tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7810059788586120252024-03-05T03:39:15.500-08:00The JuiceThe Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-14398361507349290322012-12-16T14:45:00.000-08:002012-12-16T17:18:33.375-08:00UFB – What this means to us..<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently Ripped Orange connected up with Telstra Clear
Cable, allowing us to access faster broadband.
We managed to triple our download speed and increase upload speed ten times.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before with Telecom Broadband</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) is the buzzword that all the
telcos are promising, but what is it really and what does this mean for your business? The UFB project is defined as delivering </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">a
minimum speed of 100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up over a 10 year period. For those in a city your current standard
broadband is about 10 Mbps up and 0.8 Mbs down.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the work we do is in the “Cloud”. This means we download and upload information
and documents to the internet frequently. Having faster download speed has not been
that noticeable, but upload, or the time
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another big change is phone services, we were already
using Lync, Skype and 2Talk for communicating.
With faster speed this is now a more reliable and pleasant experience. The upside for this is that we now use the internet for all phone calls which will reduce our phone costs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are considering a similar move, please get in touch
and we would be happy to share some of the learnings' both positive and
negative, that we have had along the way</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-30995160842353953892012-12-13T19:10:00.001-08:002012-12-16T15:11:04.715-08:00Ripped Orange Magic Mango Fruit Punch<br />
Looking for a cool drink on Christmas Day? Check out this suggestion from our team member Mark.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">You can throw in some sliced oranges
and kiwi fruit for a nice visual affect and added </span></b><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-NZ;">flavour…enjoy!</span></b></div>
The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-75216070678070488232012-12-13T19:08:00.001-08:002012-12-16T17:18:11.575-08:00Ripped Orange Christmas Songs and more...<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The team at Ripped Orange have compiled some of our favorite sites and tips for the Christmas season.</span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ripped Orange Christmas Playlist</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Struggling to find some Christmas Music, the Ripped Orange team have compiled a playlist of our 45 favorite Christmas hits from You Tube. Ideal for the big screen on Christmas Day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16px;">Visit </span><a href="http://www.noradsanta.org/" target="_blank">www.noradsanta.org</a> to download the smartphone app or check in for live updates from December 24<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u>Stuff has a great selection of Christmas themed apps for your smartphon</u></b>e.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can check them out <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/8060294/Glittery-choice-of-apps" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-88757697934461138482012-11-26T17:58:00.000-08:002012-11-26T20:21:46.324-08:00Grab a course launched!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Want to learn a specific feature in Microsoft Office? Ripped Orange have launched Grab a Course, where we feature a specific course on a specific day at a great price.<br />
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This month we launch with Reviewing Documents in Microsoft Word, for people that collaborate with other users and want to make efficient use of the reviewing tools available.<br />
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All courses featured as a Grab a Course are a standard Ripped Orange Classroom course including a manual and hosted in our purpose built training room at Ripped Orange.<br />
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What's the catch you ask?<br />
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Courses are strictly limited to eight people and are not refundable. They are also limited to two people from the same organisation only.<br />
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Tickets can be purchased online with a credit card <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.nz/event/4896695147" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.nz/event/4896695147" target="_blank">Book Now!</a>The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-80844672208861116942012-11-26T17:51:00.000-08:002012-11-26T20:19:51.553-08:00Eating our own dog food<br />
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Here is a quick overview of some of the applications we use daily. For some applications
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Xero<o:p></o:p></div>
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Workflow Max<o:p></o:p></div>
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Microsoft CRM - 2011<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mail Chimp<o:p></o:p></div>
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Survey Monkey<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eventbrite<o:p></o:p></div>
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Google Analytics<o:p></o:p></div>
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Google Add Words<o:p></o:p></div>
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Linc<o:p></o:p></div>
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Skype<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 Talk<o:p></o:p></div>
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Last Pass<o:p></o:p></div>
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Outlook<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gmail<o:p></o:p></div>
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The challenge we have is similar to many organisations. How to
evaluate what is available and what will suit our needs. For some tools this is
easy for others there are a variety of comparisons and trade-offs to be made. <o:p></o:p></div>
The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-26011984699759482202012-11-25T14:55:00.000-08:002012-11-25T14:55:51.479-08:00City Care makes Smart use of Tender template<br />
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<b>Business Overview:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="background: white;">City Care is a leading
