4 new ways to edit Office documents in the browser

If you have used the Office Web apps for a while, you know that we constantly improvements, even since our major update in October last yearmake. And now that you do not need to log onto the 4 latest updates here, now you can try.

Can you find a picture on the Web that you want to use in your document? Now you never have to leave your browser. Simply copy the picture and paste it into the Web app, using the keyboard (CTRL + V or ? + V). This works in Word Web app, PowerPoint web app and OneNote Web app to give it a try in This sample notebookin OneNote Web app (eighth, Edit in the browser click on it if you have to get there).

If you select a word or a sentence in Word Web app and OneNote Web app, you will immediately receive a toolbar with formatting commands. This saves time, since not returned to make a bulleted list or a template command to the Ribbon. In PowerPoint web app, this will appear floating toolbar when right-clicking on a shape. In the OneNote Web app toolbar contains commands for the marking of individual tasks and notes as well as.

Here is a Word document with lots of text, you can have fun to format. Click Edit in the browser and formatting to boot.

Edit slides in PowerPoint web app is becoming more and more like the work in the PowerPoint desktop program. Now you can a slide's layout change, simply by right-clicking and picking a different layout.

You can format the text in a shape, and you can copy and paste content from one slide to another (use the CTRL key and ? key combos). This sample presentation has shapes with text and other elements can you play with those. Click Edit in the browser , and then start to.

Excel Web app now opens workbooks that contain comments. You may notice that your workbooks open faster too, because we worked, making it snappier Web app.

If you are using Excel Web app on a touch device, you move and resize charts and you can select multiple cells by tapping a cell and then a selection handle.

This sample budget has a diagram that can work with you, as well as commentary and example data. Click Edit in the browser , and then try it.

We hope that these updates improve your experience with the Office Web apps. You can always let us know what you when you work in the Web apps by clicking file > help, and then giving feedback to Microsoft. We are constantly on your suggestions heard!

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Cool gadgets and hot tech that will shine at CES 2013

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With less than a week to go before this year’s International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it’s unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, smart appliances, and smartphone apps figure to fight for center stage.

Tech companies tend to be tight-lipped about specific product details in the run-up to the biggest tech trade show of the year, but we expect the march toward total connectivity to continue on the CES showfloor. Camera-equipped smart vacuum cleaners, Internet-connected TVs, mobile apps for controlling your home’s heat, and Wi-Fi cameras that can upload your photos to Facebook will dot the large landscape of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Though gadgets remain the stars of CES, manufacturers are building on a foundation of hardware innovation with incremental updates, accessories, and apps that connect the gadgets. “We’re seeing not only the broad adoption of technology, but also density is increasing,” says Shawn Dubravac, research director for the Consumer Electronics Association.

Dubravac points to tablet ownership, which has increased from one in ten households less than two years ago to one in three today. Dubravac says that he expects CES 2013 to be “the largest apps show in the world,” a prediction driven by wider adoption of tablets and smartphones.

“You’re going to see apps influence every aspect of the show,” Dubravac says.

Apple, one of the major drivers behind the growth of smartphones and tablets in recent years, has no official presence at CES; but mobile apps and accessories designed for iPhones, iPads, and Macs will have a strong presence the showfloor. Microsoft won’t be there, either, after ending its CES run last year, but the company and its products will cast a long a shadow as Redmond’s partners in hardware, accessories, and apps display their Windows 8 wares.

The 2013 edition of CES comes at an awkward for the PC industry. The big Microsoft news, the release of Windows 8, occurred in October. Intel’s upcoming Haswell processor is still a few months away. Graphics chipmakers AMD and Nvidia have new products impending, but are unlikely to launch them at CES.

Windows 8 laptop

The Windows 8 launch, however, positions most PC makers to roll out the bulk of their Windows 8 products at CES. Windows 8 tablets, based on Intel’s latest Atom Z2760 processor, have rarities until now, but we’ll probably see lots of them on display in Las Vegas. Additional hybrid designs are on the way, too, as are more budget-friendly clamshell laptops, with and without touch interfaces.

