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Xobni Becomes more Useful

Colleen Coplick — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:02:53 +0000

Xobni, the useful little Outlook plugin that makes finding emails and information so much easier, is extending the services into other data sources and social networks. Now, when you look at the history for one person, you can now see any emails you’ve exchanged with that person on Yahoo Mail and also lets you connect with them on Skype.

Now, in addition to providing LinkedIn information, Xobni will now poke through Facebook and show you information about a user, like their recent status message and picture.

Add to that the fact that with a connection to Hoovers, where it will return information about the company that your contact is affiliated with, and Xobni is a powerful little add-on for Outlook.

It is still just a tool for Outlook users, which is unfortunate, but rumours are floating around that support for Gmail and Yahoo is on the horizon.

(image credit, Xobni)

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Xobni Becomes more Useful

Try ZoooS Office, your Online OpenOffice.org 3.0

Jerome Locson — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:46:14 +0000

During the Office 2.0 Conference 200, ZoooS LLC introduced a web-based office suite which tries to put OpenOffice.org 3.0 in the web. ZoooS Office comprises of different tools similar to that of OpenOffice.org 3.0. These includes ZoooS Write, ZoooS Spreadsheet, ZoooS Presentation, ZoooS Draw, and the ZoooS database. And accordingly, 80% of its features are similar that of OpenOffice.org 3.0.

Hisham El-Emam, CEO of ZoooS LLC, said “ZoooS Office looks exactly like OpenOffice.org 3.0, using the same icons, dialogs, and help text — everything to eliminate the learning curve. Many companies want to access their files from any location and any device, but they don’t want to store confidential files in the cloud. Companies can run ZoooS Office locally to maintain complete control over their files while still providing local and remote access from PCs, laptops, mobile devices, and even game consoles.”

ZoooS Office is not yet available until their public release which is scheduled in the fourth quarter of 2008. It will be out by then as a Mozilla XULRunner version, a Firefox plug-in, an Opera widget, and an intranet server. Supports to other environmenta nd browsers will follow.

[ via MarketWatch ]

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Try ZoooS Office, your Online OpenOffice.org 3.0

A Centralized Zoho Docs

Jerome Locson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:39:40 +0000

The latest update with Zoho Suite is trying to defeat Google Docs, the Zoho Docs.

Introduced during the Office 2.0 Conference recently, Zoho Docs now allows users manage Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations created using their tools. Now, it can be stored and manage in a central place insid ethe Zoho Docs environment. Still, with this upgrade, you can share your documents for collaboration, label your documents, and allow control access.

With Zoho Docs, your Zoho Writer, Sheet and Show are now integrated in one environment which makes you easy to move around and edit files.

Zoho Docs gives you 1GB of storage space and allows unlimited users.

Here’s a video preview of Zoho Docs:

[ via Zoho Blog ]

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A Centralized Zoho Docs

A Chinese Popup Translator

Jerome Locson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:24:01 +0000

I am enrolled to a Mandarin class this semester at school and learning Mandarin Chinese is really difficult, especially when you don’t have any background about the language. Like me, I really find it hard at the first few meetings. The instructor told us that we will begin the lesson learning the basic pronunciation and later learn some Kanji.

As we go along, I may say that I am still a beginner with the new language and has to learn more. Well, I then visit some Chinese websites to have a more hand-on with the language. Applying and practicing what you learn will help you more use the language. Then, I downloaded this Firefox plugin to help me out with the translations of Kanji characters when I visit sites. It is called Chinese Perapera-kun: Chinese Popup Translator.

Simply put, this extension will allow you read Chinese on websites. This is useful for just getting around a site, or even MORE useful if you are studying Chinese. It works with both Simplified and Traditional characters, and also allows you to…

This plugin was submitted by Justin Kovalchuk. I hope this will help you as well in learning Chinese. It really helped me alot.

