Yahoo recently introduced a new service called oneConnect, which will combine e-mail, instant messaging, text messaging, and social networking in one mobile platform.
The company plans to roll out oneConnect as part of Yahoo Go 3.0 — an all-in-one mobile offering — and Yahoo’s new mobile home page in the second quarter of this year. In the meantime, Yahoo is showcasing oneConnect at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona this week.
One of the more impressive features of oneConnect is a socially-connected address book, which will allow users to transfer activities from social networks, professional networks, and communities to their address book. For example, users will be able to stay on top of when a contact updates their status or uploads a photo to their profile.
Yahoo will also offer integrated mobile messaging. That means any messaging service provider will be able to use Yahoo’s application program interfaces to integrate with oneConnect’s messaging feature, according to the company. Yahoo said it will use an open communications platform to give users the freedom to send e-mail, instant messages, text messages, and access social networks through a single application.
Users may potentially be able to access both their personal and work messaging services. Yahoo also said it’s in discussions with DataViz, which specializes in mobile access to Microsoft Exchange e-mail accounts and Microsoft Office documents. The two would team up to develop widget versions of DataViz’s RoadSynch and Documents To Go applications.
Other features in oneConnect include the ability to set up messaging shortcuts to get in touch with people more quickly; a social contact card for collecting relevant information about contacts; and a location-sensing capability for locating, chatting, and exchanging information with nearby oneConnect users.
Yahoo expects oneConnect to support hundreds of mobile devices and mobile browsers worldwide.
Expanded Recent Documents history list in Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 is useful as a quick shortcut to open recently used files, spreadsheets and presentations. But for users who handle sensitive or private documents, “Recent Documents” history will expose the trace and existence of otherwise hidden files. If you are sure that you don’t want to utilize the enhanced Recent Documents feature in Office 2007, there is a way to disable the history tracking on opened files.
Use steps in guide below to disable Recent Documents history list for good so that Office 2007 applications will not keep track and save the recently opened files history, also known as MRU list.
1. Click on Office button, and then click on Word Options (in Word 2007) or Excel Options (in Excel 2007) or PowerPoint Options (in PowerPoint 2007) in the bottom of Office Menu.
2. Go to the Advanced tab.
3. Scroll down to the Display section.
4. Set the value for Show this number of Recent Documents: to 0 (zero).
Number of Recent Documents
5. Click OK button.
6. Repeat steps above again for each and every Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 that.
The “Recent Documents” list will appear blank forever.
It’s also possible to set a registry value to enable a policy that prevent displaying of any MRU lists.
However, note that the policy will affect and honor by most Microsoft programs, such as all versions of Office and its individual products, so if you use this registry trick to turn of the policy no most recently used files history will be saved for all programs, including MRUs on the File menu and the Save and Open dialog boxes.
1. Run Registry Editor (regedit).
2. Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
If “Explorer” is not existed, create a new Key for “Explorer”.
3. Create a DWORD value with the key NoRecentDocsHistory and set the value to 1.
NoRecentDocsHistory
All “Recent Documents” list will not be saved and all display will turn blank.