Thursday, April 27, 2006

EditGrid: another spreadsheet on-the-web

Web-based spreadsheet EditGrid announced public beta on Apr 7.
Feature Highlights
* RTU (real-time update).* Full keyboard navigation. * 135 functions
* Import from and export to common formats. * Access rights for every spreadsheet. * Cross-browser support. * A nice "My Worksapce" for you to organise your spreadsheets.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

How to Get Up Right Away When Your Alarm Goes Off - will see how it works for me tomorrow morning when it's time to get up..

Friday, April 07, 2006



Quit your day-job and believe in the Hype! I do like "Ajax" ( Let's take moo.fx for example ) and I'm happy to see what you can do with modern-day browsers but too much is too much when buzz grows. The fanboys who hype Web 2.0 too much in a blogs about those "Alpha" and "Beta" sites makes me see "red". Naw, don't take this too serious, but ask yourself can you regonize Star Wars Character from Web 2.0 site - Web 2.0 Quiz
Office 2007 will have new File Formats!

Office 2007 is due to be released sometimes on 2007. Office 2007 will have two major changes to the office file format. For the first time Microsoft will have file extensions with more than 3 characters, but more importantly it will move from the well know .doc, .xls and .ppt file extensions for the popular Office documents.


Office 2007 will have a new, XML-based file format for Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The New file formats will be the default file formats for Office 2007 but they will also be backward compatible to Microsoft Office 2000 using Office 2007 Compatibility Mode.


Here are the new file formats



Word 2007 Supported File Formats



  • Word Document (.docx) - Default format

  • Word Macro-enabled Document (.docm)

  • Word Template (.dotx)

  • Word Macro-enabled Document Template (.dotm)


Excel 2007 Supported File Formats



  • Excel Workbook (.xlsx) - Default format

  • Excel Macro-enabled Workbook (.xlsm)

  • Excel Template (.xltx)

  • Excel Macro-enabled Workbook Template (.xltm)

  • Excel Binary Workbook (.xlsb)

  • Excel Add-in (.xlam)


PowerPoint 2007 Supported File Formats



  • PowerPoint Presentation (.pptx) - Default format

  • PowerPoint Macro-enabled Presentation (.pptm)

  • PowerPoint Slide Show (.ppsx)

  • PowerPoint Macro-enabled Slide Show (.ppsx)

  • PowerPoint Template (.potx)

  • PowerPoint Macro-enabled Presentation Template (.potm)

  • PowerPoint Add-in (.ppam)



Not all file formats will be backward compatible only the following formats will be backward compatible down to Office 2000.




  • Word Document (.docx)

  • Word Macro-enabled Document (.docm)

  • Excel Workbook (.xlsx)

  • Excel Macro-enabled Workbook (.xlsm)

  • Excel Template (.xltx)

  • Excel Macro-enabled Template (.xltm)

  • Excel binary Workbook (.xlsb)

  • Excel Add-in (.xlam)

  • PowerPoint Presentation (.pptx)

  • PowerPoint Macro-enabled Presentation (.pptm)

  • PowerPoint Slide Show (.ppsx)

  • PowerPoint Macro-enabled Slide Show (.ppsm)

  • PowerPoint Template (.potx)

  • PowerPoint Macro-enabled Presentation Template (.potm)



Office 2007 will also support export to PDF (ver 1.5 which is compatible with Acrobat version 6) and XPS . XPS will support rights management for secure document managements, PDF export will not support rights management.