Office 2008, New Blogging Tool and HD DVDby Mary Ann Romans | More from this Blogger 18 Jan 2008 11:08 AM Here are the latest headlines in the world of technology. Office 2008 Released Yesterday, Microsoft officially released Office 2008 for the Mac. The announcement was made at MacWorld, which is taking place in San Francisco. The software was originally scheduled to be released sometime last year, but lingering problems and software bugs delayed the release. Microsoft is also becoming more support of Mac, redesigning a website, Mactopia.com, that showcases Microsoft products to be used with the Mac platform. New Blogging Tool Going into Beta testing today is a new blogging tool that promises to allow you to update your blog without the use of a blog editor. This tool is notable, because it makes it so very easy to embed content such as videos from YouTube, photos from Flickr and even sales links from Amazon, among other content. This means no more endless fiddling with uploading and trying to make things appear properly. This new publisher's helper is called Triggit, and the way it works is by using a tiny bit of JavaScript. You insert the code into your blog or your website's main page. Then on the Triggit website, you can choose the content type. The Triggit servers modify whatever content you want and then displays it on your page. The upside? it is easy and fast to use. The downside? It is new so there might not be a lot of support for it. And since the content isn't actually on your blog, it might not show up on a search. HD DVD Getting Its Death Blow? Rumor has it that the last two movie studios to support the HD DVD format, Paramount and Universal Studios, are planning to drop HD DVD and more over exclusively to the Blu-Ray format. If this does really happen, it may be all over for HD DVD. Of course, HD DVD players are now seeing a dramatic decrease in prices, which may prompt consumers to purchase them, consumers who may not realize that the movie choices for the format are limited. This surge of interest may give some false hope to the format, prompting the big studios to continue support in the short term. Of course, those HD DVD players could be used as upgraded DVD players, offering some enhancement of quality to standard DVDs. Mary Ann Romans writes about everything related to saving money in the Frugal Blog, technology in the Computing Blog, and creating a home in the Home Blog. You can read more of her articles by clicking here. Related Articles: Your Blog: Doing Link Exchanges Blu-ray Frequently Asked Questions Learn more about Mary Ann Romans  Mary Ann Romans is a freelance writer, wife and mother of three children. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, the kids and a 16-pound cat. Relevantcomputers tags User Comments No comments on this article yet. Be the first to comment! Community Tags apple, blog, HD DVD, microsoft, Triggit Discuss this article
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