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A specific desk setup significantly enhances productivity and spinal health for effective home office work.
What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools, including a keyboard shortcut creator, an image-to-text extractor, and a better search bar than the one that's built into Windows proper. PowerToys has become wildly popular among Windows power users, with more than 70 million downloads to date, but it's also completely free, with no ads, Office upsells, or ham-fisted Copilot integrations.
ClickShare, part of Barco, is working on both the ease of use and security of the meeting experience, whether it is fully digital, physical, or hybrid. With Teams certification for the ClickShare Hub and Sennheiser bundles in hand, the ClickShare proposition is more robust than ever, according to our conversation with Oliver van Camp, Product Director Meeting Experience at Barco. ClickShare has been producing wireless solutions for all kinds of meeting rooms for fourteen years.
Adobe has improved the tools for Generative Fill, Generative Expand and Remove that are powered by its Firefly generative AI platform. Using these tools for image editing should now produce results in 2K resolution with fewer artifacts and increased detail all while delivering better matches for the provided prompts.
Now, Adobe is allowing users to use the information stored in these files and notes to create a presentation using text prompts. For instance, if a user has financial details, product plans, and competitor analysis available in a Space, they can build a pitch deck for clients that focuses on why their product can solve problems better than rivals. Acrobat's AI assistant first generates an editable presentation with points that the deck would cover.
1. A ring light so you can take all your important meetings looking like your brightest, best self and not like you work in a dark cave. It's got three different light modes, 10 brightness levels, and easily attaches to your computer or phone.
Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink. This new feature reduces the amount of clicks you need to do an everyday task like linking URLs, and it works across Word for the web, Windows, and Mac.