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Innocn 15.6″ Portable OLED review!
Portable monitors are super fun. There are MANY gadgets in a home that are more fun to use with some extra screen real-estate. Add a second screen to a laptop, play games on a Nintendo Switch, or get a better look with your camera. Innocn delivers a VIBRANT panel in a slim shell!
Let’s take a look!
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EZQuest Triple Monitor Hub Review!
I love docks and hubs. We can clean up our cable mess, add more features, and we don’t have to break the bank. The EZQuest is certainly designed to match A SPECIFIC PC, but it plays nice with ANY computer!
Let’s take a look! Continue reading “EZQuest Ultimate Triple Monitor Hub for the Mac Mini: Add more ports to ANY computer!”
It’s a bit of a bummer that our laptops are so thin now, they’re losing useful ports. USB-C and Thunderbolt will be the future, but we’re not there yet, and using multiple dongles and adapters is a pain. If your main computer is a thinner laptop, and you want a nice home work space, with the ability to charge your phone, this hub will be right up your alley. Continue reading “Moshi Symbus Q Laptop Hub and Qi Charger: Replace what your laptop lost…”
After we saw a demo of an iPad running Office apps, Android fans wondered, rather vocally, when we would also get to take part in the business grade festivities.
Oh sure we had an Office Phone app for basic viewing, editing, and formatting, but it lacked proper tablet support.
All that changed yesterday when Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and Powerpoint tablet apps were finally approved on Google Play. Each service is an individual app, and downloading the apps is totally free. When not linked with an Office 365 subscription, the apps function as viewers, and wont allow you to edit docs or spreadsheet. Though with unlimited cloud storage coming to OneDrive with an Office 365 subscription, it’s not a bad value when compared to other cloud storage solution.
Linking to Office 365 opens up a full world of document and presentation creation and editing, very similar to what we saw on the iPad version. The full toolsets of Office are included, with advanced formating and formula support, and are well optimized for touch screen use. Tied directly into Office Online, OneDrive, and can be linked to DropBox, it’s a fairly robust ecosystem for sharing and collaborating.
As they’re beefy services, the download sizes are pretty large. Expect all three apps together to clock in at around 370MB. There’s also an issue with compatibility. Most of the tablets I ave lying around are not yet approved to install the apps. No Asus Transformer, no NVIDIA Shield, even the newer Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 was a no go, so my first impressions were performed on a Nexus 7.
Still it’s a great collection for Android, and now Windows Tablet and Phone fans can start the waiting game as we should see touch optimized Office apps arrive with Windows 10.
Microsoft Word on Google Play
Microsoft Excel on Google Play
Microsoft Powerpoint on Google Play
Back in September we got our first look at the next version of Windows. It was a somewhat underwhelming affair, detailing the next steps Microsoft will take to retain their lead in corporate computing, and the gist of that announcement was focused on how to make their current version of Windows feel more like their last version of Windows.
But there’s a whole wide world of devices out now, and manufacturers are starting to deliver on hardware that blurs the lines between consumer tablets, laptops, desktops, and workstations. 
Taking the stage, Terry Myerson, Executive VP of Operating Systems, thanked the Windows Insider participants for their interactions with the Windows 10 BETA. Microsoft is working hard to make this version feel like it’s been built from a community perspective.
The focus moving forward is on ecosystem and tying data and devices together. Being able to move seamlessly from device to device with data and apps intact, for both business and consumer solutions, creating a “global” platform. Continue reading “Microsoft Windows 10 Announcement: OS Updates, XBOX Gaming Cross Platform, and HoloLens Augmented Reality!”
We wrote about this partnership last month, but it looks like Microsoft and Dropbox are finally moving forward as cloud storage BFF’s.
In an update pushing out to the Office app for Android, one of the new features allows users to connect their Dropbox account to edit any Office compatible files stored there. Microsoft has also improved support for high resolution displays, hopefully making this app a bit more accessible to a variety of phone owners.
Now we’re just waiting on Dropbox’s side of this bargain, which was to release a native app for Windows Phone…
Microsoft Office Mobile for Android (Google Play)
Looks like we’re about to see a little mutual backscratching between former rivals.
Microsoft and DropBox are teaming up for a “strategic partnership”. Office integration will be opened up, so users will be able to view and edit any files saved online in DropBox. This means we should see updates to Office apps, hopefully with more Android compatibility.
Windows Phone users will also score in the deal as we’ll finally get an official DropBox app. Moving forward with Microsoft combining their apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, hopefully this DropBox app will also go cross platform.
App updates should drop “in the coming weeks” and online integration should happen early 2015.
I suppose a little cooperation between former cloud storage rivals never hurt anyone right?
Google acquired QuickOffice around two years ago, and we’re now seeing the fruits of that acquisition.
Often when a Google user receives a Microsoft Office file, it needs to be converted to work in Google Docs. As we all know, any kind of conversion will often break SOMETHING in a doc or spreadsheet, be it formulas or formatting. Now Google will be rolling out native Office support built on the QuickOffice system with support for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Files will still need to be converted however for full online collaboration.
We’ll also see a Docs update to provide full presentation creation and playback support for mobile and tablet users.
A new Drive for Work program with enhanced encryption and admin controls, audit and activity API’s, and unlimited Drive storage for $10 per month per user. It’s a tactical move to keep the pressure on Microsoft as a number of companies are investigating the move to cloud services.