Microsoft adds more functionality to Office for iPad

Microsoft released another major update for its Office for iPad app to answer user requests and add more functionality to the productivity suite. All three apps now have the ability to export files as PDF. They also have new third-party fonts as well as the ability to crop to focus on images with new Picture Tools.

Excel gets better external keyboard support, additional print options, and a “Flick to Select” feature that allows you to, well, flick to select all data in a column or row. PowerPoint gets a new Presenter View to edit and view speaker notes; look at following slides; as well as jump to other slides while presenting. There are also new media features to let you play videos, sound effects, and background music while presenting. You can check out the new features for yourselves by downloading the apps. Here’s the link for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Source: MacRumors

Facebook shutters Gifts service on its site

Facebook used to allow you to send gifts or digital gift cards to your friends on the social networking site. Now, this option is being taken away from you. Facebook is shutting down the service by August 12 as part of a move to help businesses and developers drive their own sales rather than turning Facebook into an online store of sorts. Or we’d like to think no one is really using the service anymore so it makes no sense that they keep it running. 

Source: Gizmodo

HTC rumoured to unveil new Windows Phone device at August 19th event

HTC has something up its sleeves and the tech rumour mill is buzzing. The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer is hosting an event in New York this coming August 19 and they aren’t saying what it’s for. Some people claim the event will be for HTC One M8 for Windows. The device will reportedly feature most of the same specs the Android flagship will have such as Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, 2GB of RAM, 5-inch 1080p display, and 16GB or 32GB internal storage. But the device will carry Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. Whether this rumour is true or not, we’d just have to wait and see what HTC has in store for us.

Source: Ubergizmo

Google takes out the need to have Google+ account to use Hangouts

Google is making it easier for business people to sign up for its Apps for Business service. The tech giant has taken out the need to have Google+ profile to use Google Hangouts. It would seem they finally got that some business users do not want to expose too much personal information to use the chat service. According to Google, they are promising 99.9% uptime for paying users. Let’s see how spot on that promise is.

Source: Lifehacker