LG has a number of Windows 8 PCs planned for CES 2013, including its LG Tab-Book H160 hybrid notebook featuring an 11.6-inch display, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI, USB, and a MicroSD slot. At CES, LG also plans to display an Ultrabook version of the Tab-Book, another Ultrabook called the Z360, and a 23-inch touchscreen all-in-one PC, the V325. The H160 is already available in South Korea and is importable via an Amazon third-party seller for $1400. Presumably, LG will announce a U.S. ship date for the H160 during CES.

Aside from the Windows 8 tablets on display next week, we expect to see scores of cheaper, generic alternatives from Asian manufacturers, some with Android Jelly Bean operating systems. Specialized Android tablets are on the horizon, too. Already, as CES approaches, we're hearing talk of tablets aimed at kids, gamers, and seniors.

Windows Phone 8 fans will be excited to see Samsung at Pepcom’s Digital Experience event, which coincides with CES. The electronics giant will show off its ATIV S smartphone at the Monday night showcase. Included in October’s Windows Phone 8 launch event but still awaiting its U.S. debut, the ATIV S is the only Windows 8-powered handset to feature a metallic hairline design, as opposed to the candy-colored looks we’ve seen from HTC and Nokia.

Samsung ATIV S

Bearing a strong resemblance to such Android handsets such as Samsung’s Galaxy S III, the ATIV S has a slim design with curved edges and is the only Windows Phone 8 handset to include a physical Home button. The ATIV S also has a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, and near-field communication (NFC) sharing.

Speaking of NFC, the wireless connectivity technology is becoming an increasingly common—and expected—feature in smartphones. As more consumers embrace mobile payment apps on their handsets, companies are providing digital coupons or loyalty passes to encourage their use.

Screen sizes continue to get bigger, blurring the line between large smartphone and small tablet. Huawei reportedly plans to promote a super-size 6.1-inch Ascend Mate "phablet" with either 720p or 1080p resolution at this year’s CES. The smartphone was spotted in late December at a Huawei retail store in China, according to Engadget. The massive Ascend Mate will likely feature a 1.8GHz quad-core processor. Observers also expect Huawei to unveil a Windows Phone and several Android-based handsets during the show.

Chinese manufacturer ZTE plans to introduce a new flagship Android phone, the Grand S, at CES. The electronics maker claims that the Grand S will be the world’s thinnest 5-inch phone. The ceramic smartphone will reportedly offer 1080p resolution.

Still, CES may not be the year's best trade show for new smartphone sightings. We expect the lion’s share of 2013 phone announcements to happen at Mobile World Congress, which kicks off on February 25 in Barcelona, Spain.

Though Apple doesn’t participate in CES—or any trade show, for that matter—many iOS app developers do make the trek to Las Vegas, touting their latest mobile apps and services at the show. Apps for iOS devices will be everywhere at CES this year, but especially in the form of connected apps that enable iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches to control other devices remotely.

One of the biggest categories for connected apps will be mobile entertainment. The Mobile TV Tech Zone in the Central Hall will showcase a slew of entertainment apps, especially ones that let you stream live TV straight to your iOS device.

We expect Elgato, the company behind the EyeTV tuner that debuted at CES in 2012, to make a new announcement at this year's show. The EyeTV is a small tuner that connects to an iPhone or iPad and receives a TV signal through Dyle’s mobile TV network, which then allows the user to watch live TV through the EyeTV Mobile app. Similar iOS apps designed to turn devices into “second screens” for watching televised content will have a heavy presence on the show floor as well.

Innumerable accessory makers will set up shop at CES, hoping to garner some attention for the add-ons they make for Apple’s smartphone and tablet offerings. Early indications from exhibitors suggest an avalanche of cases designed to protect the high-resolution screens of the iPhone 5 and fourth-generation iPad, along with the recently unveiled iPad mini.

