Makayama TouchBrowser for Pocket PC

From the start of the iPhone, companies and producers of mobile devices and both have been tripping over to the revolutionary Internet experience in the iPhone for Windows Mobile / Symbian / Palm OS. Obvious examples include Opera and Mozilla who were seized update the basic functions of the browser to allow their functions, such as resizable full-screen viewing. In addition, Microsoft quickly around his update to the Windows Mobile platform with a finger-more (rather than the letter) for better-friendly navigation and Internet Explorer (IE) browser is a substantial improvement.

So far, however, Opera is only one of them the most user-friendly features of mobile Safari, that is able to move on a website by dragging a finger - even update IE has eschewed the idea. Unfortunately, while both the Mobile Opera and Opera is a very capable browser, their implementations of finger-scrolling are slightly klønet. In particular, when you scroll through the page and move to stutter, there is no support for high-speed scroll by flicking your finger on the screen. Put simply, it is definitely room for improvement. Yes, this lack of a fully convincing solution to the big boys, smaller developers have had the opportunity to make a splash in this potentially huge market. I first door is now Makayama, TouchBrowser (full names of original characters) - a full screen, finger-friendly Internet browser for Windows Mobile.

The program was released only a few days ago and probably saw Gordon's message, announcing that fact, but there are software, all required to obtain samples is making rapid exchange of e-mail and wait for files to download short - not couriers Getting lost this time. Yes, we are here today with several devices loaded with TouchBrowser and we're ready for a full evaluation.

TouchBrowser is available for Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile 5 or Windows Mobile 6 and all versions cost the same € 11.95 (around only under tenner) for an indefinite period, a single user license. Compared with the current favourite of mobile phones, Opera Mobile, costs 24 dollars, while Safari is, of course, exclusive to the iPhone, iPod Touch and acquisition of Internet Explorer, with all devices with Windows Mobile. Thus, taking into account the possibility, it is not a bad price, or at least so it seems.

Unlike all other mobile alternatives TouchBrowser is actually just an extension of Internet Explorer so paying ten quid only because of not using the stylus seems a bit steep. In addition, in connection with the use IE (rather weak) rendering engine so you will often find dodgily formatted web pages with pictures, tables and the menu scattered all over the place. After he said that if the browser provides a smooth, easy to use, truly finger-friendly viewing experience will immediately move to the top of our list of Internet wishes, even if a few pages to look a little strange.

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Microsoft Office For Mac 2008

Regardless of whether Mac or Windows user it is fair to say that at some point you have to come with Microsoft Office. Even many die hard-anti-Windows/Mac evangelists will continue to say that there is still a product produced by the Redmond-based giant that remains the de facto standard in its field, whether or not like it. And, while Microsoft Office 2007 is available in Windows for a while longer, took a while for the latest iteration of the package to become available on the Mac. Yes, it is time for us not to our evaluative hat and take a gander at Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and see what strange creatures live there.

In the latest version of Office for Mac was released four years ago, oddly enough called Office 2004, and was in itself a massive overhaul of its predecessor, Office 2001. Unfortunately, several problems were at the beginning of 2004 was originally intended to run on the PowerPC processor architecture, parades, and the rain, when Apple decided to adopt Intel processors instead, as we know the use of x86 (x86-64 in 64-bit systems Such as the "Leopard").

Basically, because of the PowerPC code has been compiled natively on Intel's x86-excecuting, Office 2004 to run under an emulator called Rosetta (stop me if you know any of this), keeping things simple, he was hog system resources and significantly faster (in Under terms of processor) Intel Macs run Office for the PowerPC slower than their counterparts in some cases - counter-intuitive state of affairs to say the least. Office 2008, of course, that all the posts and are encoded using the all-powerful Universal Binaries, which means that, depending on the type of processor, which will have the benefit of the best kind of code, the proverbial win-win situation.

There is, however, contributed to this decline, including the transition to the new structure of the code requires the small sacrifice of the Office 2008 development team - Visual Basic for Applications is no longer supported. This could prove to be a huge problem for companies that want to upgrade, because it is the VBA, despite the absolute actually enjoy the pain, an extremely useful tool. However, Microsoft argues, the development time to allow the VBA code in Intel would be implausibly so long as he went along with a fair number of sales if I'm any judge.

How well these behind-the-scenes changes Microsoft is also taking into account some interface for renovation, as was the case for Office 2007 for Windows. In short, before I give it to you in the following pages long, the entire look and feel just a bit more, well, Mac-like. But just to generalities can we wanted to take a specific programs do not doubt, so let us, and to venture inside. Ladies and gentlemen, please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at any time, and above all: the use of the licence.

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