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A Chinese Popup Translator

eXpresso Offline Excel® Plugin

Jerome Locson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:17:17 +0000

Recently, eXpresso by eXpresso Corp., released a newer version of their Microsoft Excel Offline Plugin tool. With this Excel Adds-in, you can now access your online spreadsheets and edit it directly toy your Microsoft Excel environment. Still, it allows you to sync, share and collaborate with your colleagues.

Spreadsheets opened “off-line” in Excel® are locked for editing by other users. Once the spreadsheet owner has saved any changes made back to eXpresso and closes the spreadsheet, the lock is released.

You can download the eXpresso Excel Plugin here.

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eXpresso Offline Excel® Plugin

Google Docs in your iPhone by MiGhtyDocs

Jerome Locson — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:48:08 +0000

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and wants to take Google Docs with you, you can download MiGhtyDocs and install it instantly. It’s a free utility tool developed by Thomas Post (aka v1ru8) and you can download it directly via iTunes, just click this link. iTunes will open and will directly you to iTunes Store where you can download the tool and install it to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

With the power of Google Docs Offline access, you can now have access to your documents in your pocket. You can view and make changes to your documents and when there is an active connection it will automatically sync to your account. Documents are stored in your iPhone cache, but if you want to erase those files manually, just clear the cache.

Currently, this tool online supports Google Documents. The support of Presentation and Spreadsheet are still to come.

[ via Download.com Blog ]

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Google Docs in your iPhone by MiGhtyDocs

Alfresco Labs 3 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Support

Jerome Locson — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:05:12 +0000

Alfresco is an Open Source Alternative for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). And with its latest version, Alfresco Labs 3 has 4 major components:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Protocol Support
Alfresco Surf Platform
Alfresco Share
Alfresco Repository API

This new Alfresco Labs 3 will help you build collaborative websites and dynamic web applications. You can see more details at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3.

John Newton cited in his blog, “We believe that the Enterprise Content Management market is evolving from specialized software for information intensive activities to become a major component of business and infrastructure for knowledge workers. Although over 90% of the Fortune 1000 have at least one type of ECM system, less than 10% of the employees in most of these companies use ECM, despite the huge increase in regulatory compliance and information explosion. Microsoft SharePoint, through its hooks to Microsoft Office, has made significant inroads into this yawning gap in the ECM market, and growing at 35% per annum as a result. We believe that open source has an even greater opportunity to reach into this portion of the market through its ubiquitous internet reach. With Alfresco Labs 3, our opportunity is to provide an alternative to, provide interoperability with, and be complementary to Microsoft SharePoint.”

For screenshots please visit his blog at http://newton.typepad.com/content/2008/07/introducing-alf.html

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Alfresco Labs 3 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Support

Sync, Share and Backup Files with Syncplicity

Jerome Locson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:52:26 +0000

I know backing up is not an easy task to do when you have lots of files to manage. I personally don’t do backup and if I do.. maybe twice a year or so.

Now I can do real-time backup with Syncplicity. It offers ease backup, synchronization and sharing, all in one software. This is a free service and all you have to do is download and install it to your computers. You can enjoy the following:

Syncplicity offers plenty of storage.
No configuration is required.
Works with the folders & websites you do.
Exclude any folder, keep syncing the rest.
Just one click to sync or share.
One click for intuitive, elegant status.

For more detailed information on features, please click here.

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Sync, Share and Backup Files with Syncplicity

Google Docs comes with Template

Jerome Locson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:53:30 +0000

Yeah! Google Docs now comes with templates where you can choose from to work with your documents. Whether be it document, presentation and spreadsheets, they all got it for you. You don’t have to worry anymore for the layout and format when creating this document, just visit Google Docs Templates and click “Use this Template” button. Also, access the template via the “New” button from the Google Docs menu.

So, I gave the new template a try. Here’s a demo using the template.

These templates is delivered in conjunction with Avery Dennison, Vertex42.com, TemplateZone, and Visa Business.

[ via Google Docs Blog ]

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Google Docs comes with Template

Using Google Docs for Reading RSS Feeds

Jerome Locson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:24:15 +0000

Here’s a video tutorial on how to use Google Docs for Feeds:

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Using Google Docs for Reading RSS Feeds