Cloud computing is the latest ‘thing’. It’s hot shit at the moment, and I think it’s probably the way of the future. The web company I work with for all of my projects, Redwerks, used cloud computing for the Eckert Tolle/Oprah event. The Oprah site crashed, Eckhert’s site stayed up. Cloud is the way of the future.
And now, Zoho has opened themselves up to an SQL database. You can now:

Use SQL to interact with your business data stored across Zoho services
Use any major SQL dialect (ANSI, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MySQL and more)
Support for JDBC and ODBC drivers for …read more

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 …read more

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 ]

Who says that the blind and print-disabled individuals cannot enjoy the technology we people enjoy? Here’s a great software for you to checkout; where Microsoft, Sonata Software Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium joined forces to create this. The “Save as DAISY XML” add-in was created through an open source project with Microsoft, Sonata Software Ltd. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium and can be downloaded on Sourceforge.
“This new ‘Save as DAISY XML’ functionality for Microsoft Word has the potential to break down barriers for millions of visually impaired individuals around the world and enhance …read more

If you are an advance web designing, you probably know what it is meant by “Styling your Google Docs with CSS“. And if not, you can start reading about CSS and have yourself a tutor for you to appreciate how wonderful it is to work with CSS.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets makes formatting and styling easy. As integrated to Google Docs edit feature, you can now create formal, fun and even attractive documents over Google Docs. From resume, letters, memo, handouts, etc… you all have the option to style it your way. The example provided below in an example …read more

The software giant, Microsoft Corporation, will be traveling across America to deliver live product demos from Microsoft’s latest technology. The truck rolls out today, March 19 at Albuquerque.
The truck provides a hands-on, interactive environment with workstations that feature Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office. LDD Consulting Inc. and Microsoft professionals will be on hand to answer technology questions and show how specific products from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and others can work together to create unified technology solutions.
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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 for Microsoft Office Live Small Business, Baris Cetinok said “Today having a professional Web site is as essential to running a small business as having business cards. By making it simple and affordable to develop and maintain a Web site, and offering user-friendly sales and …read more

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 Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 lets you apply preset document themes to your slides. Now, you can focus on content.

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.

Last week, news has it that Google Docs will soon offer offline accessibility and of course via the support of Google Gears. Sad to say, I do not see it up yet when I tried to view my Google Docs account. But apparently, Tony Ruscoe of Blogoscoped, posted some screenshots about the offline feature of Google Docs as shown below.

Hmmm… I do not see it really, do you? Well, I expect that they will release that for public use sooner not later. It will really help of not confusing users.
Note that Google Docs’ competitor Zoho Writer, already …read more