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Send Files in Chat for iGoogle and Orkut

2010-03-30T04:49:00.000-07:00

Improved chat for iGoogle and orkut: "Have you ever wanted to quickly send a file to a friend who's online? Now you can share pictures, documents and other files directly with your friends while chatting in iGoogle and orkut, without having to switch to email to send the file as an attachment. File transfer works directly in the browser so you don't need to install anything. Just start a

Google's Wave Protocol gets a second client: Novell Pulse

2010-03-26T03:09:00.000-07:00

Novell Pulse and Google Wave: Demonstrating Inter-company Collaboration: "Ian Roughley is an architect on Novell Pulse, a new real-time collaboration environment for enterprises that federates with Google Wave so users of both products can work together using their tool of choice.For Novell Pulse, it was a pretty easy decision to adopt the Google Wave Federation Protocol. For many months before

Collaborative bookmarking with lists

2010-03-24T21:39:00.000-07:00

Collaborative bookmarking with lists: "Earlier this month we added stars in search so that you can easily mark and rediscover your favorite websites. Today we’re debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of your favorite content across the web and we want to help you share them with

Zoho Adds Domain Registration

2010-03-24T21:34:00.000-07:00

New: Domain Registration in Zoho Business: "Domain registration is generally the starting point for many businesses. In many cases, a company is named based on the availability of a domain - atleast that was the case with Zoho. After a domain is registered, you find a hosting provider to host your email, Calendar etc and then find other vendors to host different set of applications you need to

Google Bookmarks Lists

2010-03-23T20:41:00.000-07:00

Google Bookmarks Lists: "Google tests a new interface for Google Bookmarks that lets you share your bookmarks.You can now create bookmark lists and share them with other people. Google says that 'lists make it easy to organize and share stuff you find on the web', but the new feature adds what was already available in Google Notebook, a great service that allowed you to create collections of

Socialwok Gets More Social With Buzz, Facebook, Twitter

2010-03-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

Socialwok Gets More Social With Buzz, Facebook, Twitter: "Ming Yong, CEO of Socialwok, the social layer for Google Apps, dropped us a line to announce that his product was getting Buzz — Google Buzz, that is, along with Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feed support. Here’s the scoop on the new feature.Yong demonstrated the business value of Twitter integration to me by showing how a user can set a

The Power of Google Spreadsheets

2010-03-23T11:16:00.001-07:00

Google Apps are sometimes called "just toys," especially Spreadsheet when compared to Excel. There are some things that Spreadsheets does extremely well, though. I show off the GoogleLookup and GoogleFinance functions.

Enso's zenPad is the cheap Android tablet you've always wanted, available now

2010-03-23T03:36:00.000-07:00

Enso's zenPad is the cheap Android tablet you've always wanted, available now: "With so many concept Android tablets floating around lately we were inclined to just ignore this one -- until we learned two particularly interesting aspects: it starts at $155, and it's actually shipping now. It's the zenPad from Enso, a five-inch, 800 x 480 Android 1.6 tablet with 8GB of storage (on a replaceable

Zoho Adds More Access Control

2010-03-18T23:08:00.000-07:00

Image via CrunchBaseFeature: Controlled Access in Zoho Business: " One of the advantages of using online applications is mobility. You can access applications and your data from any location, operating system, browser or a device. In some specific cases, this 'access anywhere' may not be a good thing. Some companies requested us to provide a way to restrict user access to a pre-defined set of IP

Aviary Integrates with Haiku Learning

2010-03-18T23:07:00.000-07:00

Image via CrunchBaseAviary for Education: Exciting Integration with Haiku Learning: "We are very excited to announce our new integration with Haiku Learning Management System (LMS). Haiku is a learning management system designed to bring the advantages of the web to students and teachers. We couldn't be happier seeing Aviary's powerful tools embedded right into Haiku classes. Check out this

Google Calendar Improves Re-scheduling

2010-03-18T23:06:00.000-07:00

Image via CrunchBaseLooking for a good time? New scheduling tool in Calendar: "Scheduling meetings is tough, but rescheduling is even harder. We all know how frustrating it can be to try to find just the right time that accommodates everyone's availability and preferred working hours. Throw in different time zones and conference rooms and it goes from painful to excruciating. We'd rather schedule

Meebo Puts Out iPhone App

2010-03-18T23:04:00.000-07:00

Image via CrunchBasethe iphone app is here: " Our Meebo iPhone App Valentine’s Day Poem Roses are red Violets are blue Go get your iPhone app and leave us a review! – from Meebo, with love It’s official… our Meebo iPhone app went live at 9:45 pm on Valentine’s Day. Some of its features include: Access to all your buddies (AIM, Gmail, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, etc)

