can get excited about. This fall, we have two major product-focused conferences - Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) in September and Microsoft SharePoint Conference (SPC) in November - that will dive deep into new features for enterprises. However, today you can view a video from July's Office preview event, which features demos of a sampling of the new Office's enterprise capabilities.

The new Office is in the cloud, personalized for you and streamed wherever you are. Here are a few of the new features highlighted in the demo video.

 SharePoint Gets Social

With the new SharePoint, you can follow, like, and interact with the documents, sites and people that matter to you. SharePoint keeps the information in the feed organized, and a synchronization feature integrates with Outlook to allow you to move content to devices on the go. An integrated search experience also helps identify people, documents and sites without having to sift through excess data.

Office Delivers to Multiple Devices

Consumerization of IT is prompting more employees to use their own devices for work purposes. So you can install Office on multiple devices or utilize streaming Office, arming workers with tools offline and online. Regardless of which device you last used to open Office, once you log into your account, your personalized settings and previously opened items are where you left them.

Automated Compliance

With increasingly social enterprise and the explosive growth of compliance requirements both inside and outside organizations, compliance has become everyone's responsibility. Neither the IT department nor the legal and compliance departments can keep tabs on all of the information that is exchanged in the ordinary course of business. Organizations need tools that enable self-service and automated compliance wherever possible. 

 

Opportunities with Apps

The new Office introduced a new development model, making it easier for developers to create new applications for more than a billion potential Office users worldwide. This model embraces common web development tools like HTML5 so that developers can build Apps now using the skills they have today. People can discover Apps right within Office, and can use search in the App Store to find the most popular and highest-rated Apps in the market. Enterprises can maintain an internal corporate directory and publish their own business applications into that directory, including third-party apps specific to the business.

Get Started Now

You can try out the new Office and experience first-hand the scenarios in the video by downloading the preview. Keep an eye on this blog and Office Next to stay in the know about the new Office as updates become available. For now, you'll find a handful of enterprise-ready Office preview resources below.

Office Preview Resources

Office 365 for Businesses and Other Servers Fact Sheet

10 Reasons to Try Office 365 Enterprise Preview

Microsoft News Center Feature on the New Office

Office Preview Press Conference Transcript with Steve Ballmer and Kirk Koenigsbauer


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The Making Of A Music Video

Essentials: The Making Of A Music Video

Especially with the support of seasoned educators, youth media producers grow and expand their acumen. Youth media isn’t about the absence of adult input, but rather strong behind-the-scenes presence of a facilitator, who empowers youth to make their own artistic choices.

This philosophy drives the work of people like Peter Pheap, an Adobe Youth Voices trainer, educator, and mentor, who facilitates media making at Boys and Girls Clubs in northern California. Peter took a break from his regular gig to lead a one-day workshop at the Adobe Youth Voices Summit 2009. His task was to guide an international group of youth in making a music video. Given the time constraints, good facilitation would be key.

He came prepared – “I brought a few beats with me that some of the youths from my clubhouse made, to see which ones might work best.”

And, as much as possible, he built in opportunities for the youth to make different choices and take ownership of the piece. “I left it up to the teens to come up with their style – whether that is singing, rapping, or spoken words – because I knew that if they couldn’t sing or rap they could at least talk into a mic and read their poem over some music.”

By setting the project up this way, he notes, “the youths felt really comfortable knowing that if they weren’t musically inclined they could still participate.”

“I formed three groups and made sure they took turns videotaping while switching roles so they each had a chance to be the director, cameraman, audio, and talent,” Peter goes on to explain.

To supply a common frame of reference and orient them to the project, Peter showed the students a couple music videos in the styles that his groups have done in the past. He explained the steps of the production process and talked about basic song structure. To “help me facilitate and coach some of the other teens on song structure and writing lyrics,” Peter brought along a young person from his program who he’s worked with many times.

Providing adequate support and advising on the scope of a project are important functions of a facilitator. Given only one day to complete the piece, Peter had to structure the work so that the tasks were achievable, while still very much a youth production. He recalls, “I decided to go with a slower instrumental; it would be easier for the youths who never wrote a song before to catch on and sing or rap to the beat. If I had more time, we probably would have been able to compose and produce the beat during the sessions.”

Also as part of the pre-planning, Peter came up with the topic of “identity” for the music video, which he figured would be accessible but open-ended – and provide the structure they needed to move quickly through the production steps. Each person contributed lyrics for 4 measures, or 8 if they liked.

Individuals in the group had the opportunity to express themselves not only through their lyrics, but also in how they appeared on screen. “I made sure they taped themselves multiple times,” explains Peter, “using the different types of shots that I was asking for, such as close-up, medium shots, long shots, and b-roll.” As facilitator, he endeavored to give them a range of opportunities to shape the final media work. He adds, “once they had their own footage, they were able to edit their part of the music video, and I just pieced them all together.”

When young people have the responsibility to edit their parts, to make choices about their work, it enhances their sense of ownership – and investment in the project. Whether it’s a collaborative music video created in one day (i.e., “Identity”), or a media work months in the making (i.e., “I Am the Difference”), facilitation makes a difference.


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Friday, October 19, 2012

When the picture doesn’t fit (Video)

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This is the seventeenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint.