Accessory manufacturers have been particularly enthusiastic about fitness tech. From digital pedometers and heart monitors to scales, apps, Web services, and sport watches, fitness technology should hit its stride at this year’s show.

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Review: Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition dient, die klassischen RPG besser und schlechter, als Sie merken

BioWare has it great riding on the back of the Baldur's Gate and its success was the basis for Add-ons, sequels and spin offs, which established Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk as legends in the gaming industry. A mixture of undiluted 2nd Edition D & D rules along with party combat dynamics, well matched and a strong, character-driven narrative produced his remains one an experience, so satisfied, benchmark, which the other RPGs are measured. Overhaul games, fresh from the smooth remake of MDK2 HD to the visor considerably higher in the rear organic goods catalog and produced a long requested and eagerly awaited this crown jewel of the gaming update. Baldur's Gate enhanced Edition ($20, only buy) new story leads official native high-definition graphics content, multiplayer support, and a Gladiator-style combat mode for quick action. It delivers this promise, but like most translations, has lost some of the original sparks in the process.

(1) Character creation is a step down memory lane with D & D 2nd Edition rules that used throughout.

Overhaul games, who given started life distributor Beamdog, reserve soldiers BioWare for over a year before accessing the Holy infinity engine source code as a division of the online game drained the lifeblood from the Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape. What followed were hundreds error fixes and improvements as the engine for modern OS and hardware environments along with Visual upgrades on the artwork and interface graphics has been rebuilt.

The technical improvements are largely successful. The game runs in sharp high resolution without delay and supports widescreen monitors feats, which can perform the original game only with significant end user changes natively. Engine improvements from later games in the series, such as shadows of AMN, retroactively fitted so that additional class kits and Subraces are available to round out the character creation. Have been raised the experience GAP, also give a bit of leeway for point driving Multiclass builds.

Combat is a mixture of RTS-mob-management and RPG Clickfest.

Gameplay is largely the same, with characters that left the right side of the screen, mode selection and actions at the bottom. Control is more like a RTS game than a traditional action RPG, focus mob attacks with a stop-go command-flow arrangement powers for your party or relying on AI. Quick slots to pick the preferred weapons or using function keys, and despite his age, the ergonomics of the layouts are easy to appreciate. In some respects they surpass the radial menu paradigm BioWare used for the subsequent Neverwinter Nights series.

Stylistic changes are less on goal, however. The newly designed 2D overlay cinematics are derived of course vastly improved content creation software, but they do not more effective than the sparse original each. The rudimentary 3D animation, which seems more authentic featured the version of 1998 and more closely, the rest of the art style of the game also fits modern eyes.

(3) Baldur's gate can be lying around much back story. Ready to read.

Content updates are hit and Miss. New material is welcome, such as the Gladiator mode, which allows you to access level, try out various combat strategies and master infinity engine combat outside land generally have hits. New page-quests are, but less polished a candle up to the original action not with dialogue and creative aspects.

Nevertheless, the game remains highly entertaining and a nice package for the $20 price issues. More updates planned series in the works and a possible plan to create, the people at overhaul Baldur's Gate III is based remakes from the rest of the infinity engine deserve a little love and attention. If annoys you mushrooms for the PC version, because the original, complete with mods, your hard drive is, consider the iOS or Android version coming.

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Review: Slicetige-G takes the pain out of designing your Google profile

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Several months ago, Google changed its profile pages to include cover photos. Not unlike Facebook's, these cover photos are wide and short, and integrate with a profile picture of your choosing. Unlike Facebook, though, these cover photos require rather weird dimensions: 940 x 180 pixels. In a recent attempt to create a new cover photo, I found it very hard to find anything that would fit these dimensions properly. In addition, Google profiles don't come with a preview feature, which brings a lot of trial and error and repeated resizing into the mix, and in the end, my results were less than desirable. One way to solve this annoying yet common problem is Slicetige-G ($2, free demo with watermarking).

