What is New in Office 2013

Microsoft unveiled its brand new Office 2013, with Metro user interface (similar with Windows 8), along with various cloud-based features and more devices support.

Cloud-Based
Documents in Office 2013 are saved online to SkyDrive or SharePoint by default, enabling Office in the cloud for access, online edit, share, and post to social network.

More Devices Support
Office 2013 is optimized for touchscreen, available for Windows Phone 8 handsets as well. Recent files will be sync accoss different devices, Word and PowerPoint will remember where you were with reading a document, and then pick up for resume reading where you left off—even on a different PC or tablet.



Word 2013
-Present Online as you read through the document on your screen, the other party can follow along in their browsers.
-Open and edit PDF in Word, embed web videos into documents








Excel 2013
-Flash Fill learns and recognizes your pattern and auto-completes the remaining data
-Quick Analysis preview variety of ways to represent your data visually and apply

















PowerPoint 2013
- Improved Presenter View, zoom in and zoom out of the presentation
- Navigation Grid, control and switch slides during presentation











Outlook 2013
- Peeks and quick glance at schedule
- Share Your Calendar

Office 2013 will support only Windows 7 and 8 on the desktop, no Office for Mac 2013 planned yet.
Read more here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en

Google I/O - Google Glass / Google Chrome for iOS / Google Drive / Google Now

Here are highlight of some interesting products showcased in Google I/O.

Google Glass

An amazing demo for Google Glass live skydiving involving with a group of skydivers using Google+ hangout, jumped out of a blimp above San Francisco and landed on the roof of San Francisco's Moscone Center, where Google I/O was taking place.

What is Google Glass? Read more here

Google Chrome for iOS

The getting popular browser is now available for iOS. It's using Safari as the core, but surprisingly quicker than the native browser. It has a number of cool navigation features and support sync for settings, tabs, bookmarks etc. Tabs opened on computer can be accessed and continue reading in the Chrome on smartphone.

Read more about Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as No. 1 browser

Google Chrome on App Store

Google Drive

Google Drive is now available for iOS.  Files on Google drive can also make available offline for viewing in iOS. Offline editing and real-time collaboration is now possible on Google Drive online page. Real-time collaboration allow multiple users editing a document simultaneously from different devices, and have the changes all appear for all users (still remember Google Wave?).

What is Google Drive? Read more here

Google Drive on App Store

Read more about Set up offline access for Google Drive

Google Now

A new product expected to first available for Android, that will attempt to "gets you just the right information at just the right time". Similar with Siri on iOS, but what it does differently is to proactively "push" you every information that you appear to be interested, such as traffic information or restaurant nearby based on your location. It will do even more, when you have an appointment, it checks traffic so you can know how long it'll take to get there and notify when you should leave. 

Read more about Google Now

The Google Drive

Google Drive is finally here, a cloud storage service comes with 5GB of free storage, which works seamlessly with other Google products like Gmail, Google+, or Google Docs.

Google Drive Features:

-Create & collaborate with others on the same document with Google Docs

-Attach to Gmail, post to Google+

-Search files or even images and text in documents

-Create or view file even if no program installed on computer

-Share the file or start a discussion

-Create revision of files to restore if needed

Google Drive Website

Top Cloud Based Webapps

A cloud based webapps will enable you to access files or applications that you need from the Internet, anytime anywhere, through a web browser or mobile app.

Introducing some of the top cloud based webapps:

Google Docs https://docs.google.com/

With Google Documents, you will have a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and even a program to do PowerPoint presentations, all from online




Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/

Web-based reader for Atom and RSS feeds to get blogs and news feeds.
Also works for iPhone with MobileRSS





Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com/

Web-based file hosting service uses cloud storage to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet
Also works for iPhone

Xmarks http://www.xmarks.com/

This bookmark synchronizer is an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Apple Safari that synchronizes bookmarks between computers, can also synchronize passwords, open tabs, and browsing history. The bookmark can also access via online.

Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/

Help to do online file conversion

Google Chrome OS & Cloud Computing（云端运算）& Bookmarklet

What is Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS Demo


It's kinda excited that Google had showed the demo of Google Chrome OS - another Google project after Google Wave, which might change the way how we use internet.

Google Chrome OS, the idea is browser = Operating System, where the OS is optimized everything to be web-based, and designed just for internet experience, utilizing the Cloud Computing.

Cloud Computing, is a web-based computer technology, where no software (or minimal) installation required, all the computing will be done by server, resolved storage & CPU optimization problem, increased service quality.

But nevertheless, our internet connection is sxxxx, still long way for us to explore the real experience of Google Chrome OS! :(

Google续Google Wave后，再推出了Google Chrome OS，另一或许即将改变我们互联网使用习惯的产品。

Google Chrome OS，浏览器即是作业系统。运用云端运算，直截了当的把Google Chrome OS设计成基于互联网的作业系统。

云端运算，是一种基于互联网的计算新方式，客户端（client）不需要安装任何（或安装极小的）软件，所有运算皆通过伺服器（server）来进行，如此一来解决了内存和CPU运算能力的问题，大大提升服务素质。

介绍两个以云端运算科技为基础的小型运用程序，他们同时也是一种Bookmarklet（即是可收藏为书签的运用程序bookmark + applet）：
搜狗云输入法
http://pinyin.sogou.com/cloud/
Dict.CN 海词
http://dict.cn/foot/help.htm