Monthly Archives: March 2007

03 March 2007

MS Office ultimate 2007 for $75 offer

Microsoft says it really isn’t cheating to get Office ultimate 2007 for $75 outright in their new limited offer for Australian Uni students. To be eligible to participate, students must be enrolled at one of the Australian universities listed on their program site and have access to their university email inbox. They can choose from the following licence durations of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 software:

1. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 (AUD$75): Unlimited licence; or
2. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Subscription-1 year (AUD$25): 12 month licence from date of activation

Considering that MS Office Professional Academic 2007 version is $299.00 and MS Office Home & Student 2007 version is $245.00, this is one hell of a deal to ignore. All prices are in Australian Dollars.

Note: This offer is only available to University students of Australia at http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au/ and all purchases must be made by 11:59 PM (Sydney time) on May 28, 2007.

03 March 2007

Extend Vista start menu search functionality with Start++

Start++ extends Vista’s already impressive start menu functionality with configurable key commands. Hit Win key and start typing like…

w apple – opens Apple’s Wikipedia page.
g apple – opens Google’s search page for Apple.
imdb cars – opens IMDb’s search page for movie Cars.

The list goes on. You can even search for music using keywords, then you can open the results in Media Player.

This method is faster than using Firefox and IE7′s inline search, which requires more steps to do some basic searches. Start++ is still in beta and expect some bugs to show up and its only for Vista. Check it out….