Recently, Adobe has added an attractive tool for viewing and editing presentations to Acrobat Labs. Adobe Presentations is built on flash and offers a decent set of features and animation. Just like any other good flashed based application you can drag and drop the different shapes, text and other media that you want to add into the presentation.

Other than that it allows you to easily bundle different items together in groups. This normally helps when a user wants to adjust a box of text, an image or a video at the same time. Using this feature you will be able to adjust the size of all the objects accordingly.

With Adobe Presentations, multiple users will have the option to work on the same slide simultaneously. In addition to that they will also be able to see who else is working on the same file. A real time live chat feature would be a great add on for this application here but rumors has it the Adobe will be adding it sooner rather than later.

Currently, it is totally free to use and Adobe will be introducing a paid version later this year.

Intel reveals that Moblin V2 will provide a much faster boot time, minimum memory usage and longer battery life. It will also feature a new user interface with a homepage called M-zone. M-zone is completely customizable for OEMS, that means you can expect to see more Moblin computers, especially from wireless carriers.

In addition to that Moblin V2.0 will offer an integrated Twitter and Last.fm widgets along with a new integrated browser based on Mozilla’s engine. Other than that it features

• New Media Player
• Support for UPnP streaming
• USB Devices
• connection Manager with GUI
• Further social networking integration

The Moblin V2 is available totally free of charge but currently it only supports wired networking.

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The company claims that it is the first ever mobile solution that offers robust documents and spreadsheet editor. Not only that it also promises to preserve the integrity of the original document at the same time.

The vice president engineering and product development at Quickoffice David Halpin said that Quickoffice is focused on bringing high-quality products to mobile professionals that helps to improve productivity while on the road. He also added that they have vastly improved the usability of eOffice for BlackBerry with this release, focusing on the features and functionality desired from our customer base.

Currently this application supports multiple file formats including

• PDF
• Photo formats
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint

In addition to that it will allows users to access Google Docs and Spreadsheet. It will also be integrated with Print and Fax options.

eOffice is available for just $29.99 with unlimited online storage allowing users to access their files directly from their device.

 Are you hooked to online social networking games? I am. I spend about an hour a day on Mafia Wars, Mobwars andother similar games. These use ajax code  which really stress out the browser. Check out the load times on Internet Explorer for these games. Even on a QuadCore, response crawls sluggishly. This is especially true when you’re adding mafia- errr – friends – to bolster your gang.

After reaching level 30 on MW, it looked to me IE wasn’t built to fence with ajax. Playing social games led to numerous “transport error”  messages when I upgraded my skill or added 100 new mafia to my gunmen.  That was unacceptable. Hence,  I jumped to Mozilla Firefox.

The experience signifacantly improved! I never got the same error messages again. Even better, I successfully robbed more Dons with less lag time on the screen. That translated into more money per minute with Mozilla. Kudos to you Firefox- you made me rich!

Then Google Chrome lumbered onto the scene. I must admit that it didn’t impress me at first. The interface was too simplistic (couldn’t even find the Print and Search buttons at first try).  I felt like I was browsing with a blank screen. Zen just wasn’t my cup of tea.

I almost ditched Chrome, when I realized that naked simplicity came with an invaluable gift:  Speed.  Google Chrome was fast. Really fast. Try loading cnn.com, Facebook and most importantly, Mafia Wars. These sites cripple IE with ease and slap Firefox occasionally. But Chrome? No way! I can open multiple Chrome tabs with ajax powered sites on each. The browser refuses to slow down or crash! I replicated the result on a humble asus eeePC – ajax based sites did not slow response down. Revalation: browsing speed depends on the quality of the browser, not just your processor.

Hats off to you Google. You came out with the best search engine. Now you have the best browser as well.

Office 2007 SP2 offers a noticeable change in performance improvements for Outlook.  SP2 decreases the time it takes for Outlook to start up, shut down, and view or switch folders. According to Microsoft, Office 2007 SP2 is 26% faster than SP1 for “a set of common email tasks” and 36% faster for users with larger mailboxes.

Microsoft categorizes the service pack in 2 types of fixes.

• Previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack.
  • In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in stability, performance, and security.
  • You can find out more information in Knowledge Base Article 953195, where product-specific changes are described.
• All of the Public Updates, Security Updates, Cumulative Updates, and Hotfixes released through February 2009.

This update will support operating systems such as Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Microsoft release for Office 2007 will update the following

• Microsoft® Office Basic 2007
• Microsoft® Office Enterprise 2007
• Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007
• Microsoft® Office Professional 2007
• Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007
• Microsoft® Office Small Business 2007
• Microsoft® Office Small Business Management 2007
• Microsoft® Office Standard 2007
• Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007
• Microsoft® Office Access® 2007
• Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
• Microsoft® Office InfoPath® 2007
• Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007
• Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007
• Microsoft® Office Publisher® 2007
• Microsoft® Office Word 2007
• Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2007
• Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007

Automatic update won’t be available for another 90 days so for those of you who really don’t want to waste any time and get done with this can download the update manually.

To get started simply download the update and save the file to your hard disk drive. Once done locate the .exe file that you saved, double-click it, and follow the instructions on the screen.

The new service is provided by an innovative text-to-speech tool known as iSpeech that coverts your text documents easily. It offers a very user friendly interface and the whole process really doesn’t take much time either.

To get started you will first need to to visit OpenBox Directory to add the iSpeech service. Once done simply go to the document you want to listen to, click on the file menu and select ?Convert to Speech. You can create your iSpeech free account here to get the document converted.

In addition to that iSpeech gives you further options to choose from to create your own audio file, including voice selection and a few initial setup steps to use the service. You just have to register with iSpeech once and turn any of your documents on Box into audio files within a matter of seconds.

QuickOffice for the iPhone comprises three products in one

• QuickSheet
• Quickword
• QuickOffice files

The suite costs $19.99 and features some of the most useful features we all had been waiting for quiet some time including “Copy and paste”. Furthermore, you can format text, add bullets, and work in landscape mode. On the other hand you can use over 125 functions and advanced formulas in Excel. The suite also includes a files tool that lets you load documents over a WiFi connection or from a MobileMe iDisk account.

Quickoffice for iPhone offers:

• Edit and create.doc files and .xls spreadsheets
• Text format options, such as font size, style and color
• Cut, copy and paste text anywhere in Word, including to another
• document
• Edit bulleted and numbered lists
• Edit Word documents in landscape mode with wider keyboard
• Wrap text at any zoom level and eliminate repetitive left and right
• scrolling
• Access to MobileMe iDisk accounts
• Viewing of iWorks, PDF and other common media files
• Supports advanced features and functions for spreadsheets, including
• revise inputs and recalculate, and insert and resize rows and columns
• Automatic save changes and autorestore

I was invited to a presentation last year in London on the River Thames hosted by F-Secure, where Mikko said exactly the same thing, that hackers had moved on from attacking Windows and Internet Explorer because they were fairly secure, and were now going after and attacking individual applications and brower addons instead, which weren’t as secure as the main application.

Mikko said that it was harder than ever for F-Secure to keep up with the hackers, and in San Francisco he asked for companies like Adobe to do more and to learn from Microsoft’s example and patch identifided vulnerabilities quicker.

If you’re looking for a safer way to read PDF files, then Mikko recommends pdfreaders.org for a list of alternatives.