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- Offline Webtop access: Is it really a game changer?
- Offline Webtop access: Is it really a game changer?As I have been saying, Google should beworking 24 hours a day to add a Java runtime to gears. They need to work with Mozilla and Sun to use the same VM as for the rest of the functions.With a rich execution...
- Tags: Desktops, Web browsers, desktop application, webtop, game, Web Apps, desktop, Web browser, desktop app, game changer
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- beejive: multi-service IM for the iPhone
- BeeJive has just released an alpha of JiveTalk for iPhone – a web-based mutli-network IM client that allows you to chat on AIM, GTalk/Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo simultaneously. It works much better than Meebo and uses an iChat style bubble display. I tested connections on AIM, GTalk, and MSN and...
- Tags: Web Apps, Mobility, iPhone
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Zoho updates Notebook
- Zoho just announced a few key updates to their Notebook application. The company has been busy this last week with the release of a Zoho FaceBook application that provides access to documents created with Zoho Writer, Sheet, and Show and the release of iZoho which allows display (but not editing...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Google buys GrandCentral - wow!
- I did not see this one coming but it makes a lot of sense. Google purchased GrandCentral, a very useful online service that provides a unified "inbox" for all of your phone numbers. I first encountered GrandCentral at DEMOFall last year and have been tracking the enhancements and improvements in...
- Tags: Google, Mobility, Uncategorized, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-07-03
- Google calendar updates
- Google has recently added a couple of very nice new features to the Google Calendar application. Since the beginning of the year, I've been using Google Calendar as the "glue" that binds all of my devices witht he assistance of some helpful utilities including Spanning Sync for Mac OS X...
- Tags: Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Zoho Meeting now in public beta
- Zoho has just announced that Meeting, their web conferencing and desktop sharing tool, has been opened for public beta testing. The service, which has been in private beta for some time, provides the following features and capabilities: Meetings allows you to share your desktop with multiple attendees. Attendees can attend the meeting...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Is Safari a honeypot for the iPhone?
- I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. I came across the interesting notion that Apple chose to release the Safari for Windows beta to have the hacker community expose and document holes in the browser in advance of the iPhone release at the end of...
- Tags: Mac OS X, Mobility, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-06-16
- Friday Rant - Hey Microsoft! Where's the Windows Extras you promised me?
- Friday Rant - Hey Microsoft! Where's the Windows Extras you promised me?Frustrating? Yes. Surprising? Why?Every time Microsloth announces a product in development, they claim it will have features A thru Z. Shortly thereafter, it's leaked that features D thru J won't make it in the first...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 98, Channel management, Operating systems, remote desktop, Web Apps, Windows Extras, Microsoft Windows, Friday Rant, Web, Apple iPhone, language pack
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- Zoho launches Creator 2.0
- Zoho announced today that a new, improved version of Creator, their database application builder, has been released. If you've ever struggled with "simple" tools like FileMaker Pro or Microsoft Access you know that constructing an application that draws on one or more database files can get very complex very quickly.Creator...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Can Microsoft change 'gears' for the sea-change ahead?
- For the last year, I have endured ridicule, insults, and criticism for talking about the potential of a well-funded competitor like Google, let alone the collective potential of countless other smaller innovators, to prove the viability and even the supremacy of Web-based applications over their 'locally run' competition such as...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management, Google Apps To-Do List, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Big day for browser releases
- While the browser market is still essentially a two-horse race, that is not stopping other contenders from trying to break into the game. Netscape has just released version 9.0 (beta 1) of their Navigator browser based on core Mozilla code which has a number of very interesting ideas in play,...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Software, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Is Google the black hole at the center of the net?
- Another day, another announcement about Google pulling the net into its gravity well. Salesforce.com and Google have announced an integration that tightly couple AdWords campaign management into the popular CRM/SFA tool. It's a natural fit and I'm trying not to feel all creepy about this but...Phil Wainewright has a solid...
- Tags: Web Apps, Google
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership
- Why are these two men smiling? Because a partnership that increases the value of both parties is always cause for celebration.ThinkFree has been on a roll this year with big presence at both ETech where CEO TJ Kang also presented a new document sharing community and Web 2.0 Expo. I've...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Work virtually from anywhere
- Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- MonkCast #3: Will the day come when 'no IT pro ever gets fired for buying Google?'
- In the 70's and 80's, one of the most famous cliche's for IT professionals was "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." Eventually, the same could be said for Microsoft. Two days ago however, given how pretty much none of Google's applications could work unless Internet connectivity was...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Open Source, MonkCast Podcast, Mobile, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Google Gears - the game has changed
- Wow!I'm not often left feeling completely astonished these days. I like to think I'm pretty on top of where things are going. But I just got completely blindsided by Google Gears. There's already plenty of first-glance analysis to help you grasp the magnitude of what they've done. I recommend you...
- Tags: Google, Mobility, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- NYC on 2 Nokias a day
- A couple of weeks ago, I took the family on a trip to New York City. We got a pretty good deal on travel in the form of a package deal from Hotwired.com that included four round-trip tickets and two hotel rooms for about $600 per person for a four-night,...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-26
- Gmail now renders PPT
- Gmail is now rendering PowerPoint slide decks as a playable slide show. I've found a few files it's choked on (seems to be graphic density but that's very unscientific data so YMMV). It's very fast and quite useful when it works. I get a lot of PPT files and this...
- Tags: Google, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Zoho Notebook now in Public Beta
- At the end of January, I wrote about Zoho Notebook, the latest addition to the company's stable of web-based applications. At the time, I was very impressed with the concept and initial execution and today, Zoho has made Notebook publicly available as a beta. If you use a product like...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Twitter ubiquity - more ways to microblog
- Two new ways to Twitter popped up in my RSS feeds this morning. First, Twitter has launched a new mobile UI that loads very quickly on both the Nokia N95 and the Treo 700p in my tests. Much better IMO than using SMS to check in with my friends list...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Mobility
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
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