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Kevin Fox

Office 2010 Screenshots Preview What's to Come - http://lifehacker.com/5231478...

April 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Bradley Goetsch, NaHi, Russ Jackson and 62 other people liked this

Wow. It took me a moment to even understand what application I was looking at. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

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Fills me with dread. - Stephen Mack

all the buttons at the top are so funny, it's like a puzzle ! - Jeremy

FriendFeed 2010? :-) - Brian Johns

Not if I'm around. - Kevin Fox

It's probably deliberate that they're de-emphasizing the application. That megatoolbar looks ugly and jarring, but you can see what they're trying to do, right? Okay, "Translate / Translate", "Zoom / Zoom", and "Send to OneNote / OneNote" are just silly, but I bet that can be fixed. The idea of having actions categorized, with a few popular actions promoted out of each category, doesn't seem like a totally unreasonable approach to managing toolbar/menu complexity. - ⓞnor

yeah, i'm sorry but that just looks awful. does. not. keep. it. simple. - MG Siegler

To be sure, the "Actions" category is lame -- isn't everything here an "action"? (Certainly "delete" and "reply" seem like actions to me.) In fact their whole categorization scheme is rather suspect -- "OneNote" is a category, really? Isn't that an app? But somewhere under there is a designer trying hard to make sense of an incredibly complex set of features. At a guess, they've built a pluggable system so that functionality can actually float around from app to app but retain some coherence. - ⓞnor

But at a higher level, the whole thing feels like rearranging deck chairs. The whole model of applications with a document view and a vast menu of commands that operate on the document feels old and strained, compared to a more web-type UI where the affordances are integrated directly into the view. - ⓞnor

Only 25% of the window is devoted the most important content. I looks like a ****ing mess to me. The vast majority of the visible buttons will not be used by most users. - Paul Grav

Did anybody notice voice to text conversion of voicemail? That is super cool! Now, voicemails can be indexed too! - Jigar Mehta

I'm pretty happy with the voicemail-to-trash conversion of my current system though. - Jim Norris

I find it disgustingly ugly, but personal taste is rarely a good measure of usability. One thing, though. What about people who don't like clicking, but instead use chains of alt->something->something for commonly used commands? I kind of missed Office 2007 completely - is that option still around? - Goran Zec

Wow. It looks like someone forgot to include a CSS file or something. Yes, there's a lot of functionality, but it's exacerbated by what I can only describe as a lack of design.. - Jonathan Terleski

Yikes, that's butt ugly. I'm not sure I'd have any idea where to start to get anything done. Somehow I don't think my mom will either. - Joel Webber

Why why are are all all the the menus menus duplicated duplicated?? - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

I like the "voicemail-to-trash" conversion feature :) Also, will Google Voice + Gmail deliver all those features? - Jérôme Flipo

I imagine that everyone on the Google Docs team is secretly rooting for this particular product manager's vision of Office 2010 to come to fruition. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) - DeWitt Clinton

This is a caricature of an actual application. It tugs hard at my uncanny valley receptors. - moo. bye.

This hurts my eyes. Can't they add another 100 buttons/controls/widgets? Surely there's something else buried in nested menus just begging to come out and play - John Koetsier

The Ribbon in 2007 is stunning. I trust them to get it right with Outlook. - Jamie

who signs off on this crap? - Tsega Dinka

and you thought Office 2007 was bad? - Yann Abraham

Outlook sidebar will look like Mail.app a lot - Ivy /composmentis

On the bright side, even though there is realively little space left for the actual content compared to the 2003 (pre-ribbon) version, they didn't take about 60% of the screen width and fill it with grey "whitespace" like... oh, nm. - Jim Espinoza

A salutory lesson in how to make a crap product even crapper. Why does anyone bother. 2007 was just astounding for its awfulness, now the MS PR is trying to make us believe they surveyed customers for feedback. I want to find the person they 'surveyed' and give them a good talking to. - David Eedle

I'm just getting used to Office 2007 :-/ - Amit Morson

Gag. - Victor Panlilio

You have to understand these poor guys at Microsoft: it's getting a lot harder to slow our new laptops down to a crawl. - saccades

We're still on 2003 here and I don't particularly like that, but this seems like some sort of unfinished web interface. That ribbon thingy uip there seems like a waste of space. - Johan Mellberg from twhirl

I really think the interface is somehow broken. The ribbon was OK in 2007. This screen has 0 interface improvements. - Andy Gongea

the UI is awful - timepilot

Do you suppose the 'softies put any effort into improving Outlook's pathetic support for IMAP? Or did they focus exclusively on pointless eye candy? - Pat Rice

So glad I have not had to use Outlook in years. This preview reminds me of how bad the interface design was and they have only added more brightly colored icons and options for 2010. Feature bloat? - Jackson

Voicemail will only be part of MS Office how many years after the prevalence of VOIP? - coldbrew

OK, Way Way too busy. - Marcus Beagley

Microsoft, as much as I dislike many of their products, is well-funded and has a team of very skilled user interface testers and designers. There's no way something like this could come out of there. Thus, I conclude that these are either forgeries designed to look bad, or one of the designer's children got hold of a template library and these got accidentally released. - Mistletoe Glen

OTOH, OOo's interface is also rather awful, but in a different way. - 9000

Every day I am teased by the Microsoft FTE's who get access to the dogfood versions. - Sean Oliver

saccades

TD Bank still running Win98! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

January 2, 2009 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

TD bank is using Win98 for their coin counting machines - this one bluescreened half way through my coin count. According to branch staff, that wasn't the first time) Wow! Another staff member (manager?) said that they are looking to upgrade but their "security process takes a long time". No kidding - maybe that explains all the down time people have been complaining about lately (do a twitter search for TD Bank). - saccades

saccades

Re: Good Reads - http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvi...

