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In a move to counter the threat posed by Google, Microsoft has announced the development of a free online tool called “Office Live Workspace” that will allow users to store, share and view their Microsoft Office documents on the internet.

Microsoft said that consumers using this service can store over 1,000 documents on a workspace. However only those users who have bought Microsoft’s Word or Excel software will be able to edit the documents online. Users interested in the service can sign up from beta testing which will get underway later this year.

The move follows the announcement of online ventures in this area by various companies as they look to acquire a bigger slice of the productivity arena. IBM’s recently announced free Lotus Symphony productivity software has had over 100,000 downloads in the first week of its release while Adobe and Google are both coming up with their own software which also includes word processors.

Microsoft has also announced a new service where in it has agreed to host the data center software which offers online versions of Exchange e-mail, Office Communications Server to handle instant messaging and SharePoint portal software.

To be known as “Microsoft Online Services”, this service will be available for companies with at least 5,000 users.

Users interested in the “Office Live Workspace” can sign up for beta at Microsoft’s website.

Features:

Anywhere Access

• Store 1000+ Microsoft Office documents in one place
• Access them from almost any computer with a Web browser
• No more flash drives or sending yourself documents via e-mail

Share With Others

• Invite people to your workspace
• You control who can view, comment, and edit your documents
• Stop manually merging versions from multiple people

Works With Microsoft Office

• Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Synchronize contact, task, and event lists with Outlook
• No need to learn a new program

How can You use it?

There are dozens of ways to use Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta for work, school, and home projects. It’s your online place to store, access, and share documents and files. Use it to organize the stuff in your busy life. No downloads are required – just sign up and go.

For Work

Access documents when away from your desk

• Store documents and access them from any computer
• Stay productive while at home, an Internet café, library, airport, etc.

Share documents with others

• Gather feedback on a document, report, or presentation
• Share with people who can’t access your corporate network

Prepare for a meeting

• Share the agenda, minutes, and action items
• Post meeting handouts or presentations

For School

Organize a study group

• Work together on assignments and share notes from class
• Keep a shared schedule and task list for your group

Keep track of important school information

• Manage schedules from sports to registration deadlines
• Track your GPA and progress toward degree requirements

Coordinate with club or team members

• Post and manage schedules (for sports, clubs, etc.)
• Share lists of who’s bringing what (no more e-mail back and forth)

For Home

Organize an event

• Use for a party, camping trip, even a wedding
• Share to-do lists, timelines, budgets, directions

Store your information and keep track of favorite things

• Store and access important passwords, frequent flyer numbers, etc.
• Create Top 10 lists of favorite films, restaurants, books, etc.—and keep them private or share with friends and family

Prepare for a trip

• Plan for the trip with travel budget and packing list templates
• Share your itinerary, contact info, and important documents with colleagues or family

 

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Source: www.earthtimes.org, Microsoft

The telephone may be one of the most powerful, efficient and cost-effective business tools you have at your disposal to market yourself in the otherwise trite job market. If things start out badly on the phone, they may never progress beyond the first call. Whether you use the phone for telephonic interview, teleconferencing, customer service or for sales calls as part of your telemarketing job, the telephone manners and etiquette you display are the critical components of your professional image.

Your Voice :: Your Personality on the Phone

In order to market yourself on the higher side it is wise to first evaluate your telephone voice as your voice is your personality over the telephone. It makes an immediate impression upon your listener as to whether you are affable or appalling, confident or coward, spontaneous or stereotyped, relaxed or nervous. So, how do you come across over the phone?

Evaluate yourself through the following vocal attributes:

Pitch - Evaluate whether your voice too shrill or strained? Do you speak in a monotone? Does your pitch vary in normal speech? These variations are known as inflection. The more inflection you use, the more interesting and emphasizing your tone of voice becomes. Keep in mind that when you are under emotional stress, the pitch of your voice will tend to rise and become shrill or strained. Control it! The pitch of your voice is an index of your confidence and poise.

Volume - Check the volume or loudness of your voice. Find out whether it is too soft or too loudOften when people are tired or upset their voices tend to fade, and they will be asked to speak up. Make sure that you speak loud enough to be heard, but not so loud that you sound to be thrusting your forced speech into someone’s ear!

Pace - Find out whether you maintain balanced pace while speaking .For if you speak too slowly your speech is likely to lose the attention of the listener. Conversely, your listener won’t be able to follow you if you speak too rapidly. In either case, your message won’t get through.

Quality - The quality of your voice is its most distinctive and individual characteristic. This is where the essence of warmth, understanding and likeability come into play. Smiling as you speak enhances your vocal quality. Whereas being angry, upset or in a hurry negatively affects your vocal quality.

Articulation - The price of poor articulation is high, particularly in business. You must pronounce your words very clearly or your listeners will misunderstand you. Faulty articulation and incorrect word pronunciation will give your listener the impression that you are sloppy, careless and lack subject efficiency.

