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Microsoft Office Starter 2010 & Office 2010 Professional Beta Features Comparison

Sandip — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:06:18 +0000

First exclusive Screenshots of Office Starter 2010 are already published here. Now here comes a big post on features comparison of Microsoft Office Starter 2010 with Office 2010 Professional edition. One big difference is that Office Starter 2010 will have only Office Word & Office Excel.

Microsoft Office Word Starter 2010 and Office Excel 2010 Starter are also stripped down and advertisement support versions. Check out below screen by screen comparison of Office Starter 2010 & Office 2010 beta.

Office Word Starter 2010 Beta & Office Word 2010 Beta

1. Office Word Starter 2010 Splash screen takes more time to open compared to Office Word 2010

2. Office Word Starter 2010 has annoying right sidebar with advertisement which can’t be disabled.

3. Office Word Starter 2010 Home tab is similar with all features like Office Word 2010

4. Office Word Starter 2010 Insert Tab doesn’t have following options

Missing Symbols – Equations

Missing Insert Smart Art Feature

Missing Screenshots & screen clipping feature

5. Office Word Starter 2010 Page Layout is similar to Office Word 2010

6. Office Word Starter 2010 Mailings Tab is similar to Office Word 2010

7. No References, Review & View Tab in Office Word Starter 2010

Office Excel Starter 2010 Beta & Office Excel 2010

1. Office Excel Starter 2010 Beta Splash screen takes more time to load compared to Office Excel 2010 beta

2. Office Excel Starter 2010 has annoying right sidebar with advertisement which can’t be disabled.

3. Office Excel Starter 2010 Beta Home Tab is similar Office Excel 2010 Beta

4. Office Excel Starter 2010 Beta Insert Tab doesn’t have following features

Missing create pivot table & pivot chart feature

Missing screen clipping & insert smart Object

Missing slicer option

Missing Microsoft Signature line & Add signature service

Missing Equations feature

5. Office Excel Starter 2010 Beta Page Layout Tab is similar to Office Excel 2010 Beta

6. Office Excel Starter 2010 Beta Formulas Tab doesn’t have Formula Auditing feature

7. No Date, Review & View Tab In Office Excel Starter 2010

Comparison Of Office 2010 Tools

Office Starter 2010 doesn’t have following tools

1. Digital Certificates for VBA projects

2. Microsoft Office 2010 Languages Preferences

3. Microsoft Office Any Time Upgrade

Microsoft Office Starter 2010 has one unique useful & best feature “Microsoft Device To-Go Manager” which is not available in Office 2010 Beta as of now. Microsoft Device To-Go Manager lets you to carry Office Starter in your USB flash drive.

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Microsoft Office Starter 2010 Beta Screenshots & Review (Exclusive)

Sandip — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:48:33 +0000

Few days back ithinkdiff had reported about Office 2010 Starter invitation sent out by Microsoft. Though we were late in the league of receiving invitation & finally today we got our hands on invitation to join Office 2010 Starter Program.

As of now Office 2010 Professional Plus is available for public download which includes complete office suite whereas Office 2010 starter Beta edition will have only Office Word and Excel. These are limited versions of the most popular Microsoft Office productivity tools.

Office Starter 2010 is aimed for low budget home users. Office 2010 Starter installer is little different from single image installer of Office 2010 Beta. The size of initial Office 2010 Starter Beta setup is only 1.58 MB (SetupConsumerC2R-EN.exe) which again starts downloading some more files when you execute it.

The complete Office 2010 Starter installation process has four steps

1. Preparing your computer

2. Downloading of necessary files

3. Installing Initial Prerequisites

4. Setting up Microsoft Office Starter 2010 Beta

Installation process is little unpredictive since even after completing installation when we attempted to start Office Word Starter 2010 it again started downloading some files.

We were successfully in installing Office Starter 2010 Beta along with Office 2010 beta Professional however Docx & Doc file association has been changed default to Office Starter 2010 Beta.

Now here is one of best feature of Office Starter 2010, You can now carry Office Starter 2010 in USB flash drive. To create portable Office Starter 2010 you need to use Microsoft Office Device To-Go Manager which comes with Office Starter 2010.

We haven’t analyzed limitation Office Starter 2010 & missing features over Office 2010 Beta Professional, that will be topic of our next post. So stay tuned with us.

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Set/Change Windows 7 Registered Owner & Organization with SetOwner

Sandip — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:05:44 +0000

It may happen that you have bought second hand laptop or computer with preinstalled Windows operating system and you are looking for the way to change ownership information. To help you to instantly change ownership here is freeware utility SetOwner.

SetOwner is small utility that let you to quickly and safely change the registered owner and organization in Windows 7 & Vista & XP (the information you see when you run Winver command).

SetOwner for Windows 7

Download SetOwner.

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GoogleSysTray System Tray App for all Google Services for Windows & Linux

Sandip — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:03:41 +0000

With so many services offered by Google it’s becoming increasingly difficult to manage different Google service accounts. For e.g if you have Google Voice, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Wave account then it’s very difficult to track all this account from your browser.

Here is excellent desktop app GoogleSysTray which is a system tray app for Google Voice, GMail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Google Wave and provides notification alert via popup message or SMS of any new message.

GoogleSysTray offers basic services quickly for e.g Reading or sending a new SMS message, or marking an email read, for example.

GoogleSysTray

GoogleSysTray Supports following Services

1. Google Gmail

2. Google Voice

3. Google Calendar

4. Google Reader

Download GoogleSysTray.

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Create Magic Image Resizer Folder with Dropresize

Sandip — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:19:47 +0000

In past we have covered several utilities for resizing images. Today we have got one excellent utility Dropresize which will reduce your task of image resizing thereby saving your precious time. Dropresize is different from rest resizing tools as it doesn’t require any extra steps for resizing images.

Dropresize is a system tray application that watches a folder for new images and automatically resizes them into a web-friendly size. The only limitation is this app only supports jpeg images. But other image formats will be supported in the future updates.

Dropresize

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HotFile AutoDownloader – Download Files from Hotfile.com

Sandip — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:14:00 +0000

In past we have covered several file downloaders for Rapidshare, Megaupload, Letitbite.com, Netload like online file sharing websites. The reason for the need of files downloaders is that most of the online file sharing websites have some or other limitations on free accounts.

Today we have got File downloader for HotFile.com. HotFile AutoDownloader or HFAD is a handy automatic downloader program, assistant for downloading from hotile.com website.This application doesn’t bypass hotfile.com timer, it download more links in sequence and without any care.

Featues of HotFile AutoDownloader

1. Download a group of links from Hotfile.com (one by one).

2. Autoshutdown feature

3. Load and save the download list.

HotFile AutoDownloader

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Download Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta for Free Now

Sandip — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:43:50 +0000

In past Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview was leaked twice and two days back Office 2010 Beta was made available to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. There were some rumors of Microsoft may allow Office 2010 beta for Public download. Well the rumors were true and the first public beta of Office 2010 is available for download.

The first public beta of Office 2010 is Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 edition which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote & also Publisher & InfoPath 2010.

Download Office 2010 Professional Plus Beta

http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx

Office 2010 beta is set to expiry on October 2010 and requires online activation. The size of Office 2010 Beta 32-bit & 64-bit installer is around 700 MB.

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View Windows 7 Startup Program List with Startup Discoverer

Sandip — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:48:56 +0000

Windows 7 has several ways to start applications & programs automatically commonly referred as startup locations. A tight control over startup programs can save you from viruses & malicious programs. Manually keeping check of windows 7 startup locations could be cumbersome task and many don’t know all Windows 7 startup locations.

Here is nifty app Startup Discoverer which can retrieve list of programs added into startup locations of Windows 7. You can view program list based on startup category like machine runs, user runs etc.

Startup Discoverer

The main interface has 19 categories that you can click on to get the auto start programs list for each category. Blue category label means that there are auto programs in this category, black label means empty category.

Click on Show All Runs to view full list of Startup programs.

It is also possible to save a list as a text file and to print the a list to the default printer.

Download Startup Discoverer to get Windows 7 Startup List.

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uTorrent Automatic File Priority Manager

Sandip — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:53:35 +0000

uTorrent is best torrent downloader client and is available for Windows, Mac & Linux. Here is uTorrent Automatic File Priority Manager supplementary tool for uTorrent which lets you to manage your uTorrent downloads.

uTorrent Automatic File Priority Manager is an easy to use, simple Java utility that will enable you to manage file priorities in uTorrent automatically so that an ordered list of files may be downloaded one at a time.

uTorrent Automatic File Priority Manager

uTorrent Automatic File Priority Manager utilizes uTorrent Webui to control torrent priority. You can also set priority based on keywords.

Download uTorrent Automatic File Priority Manager.

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Recover Product Key of Installed Software with Softkey Revealer

Sandip — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:08:37 +0000

In past we have covered number of applications to recover Windows & Windows 7 product key, Game CD Key & Other software’s Key.

Now here is yet another freeware tool Softkey Revealer that reveals the CD-Key and Serials for installed softwares in computer. SoftKey Revealer can find & recover Office 2003, 2007 Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and over 700 other software product keys.

Softkey Revealer

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