Microsoft Office – convert trial from unlicensed product to activated license

Interesting ‘undocumented feature’ encounter yesterday…

Sometime ago, I’d downloaded the 60-day trial software suite of Microsoft Home & Office 20110, which had since expired and converted to ‘unlicensed product’, i.e., I could open files in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, & Outlook, but could not save files, import/export data, or create new items.

• After yet again evaluating the trifecta of OpenOffice or LibreOffice, coupled with Mozilla Thunderbird & Lightning, yet again came to  conclusion that MS Office, and in particular, Outlook, remains as my personal information manager (PIM) of choice. Testing included converting exploring Thunderbird / Lightning after importing several gigabytes of mail, appointments, from PST files. Some big gaps…
  • import didn’t include [hundreds?] of contact pictures
  • lack of task folder / hierarchy other than multiple calendars
  • copying / pasting across documents within OpenOffice did not retain consistent formatting
  • couldn’t store attachments in contacts, i.e., limited ability to use Thunderbird & Lightning as a wiki
• Decision – purchase license of MS Home & Office (& re-downloading the suite, being sure to keep the same filename at Microsoft’s suggestion), I entered the license key on pop-screen that appears after opening Office. However…

Haiku – Machines, Where Us?

match scenes, every where.

augmenting, assisting, think.

ent - or - tain? people?

partially inspired by automated humans by Troy Hunt

What if we start multithreading the humans?

Content Creation and Tech Startups – Week in Review – 1/14/2012 – 1/21/2012 – Video via YouTube

Content index listed below video. Section top-level links correspond to indicated time hacks. Weekly review also available in 480-resolution.

• 0:00 - Introduction
• Thought Puzzle intro by Chris Augeri
• Recording Date – Saturday, 1/21/2012 – Wikipedia
• Recording Location – Omaha, NE – Google Maps

• 0:22 - Prior week recap
• 1/13/2012 - CES ends
• 1/13/2012 - SXSW registration – price bump
• 1/14/2012 - Obama Administration – responds to ‘We the People’ petitions on SOPA & Online Piracy
• 1/15/2012 - Why SOPA is unconstitutional – Cory Doctorow – Boing Boing

• 1:05 - PandoDaily Launch
• Sarah Lacy launches PandoDaily – startup “site-of-record” – CNET
• Sarah Lacy (@sarahcuda) - Twitter
• Why I Started PandoDaily - Sarah Lacy - PandoDaily Blog
• Pando Tree – Largest Living Organism – Wikipedia
• PandoDaily – site-of-record for Silicon Valley

• 1:59 - Internet Blackout Background
• reddit blog – stopped they must be; on this all depends
• SOPA Infographic
• Keep Web Open – infographic – public comment on OPEN Act
• Lumin Interactive – Infographic – via Search Engine Journal
• Ape Con Myth - Super PIPA-SOPA Flowchart
• Thought Puzzle – A to Z – The Definitive Guide to SOPA
• NLB Creations – anti-SOPA Blackout day – Google Cache
• Google Custom Search Engine – Internet Blackout Search Demo – curated by ThoughtPuzzle, data via Nikki Blight Creations
• Google Custom Search Engine – Default Search sans Redaction - curated by ThoughtPuzzle

• 4:41 - Blackout Pages
• TechDirt Gallery – reddit & other SOPA Blackout Protest Screens
• Wikipedia blackout page – via Best About Pages
• End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google – also in our blackout screenshot archive
• Thought Puzzle Blackout Pop-Up – powered by Stop SOPA WordPress widget
• Thought Puzzle -Haiku – Widespread Interwoven Protest Acts – WIPA SOPA

• 5:50 - SOPA/PIPA Protest Politics
• Protesting anti-piracy bill [w/ my interview] – Omaha.com – Omaha World-Herald
• SOPA: Lee listens, Saddle Creek sets record straight and Moran reaffirms – Silicon Prairie News
• Silicon Prairie politicians distance themselves from SOPA, PIPA – Silicon Prairie News
• Senate postpones PIPA vote; SOPA delayed indefinitely – Consumer Reports
• SOPA Markup to resume in February? – via House.gov
• Reddit blog – Thank You – Technical Analysis, SOPA & PIPA

• 7:10 - Megaupload Takedown
• Before shutdown, Megaupload ate up more corporate bandwidth than Dropbox – ars technica
• Anonymous goes nuclear; everybody loses? – Molly Wood – CNET News

• 7:50 - Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood
• YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood – Y Combinator
• Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. – Hacker News [powered by Y Combinator]
• Now, We Need to Build the Internet Defense System – Ben Huh
• Y Combinator’s Short-sighted and Irresponsible Declaration of War Against Hollywood – Ben Parr

• 9:16 - Facebook Happenings
• Facebook Expands Open Graph To 60 New Apps, Many More Coming – Forbes
• Facebook Could Replace YouTube As Vevo Host – NBC San Diego

• 9:53 - Google Happenings
• Google To Close Social Graph API, Not OpenSocial -
• Google Pulls The Trigger On Three More Services – Gizmodo Australia
• Picnik Image Editing [to be shuttered by Google]
• Google Abandons Anonymous Accounts With New Signup Form – Webmonkey@ Wired
• New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

• 11:11 - Twitter acquires Summify
• Summify - Twitter Acquisition Announcement
• Twitter buys Summify, helps you automatically turn off the noise – Engadget
• News.me, Percolate vie for Summify users after Twitter buy – GigaOM

• 12:16 - Also in news
• @bigomahacow – Big Omaha Cow – Twitter
• Big Omaha 2012 – register for latest info
• Enormous solar outburst could dazzle your weekend – Christian Science Monitor

• 13:30 - Wrap-up
• @thoughtpuzzle – Chris Augeri – Twitter
• ThoughtPuzzle.com - now redirects to Chris-Augeri.com/blog

Thanks for watching & tune in again next week!

Haiku – Content, Startups, & Tech – Weekly Review – soon via YouTube

Weekly broadcast. Soon.

Net out. MegaUpload down.

PandoDaily up.

inspired by many things, such as

‘a picture is worth a thousand words’

Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch via Carnegie-Mellon University

Haiku – Startups Ain’t Sex

Somewhat seductive.
Scrambled social sensations.
Game changers? Yep. Schleps.

inspired by Guanzhi Ma’s comment on TechCrunch article

‘rise of sensationalization of start-ups’

Brad Feld via ecorner - more of Feld’s thoughts on work-life balance