Have garage series: Goes under the hood of the new offices-what control you really?

This week our hosts Jeremy Chapman and Yoni Kirsha frequently to address questions such as: "I get more control, when I the traditional Office installation with Office Professional plus 2013 or Office 365 ProPlus?" and "how to make Office 365 ProPlus set automatic updates?" Watch as she through, how to redirect automatic updates and catch up with the people behind the new Office as Skji Conklin, who explain the types of available controls foot, and Chris Yu, who shows the new telemetry features that run Office at the highest level to keep.

Be sure to mark your calendar for new episodes, and especially garage listen series live! on Wednesday, April 3rd 09 Pacific time learned for teaching in the real usage with Paul Thurrott of the Super site for Windows, together with "early adopters" and Office engineers, to discuss lessons learned and providing secrets for the new Office, including live-Q & A.

Read more on www.microsoft.com/garage and check out the complete archive of all previous garage series shows.

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Review: AlbumPlayer really lets the music play

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AlbumPlayer is not trying to be everything to everyone. Instead, this audio software focuses its attention solely on music playback, on being jukebox software for music aficionados, and it succeeds. Its tabs let you switch between viewing all of your music, to sorting by artist, genre, composer, moods, and more. You also can create custom collections of your favorite tunes for easier access, though I found it unfortunate that you had to do so in a separate menu, rather than right in AlbumPlayer's main window. AlbumPlayer costs 30 Euros ($39 on 2/26/13) and has a free, playtime-limited demo.

The first time you run AlbumPlayer, it asks you about your input device. AlbumPlayer is designed to work with touch screen controls as well as the more standard mouse and keyboard combination. After you make your choice, the software loads, and you'll see that it includes a few music samples. The developer says he put these samples (which are very small snippets of tunes) in there so you can see how AlbumPlayer will look when content is loaded. To add your own content, you have to point AlbumPlayer in the direction of your music collection. It located and added tunes quickly, but it balked at adding much of the content from my iTunes library before I downloaded and installed a dll that it suggested. (AlbumPlayer says that this step is necessary because of licensing restrictions.)

AlbumPlayer's interface is attractive, and it makes it easy to play back your favorite tunes.

Once your music is added, you can use AlbumPlayer's slick controls to browse your collection. AlbumPlayer will allow you to rip CDs, but not burn them, nor will it sync with any portable devices (although you can copy music to a memory card). This is not an oversight, the developer says: AlbumPlayer is designed solely as a music organization and playback tool. And in that it succeeds: its slick interface lets you search through album covers, almost as if you were using a real jukebox. I tested AlbumPlayer using a mouse and keyboard and was impressed by the experience; I imagine it would be even more impressive using a touch screen.

AlbumPlayer would make an excellent addition to a party, as you could create custom collections of music and allow party guests to do the same. It includes a Party Mode, which allows guests to select songs and create playlists, but uses a password to prevent them from editing your actual music collection or messing with the contents of your PC.

Another cool party trick: if you have an iOS or Android device, you can take advantage of the TunesRemote version of AlbumPlayer. It's a 15 Euro upgrade over the Personal License, though you can purchase them as a package for 39.50 Euros ($52.89 as of 2/10). That's pricey for a music player, but it does give you the cool option of controlling the jukebox software remotely, from your mobile device.

AlbumPlayer lets you create collections of music, akin to playlists, but unfortunately, you have to do so using menus that are less attractive than the app's main interface.

Still, the bottom line is this: even the most basic version of AlbumPlayer is quite expensive at 30 Euros, which is close to $40. The demo is limited to 15 minutes of continuous play. And if you'd like to use it in a commercial setting, such as a restaurant, you'll have to pay 53 Euros for the commercial license. With that price—and its limited feature set—AlbumPlayer isn't for everyone.

Note:The Download button on the Product Information page will download the software to your system.

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Really want to do some winter cleaning? Switch to Outlook.com for the best email experience across all your devices

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We were very surprised to see Gmail announce last week that they'll soon end support for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), unless of course you're willing to pay Google for your email.  It means that many people currently using Gmail for free are facing a situation where they might have to degrade their mobile email experience by downgrading to an older protocol that doesn't sync your calendar or contacts, doesn't give you direct push of new email messages and doesn't have all the benefits of Exchange ActiveSync.

So if you want a better email, especially on your phone or tablet, it's time to join the millions who have already made the choice to upgrade to Outlook.com.

To learn more about how to get started with Outlook.com, check out the technical spec for Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange 2013 just follow these simple steps:

To learn more about setting up Outlook.com on your mobile device, see our simple instructions here.