provider of construction, maintenance and management services across New Zealand's
infrastructure and amenity assets, employing </span>over 1,350 staff across 16 operational
branches throughout the North and South Islands. Established in 1999, City Care has an annual turnover of
approximately $354 million. City Care is a Council Controlled Trading
Organisation (CCTO) operating under the Local Government Act.</div>
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Each year City Care responds to over 150 tenders and
requests for information. To manage this
significant business development activity, City Care employs four tender
writers who gather and collate information from within the business to complete
a tender response.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tender team identified that they spent a lot of time
formatting tender documents and there were inconsistencies in the brand and
layout of the final document.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tenders documents can be very complex and large; often
documents are over 100 pages and may have more than ten individual contributors
to the document. “Responding to tenders can often be a high pressure task,
with short deadlines and considerable detail needed to be provided. Delays and time taken up in formatting and trying
to ensure consistency was frustrating”, says Margot Hall, City Care Business
Development Co-ordinator.</div>
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City Care approached Ripped Orange to look at options. One option considered was to provide advanced
Microsoft Word training for staff who prepare tenders. After some consideration,
it was recognised that this would not address the issue of brand and document
consistency. It was identified that the
cost and time to train the users to a very advanced level would be considerable
and outweigh the benefits. Instead, Ripped Orange proposed that templates were
established and training provided to users on how to use these templates.</div>
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Gill Mason from Ripped Orange commented, “Even with advanced
users, the Smart Template approach works well as it ensures consistency and
speed of document creation”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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City Care commissioned Ripped Orange to undertake a scope of
the style and functionality required; this resulted in a base template that included
the City Care logo, fonts, icons, and graphic styles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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From this, Ripped Orange then developed specific Smart Templates
for tender covers, body copy and other components of a tender.</div>
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“Smart templates are designed so users can follow a quick
and easy process when inserting and managing the creation and layout of
documents. For example, call out boxes
can be inserted with a click of an icon:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The template also
handles the time-consuming issues of applying text font, colour and size,
headers and footers or switching from portrait to landscape with a click of an icon
for the user,” commented Mason.</div>
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“The Smart Templates have allowed City Care to focus on the
content in the template rather than worrying about the graphics and layout with
the end result being a professional and consistent document”, commented Hall.<o:p></o:p></div>
The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-45117887706488311142012-11-25T14:53:00.000-08:002012-11-26T17:49:17.751-08:00Juice Review - Mail Chimp<br />
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L<span style="font-family: inherit;">ike many companies in New Zealand, we use <a href="http://www.mailchimp.com/" target="_blank">Mail Chimp</a> to distribute
our newsletters. This popular tool has
over 2.5 million users worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Email marketing is a crowded field with many tools and
options. We chose Mail Chimp because of its ease of use, clear and sometimes
quirky feel. How many other applications
use terms like...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<h1 align="left" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><i>Huzzah! Your campaign has been sent.</i></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>People are still engaged with what you're saying - that's good, right?</i></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It even has random messages from the chimp like this one inviting you to view a weird file on You Tube.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While this may seem rather odd, it does make the application
easy enjoyable and fun to use. Mail Chimp covers the basics and even more than you would expect from an email marking tool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Other features we like are the excellent reporting including an Android App and the “<a href="http://mailchimp.com/features/golden-monkeys/" target="_blank">Golden Monkey</a>” app to go along with this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are still using the free version and it suits us just fine as the subscription version is designed for US
companies that are a lot larger than us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4 Oranges<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most fun and easy to use business tool we have used.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-35405812296761030722012-11-25T14:50:00.000-08:002012-11-25T14:50:19.726-08:00Youth IT Course<br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For some time we have been aware of a possible “disconnect” between the
ICT (computer) skills required in the business sector and those on offer
through academic curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We approached St Andrews and asked if they were interested in testing the
theory. Last week we hosted six</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Year 8 students and helped them explore the more powerful features of Microsoft Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Melanie
Tobeck and Gill Mason facilitated a course on the powerful and time-saving
facilities of Word that many of us overlook in our day to day use of this
familiar programme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We were
thrilled how positive, quick to learn and confident the students were. The students also recognised the time savings
that could be achieved allowing them to focus on their content rather than the presentation
