Microsoft to retire Mac Office 2004 in six months
April 22, 2009Microsoft will drop Office 2004 for Mac from its support list in October, the company confirmed today.
Review: Free sites help you manage your money
April 21, 2009There are a slew of personal finance sites on the Web that purport to help you manage your money. We take a close look at seven of them.
Working with Places
April 17, 2009Until recently, if you wanted to search your image library for a specific photo, you had to scan your library manually, remember the date you took the photo, or spend a lot of time up front tagging your photos with relevant keywords and titles. But thanks to iPhoto '09 Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice , you can now also search by where you were when you snapped the shutter. The Places feature takes advantage of geodata--longitude and latitude coordinates embedded in a photo's metadata. Once iPhoto knows where your photos originated, you can use the information to quickly track down shots from a specific locale or show off your travels to friends.
Things You Didn't Know About Firefox Browser Tabs
April 17, 2009Sure, you use Firefox, but are you really making the most of it? I mean, I know plenty of users who never bother to change the home page, even though they always go straight to another site upon starting the browser. (Just make that site your home page, people!)
Microsoft backtracks, says Office 2010 beta will be public
April 17, 2009In a reversal of comments made Wednesday, Microsoft today promised that it would provide at least one public beta to Office 2010, though it did not say when the beta would be available.
Microsoft: No Office 2010 beta for you
April 16, 2009Microsoft confirmed today that it will not open Office 2010 beta testing to the general public, but will instead limit the preview to a large group of invite-only users starting in the third quarter of 2009.
Exchange 2010 beta sneak peek-test
April 15, 2009The first public beta of Microsoft's next version of Exchange, due out in the second half of this year, hits the streets Wednesday. Microsoft gave us early access and we had 10 days to put it through its paces in a VMware environment.
HD camcorders: Sharing HD videos
April 15, 2009Having an HD camcorder that shoots beautiful, large video doesn't do you much good when you can deliver its output only in standard definition. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to share HD video with the world (and be sure to visit our HD camcorder buyer's guide).
Can Microsoft still count on inertia to spur upgrades to Office 2010?
April 15, 2009Power users will almost certainly move to the upcoming Office 2010 suite. But what about the millions of users who tend up upgrade to new versions of Office by inertia?
First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines
April 15, 2009Exchange 2007 introduced unified messaging, a completely new management client and improvements to almost every aspect of the mail server, but at the cost of a whopping learning curve for administrators. Admins will have an easier go of it this time around.