ThinkFree Loves You
Wednesday, February 14th 2007 | Ismael Ghalimi
IT|Redux and ThinkFree wish you all a very happy Valentine’s Day. And because we like to put our money where our mouth is, we have a nice gift in store for all the bloggers among you. If you have a blog and are interested to review ThinkFree Portable Edition, we will send you a free U3 USB drive loaded with the application, and with lots of extra capacity for storing your own documents.
ThinkFree Portable Edition is essentially a clone of Microsoft Office 2003, minus macros and pivot tables. It has the exact same features as ThinkFree Online Edition, but works offline, and lets you store documents on the USB drive or on your computer’s hard drive. Now, with all the chatter about synchronization we have had last week, you must be asking yourself why I am promoting an offline office productivity suite, aren’t you? Well, I might have opinions, but it does not make me right. And what works for me (being 100% online), might not work for you, and I am aware of this.
Alongside the USB drive, participating bloggers will also receive a free account to ThinkFree Premium Edition, which is an upgrade to ThinkFree Online, and will be released in Q2. ThinkFree Online is a nice complement to ThinkFree Portable Edition, for it provides more features for collaboration and content management. It goes without saying that we would love people to review both editions.
Now, here is how you can get your Valentine’s gift: if you have a public blog and are willing to share with your readers your experience using ThinkFree, be it good or bad (good is better than bad of course), all you have to do is send me an email with your regular mail address and the URL of your blog. You will then receive a brand-new USB drive fully loaded with the ThinkFree application, which I wrote about in this past article. And because the good folks at ThinkFree like to share the love, we would very much appreciate if you could spread the word with friends and family. We’ve got lots of these drives waiting for them!
Happy Valentine’s
Entry filed under: Office 2.0
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Ok, I am in and email is sent.
Now I will just keep my fingers crossed that I can get the review unit.
Seems that “love” is spreading everywhere…
So if you have a public blog…
It is a great idea. Nevertheless, the problem is that Revenue Canada Agency will tag import duties and sales taxes (GST & PST) before one can receive the gadget. This is part of a market-driven economy as promoted by the World Bank and the IMF in all regions of the world! There is no free lunch, as the old adage says. I needed to pay more than $90 Canadian before I could receive my PMP course materials upgrade from the States back in December last year! For now, the Internet is borderless. Governments will find a way to slap taxes on items exchanged over the Internet one day—transaction tax, which is used in Hong Kong in lieu of sales taxes in every business transaction with a value of $10,000 or more! Milton Friedman, the late neo-classical economist at Chicago University, seemed to agree with this alternative form of tax!
Francis,
I doubt taxes will be much for it, and I’d be more than happy to for it over PayPal if you get taxed. Now, if you’re interested, you’ll have to send me your blog URL, or use IT|Redux, on which you still have an account by the way.
Don’t worry, be happy now…
Ismael,
It is very generous of you to cover all the expenses. I don’t normally accept any gift without giving something back in return. Family tradition! I do have a public blog. For now, I am still operating in one-foot-kick mode. I believe that your in-laws can explain to you the meaning of the term. I am still working on keeping the contents of my blog and web site working in harmony.
Best regards
-Francis
Complexity is the source of BPM non-acceptance by the business community! Finally, Bruce Silver, the BPM evangelist, has to bow to reality—business executives would only look at presentations in PowerPoint or Visio, not BPMN diagrams. Good engineering is elegance—simplicity with no superfluous parts. BPMN is full of symbology with no practical value. Hopefully, BPMN will roll into SysML one day!
I don’t know if it counts, but I’d be happy to post a review on our company’s blog—over 100,000 employees plus customers have access—and on our technology discussion boards, plus, of course, a copy on IT|Redux.
If this doesn’t meet the qualifying criteria, I’d still like to wish you well
Cheers
Andy,
It totally counts. Please send me your address over email.
Best regards
-Ismael
Francis,
I’ll send you one.
Best regards
-Ismael
If you’re reviewing it, be sure to review OpenOffice.org Portable from PortableApps.com, too. It runs from any drive, not just certain ones. It’s part of their Portable Suite, too, which is much better than that U3 stuff, which won’t even work on Vista. OpenOffice.org Portable is open-source and free, which rocks, but it also means that they don’t have the cash to send free drives to get bloggers to review it.
Hi Jeremy,
I haven’t tried OpenOffice.org Portable yet, but I agree that OpenOffice.org is a great cross platform suite. I use it in preference to Microsoft Office—not just because it runs natively on my Linux system, but also because it has some nice features lacking in the Microsoft version.
My motivation in trying ThinkFree standalone is to compare it with the online version—which, at the moment, is very good, but not quite in OpenOffice.org’s league. Give it some time…
Cheers
Well, I have sent you my mail address in UK.
I hope taxes are not too high as you said!
Take it easy!
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