Now that the well of Windows 8 news has all but dried up and blown away following thefiring of two Microsoft employees, we have been hard up for new leaks. Happily, today we are ending the drought. Fresh from the ever lovely, and annoyingly well-connected,Windows8Italia blogcomes a grip of new shots of the next version of Office, Office 15. No, not Office 2015, Office version 15, the next edition of the productivity suite that will follow Office 2010 to market....
A few weeks ago, wewrote about the competitionWikileakshad posted on99designsin search of a new t-shirt design. The winners were announced today, and it turns out Wikileaks couldn’t decide on a single winner — so they chose three designs instead. It’s hard to blame the judges. According to 99designs, the contest attracted almost 1,000 designs. It’s been difficult enough picking a single winner from the 50 to 100 entries in the handful of design contests I’ve been part of judging....
The latestOS X Liondeveloper preview has revealed a visual overhaul of iCal that resembles the iPad app’s look and feel and changes to iChat’s handling of multiple accounts. Apple has said that OS X Lion is about bringing the lessons Apple learned from developing the iPad back to the Mac, particularly with features such as Launchpad that’s much like the iOS home screen. But I certainly didn’t expect Apple to take it to such an extreme, drastically changing the aesthetic the company has developed for OS X over the years....
For most of us,Rapportiveis the way thatwe bring contextto our email. However, some of you are more interested about the interactions that you’ve had with a person rather than the social networks on which they appear. Seeing and solving that lack of context, Google hasjust introduceda People Widget for Gmail: The people widget surfaces content from friends, family and colleagues that is already available to you but may be hard to find and makes it easier to connect with them....
Perrier has just launched a pretty stunning campaign on YouTube that incorporates the concept of group buying, and turns it into group viewing. Its new YouTube channel features a video of a club scene, accompanied by a thermometer on the right hand side. The more that people watch the video, the more scenes will get unlocked and the hotter the video will become. This seems to be the first experience of its kind and calls on people to share the channel not only to pass on something cool to their friends, but to actually get more out of the experience for themselves....
