Jim Rapoza

LABS GALLERY: Chrome OS Developer Edition Looks and Feels Just Like Chrome Browser Google recently released a developer version of its much-talked-about Chrome OS. While this is an extremely bare-bones release, even for a developer version, it does provide an interesting look into an operating system that assumes nearly everything will take place on the […]

LABS GALLERY: Outlook 2010 Eases Common Tasks, Fully Adopts Ribbon Interface by Jim Rapoza Ribbon Interface With the 2010 beta, Outlook now fully adopts the ribbon interface found in the rest of the Microsoft Office suite. Conversation View The Conversation View in Outlook 2010 boosts the ability to view full e-mail threads by expanding any […]

With the release of Office 2007 a few years ago, Microsoft showcased a radically changed version of its core productivity suite, introducing a completely new interface and lots of new features. However, there was one piece of the suite didn’t see much change: the Outlook client. Sure, there were some new features, but Outlook 2007 […]

Why E-Readers, MP3 Players and Other Single-Purpose Devices Are Endangered Species by Jim Rapoza No Title Long Gone: Word Processing Computers One of the first casualties of the personal computer revolution, stand-alone word processors were like typewriters with very small memories and even smaller screens. No Title RIP: Personal Organizers Remember when the Palm Pilot […]

LABS GALLERY: Liaise Leverages Outlook for Project, Task Management By Jim Rapoza Text Scan As a user types an e-mail message in a Liaise-enabled Outlook system, Liaise scans the text in the e-mail to detect the KeyPoint (whether the e-mail is intended to take action or handle an issue), who the participants are (the sender […]

Ahh, I love my modern digital lifestyle, especially when it comes to being out, whether traveling or just moving around the city. It’s great that I can walk around with a music collection that dwarfs my old college record collection, that I can have several books in my pocket ready to read whenever I want […]

In the new tradition of rapid browser evolution, both Google and Mozilla have recently released new beta versions: Chrome 4.0 and Firefox 3.6, respectively. Looking at the version numbers, one would expect that Firefox 3.6 would have minor changes and Chrome 4.0 would be a major upgrade. However, based on my tests of the betas, […]

Right now many companies are looking to go green, and while some are doing it out of a feeling of environmental responsibility, there are many that are doing it mainly in the hope of saving some green. This has led many businesses to look for more efficient server room hardware, desktops and office environmental systems. […]

Sixteen years ago, I started out as the newest analyst at what was then called PC Week Labs. Most of the important technologies of the day (such as PCs, office suites, client/server networking and printers) were being covered by the more senior and experienced analysts. They “saddled” me with a technology that, while seen as […]

LABS GALLERY: Google Chrome 4.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Betas Up Browser Ante by Jim Rapoza Chrome 4.0-Bookmark Sync Outside of speed and engine improvements, the only really noticeable new feature in the beta of Chrome 4.0 is Bookmark Sync, which taps a user’s regular Google account to enable bookmark syncing among multiple versions of Chrome. […]

If you want to party on the Web like it’s 2004, you may want to try out the new SeaMonkey 2.0 browser suite. That, of course, is the time before Firefox-back when the open-source Mozilla suite was just starting to take on Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer browser. The Mozilla of that time, like the Netscape […]