Tag: OFFICE

If you've ever been the office IT guy or gal, you know how frustrating the job can be. But reading posts on "The IT guy you wish you had" blog might provide the relief you need to keep your sanity. It's a brand new blog, and we're not sure if these posts are real. But there's no arguing they're funny, especially if you've ever struggled with co-workers who refuse to follow office technology ...

Last summer, when U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis ordered Microsoft to permanently shelve Word (and pay a whopping $290 million in damages), some analysts dismissed the ruling as a publicity stunt. Microsoft just received a swift and powerful kick to the groin, though, as the decision has reportedly been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals. According to Engadget, Microsoft only has until ...

Microsoft Office 2010 officially hit the beta channels last week, and the crew at Lifehacker has spent some time getting acquainted with it. According to their early judgment, the newest version doesn't make the leap that Office 2007 made from 2003, or even that Windows 7 made from Vista, but there are enough little tweaks and improvements to keep things interesting. Some of the changes are ...

What's the best part about moving into new digs? Well, decorating it and showing off the space to your friends, of course. That's the thrill Twitter employees are feeling right now. According to Tech Crunch, the company moved into its new, massive San Francisco office space, which had previously housed Bebo, on Monday. Employees are posting online photos more quickly than we can click through ...

We're hesitant to tell anybody about the USB Computer Prankster, but since most of us work from home here [Ed. Note: Thanks, Lee], and thus aren't afraid of this thing being used on us, we'll just selfishly throw the rest of you to the wolves. While this little doohickey might appear to be a run-of-the-mill USB drive, it's far more insidious. Those little switches on the side don't merely engage ...

Microsoft has spread itself pretty thin in recent years by offering a bewildering array of products that often have overlapping feature sets or compete directly with one another. This confusion, combined with the increasingly ridiculous fees for joining Club Microsoft, has helped out competitors like Google, Apple, and Open Office. This problem has been no clearer than it has in the productivity ...

Large corporate offices make a habit of blocking certain Web sites -- particularly personal e-mail, video sharing, and social networking sites. But, according to a recent survey compiled by Robert Half Technology, it appears that smaller businesses are locking out employees, too. The survey of 1,400 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from across the U.S. found that 54-percent of companies ...

We know it. You're sick. Everybody you know is sick. Hell, we're so sick, we've replaced our coffee breaks with coughing breaks. Whether the swine flu, allergies, or the mysterious 'crud,' maladies are first and foremost in the public consciousness these days, and the raging debate over health care isn't doing much to allay concerns. With that in mind, the Wall Street Journal has launched its ...

It's no secret that Facebook is productivity's biggest enemy. With all those gifts to send, games to play, and friends to stalk, there's no time for work once you log in to the social networking site. While many offices and schools have caught onto this, it took one British city council a little longer than most. According to The Daily Mail, the Portsmouth City Council recently banned the staff ...

A New Zealand office worker recently learned a tough lesson: When sending an e-mail, be careful with fonts and colors. Someone could interpret that bold sentence the wrong way. According to The New Zealand Herald, Vicki Walker was fired from her position as financial controller at ProCare Health for sending "confrontational" e-mails that included words in red, bold, and worst of all, capital ...

Repetitive Stress, or Surf, Injury (RSI) plagues millions of people and, according to some estimates, costs England's industries billions of dollars a year (and we can't imagine the U.S. is too far behind). One product now in testing, cheerfully named the Mouse Blister, aims to address that painful affliction, purporting to make your mouse more ergonomic and "Grippy as Heck!" The Mouse Blister ...

Ever wonder what Bill Gates's desk looks like? How he sets up his PC to get things done? Well, you need wonder no longer, friend. The man himself has decided to share in a blog post, at Inside Office Online, exactly what his desktop looks like. ...

Solitaire for urinals? A La-Z-Boy office chair? If it sounds too good to be true, it is -- but that's because Cracked.com has come up with 21 of the coolest office supplies that would be too awesome to actually exist. The Web site had an open call to its Photoshop-wielding readers to imagine a world where technology only improves the office setting (like automatic fly-detecting machines in the ...

While they might not admit it, many of the folks in your office have used the copy machine for, shall we say, purposes not detailed in the instruction manual. We're talking about photocopied images of sweaty butt cheeks. If you've ever tried this, you'd know it's not easy to hoist yourself up on top of that copy machine. Thanks to interactive designer Tomomi Sayuda, those obligatory posterior ...

With all the chatter surrounding Windows 7, Chrome OS, and the recent release of Firefox 3.5, it's easy to forget that there is another major software release approaching: Office 2010. Sure, Office may not be loaded with the flash of Windows 7 and it lacks the mystery of Chrome OS, but it is still one of the world's most popular suites of publishing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. ...