You can control every aspect of your buttons including size, color, icons, text, shadows and positions.

A younger sibling to Slicetige-T, Slicetige-G was made specifically for these stubborn Google profiles. With surprising simplicity, it lets you design a cover photo with just the right dimensions, slice your profile picture from it or add one from file, and even add extras such as buttons, text, images and QR codes. The results, as you will see, are rather impressive.

The first step of using Slicetige-G is selecting your cover photo, which is your base layer. This can be an image you load from file, a solid or gradient color, one of the dozens of templates that come with the program, or even self-generated polka dot or bokeh patterns. Once the cover photo is in place, you can drag it around, resize it, rotate it, and even apply some basic filters.

One thing you can't do it crop it, so fitting it in Google's appropriate dimensions still requires some work. For your profile picture, you can load a different avatar from file, or even better, slice your avatar straight from your cover photo. You can create some pretty unique and original effects this way.

Use Slicetige-G to create your own personalized polka dot or bokeh backgrounds.

You can now start adding some extras, such as customizable buttons to point your followers to your other profiles, styled text in any color or font, and even QR codes. The QR codes are generated by a third-party Web app called ZXing Project, and can contain a URL, contact information, text, etc. Using the QR code feature is not very intuitive; after generating it, you'll get to either embed it or download it. Embedding won't do you much good at this point, so you're left with downloading. You can then insert it to your cover photo as an image layer, but note that any adjustments and resizing will have to be done in an external image editor.

Each element you add to your template is a layer in itself, and you can move it around separately, control its opacity, or delete it. This generally works well; just make sure to select the layer you want to edit using the layer menu on the right. After adding everything, you should now have the perfect cover and profile picture combination, and you're ready to upload it to Google+. And this is where you're going to encounter some minor bugs and issues.

First and foremost: the watermark. Although the program's page states that the free version comes with a watermark (the only current limitation) the watermark does not appear in Slicetige while you work. So imagine my surprise when I exported my hard work for upload, and discovered the watermark right on my QR code. In addition, some layers did not appear on Google+ exactly as they did in Slicetige; for example, my text layer ended up in a slightly different position, which affected the overall layout. To top it all off, my profile picture, which was exported as a PNG file by default, has sprung weird white dots, and was generally blurry. This can be easily fixed by applying a Sharpen filter to the avatar and by exporting it as JPG, but it's another step you need to perform.

The finished product on a Google profile.

Slicetige-G is no professional graphics tool; in fact, if you can use Photoshop, you're probably better off using that. If, on the other hand, you don't own a license or just don't know how to use it, Slicetige-G is the perfect solution. It's not completely bug-free, but even the slight issues you'll encounter are easily fixable, and the interface is intuitive enough, even if you've never used graphics software before. You'll have to put in some work to get a perfect result, but you can still get one in a matter of 30 minutes. For $2, you can have the watermark-free version—a worthy investment in your Google public face.

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Review: For a tuning suite, System Mechanic is a good choice

The iolo system mechanic is a $40 tune-up utility to repair, speed up de mess and protect your PC.

When the scan is complete, System Mechanic 11.5 presented a complete list of the issues and provides fixes.

If against the popular free options such as CCleaner, System Mechanic is definitely heavy on resources, but is also richer on options. I pitted them against each other in a standard registry scan and System Mechanic found just over 800 issues, not to recognize the CCleaner.

System Mechanic as allround PC maintenance solution, and as such is sold includes no fewer than 36 different cleanup, management, performance, protection and diagnostic tools. Find each of these individual tools in the Toolbox, and you can separately to your PC issues. Alternatively - and this is the recommended option - you can run, a complete PC scan, to detect problems such as improperly equipped and fragmented files, vulnerabilities, errors in the system drive, problems in the registry, System confusion, etc. You can fast-scan, it is estimated that one to two minutes, or deep, an estimated five to seven minutes to decide.

