Faster Forward Archive: Productivity
An Adobe Reader update worth the download hassle
For the first time I can recall, there's an update to Adobe Systems' free Reader program that merits a reaction beyond resignation. The new Reader X, released yesterday, includes three valuable features. The first is a new layer of defense against increasingly common attacks on this widely used Portable Document...
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Rob Pegoraro
| November 19, 2010; 6:39 PM ET |
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Productivity, Security
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Google offers mobile editing on Google Docs -- with many restrictions
This morning, Google announced that smartphone users could use its Google Docs site to edit documents on the go.
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Rob Pegoraro
| November 17, 2010; 4:46 PM ET |
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Mobile, Productivity
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Mint Data offers an interesting, iffy peek at spending
Intuit's Mint personal-finance Web application has become a simpler, less-stressful replacement for desktop financial-management programs like its own Quicken or Microsoft's (discontinued) Money. This site has also allowed Mint to amass an impressive warehouse of data about the spending habits of its users -- which the company says it anonymizes...
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Rob Pegoraro
| October 28, 2010; 4:24 PM ET |
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Finances, Productivity, The business we have chosen
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Intuit shutting down Quicken Online, but will move some users' data to Mint
Intuit is closing the Quicken Online Web-based personal-finance program it developed before buying the competing site Mint, but along the way it's giving users of that application some withdrawal pains.
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Rob Pegoraro
| July 23, 2010; 5:15 PM ET |
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At WPC keynote, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has his head, heart in 'The Cloud'
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer had a mostly full Verizon Center applauding his vision of the company's future in a keynote that opened the company's Worldwide Partner Conference. But Ballmer's roughly 30-minute speech also served to illustrate his employer's challenges. Ballmer structured the keynote around the theme of Microsoft moving...
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Rob Pegoraro
| July 12, 2010; 11:09 AM ET |
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Gadgets, Mobile, Productivity, The Web, Windows
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Microsoft Office 2010: A cry for help?
Pardon the melodramatic headline, but I've had this thought bouncing around my head since I first installed Office 2010 -- the subject of today's column -- about two weeks ago. It's not just that Microsoft faces serious competitive pressure from the likes of Google, Apple, open-source developers and such startup...
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Rob Pegoraro
| June 18, 2010; 9:20 AM ET |
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Gripes, Productivity
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