If you’ve got your hands on a copy of Office 2010 Technical Preview, you would have noticed that the Office menu has now been replaced with a new page that covers the whole application when opened. This is the Office Backstage. This new view allows you to get work done faster than you could before with the menu.
Permalink: What is Office 2010 Backstage and why should you care?
Lets face it. Google Chrome is an excellent browser. A lot of work is still going on it though, to improve it and fix various issues, therefore the existence of Beta (monthly) and Dev (weekly) channels along with the Stable quarterly releases.
One way to chose the channel or the type of build you want to use is through the Google Chrome Channel Changer 2.0.
Permalink: How to download the latest Dev or Beta build of Chrome
Microsoft will be making a big announcement next Monday, although we don’t know any details about it. But from the above update on FriendFeed by Robert Scoble, it seems it will be similar to the Chrome OS that Google announced today. It could very well be something based around their research project Gazelle:
Permalink: Why did Google announce Chrome OS today? Microsoft will be announcing something next Monday
Facebook announced their new app for iPhone, version 3.0 with a hefty feature list. Missing in the list was video capture and upload. Joe Hewitt, a Facebook employee working on the iPhone app tweeted a day after, that video uploading has been implemented in the new Facebook iPhone app – but there’s a catch. You won’t be able to watch your friend’s Facebook videos yet on the iPhone because Facebook videos are encoded in a very high bit rate which the iPhone doesn’t play. This might change in the future though, either through updates to the iPhone OS, or changes made by Facebook to encode videos in an iPhone compatible bit rate.
Even without the playback, it’ll be great to use your iPhone 3G S to record and upload videos directly to Facebook. Expect the new app to appear in the App Store this summer.
Permalink: Facebook app 3.0 for iPhone will allow video uploads – but there’s a catch