When tested on my system, which lasted deep almost 25 minutes, including a hard disk error scans, the skip, if you prompt on time to catch. Called after completion of the operation system mechanic my system status "Critical" complete with a scary dial shows at the bottom of the scale. At this point can either blindly all the problems to fix, or start digging in the individual results.

System Mechanic includes many built-in tools, including a full hard disk optimizer.

The nice thing about system mechanic is the way and makes relevant it is for many types of users. You don't know anything about these things? The big shiny 'repair of all' button and be done with him, even though this to delete something important comes with the risk. Also if you "view issues" to click there to go several ways on the repair of your questions. Found for each problem you can let system mechanic making repairs on your own way or open a specific wizard, where you can see exactly where the problems are, learn more about them, and choose exactly who you want to repair. Any kind of problem comes with a totally different Wizard, made specially for him and in some of them, you can even switch between standard and expert mode access to more options. All in all makes it fairly easy to understand the peculiarities of each version 11.5 problem realized how about Internet configuration is missing more details, although some problems.

Scan results verify and repair problems is part of the system mechanic dashboard tab. From there can also AcceleWrite, change allegedly makes sure that files with maximum efficiency is written to your hard drive. She can protect various automated tasks which should under the tab ActiveCare optimizes your PC after the repairs are completed. For example, you can set the program automatically optimize your startup configuration, unused memory does not automatically restore, automatically backup of your registry and much more. The Internet Security tab tracks your malware, antivirus and firewall protection, and the reports tab contains the IntelliStatus Board where you see your entire system status at a glance, and things quickly to optimize.

System Mechanic 11.5 brings also a social twist for the tune-up companies with the results of the Soluto how community, you decide what you can do about your PC problems. Can decide not whether should be a program in your startup? Get some inspiration from what other users decided to do.

If a solution thinking, you can sometimes see what other users chose to do.

It also comes with the usual SafetyNet, an undo function use, if you and have deleted something really important. Done, now play with it? Closing that window actually eliminates the process "System Mechanic" and close the program, but remains a small agent on your desktop at all times, sure that you know the status of your system and that you can get immediate access to options repair.

In the community sometimes seedy tune-up system mechanic makes a professional air, and feels like a pretty powerful tool. System Mechanic promises anything, it not to deliver and offer total PC control for beginners. But if the truth be told, the same results can result in probably a combination of free tools, common sense and patience. If you are looking for already, buy a tuning suite, iolo system mechanic is a solid option and a $40-license is valid for all computers in your household.

Note: The download button on the product information page, reach the website of the manufacturer, where you can download the latest version of the software.

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Rating: Connectify hotspot turns your notebook into a hotspot

Your phone is not the only piece of equipment capable of sharing an Internet connection with other devices. Windows has been for many years; the problem is, it reached quickly, easily and wirelessly, especially for traveling with a laptop system. Connectify hotspot (two editions, various prices) offers to do the tools, exactly this, as a software router is between what kind of Internet connection you have and the other computers connected to your laptop.

The free Lite version is robust enough for personal use and includes a simple firewall program to start. The Pro version can use your laptop as a Repeater, and enables the sharing of 3 g/4G-Verbindungen as well as Ethernet and WiFi, as well as other services in accordance with the seller's comparison chart. Run the Connectify Hotspot Pro cheap but not anywhere from $30 for an annual license for $45 for a lifetime license.

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Run your Office on up to five computers

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Wussten Sie, Ihr neues Office 365 Home Premium erstreckt sich über einen Computer? Sie können Ihre Office-Abonnement auf bis zu fünf PCs und Macs installieren. Das kurze Video unten zeigt wie, Installationen, zu verwalten, so dass Ihre ganze Familie Office verwenden kann.

Sie erhalten eine kostenlose 30-Tage-Testversion- or -Buy Office 365 Home Premium heute oder erfahren Sie mehr unter Erste Schritte mit dem neuen Büro.

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