Zoho Adds Advanced Summarizing Options in Pivot Tables

2010-03-18T22:54:00.000-07:00

Image by Craig & Nicole via FlickrZoho Reports: Advanced Summarizing Options in Pivot Tables: " Spreadsheet users know the importance of pivot tables and the role they play in easy summarizing and visualization of data. With Zoho Reports, you can make pivots by drag-and-drop. There are many summary functions available - Sum, Maximum, Minimum, Average and Count - when constructing pivots. And

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

2009-12-08T17:08:00.000-08:00

Check out The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave Welcome to the first comprehensive user guide to Google Wave, written by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn the ins and outs of how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. This entire

Failed Zoho

2009-07-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

Image via WikipediaIf you couldn't tell by my failure to get past the first week, Zoho didn't make the cut for me. I was fine working around anything I had trouble with, but I couldn't stand losing work. My presentation failed to load in class twice, and they were both irreparably damaged during saves and had to be reworked.I'm OK with limited functionality. There's no reason to be "cloudy" if

Day 5: More Calendar Woes

2009-03-05T16:05:00.000-08:00

As often as I hear people complaining about the Google Calendar, I'm having much more difficulty with Zoho's. Meeting times are in half-hour increments, and there are no settings to change this. I can't schedule my class at 9:10 or 10:40. The calendar can't work in my situation and I've had to move back to Google's calendar. Not having all the apps in one place is really going to hurt Zoho's

Day 2: Fire.fm, a Firefox Add-on for Last.fm music

2009-03-02T22:25:00.000-08:00

I ran across Fire.fm when looking for a better music situation than I had the last time I went "OS-free." As the name suggests, it is a Firefox Add-on for Last.fm which will play artists and neighborhoods. It even does searches of past plays from the Awesome Bar. The setup is simple and it just works. Happy, happy me! Related articles by Zemanta Last.fm Denies Giving Users' Data to RIAA (

Day 1: Impressions of Zoho

2009-03-02T18:23:00.001-08:00

I had my first full day working in Zoho, mostly using the calendar and spreadsheet application, and I came to some conclusions:The interface is remarkably fast -- much moreso than Google's apps.The calendar is fancy, featuring drag-n-drop, yet it lacks certain advanced features that Google's calendar has -- namely, the repeating event dialog is much more limited.The event creation in the calendar

The Zoho Experiment

2009-03-01T18:57:00.000-08:00

It's the first day of the new semester, and I've determined to do another 30-day test, this time with Zoho. The same rules apply as before --I'll do all my work online. I can't use any local apps other than a browser and a file manager. I should try to avoid using a file manager where possible and instead work with files completely online. I will prefer Zoho applications over other choices.I

Answered Prayers

2009-02-03T05:40:00.000-08:00

Well, It feels like an answered prayer, anyway. About a month ago, I submitted a suggestion to Google about videos in presentations. They had been using a custom widget to embed YouTube videos, but that didn't have the normal YouTube controls, didn't pause/resume correctly, and most importantly, didn't have the ability to pre-cache the video. Sometime in the last week or so they switched to a

Day 30: The Google Apps Experiment in Summary

2008-12-14T00:07:00.001-08:00

Well, it's over. The thirty days have passed and I'm still alive. It wasn't even that difficult, really. Sure, I felt pangs of desire for desktop applications, but I really believe that had more to do with working on a full desktop than anything -- it was like going on a diet with a cheesecake staring you in the face every time you open the fridge. I'm sure that I would have been fine had I been

Day 22: Recreating the Applications Menu in iGoogle Using Webapps and Gadgets

2008-12-05T18:17:00.000-08:00

It's day 22 with no desktop applications but a browser and a file manager, and I'm doing OK. Not great. Fine. I'm going to run through how to set up your new "desktop" to run the common applications you'd have in your old desktop. I'm going to pretty much run down the Debian Gnome menu point by point, so this should work for Ubuntu or Fedora, as well.Accessories: First, create the Accessories tab

Day 20: Google vs. Zoho, Part 2

2008-12-03T16:31:00.000-08:00

In the first part of this comparison, I hit the major pieces of the groupware suite -- e-mail, calendar, word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software. I'll be covering some of the less-used applications next. IMGoogle's Chat Zoho's Chat Both suites claim to offer IM in the e-mail windows. GTalk offers text, voice, and video (not available on Linux). I have zero on-line contacts,

Day 18: Google vs. Zoho: Mail, Calendar, and Office Suite

2008-12-01T21:24:00.000-08:00

These thirty days are dedicated to Google. I made that clear in the beginning, but I'm running out of stuff to talk about except being slightly bored and a little limited. I've pretty much fully adjusted my work-flow. Honestly, since I used Googel Apps so much before, I didn't have to adjust much at all. I probably wouldn't be a fidgety as I am if my computer only had a browser and file manager:

Day 14: Gmail Set-up

2008-11-27T21:56:00.001-08:00

This is my GMail setup. It's quite easy to use, comes in one page, and notifies me of all my calendar events. Chat is on the right. My Todos (there aren't any, really) are handled by a combination of tags and stars.