Adobe Anywhere for video now available

Adobe wants to make the common video production headaches a thing of the past with Adobe Anywhere for video. This collaborative platform is an enterprise-level solution that lets users virtually collaborate to finish video productions as smoothly and securely as possible.

The software is installed on a cluster of servers and is powered by two core components: the Anywhere Collaboration Hub and the Mercury Streaming Engine. This release of Adobe Anywhere supports the latest versions of Premiere Pro and Prelude CC, which are part of Adobe's Creative Cloud. Meanwhile, support for After Effects CC is expected later in the year.

TikTakTo: Daily deals aggregator

Offering something different to the deal site table, Canadian-based TikTakTo organizes the promotions from popular online sources, allows users to view deals without the need to sign up, and offers bookmarks for later deals.

The site has over 100,000 active daily deals and up to 10,000 new ones each day with partnerships with major brands such as Groupon, LivingSocial, Hotels.com, Gray Line New York, Skechers, and Converse.

Google brings back free calls to Gmail Hangouts

After rolling out the unified Hangouts, Google took out the ability to make free calls in Gmail. It’s a good thing they’ve been listening and brought the feature back. They even improved it further by making calls to the US and Canada free for countries where Hangouts calling is available.

Other new features their adding to this “future of Google Voice” include being able to add multiple phone numbers and video participants to the same call as well as playing sound effects using the Google Effects app. These new additions are said to be coming out in the next couple of days.

Source: Gmail Blog

Microsoft opens Office and SharePoint Store to new markets

Microsoft’s Office and SharePoint was only previously available to the US market. Now, it is open to 22 new markets with additional language support for French, German, Japanese, and Spanish. The countries with new storefronts include Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, and United Kingdom—with some of these countries having several language markets already.

All those using the new Office can access the Office and SharePoint Store within the Office app or through Office.com.

Source: Office News