The feature I want

So I was driving in the car this morning listening to a Podcast with no safe way to write down a URL or name of something that I want and I realized that my Ipod or another MP3 device needs a way to do bookmarking. I should be able to press a button and put a bookmark on a podcast, audio book or even a song and then go back to those later on the device and on my PC. This would be very easy, now how do I tell Mac?

World Community Grid Update

Last month in the DDM eNewsletter newsletter I wrote about the World Community Grid and I just wanted to update everyone that people have begun to join the Denver DataMan team and in the last month we have processed more than 27 days of data. If you are not currently using the World Community Grid you can join the Denver DataMan team when you register or you can login to the website and change your team at any time.

Click here to learn more about the World Community Grid and how Denver DataMan can help.

Join Denver DataMan in helping to save the world with World Community Grid.

AnvSoft Web Album Maker

I just found AnvSoft Web Album Maker and I am very impressed. The application helps even novice users generate very nice look photo albums. The product is 100% free and even has a free upload utility to share you albums from there site. I did not use the free upload utility but I did make an album of pictures for a client and it worked very well.

I have made a few examples from pictures I have taken while living in Colorado.

This software can be used for personal and business applications alike. I hope to share more software like this on the blog. If you have software you think I should share email me.

Some Thoughts on Microsoft Office 2007

As a software trainer it it is important for me to keep up with new software that my clients will be using. Though, I am not recommending updating to Microsoft Office 2007 yet, for most people, some of my clients have so I have as well. Actually, I have Office 2003 and 2007 on my laptop and they don't get along that well. All that aside here are some of my good and bad feelings about Office 2007.

1. The new tab and ribbon interface will take everyone a while to get to know it well but I like it. As I am finding my features again I think that is a cleaner interface and it lets you multi task within a document better.

2. Smart Art, the interface that replaces the chart creating feature in previous version of Office is amazing. I have used it several times since I upgraded and it is significantly simpler to use than charts plus it gives you more versatility with your data.

3. I like what has been done with mail merge but they did not finish it. The new mail merge interface is great and makes more advanced tools far more accessible but there are some very basic things that Microsoft neglected to included the easy ability to format conditional text.

4. Outloook, is an application that I think many people have a love hate relationship. It is still big and bulky but it has many new features which are nice. For some reason they took away some of the contact actions that I used to use, which is not very nice as well as the ability to link contacts to other contacts, as best as I can find.

At this point I should probably stop writing before I go on too long. Email me and I will share more.