of their assignments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-15589775457645157852012-11-19T12:13:00.003-08:002012-11-26T17:54:44.901-08:00Women using IT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #32363f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f; font-family: inherit;">Thanks to all the ladies that joined us for our Women using IT workshop, you can read the full article in <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/technology/7969578/What-women-want-from-IT" target="_blank">The Press</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #32363f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We have had such a great response to the story that we are planning on running some more sessions on the following dates:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #32363f;">12 December 2012</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #32363f;">10:30 - 12:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #32363f;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #32363f;">You can get your own group of eight friends together for $320 or attend individually for $40 each. Spaces are limited so contact us now to book your seat. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #32363f;">Please call 03 377 9499 or email info@rippedorange.co.nz</span></span></span>The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-76366997259166728342012-10-31T21:04:00.002-07:002012-10-31T21:05:23.517-07:00Juice Tip - Creating handouts in PowerPointDo you use the notes view to print handouts in PowerPoint.?<br />
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For something more flexible saving the file and creating handouts. This will export the slides to Word and allow you to format and adjust from there. Also if you select paste link the slide images will change as you update them in Power Point...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Select file save and create presentation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Select create handouts</td></tr>
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My name is Shirley Gibbs and I am a Lecturer in the
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PhD. My research project involves trying to understand the range of computing
skills that are required in a workplace and the level of computing skill that
people in different jobs have. <o:p></o:p></div>
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people in your organisation would be willing to help I would appreciate the
opportunity of contacting them. This contact could be made in a variety of
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The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-41369799321384032152012-09-30T19:56:00.001-07:002012-09-30T19:56:54.419-07:00Work Experience at Ripped Orange<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This spring we are lucky to have Heather, Amy and Bianca joining us to undertake some work experience as part of their CPIT Studies.<br />
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Taking on work experience projects does require an investment of time however there are some great benefits for many organisations.<br />
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Lincoln University are doing on Microsoft Word and Excel study that may benefit your organisation.. You can view more information <a href="http://rippedorangenz.blogspot.com/2012/09/research-study-word-and-excel.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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At Ripped Orange we use <a href="http://www.mindomo.com/" target="_blank">Mindomo </a> for communicating our course road map. It's very quick to make and easy for people to follow. You can check out our road map <a href="http://www.mindomo.com/view?m=1ae8069bdfbd479db67f7e59bd3dea91" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<br />The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0Christchurch, New Zealand-43.5320544 172.6362254-43.7162454 172.3203684 -43.3478634 172.9520824tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-69652329210651364732012-08-21T14:56:00.002-07:002012-09-12T15:53:56.984-07:00Windows 8 – More than just another upgrade…<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">October will bring one of the largest changes in Windows
history! Windows 8 is more than just an
upgrade from Windows 7 or XP for your desktop.
The same look and feel will run on your desktop, tablet and phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year more Smartphones were sold than PC’s, and tablet
sales are <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/02/03/smartphone-sales-overtake-pcs/" target="_blank">catching up fast.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Microsoft, having the same look and feel
across your desktop, tablet and phone will help them play catch-up in the smartphone
and tablet market.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what does this mean for users that just want to easily
use their computer whether a desktop, tablet or phone? Ideally, it means that once you have mastered
Windows 8 it will be easier to do the same on whatever device you are using. For example, Outlook will look the same, and you
can access your documents on all your computers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, mastering Windows 8 will take time, both getting
used to starting without a “Start” button and realizing the benefit of being
able to work across your desktop, phone and tablet with the same documents.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-23531255023625160072012-08-12T17:12:00.001-07:002012-11-18T20:26:56.314-08:00Office 2013<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The preview version for Office 2013 is now out.. it’s smoother than 2010 and there are some new features, however the basic navigation is similar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will be released to the market in late October with Windows 8. It runs on Windows 7, but they say it’s best on Windows 8.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ripped Orange team are already trialing the new version, standby for an update on the new features soon.</span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/J-3uK2bRNnE?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>The Juice from Ripped Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09992312455028171510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-781005978858612025.post-81806809047214826812012-08-12T17:04:00.002-07:002012-08-12T17:14:54.829-07:00Office and Sharepoint Apps<br />
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Microsoft have launched an Apps Store for Office and
Sharepoint. The video link below gives you an insight to what they
are offering. Think apps for your phone, but instead for
Office. While they have offered templates that you can download in the
past the explosion of phone apps may give this market more credibility and get
people thinking about downloading or buying productivity tools. <o:p></o:p><br />
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