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Office Tweaks

Archive for the ‘web 2.0’ Category

March 3rd, 2008

Share files with Zoho Viewer

You probably experienced sharing or reading files but cannot view it locally because the appropriate software is not installed. That is not a problem because part of Zoho Online Suite is the Zoho Viewer which allows you to view and read files anywhere.
Just recently, they now added document expiry dates and supports a number of […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 29th, 2008

Adobe AIR™ and Flex™ 3: The Next Best Thing?

Just this week, Adobe released their Adobe AIR™ 1.0 and Flex™ 3 to developers. Adobe AIR which was part of Adobe Labs is now available for developers to develop rich Internet applications (RIA). AIR 1.0 runs using HTML, Flash and AJAX. On the other hand, the Flex 3 is as well an open-source development tool […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 23rd, 2008

Google Docs now in Hebrew and Arabic

New language support for Google Docs applications, now supporting Hebrew and Arabic languages. Accordingly, there are now a total of 40 languages that Google Docs support. Hebrew and Arabic is different from other languages since it’s a right-to-left language in terms of writing. But, this is not available for Spreadsheets.

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February 21st, 2008

Microsoft Office Live gets upgraded

Microsoft Office Live rolled out some new features last week, to bring more enhancement to Office Live Small Business service. This aims to help the small business sector to manage their business online easily and without much costs. The new features are more concerned with the e-commerce building facility.
The director of product management and marketing […]

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February 20th, 2008

Try Word Perhect for free…

I know most of us enjoys the Software as a service (SaaS) approach of my software companies, bringing their desktop application online especially for the many office suites today. I know that you own an account at Google Docs, tried Microsoft Office Live, registered for Zoho Online Suite and stumbled on other online suites. All […]

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February 18th, 2008

Try Peepel, just another online office

Yes, you read it right… Peepel not paper….
Peepel is a collection of online office applications that can run simultaneously in a one windows. It works for both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. PeepelWindows are not the usual pop-up windows that are blocked by the pop-up blocker.

Here are some of its unique features:

RSS - Point your […]

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February 12th, 2008

Tips & Tricks: Microsoft Power Point 2007 Tip - Document Themes

Yet another Tips and Tricks video from Youtube.com

Microsoft Office Power Point Tip - Document Themes - If you’re building a presentation and want to make a big impact on your audience, it’s worth the effort to design a visually appealing background and choose your fonts and colours carefully. Of course, we’re not all designers, so […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment

February 12th, 2008

Glide Mobile

I posted an entry last October 2008 about Glide OS which is a web-based desktop operating system and runs with Flash. Also, you can access Glide using your mobile phones at http://www.glidemobile.com
See the screenshot below accessing Glide Mobile over iPhone.

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February 12th, 2008

Zoho Creator gets more secured

Zoho Creator, the Database Application part of the Zoho Online Suite, now supports SSL which gives way to a more secured Business Edition of Zoho Creator. A couple of screenshot below to show you how this new feature works:

The main feature of SSL support is that you can restrict the access of your applications only […]

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February 11th, 2008

Fasthosts Offers MS Office Online

A UK-based hosting company offers MS Office online, using the approach of SaaS (software as a service) but not like the usual. It requires their subscriber to download software to the client PC.
“Fasthosts’ Microsoft Office product uses the SaaS model in that it is delivered and managed via the internet,” explained Mark Jeffries, Fasthosts’ chief […]

By Jerome Locson -- 1 comment