December 28, 2008 from Disqus - Comment - Like - Share

"Don't you wish that more corporate product marketing people would read books like this? Also good to check out TED www.ted.com for some remarkable talks (and presentation styles to learn from) ..." - saccades

Jauder Ho

Looking for a good Windows program to synchronize between a local directory and network directory. Suggestions?

December 26, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Kol Tregaskes, Michael Hart, Brian and 4 other people liked this

I have always had pretty good success with SyncToy http://lifehacker.com/softwar... - Michael K Pate

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I've used Syncback SE for years. Works great. http://www.2brightsparks.com - Michael Krigsman

robocopy.exe is built into Vista and is available as a free resource kit download for earlier versions of Windows. there are various sync options including /MIR to mirror a directory tree and /MON to watch for changes. - Karim

also see Scott Hanselman's blog http://www.hanselman.com/blog... and skim the comments for more suggestions. - Karim

Consider syncback (free version) - it's configurable & pretty fast - saccades from fftogo

http://allwaysync.com/ - AJ Batac

Thanks for the suggestions. FF coming through FTW. I'm using SyncToy for now although it is proving to be pretty slow. Will check out the others when I get a chance. Getting 32,000+ pictures across is a pain regardless. - Jauder Ho

Just tried SyncBack. It seems to run a lot faster. YMMV. - Jauder Ho

I've been using Allway Sync for years, great app. - Kol Tregaskes

Update #2: Tried Allway too, it seems to work well and runs in about the same speed as SyncBack IMO. - Jauder Ho

Dave Winer

Novatel introduces MiFi mobile hotspot - http://www.mediabistro.com/mobiled...

December 9, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I want! I want! I want! I want! - Dave Winer from Bookmarklet

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CradlePoint's device is similar (except it itself is not a 3G device; it tethers to a 3G device instead.) http://www.cradlepoint.com/phs300... Who is the 3G provider for the Novatel device? Anyone, anyone? - Wade Dorrell

These 3G devices need to have über-battery to be useful. Mobile means not having to plug it in! - Boris Gordon

Sounds like the device I wanted last year (I still do...) http://paolo.evectors.it/2007... - Paolo Valdemarin

Looks like a good start (provided that there are no major usability issues). would be nice to have a usb link for external storage mount for automatic uploading to a few pre-configured locations (e.g., upload of images to flickr from memory card) - saccades

somewhat similar to Mobi (http://www.italia-mobile.com/) - Fabio Giglietto

Looks awesome! I wonder whether wireless providers will try to block this. I don't think there's anything technically stopping an iphone from doing this now, other than the assumed block from ATT on this kind of application. Although, on the other hand, all the providers have laptop connect data cards, and that's essentially what this would use. Now I really want it. :) - mikepk

Very cool - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

You can get a similar device on the http://three.co.uk network in the UK. You have to plug it in but other than that pretty neat for sharing mobile broadband connections with friends. - John Cooper

That would be the first thing to get when I have 3G coverage at home and I'll get rid of that landline. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

Jeremiah Owyang

If big 3 American auto companies don't get the bailout, what brands of cars we'll see in the freeway in 10 years. My Acura is made in USA

December 5, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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what i want in a car is eco-friendly, heritage and authentic in image. i want classic cars to be hacked and greened by manufacrurers - ray

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The whole "American auto companies" annoys me. Like your Acura, foreign car makers are more American than Ford, or GM. Plus they're smarter - BCK

my Toyota is also American made and runs beautifully - Valeria Maltoni

Toyota and Honda have US plants specifically so they can say they are American made. The Big Three are in Big Trouble, IMO. - Jenni Brand

what if we would start to shift more toward walkable cities and really good public transportation instead of insisting on 1-car-per-person mentality ... - saccades

Thomas Hawk

U.S. Economy: Employers Eliminate 533,000 Jobs, Most Since 1974 - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...

December 5, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. companies slashed payrolls last month at the fastest pace in 34 years as the economy headed for its deepest and longest recession since World War II. Employers cut 533,000 jobs, bringing losses so far this year to 1.91 million, the Labor Department said today in Washington. November’s drop exceeded all 73 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The unemployment rate rose to 6.7 percent, the highest level since 1993." - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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ouch - mikepk

headlines like this one make the ff "like" feature so inappropriate ... - saccades

I agree. When I click that link, it's really indicating "interest" or a "reaction". But liking? nahhhh. - Karoli

And the broader unemployment rate hits 12.5% http://tinyurl.com/62ew8p - Tapio Kulmala

"November’s drop exceeded all 73 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey." Seems like things are far worse than most analysts are forecasting. I can't send out Oppenheimer's Meredith Whitney's most recent report, but she's been pretty right on so far and thinks that there still is a lot of pain to come. She sees a big credit card squeeze coming next. The mortgage and credit card market are dominated by 5 major players who are going to pull back significant consumer liquidity in the coming 18 months. - Thomas Hawk

Jeremiah Owyang

What keywords come to mind regarding the Democratic Campaign? (Just choose three words, no sentences)

September 2, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Change, Hope, Black. Read the Republican Version http://friendfeed.com/e... - Jeremiah Owyang

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obama, change, women - @baratunde

diversity, youth, commoner - imabonehead

progress urgency opportunity - saccades from fftogo

Change, hope, super awesome - Bukola

Change, Progress, Future - R. Ferguson

Barack. Michelle. Awesome. - cecily