So you may have seen TweetMeme went a little Joggler-crazy last week, with a grand total of 6 turning up in our office (although not all at the same time).

This is because Dom turned up one day, said they were on offer for £50, showed us all the software and hardware hacks, and we were all completely sold!

I’d like to tell you about all the hacks we’ve managed so far a little later on. But for now, here are some unboxing shots and the default OS in action.

Recently I had a bit of a problem on my netbook when Office 2010 decided not to activate for whatever reason.

I tried a wide variety of things (it didn’t seem too keen on fixing itself), and eventually came upon the following solution:

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Select “Uninstall a program”
3. Find Office 2010 Beta, right click and select “Change”
4. Choose the fourth option, “Enter a product key”
5. Enter the product key you got with the download
6. Let it continue and run the wizard
7. When you restart your Office applications, it will ask you to validate online then you will be activated!
8. You may have to restart again to make the messages go away.

Office 2010 Activation Failure

I got in a bit early this morning, and having raided my parent’s leftover Christmas decorations, I “assaulted” the office with some tinsel. Check it out.

Huddle, the online collaboration and workspaces company, has been busy recently.

Not only have they announced their shiny new iPhone app and web conferencing, but they also announced a downloadable plugin for Microsoft Office, bringing your cloud collaboration to the desktop.

I got exclusive access to the Beta of the Office plugin and had a go – check out what I thought of it below.

Huddle are experts in online collaboration

Earlier in the week, I got stuck in to installing and trying out Office 2010. Now that I’ve had a bit of a chance to get to grips with it and use it, there are some very cool additions that I have discovered and want to dig a bit deeper into.

The first feature, surprisingly enough, is in Outlook. As I said in my previous overview of Office 2010, Outlook is the program from the suite I use the most, and that which has had the biggest overhaul.

One feature that I recently discovered is the Quick Steps feature.

This is a fixture that appears in the main ribbon when you are in a mailbox, and it allows you to configure and then execute macros – a series of steps that would usually take you several clicks, but instead with just one.

Setting up Quick Steps can be slightly tricky, so rather than write a very very long post detailing how to go about doing it, I thought it would be better to record a short screencast and walk you through the process: