Trio of Updates
Microsoft updates OneNote, PowerPoint and Excel Mobile
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Microsoft is pushing updates to a trio of its own app on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, bringing new versions of OneNote, PowerPoint Preview, and Excel Preview.
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Microsoft updates trio of Windows 10 apps
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Microsoft has pushed updates for a trio of Windows 10 apps, bringing new versions of Mail and Calendar, OneNote, and Microsoft Solitaire Collection.
Coming soon?
OneNote for Pebble is 'in the pipeline'
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Microsoft says that a OneNote app made for the Pebble smartwatch is "definitely in the pipeline", even though there is no official Windows Phone app for the Pebble.
Clip it!
OneNote adds option to clip from Bing Image Search
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Microsoft has announced a new feature for Bing Image Search from the OneNote team today called "Clip it to OneNote." Clip it to OneNote will allow users to select individual results in Bing Image Search and send them to OneNote for later review. To use the feature, you simply click the "Clip it to OneNote" button (seen below) from any image, at which point you can add a brief...
Clip and save
Microsoft updates OneNote Clipper for Chrome
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Microsoft has released a major update for its OneNote Clipper browser add-on. It brings the version number to 2.0 and includes a number of changes and additions for the web clipping content tool, including a new location picker feature. Microsoft goes over how the location picker addition works, which was a popular request among current OneNote Clipper users: "Previously, all...
Iron Man lends an arm
Robert Downey Jr. and Microsoft team up
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Iron Man himself, a.k.a. actor Robert Downey Jr., teamed up with Microsoft to offer a very special 3D-printed limb to Alex Pring, a seven-year-old boy that was born with a partially-developed right arm. The festivities were filmed as part of The Collective Project, an effort promoted by Microsoft's OneNote division that spotlights students who are making efforts to help improve the...
OneNote for Education
OneNote Staff Notebook allows educators to collaborate
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After launching a tool that allowed educators to digitally distribute course content to students last year, Microsoft is now launching a utility called OneNote Staff Notebook for Education to "cultivate and manage educator collaboration at the district and school level." The tool, which works in a similar way as the OneNote Class Notebook, lets staff leaders such as principals,...
Freedom is here
OneNote's PC features are now all free to use
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Microsoft has now unlocked all of the premium features for its PC desktop version of OneNote 2013 for Windows 7 and 8.1. The company previously made its note-taking application free for personal use for PC desktop owners but until today certain features did require an subscription to Office 365. However, that barrier is no longer there for OneNote PC users. Microsoft stated: "...
Windows 10 January Preview includes new Touch OneNote
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Yesterday, Microsoft let loose the latest overhaul of the nascent Windows 10 operating system aka build 9926. There are hundreds of changes throughout – some big, some small – but one interesting find you may not yet have noticed is the new OneNote for Office Touch. Although it was known that the new Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint would not be in this build, the status of OneNote was...
Needed
OneNote Windows 8.1 app updated
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Microsoft has released a new update to the Windows 8.1 version of its OneNote app, which finally includes a way to unlock current password protected sections. While this feature has been available for the desktop version of OneNote, it's never been available for Windows 8.1 app users until today. Microsoft says: "Using this feature is easy. First, make sure you're running the...
Digital learning
OneNote Class Notebook Creator increases collaboration
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Microsoft has released an interactive teaching and learning tool called OneNote Class Notebook Creator, which works in a similar way to OneNote allowing students and teachers to type, ink, and save clippings to their notebooks. Where OneNote Class Notebook Creator shines is that it creates a collaborative teaching and learning environment where the teacher could set up a notebook for...
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OneNote is Microsoft's note-taking software available on all major platforms. Notes are synced through the cloud and changes are instantly seen across device. OneNote is available on Windows, Windows Store, Windows Phone, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, Amazon devices and the web. OneNote can truly be used anywhere. On Windows Phone, OneNote is currently an included application and...
Printing comes to OneNote Windows 8.1 app
OneNote for Windows 8.1 updated with printing support
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Owners of Windows 8.1 and Windows RT devices can now download a new version of Microsoft's OneNote note taking app from the Windows Store that finally adds printing support, along with a number of other new features. Printing notes should arguably have been added to the OneNote app long before today, but at least it's now available for Windows 8.1 and RT users. Microsoft says, "With...
Microsoft's OneNote team offers the world their Surface Pro 3-LMFAO parody video
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The OneNote development team at Microsoft has released a video that ... well, may be among the oddest but still entertaining things we have seen from a major corporation in a while. It shows how the note taking app can be used with the new Surface Pro 3, but with a electronic house music beat set to the tune of "I'm Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO. The video itself features things like...
Microsoft releases OneNote Clipper for Chrome, Springpad migration tool
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Microsoft has released a Chrome extension for their note-taking app OneNote called OneNote Clipper. You can install the extension either by going to the OneNote website, or the Chrome Web Store. From there, OneNote Clipper lets you save webpages and clips to OneNote to be viewed later. But that's not all. Microsoft is also releasing a migration tool for Springpad users, letting them...
OneNote and Les Miserables fan? Then watch this great parody
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Microsoft's OneNote team has been kicking ass lately. A few weeks ago they introduced a new set of APIs for developers to tie into the OneNote service. In addition there's a new app for Mac users and the desktop version of OneNote on Windows was made free. Check out this pretty amazing parody from the OneNote team of the song "One Day More" from the musical Les Miserables. Video Yes....
Office Lens or CamScanner, which will prevail?
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While many of us are trying to live in a completely digital world, much of civilization has yet to catch up with us trendy hipsters. Whether you are a student trying to manage the stacks of papers that your professors throw at you or you are a business person trying to clear off your desk – digitizing your papers are a great way to simplify your life. Up until recently, CamScanner has...
Weave newsreader teams up with Microsoft, delivers OneNote sharing for all users
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Weave newsreader has been on Windows Phone since 2010 and is one of our go-to apps for keeping track of news or topics of interest (there’s also a swanky Windows 8 app for your Surface or PC). Last week, we covered a significant update that brought Pocket support for saving articles. At the time, we hinted that there was room for “one more share button” and we now have the answer as to...
Microsoft introduces new OneNote APIs, free desktop apps for Mac and Windows
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OneNote is one of the best note taking service out there right now. There’s competition from apps like Evernote and Wunderlist, but OneNote is still an exceptional product from Microsoft. It gets better and better as time goes on. Not only as an individual app, but as a service. Today Microsoft is announcing three big changes coming to OneNote. OneNote is now out for Mac, is now free...
Office Lens takes text from your camera to OneNote
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Office Lens for Windows Phone 8 is a beta app that lets you snap pictures of text and turn them into OneNote notes. Using OCR technology, Office Lens instantly recognizes text in documents, business cards, and even whiteboards, and then converts them into searchable electronic files. It is also one of the features that was listed as part of the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK late last week....