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From the makers of GrooveIT! for Outlook there is now a new tool called GrooveIT! for my documents.

With GrooveIt! for My Documents you can to search for your files and to publish them to a chosen Groove file tool. The best thing for me is the advanced search feature. Searching within Groove it self is not a feature so I’m very happy to see search capabillity. For search within workspaces I also rely on a tool from Information Patterns called Toucan File Finder. But that does only search GrooveIT! for My Documents does much more then only search.

Interface:

Features

Find, file and publish easily:

• Find  your files within your Groove spaces, or in your own spaces, with the “advanced search” feature
• Find your documents easily by entering your key words
• File your Groove resources from one space to another
• Publish your SharePoint or local resources into Groove

+ Simplify the making/creation of documents:

• Create and save your Word 2007, Excel 2007 and PowerPoint 2007 documents straight into Groove, thanks to the incorporate function in the toolbar.
• Find and edit your Groove files with the search functionality incorporated in the Office applications ribbon.

+ Surf in your files lists: filing, searching, publishing:

• Lists of local files
• Groove files tools
• SharePoint Libraries

It is absolutely worth a try. If you use Groove a lot then this could be a must have.

You can get it here.

See ya

Jeroen

As a Groove adapt I’m always looking for nice tools to use with Groove. Hommes & Process is a company that developed a tool called GrooveIT for Outlook. With this tool you sent most items from Outlook to Groove. I’m using this product for about 2 years now and I loved the first version.

But with the release of version 2 there was a bug in one of the features of the product . Creating rules did not work and that is one of the fundamental things that GrooveIT should do for me.

This problem happened when an Outlook client was connected to an Exchange environment.
It looks for the list of Outlook folders and does that to infinity.

But talking to the developers at Hommes & Process they (David Martin) came up with a new updated version of GrooveIT for Outlook V2. It is always great to help out the developers and test the new version. And yes it is running like a charme now. By fixing this bug the product is now compleet.

Other features of the product are:

• Share your RSS feeds
• Transfer your Outlook tasks
• Create GrooveIT! rules on calendars, tasks list, contacts list, RSS feeds
• Discover improved Groove tools including support for Groove links, attachments management, filtering
• Build discussion threads of your emails, avoid duplicates
• Update calendar events, contacts and tasks already published in Groove

Just have a look and see at http://www.grooveit.biz/en/home.aspx You can download a trail version.

See ya

Jeroen

Today I received my Groove MVP status and it is not an April fool’s day joke. I’m very happy with this status. I would like to thank the MS Groove team for nominating me. So this year I even need to work harder to keep this status.

Next week I will receive the MVP award pack, I wonder what will be inside.

Further on this week I started the Groove Exam Cram Tour. The first city in the twelve city tour was Lisbon. Very nice city, nice weather and nice Microsoft venue. My job is to prep Microsoft Partners to pass the Groove 2007 exam (070-555). Also Kevin R, is helping out because Milan and Brussels are on the same date. And still I don’t have a clone (thank god for that). So Kevin will be in Milan and I will be in Brussels. Yippie, I can go by car pffff.  The other city’s are: Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vienna, Zurich, Zoetermeer(of all places ) , Dublin, Madrid and Copenhagen.  So it will be a busy two and a half month. We also have made tour shirts (GEEK)

Looks like a rock band Tour shirt don’t you think. And yes, Marillion fans out there it looks a bit like a Marillion tour shirt.

So no time to waste got to go…….

See ya,

Jeroen Jansen

Yesterday I recieved my Chumby. If you think about it is a evolution of the Nabaztag. Ok, some of you now might be lost so here is the not for Geek explainition.

First of all a Nabaztag is a Wifi Rabbit. that lets you communicatie through his ears and belly. He can play music and tells you the weather by the colors on his belly.
This how a Nabaztag looks like:

A Chumby is much more interactive. It feels like a bag of beans. And has an small touchscreen (about 5 inch I think). See picture below:
 

It is a wifi only device that has an Linux OS installed. On that OS it plays widgets. Those widgets have different functionalities like a clock, YouTube clips, Ebay tracker, Traffic, RSS and News.
My favorite widget is the Chuck Norris Fact widget. Every 5 seconds a new Chuck Norris Fact. Example; Chuck Norris is’nt hung like a horse, Horses are hung like Chuck Norris.

It is just very cool, well I think so.
Every day there are like four widgets added to the Chumby site. So there a lot of them on www.chumby.com.

A Chumby is only availible in the US of A. But if you google a bit you will find a way to get one at your doorstep in Europe.

Well that it for now. I go back looking at Chuck Norris fact.

See Ya

Jeroen Jansen

I just stumbled over a great tool from Information Patterns called Toucan File Finder. It allows you to search for files within your Groove workspaces. It is an external tool that searches within selected workspaces It is really a life saver for me. I really miss the search option within Groove and this tool just helps a lot.

Below is a screenshot of the tool.

You can search for anything that you want but you have to know what kind of file you are looking for. If you select a lot of workspaces to search in you will see that it takes some time to complete. So knowing what you are looking for is key.

I know you all want this and the best thing about it is that it is free!!! And because I’m Dutch this is the best thing . There is even no registration page WHOEPIE!!!!! And because you guys need to search a lot these days I will spare you a Google moment and just point you to the link. Click on this LINK to go to the download page.

See ya

Jeroen