Sometimes a picture fits awkwardly on a slide, creating a lot of background. What can you do? Here's an artistic solution using PowerPoint's picture formatting tools, including Artistic Effects, Corrections and Cropping.


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Always connected, always ready: Welcome to the cloud, Danish Red Cross! (Video)

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When it comes to disaster response, concepts like "collaboration" and "efficiency" are more than corporate buzzwords-they can be matters of life and death.  Fast and reliable communications mean more help for those who need it most in the wake of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, fire or other calamities.  That's why we're thrilled the Danish Red Cross has deployed Office 365 as centerpiece of its initiative to prepare for and respond to disasters even faster.

The Danish Red Cross' CIO, Claus Olsen, puts it this way: "For us, response time is everything. If we can't communicate, we can't respond.  With Office 365, we can share and act on information in just seconds - at half the cost of our previous solution."

As part of the world's largest humanitarian organization, the Danish Red Cross is a non-profit.  They greatly appreciate Office 365's predictable monthly cost.  Most importantly, their switch from on-premises software to the cloud means money saved on IT can be applied to disaster aid, instead.

It will be fascinating to see how the Danish Red Cross benefits from using Office 365 over time and how these lessons could help similar organizations around the world. Read the full story here and watch the video below.

 

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Resolution: Graphics Driver Error for Adobe Presenter Video Creator

September 20, 2012

When recording a video using Adobe Presenter Video Creator, if you get an internal error or graphics driver error at the end of recording a video, opening a project, or publishing a project, it’s quite possible that the graphics driver for your computer/laptop is not up-to-date.

Follow these simple steps to check the graphics driver version and update it to the latest version:

Verify if the driver is up-to-date – Device Manager > Display Adapters > right-click on the adapter > Properties > Driver tab. Check ‘Driver Date’. Ideally, the driver should not be older than a couple months.If you have an old driver, identify the make of the graphics card on your computer.Download and install the latest drivers from the corresponding vendor (for example, Intel, AMD, nVidia).

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Industry Continues Shift to Adobe Video Solutions

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Kid, you've got what it takes to add a video to PowerPoint

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Office Classics: Add a Video to PowerPointWelcome to Office Tip Classics -- a series of one-minute videos where you'll get to see clips of film classics and learn a tip about Office 2010. In this episode, school tough-guy Marty has a hard time keeping his cool after losing the class presentation contest. His teacher tries to cheer him up, explaining how to add a video to his PowerPoint presentation.  Maybe he won't be such a sore loser next time.


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Thursday, September 20, 2012

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Send text messages with Office 365 and Outlook Web App (Video)

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Earlier this year, the CTIA released a report stating that in 2011, 2.3 trillion text messages were sent in the United States alone. While many people might classify texting as a personal activity not tied to work, it's also useful for business communications.

Outlook Web App, part of Office 365, provides all-in-one messaging with email, voicemail, and text messages. Being able to manage these different types of communication from a single inbox provides more flexibility to work the way you want to, and that you'll have access to all of your important communication from wherever you are.

In the video below, Microsoft MVP Brett Hill explains how to use Outlook Web App for text messaging. This post originally appeared on the Office 365 Grid blog where Brett stated: "I discovered this feature while looking for a way to have Office 365 send a text message instead of an email alert. Very easy to setup and not a feature you hear much about, but very useful when you want to be alerted about an event that needs your immediate attention."

How do you use text messaging for work? Share your story below.

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Part 1: Experience Office 365 from a Workers Point of View (Video)

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Office 365 provides secure anywhere access to email, shared calendars, IM, video conferencing, and document collaboration. To show you the Office 365 experience from the end user's point of view, we've created a five-part video series that starts today.


This first video shows the services that make up Office 365. In addition, there is an overview of Office Web Apps, which are online versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Also included is an introduction to tools for collaboration, email, calendaring and instant messaging.


In the coming weeks we'll go deeper with each service, highlighting how you can use Office 365 in your work every day. The services we'll explore include:

Exchange Online and the Outlook Web App for email and calendaring SharePoint Online for collaboration with Team SitesOffice and Office Web AppsInstant messaging and more with Lync Online 2010

                                  


 


--Stephen Bury


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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Office Tip Classics: Make table headers repeat, get a prom date (video)

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how to repeat table headersEdna Jean's parents aren't sure about Conrad taking her to the prom, even though he's her "hunky wunk". Then she tells them that in Word, he can make table headers repeat over multiple-page tables. Will this seal the deal with Edna Jean's parents?


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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Part 4: experience Office 365 from an employee perspective - co-operation with team sites (video)

Whether your company has 10,000 employees, or one, are the chances of that cooperation is an essential part of doing business. Without the right infrastructure can become complex with basic activities such as document sharing, and tracking the task completion. Part 4 of our series showing how team sites, a feature of SharePoint online, can work more efficiently with people inside and outside the organization. Watch and learn how you can manage documents, contacts, and tasks from an internal Web site, which is accessible on a mobile device or a desktop computer.

Office 365 offers secure anywhere access to e-Mail, shared calendars, IN IM, video conferencing, and document collaboration. See previous videos from the series:

How work together your team? Share your story on Facebook: www.facebook.com/office365

-Buried-Stephen

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