  

For those still on the fence, a quick introduction to why EAS is so important for a seamless experience across devices could be helpful. There are many protocols for sending and receiving email.  POP and IMAP were designed decades ago, were considered state-of-the-art at the time, and are still used by millions of people.  Both were created before mobile phones really even existed.  To have a great email experience in 2012, a protocol needs to do more than just send and receive messages on a PC.  It needs to work really well on a variety of mobile devices, to sync not only email but also your calendar and contacts, to do this automatically, and in a way that preserves battery life.

Exchange ActiveSync was first introduced in 2002 as a way to help you have a great mobile email experience. Since then, it has continued to improve, with a number of optimizations specifically for mobile devices, including tablets:

Designed around Direct Push of information so a device can be updated in near real-time when an email is received - so you can get notified when there's new email instead of having to constantly check manually. Unlike IMAP or POP, EAS also syncs calendars and contacts.Setup is much easier because EAS supports AutoDiscover so you don't have to remember and type server names; instead, you simply type in an email address and password to set up a new device over-the-air.Built with bandwidth and battery life as key design considerations; for example, sync requests are bundled for all folder syncs in order to optimize the amount of battery required

You can read more about these innovations and a whole host of other nitty-gritty details in the history of Exchange ActiveSync.  It's because of these advanced consumer benefits that many devices choose to natively support Exchange ActiveSync-whether that's a Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, or even a number of Android devices.  You can see more detail in this chart of some of the other devices that support EAS. 

We hope you have a wonderful winter holiday. As you enter the New Year, we encourage you to seize the opportunity to upgrade your mail to a service that puts the consumer first and gives you a great mobile email experience. 

 --Dharmesh Mehta, Senior Director, Product Management

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Is this really the year of mobile?

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Q & A: things that you really want to know about Excel if function

Today's post is brought to you by Frederique Klitgaard. Frédérique is a writer on Office.com (Note: this is a previously published post we publish again because it answers many.)

On my previous post about the if function, I showed follow-up in which you a very simple application of this formula, I would like to address some questions about how to use this function regularly coming.

The classification is pointed out to me, example isn't the best for the if function, but I think that it still helps illustrate the answers to the following questions.

Yes, you can do this using conditional formatting. I have a conditional formatting rule to distinguish the different results of the formula in the worksheet, a different color for cells that contain specific text.

For more information about using conditional formatting see Add, modify, search, or clear conditional formats.

Yes, meet to multiple conditions, you can use the and include and/or or functions, so that you can specify additional criteria, the up in value, whether true or false. If test results are I for testing the entire quarter, I can, for example, the AND function, to determine which completed the quarter with flying colors on the basis of the following formula:

IF(and(B2+E2>=178), "Excellent!", "")

Yes, you can text in all arguments to this function, as long as you enclose it in quotation marks. In the examples above, the formulas have returned text-based results, but you can also text in the argument test as . Want to use a star system, in addition to class, can I use, for example, the following formula:

IF (D2 = "A", "**", IF (D2 = "B", "**", IF (D2 = "C", "**", "")))

Keep in mind that two of the cells were empty. By adding two quotation marks without text in between (the last argument of this formula), I specify that cells should be empty, if the values are not the criteria. And Yes, I centered the stars after entering the formula just for looks!

Yes, you can include calculations in the formula, do the percentages. Use a point system, I could use such as the following formula:

= IF (B2 > 79, B2 B. 1%, IF (B2 > 89%, B2 ** 5%, ""))

Because commas argument in a formula are used as delimiters, be they carefully not to use as the decimal separator in the values that you want to calculate.

For more information on this feature, see our function reference article, If function.

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Is it really so difficult to learn Gimp?

America's pastime, really? Baseball and PowerPoint

Here is A funny slide deck, especially again is major league baseball on us, whether baseball is still America's favorite pastime. What do you think? Share your $0.02 on The Office Facebook pageor on The PowerPoint Facebook page.

PowerPoint deck on docs.com, where you can create a site and PowerPoint, Word and Excel documents booked together with your friends on Facebook and elsewhere.

It is also a good example of a deck, leading internal hyperlinks, uses you to other slides in your presentation. There are several links on the second slide – note how to change your mouse while the mouse pointer over it. Click to go to the hyperlink film. For more information about creating hyperlinks as follows in the presentation, check out the following articles:

Create a hyperlink in PowerPoint 2010

Create a hyperlink in PowerPoint 2007

Create a hyperlink in PowerPoint 2003

Finally, there seems to be spring. Go outside and enjoy it.

--Erik Jensen

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