Some Handy Tips to Help You Escalate Your Speech Tool on the Telephone

• Smile when you’re on the phone; your customers will hear this unspoken pleasant disposition of yours!
• Never answer the phone with food in your mouth or try to eat quietly while talking. Beware that munching, drinking, chewing gum or sucking on a mint gets amplified over telephone lines.
• Reciprocate to all phone calls within 48 hours.
• When you place a call that you know might be lengthy, ask if it’s a good time to talk before you dive into your speech.
• Know what you want to say before making an important call. Spell out your intension through adequate words instead of talking all those irrelevant things!
• Don’t read from a script during a call. Instead either memorizes your script as an actor would or use thought starters in form of a short note with a word or two on the index cards to guide you from one idea to another.
• Make a telephone appointment when you want to have a focused, longer (15 or more minutes) conversation with someone who is normally busy.
• Don’t do things such as open mail, flip through the newspaper or do paperwork while on the phone. The person you are talking with will easily smell that you are distracted.
• Listen and respond to the person on the other end of the line. When you focus on them rather than on what you are going to say next, the phone call becomes much more wordy and verbose.

India smashed pakistan in the T20 world cup. It was a very tense match. At a point pakistan was likely to win but Dhoni’s boys never left the hope. They continued to fight and they took over pakistan at a stage where it was very difficult to say who is going to win the T20 Final.

Here are the few memories from the ground. All the images with courtesy from cricinfo.com

Mahendra Singh Dhoni gets his hands on the ICC World Twenty20 trophy, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

‘Champions’ - officially. The entire Indian team contingent joins in, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Shah Rukh Khan makes an appearance to cheer the Indian team, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

The winning moment - Misbah-ul-Haq rues his luck as the Indians celebrate, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

That fateful scoop - Misbah-ul-Haq scoops Joginder Sharma off what was the final ball of the match, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

The Indians begin their victory lap around the Wanderers, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

India lift the ICC World Twenty20 trophy at the end of a thrilling final against Pakistan, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

India celebrate victory at the end of the ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

India celebrate victory at the end of the ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Yasir Arafat is bowled by Irfan Pathan, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Robin Uthappa celebrates running out Imran Nazir with a direct hit, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Irfan Pathan turned the match with two wickets in an over as India held their nerve to win the ICC World Twenty20 final by five runs, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Irfan Pathan grabbed two wickets in an over as India held their nerve to win the ICC World Twenty20 final by five runs, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Gautam Gambhir cuts during his innings of 75 from 54 balls, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

RP Singh is jubilant after dismissing Mohammad Hafeez, India v Pakistan, ICC World Twenty20 final, Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Few Images how it happend:

Brett Lee gets in the way as Virender Sehwag attempts a quick single, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Virender Sehwag is in pain after injuring his left thigh, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Gautam Gambhir glances one to third man during his 24, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Mitchell Johnson celebrates one of his early strikes, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Yuvraj Singh blasts his way to another blitzkrieg half-century, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

The Australians celebrate as Mitchell Johnson dismisses Virender Sehwag, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Virender Sehwag tries to fend off a steep delivery, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Yuvraj Singh heaves one over the leg-side boundary, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Yuvraj Singh launches into one of his five sixes, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Mahendra Singh Dhoni prepares to loft a delivery for six, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Robin Uthappa scored 34 off 28 balls, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

The Australians are relieved to see the back of Yuvraj Singh, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni had the Australians scampering in the field, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

‘Is that out, Sir, please?’ Sreesanth appeals in vain, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Indian fans celebrate as their team push the pedal, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Mahendra Singh Dhoni collects the ball after Matthew Hayden misses out, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

A fan has a message for Rohit Sharma, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Matthew Hayden’s off stump is sent for a toss by Sreesanth, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Australian supporters were hard to find in a sea of Indian fans, Durban, September 22, 2007

Irfan Pathan pegs back Andrew Symonds’ off stump, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

The ever excitable Sreesanth gives Matthew Hayden a send-off, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Brett Lee is cleaned up by Joginder Sharma, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

The Indian players celebrate after completing a 15-run win, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Sreesanth gives Gautam Gambhir a lifting hug after Michael Hussey falls, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

The Indian team huddle up after the win, Australia v India, 2nd semi-final, ICC World Twenty20, Durban, September 22, 2007

Yes its possible to install gtalk inside orkut. Google is not offering this feature with orkut currently but if you are using Mozilla Firefox you can enjoy chatting on orkut with all your friends in orkut or gtalk.

If you don’t have Mozilla Firefox installed then please install because this is most secure and fastest browser. You can install Firefox by clicking on the following link.

How to Install:

Once you have Firefox installed you need to install the Greasemonkey extension for Mozilla Firefox. Install Greasemonkey now.

What this extension do:
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. You can write your own scripts, too. Mark Pilgrim’s definitive Greasemonkey guide, diveintogreasemonkey.org will show you how.

More details about Greasemonkey extension you can read here.

Once you have installed this extension you are prepared to insert the small Javascript code. For your convenience i have uploaded this script on Userscript.org.

Click here to get the Java script Code.

Check for the Install this Code button and click on it.

Click here to get the Java script Code.

Install the Script and restart the Firefox if prompted and go to www.orkut.com and login to your account and you will find a new block on right hand side.

Following is the screenshot of how the gtalk appears in Orkut.

Now you can enjoy the both at one time. Enjoy and spread this to all.