Vectorian Giotto: Easily Design Flash Animations Without Any Coding [Software Review]

Vectorian Giotto is a Flash creator application using which you can easily create professional Flash animations even if you are not a Flash professional. Vectorian Giotto’s powerful yet very simple user interface, requires only designing your Flash animation using the tools and pre-defined controls provided by it, without even writing a single line of code. It will allow you to quickly and easily create professional Flash animations for websites and other projects.

Before using Vectorian Giotto, creating Flash animations was not my cup of tea. I had no experience whatsoever with Flash animation or graphics tools before. But, with the easy-to-use interface, powerful drawing tools, shape morphing, stunning built-in effects, sound and scripting support, a beginner like me will find it very easy to make incredible, professional-looking movies, while for any expert designer, they can do much more in less time. And if you are short of creativity, you can use any of the pre-installed templates and simply change the text and graphics in it to have a polished flash banners. [Read more...]

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 in Stores This October, Plus Pricing, Editions, Free Upgrade Offer

Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac 2011 will be available at the end of October, 2010. There will be mainly two different retail editions of Office 2011 for Mac available for purchase: Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. Additionally, there is a special edition for higher education students, staff and faculty: Office for Mac Academic Edition 2011.

Additionally, if you buy Office 2008 for Mac product from an authorized reseller between August 1, 2010, and November 30, 2010, you will be able to upgrade to Office 2011 for Mac, when it is available, free and at no additional cost through the Microsoft Office for Mac Technology Guarantee Program. [Read more...]

Microsoft Legally Allows Installation and Use of Microsoft Office on Two Computers

Do you want to know if you can use Microsoft Office on two computers? Yes, you can as Microsoft legally allows the installation and use of Microsoft Office on two computers (1 desktop and 1 laptop computer system).

In a twitter reply by Microsoft Australia (MSAU), offered an interesting insight that many of you might not have been aware of. You can use any version of Microsoft Office legally on both your home computer and a portable computer system like laptop. As long as both the systems belong to you and you’re the person who has bought the copy of Microsoft Office. That’s a very handy tidbit of information. The reply to a tweeted question also stated that the Home and Student edition of Microsoft Office is licensed for installation on up to three machines. [Read more...]

Download Free Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcut “Cheat Sheet” Posters

Microsoft has released free resources designed to enable developers leveraging Visual Studio 2010 to improve their workflow and productivity. The free refreshed version of the Visual Studio 2010 Keybinding Posters (aka. Visual Studio 2010 Cheat Sheets) are now up for grabs from the Microsoft Download Center. The posters are set up to make it as easy as possible for developers to take advantage of the keyboard shortcuts available for common commands in Visual Studio 2010.

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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta Downloads

Microsoft has released the official beta version of Windows 7 SP1 at last publicly. Users who want to download and install the beta version of SP1 are first needed to register at the Evaluation Center. During registration remember to select IT or any developer related occupation to be able to download Windows 7 Service Pack 1. SP1 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7, and are available in English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish language.

This service pack is also offered via Windows Update and in standard ISO image format, which is around 1.2 GB in size and required to be burned to a DVD first to use it. [Read more...]

Download Microsoft Office 2010 Free 60-Day Trial Version

Microsoft has released Office 2010. It is available in three different retail editions:

  1. Office Home and Business 2010
  2. Office Home and Student 2010
  3. Office Professional 2010

Office Home and Student 2010 is the basic edition that is retailing for $149.99 and includes the core Office modules including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office Home and Business 2010 which retails for $279.95 and includes Microsoft Outlook on top of what is offered in the basic edition. Office 2010 Professional which retails for $499.95 and is the only edition that includes Access 2010 and Publisher 2010. [Read more...]

Get a Chance to Win Free License of Handy Backup Professional worth $99 [Expired]

We are back with another awesome giveaway for our readers! This time you will be able to win 2 free licenses of Handy Backup Professional absolutely FREE. Usually the license costs $99 but you can get it FREE!

We reviewed Handy Backup, a complete and extensive backup solution for day-to-day backup tasks. You can read about it: REVIEW: Handy Backup Server — Reliable Backup Solution for Enterprise Network.

Just follow these simple steps to be eligible for the lucky draw: [Read more...]

Handy Backup Server – Reliable Backup Solution for Enterprise Network

The award-winning server backup software by Novosoft LLC, Handy Backup Server is designed specially for centralized backup of enterprise networks. The program consists of a server part and client workstations. This software works well on windows server backup (including Windows 2008, 2003, 2000 Server), performing client-server backup scheme.

To protect your business from loss of critical data and to set you free from routine actions like manual backup and sync, Handy Backup Server has the following features: [Read more...]