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Microsoft has today released a new update for OneNote for Android app, taking it to version 16.0.9001.2134 .with a number of new features.The update brings support for a lasso tool, making it easier to select multiple items. It also includes better image management tools in notes, and better support for stylus-based note taking, with improved palm rejection.Overall it should make for a more productive note-taking experience.See the full changelog below:We heard you! Use the new lasso tool to freely select ink drawings and other content on your page.Change the size of images and move text and images around on the page to keep things organized.If you take notes with a stylus, OneNote now suppo...

Microsoft Teams already allowed its users to create a new shared OneNote Notebook via OneNote tab for team collaboration. Now, Microsoft has improved this feature by allowing user to include an existing OneNote notebook as a tab. This means anyone can bring their own OneNote content directly into a chael for further discussion. Here’s how this new experience will work when you go to OneNote tab in Microsoft Teams.via: Ae...

Microsoft yesterday released a new update for OneNote for Android app with a couple of new features. First, the Office Lens experience is now integrated within the app. This will allow users in scaing, cropping, and rotation of photos, documents, whiteboards, and business-cards. Second, users can now press and hold the OneNote icon to quickly create different kinds of notes. This feature is supported only for Android devices ruing version 7.1 and above. Microsoft has also added the ability to sign in to OneNote using just your phone number with this update. Apart from these new features, this update includes bug fixes and performance improvements. Download the updated app here from Play Sto...

The Samsung Galaxy S9 will be the flagship Android phone of 2018 and will find its way into the pockets of many of our readers, particularly because Microsoft sells them.Samsung has a tendency to be a people pleaser and packs their phones with exactly what they hope the majority would like to have, and thankfully this still includes support for a real 3.5mm headphone jack (unlike Google, Apple and few more other companies).A new component leak for the SM-G965F (via Slashleaks), which is believed to the Samsung Galaxy S9, confirms the presence of the round hole at the bottom of the device.That rounds out a package which is expected to include a Snapdragon 845 processor, 6 GB of RAM and a dual...

In Microsoft Excel, you can select multiple cells by using Ctrl key. When you use Ctrl to select multiple cells, you can’t unselect a cell if it was misclicked. Instead, you have to select the cells all over again. Yes, there’s no way to unselect cells. If you are a regular user of Excel, you must have come across this situation before. But the good news is that Microsoft is finally fixing this issue.Microsoft today released new Office build Version 1712 (8828.2010) to Office Insiders and it comes with new features and improvements. One of new feature is for Excel, you now have the option to deselect cells that you accidentally clicked without having to start over.For Outlook desktop users, ...

Microsoft is releasing the December preview builds of OneNote for Windows 10 to Insiders to test.This update improves search and speeds it up by displaying results instantaneously. Microsoft is also adding a virtual ruler to OneNote, so users who use touchscreen devices like the Surface can draw straight lines in tablet mode.Here’s the full changelog:Set things straight: On touch screens, use the virtual ruler on the Draw tab to draw straight lines and measure distance. Rotate to a specific angle with the help of the angle indicator.Speedy search: Search just got faster! Your search results now appear instantaneously, making it easier to get back to your notes.The version number for this upd...

When you think of a medium for creating art Microsoft’s productivity suite does not exactly spring to mind, but for Japanese retiree Tatsuo Horiuchi it was just the challengehe needed.The74-year-old from Nagano Prefecture thought the application was the perfect medium for him to hone his craft, with the aim of delivering something he would be proud to display within 10 years.GalleryI am sure our readers will agree MrHoriuchi is well on his way to achieving his goal. More of his creations can be seen at BusinessInsider here.Some links in the article may not be viewable as you are using an AdBlocker. Please add us to your whitelist to enable the website to function properly. Related ...

Wacom, the company that powers digital inking capabilties in most of the Windows devices is now working on a Windows app called Bamboo Note. Bamboo Note is a note-taking app that will compete with Microsoft’s OneNote and others. It will allow you to easily capture information and shape your ideas.Similar to the OneNote, Bamboo Note will provide ininite canvas to let your thoughts and ideas flow fr...

[embedded content]Last May, Microsoft first aounced the new organizational user interface design for OneNote. Over the past few months, Microsoft has rolled out this new design to various versions of OneNote, including OneNote for Windows 10, Mac, iOS, and Android. Today, Microsoft aounced that they have rolled out this redesign to OneNote Online as well. In the new design, the navigation cont...

Despite all its limitations and being more than two years old now the Microsoft HoloLens remains the best mixed reality headset, with competitors either still to launch (see Magic Leap) or lacking in significant ways, such as being tethered, being even bulkier, not actually being head-mounted (see ARKit) or lacking in offering a real platform for developers. TheIndustrial Designers Societyof America has now honoured the device with a Best in Show award at IDSA IDEA ( Inteational Design Excellence Award) in the segment of Consumer Technology. The Inteational Design Excellence Awards is a...

Microsoft is today releasing a major update for OneNote in Windows 10 today. The company is adding some smart new features to the OneNote app in Windows 10, along with improved features that’ll allow users to take better notes. The update includes a new Text to Math feature, which as the name suggests, will let you convert text equations to actual math equations that can be solved or used to automagically draw a graph on OneNote. There’s also now a new Smart Lookup feature that enables users to get some rich information from a certain word or phrase — all you have to do is right click a word,...

VideoLan has updated the VLC for Windows 10 app on PCs and mobile phoneto version 2.5.3.0 The update brings significant performance improvements to background music playback, which was previously stuttery but now appears much smoother. The update also includes some video performance improvements, ...

Back in May, Microsoft aounced that they will be bringing newpencil texture and ink effects like rainbow, galaxy, lava, ocean, gold, silver and more that will help consumers express theircreativity in new ways in Office apps. Today, Microsoft aounced that Office Insiders in the Fast Ring can ...

Groove Music is now a suitable music player slash streaming service for mainstream users on WIndows 10. WIth all the focus on streaming music nowadays, it’s important to remember that some users still use old (but powerful) apps like iTunes to manage their music on PCs. Now, Microsoft has made it ea...

A day or two ago WhatsApp pushed out a new update to the WhatsApp Beta app for Windows Phone, taking it to version2.17.234. The update does not ostensibly add much, except barring the ability to add a check mark character to your user name, as can be seen in the screen shot above. The change is, h...