Nov 02 2009

Use Microsoft Word 2007 For Offline Blogging

Category: Blogging — alexi @ 11:07 am

Many of the bloggers use Live Writer or some other offline blogging applications to work with there blogs. Most of the offline blogging tools lacks many features that when compared to a Word Processor. But what happend if you come to know that the most powerful word processor Mocrisoft Word can help you in this case. Microsoft word 2007 came with this option, that allows the user to publish the post made to the blog. If MS Word has this facility then why should we use an appilcation just for this purpose that too with little features.

Here’s how to go about it.

The first time you fire it up through – Office Button —> New —> Blog Post, MS Office asks you to setup an account. You can also get around to your account through the ‘Manage Account’ button on the menu ribbon. The Blog accounts box allows you to add, delete, and set passwords and picture options for your accounts.

 

  • If the blog API allows the direct upload of pictures, you can set the picture uploading options too or keep it at ‘none’.
  • With the account setup completed, writing and posting is a cinch. The intuitive Word interface gives you two tabs to work with your posts – Blog Post and Insert. These two tabs bring all the user friendliness of Office to structure your post. After finishing the post, one can either ‘Publish’ or ‘Publish as draft’.

    • Originally posted 2008-11-09 19:57:29.

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    Oct 05 2009

    Bing.com a true competitor to Google.com

    Category: Internet — alexi @ 1:21 pm

    BingMicrosoft officialy released its new search engine, Microsoft calls it Decision engine called www.bing.com. At the starting days bing.com is getting much more attention because of its better search results. Bing.com is becoming a true competitor to Google.com. Bing has a very nice consumer facing front, and the multi-media selections are really well integrated. And I love the play on the page video.  It makes me want to stick around on the page, which is very different than Google, which is totally tweaked to get me to click on something fast.

    Originally posted 2009-06-04 09:26:03.

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    Sep 07 2009

    Microsoft rejoices: Windows XP use drops

    Category: Tips & Tricks — alexi @ 6:43 pm

    The biggest danger to Windows 7 and Windows Vista isn’t Mac OS X or Linux — it’s Windows XP, whose hard-core fans refuse to give up the aging operating system. But it looks as if XP may finally be on the way out, which is good news for Microsoft.

    Computeworld reports that according to the Web measurement company Net Applications

    Windows XP’s share of the OS usage market fell 1.1 percentage points during August, tying its November 2008 record drop.

    At the same time, Vista and Windows 7 use was up, Vista by 0.9 percent, and Windows 7 by 0.3 percent. Windows XP is still dominant, though, with 71.8 percent use, compared to 18.8 percent for Vista, and 1.2 percent for Windows 7. Mac OS X use has stalled, with 4.9 percent share.

    XP’s continuing dominance presents a serious problem for Microsoft. Enterprises staying with XP means they’re not paying for upgrades to Vista or Windows 7. As for consumers who opt to stay with XP, the problem isn’t really upgrade revenue, because consumer upgrades are a drop in the bucket. The real problem is that XP users don’t buy new PCs, and so Microsoft is losing out on new sales.

    I think that Windows 7 will go a long way towards solving the problem for Microsoft. It’s gotten a far batter reception than Windows Vista did, so enterprises won’t shy away from it. And XP PCs are starting to look long in the tooth, so consumers will most likely be ready to get new hardware — and new versions of Windows.

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