Christmas is really bothering me this year. Not in the “traditional” sense that I’m bothered as in feeling blue or depressed, the signs and symptoms many of us in the medical profession are taught to watch for this time of year. Bothered as in being an objective observer and wondering why.

There is nothing new happening this season than any other season. I’m just seeing it different and nothing is making sense. The frenzied gift buying beyond financial comfort zones. People juggling schedules for parties, school programs, travel and of course shopping. Most bitching about it.

The pressure of feeling they are inadequate or life is selling them short if they can’t be with their families during Christmas. I guess the rest of year doesn’t count.

How in the world did we allow this mass brainwashing to take place? How many actually remember or even celebrate what Christmas is supposed to represent? How many lawsuits would be filed if they tried?

I’m feeling very uncomfortable that I have taught my children to buy into this lie. To buy, give and partake beyond reason to try and induce that warm fuzzy Christmas feeling. I think it’s some form of mass hysteria, I really do.

I can’t help but wonder how did all of this mess happen? That’s exactly what it is, a frenzied mess. Anybody know?

Microsoft has just appointed another bald to be president of its products. Steven Sinofsky is now responsible for the business of Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer, on the part of creation as marketing / marketing. Sinofsky (bell Aterix and Obelix) worked for over 20 years at Microsoft, he was promoted to president just over a year after being selected to join the team, which accelerated the development of Windows and Windows Live. We can only follow his work closely, I hope it brings good news for all Windows users. Source: Microsoft Names Steven Sinofsky Windows the President

It seems that Microsoft will actually provide a free online version and the most famous suite of office applications, Office. According to Tech Crunch: Aiming certainly a direct challenge to Google Apps, Microsoft is implementing a lightweight version, free web and Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All cloud-based, the Web versions of these products present fewer resources than their cousins ??on the desktop, but will bring basic tools to edit and change documents. In my view, I only trade the Google Docs online by Office 2010 if it had fully integrated with Office desktop. I do not know if you’ve used this tool in Office 2007 – to save their files in the Live cloud – failed miserably 80% of the time. One very interesting thing on Office Online is that it has a layout almost identical to the Office Desktop, which is undoubtedly a great advantage against his rival, Google Docs.

Microsoft Office 2010, recently announced by Microsoft, is one of the biggest hypes of the moment, who is leaving those interested in technology more and more excited about the recent dispute between Google and Microsoft. There are still many questions about the Office 2010 and I intend to clarify the vast majority in this post. First, it is important to clarify that the Office 2010, despite the large number of news about it this year, will actually be released in 2010, to be exact it is expected for the first half of 2010, perhaps between March and May . The Office has an online version , competing directly with Google Docs, still do not know if he will have full integration with the Office Desktop. The online software has simplified versions of applications Excel, PowerPoint, Word and OneNote, is free and has a layout very similar to the original Office. I’m betting on a tight integration between these services and Windows Mobile in the future. According to information from Microsoft’s own Office Online works with Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. They did not mention the Chrome, but I bet my front tooth that he will run even better than in Internet Explorer, since Ajax in Chrome is very fast. The Online Office is available for testing in late August or early September, but the final version probably will be available along with the official launch of Office 2010. For the first time, will be available through the Office on 64 bits, which brings a great performance gain for the newer computers with Windows 64 bit system installed. Recalling that the Office does not work on 64bit x86 systems. Office 2010 will be divided into three editions for individual use, or permit for just one computer, and two issues for corporate use. The issues for single use are: Home and Student – Brings Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Are the same components of Office 2007 Home and Student. Home and Business – You have these four apps and Outlook. Professional – Besides the components of Home and Business edition, will include the Access and Publisher. For corporate use, Microsoft will be offering two versions: Standard and Professional Plus. Both allow the company tode the online version of Office on their own servers. Standard – Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, OneNote and Publisher. Professional Plus – Besides the components of the Standard edition, will bring Access, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace (formerly Groove) and Microsoft Communicator. Among the key changes, we can highlight the layout based on the ribbon – the same Word 2007 – which is now active in all applications, including Outlook. Also the menus have been reorganized in a more practical and efficient. There were no big changes in Word 2010, but you may notice a new command to translate texts, new effects for images and preview of items pasted into the document. Outlook is the main target of changes: Grouped messages – visible feature in Gmail. Option to skip conversation – very useful for groups. Alerts – Now it warns about possible unwanted actions, such as: send a message to a large number of people. Common mistake of using Reply To All Microsoft is releasing the Alpha version at the moment, only for guests. A public beta will be released later this year, with the limitation already common downloads from Microsoft. Of course, there are already hundreds of copies circulating on torrent and p2p programs in general. There are some reports of contaminated software, so be careful what you download. Sources: Engadget / Gizmodo / Faywayer / Info / MeioBit

The video has aired some time ago, but has not made a post about it here. It’s our first video review. We tested the unit Nokia N85 (See review). Video Link