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A date has been set for the release of the latest edition of Microsoft’s Office productivity suite. According to Paul Thurrott in his WinInfo blog, Office 2010 will be generally available from the 15^th of June 2010. This has since been backed up by an MS spokesman who has stated  “we expect Office 2010 and related products to be generally available in June 2010″.

The product has been in development since 2006  and the beta has been around for a while. The release candidate (RC) version was made available to MSDN testers on the 5^th of February.

Microsoft have also announced that customers purchasing copies Microsoft Office 2007 (from authorised resellers) between between 5^th of March and the 30^th of September will be able to download Office 2010 at no extra cost when available. So anyone who is looking to purchase the productivity suite software now need not worry about having an old version. For full details see here.

We have, of course, been testing out Microsoft Office 2010 for ourselves here at Glo (in fact this blog post was drafted in Word 2010). Keep an eye for out for a blog on our thoughts sometime soon!

Posted by James in General, Software | No Comments »

Faxing from user desktops is an IT solution Glo Networks have been able to provide to several customers but a short while ago we were asked about something new to us: sending SMS from user desktops.

After some investigation we found our chosen faxing software, GFI Faxmaker, could also be configured to send SMS. This is done via a third party SMS gateway, namely Clickatell.

SMS credits are purchased from 3rd Party supplier and Faxmaker is then setup to forward outgoing SMS to the online gateway. Now all the user has to do is send an email to mobileno@specifieddomain.com and the body of the email will be sent to the mobile as SMS.

We’ve already set this up for one customer and would be more than happy to discuss/answer any queries regards the solution.  Please feel free to contact us for more information.

Posted by James in Mobile, Software | No Comments »

For ages I’ve been running Office 2007 on Vista x64 and now Windows 7 x64. Both suffer from Outlook not being able to preview PDF files. Providing the following error -

This file cannot be previewed because of an error with the following previewer:

PDF Preview Handler for Vista

To open this file in it’s own program, double-click it.

People have been installing other 3rd party tools to fix this problem, however here’s the perfect fix (it doesn’t even need a reboot).

To enable the preview of PDF files in 64-bit OSs, do the following:
1. Start the Registry Editor (Start – Run – Regedit.exe).
2. Move to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}.
3. Change the AppID value to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}.

Or create a Registry file -

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}]
“AppID”=”{534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}”

Posted by Chris in Desktops and Laptops, Software | No Comments »

Spotted this on Engadget the other day. Using your macBook’s large mouse pad (trackpad) as a tablet ! Looks like a great idea though is it really big enough and more than just a gimic ?

Made by Ten1Design.

Posted by Chris in Desktops and Laptops, Laptop Hardware, Software | No Comments »

Google have finally released Chrome for Mac OSX. It is now out for OSX 10.5 or above and for intel Mac’s only.

You can download it here it is only Beta at the moment so use it with caution but if the windows version is anything to go buy its quite stable.

It doesn’t look like some features are quite ready yet, for example there is no sign of bookmark syncing that is in the latest beta of Google Chrome on Windows.

Posted by Dave in Desktops and Laptops, Software | No Comments »