Despite what I said yesterday about only 1% of users actually using Google Docs, it seems that this isn’t really a deterrent to other pundits thinking that perhaps Microsoft has something to worry about.
The fact that Microsoft has been talking about releasing the next version of Office for oh so long, it’s not like we don’t have options anymore. We used to need Office in order to be productive, but not so much anymore with suites like Open Office, Zoho, and Google Docs available.
Now, I love Google Docs, and I have to admit, I’m not using it nearly as much …read more

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

In an effort to be productive, even when I can’t find internet access, I’ve installed Google Gears in order to give me that extra added little boost.
So what is Gears and where can you get it to work? It’s this fantastic little plug in that Google created, which serves up offline content or provide you with content based on your geographical location. I use Gears primarily for offline use of  Google docs and Google Reader (the most recent 2,000 items). Gears was designed to be used on both Google and non-Google sites. Remember the Milk and the Zoho Office Suite …read more

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 …read more

[ via Zoho Writer Blog ]

If you are using Microsoft Office everyday, like you can’t live without it, you better prepare and try other alternatives of Microsoft Office. There are actually lots to choose from and they are free.
You have Lotus Symphony from IBM, a free office suite, available for Windows and Linux users. Also, you can try OpenOffice.org, an open-source office suite and can be tweaked with add-ons to it.

If you find it time-consuming to download and install these software, you have the choice to try out online office suites like Google Docs and Zoho. Both allows online collaboration and document sharing, making …read more

Howdy! Just want to share how I manage my virtual office doing my I.T. Consultant and Web Developer jobs. I am! I am working from home most of the time and setting up a virtual office is a must.
Choosing the right tools for your virtual office is really a crucial tasks. I must admit it was not easy but with proper tuning and selection of tools, you will arrive to your desired virtual office. It won’t be that expensive, most of the tools are free actually.
What exactly do you need?
Since you will mostly interact with clients online, you need …read more

If you are into Web 2.0 applications, you must know Zoho Online Office Suite. Part of the said suite is the word processing tool named Zoho Writer which basically allows you to do the basics of word processing. If you need a more in-depth tutorial about Zoho Writer, you must watch this video courtesy of Rick Castellini.

Woaaah! Updates at Zoho Writer are frequent, just last time they released the support of docx files and now they are into offline mobile support with the use of Google Gears.
If you’re phone runs on a Window Mobile platform, then try this one. With your mobile phone’s Internet Explorer, go to http://mobile.zoho.com to access your Zoho Account. Currently, it is for file viewing documents only and will soon come the editing features.

Since it has Google Gears functionalities added to it, now you can do offline editing with Zoho Writer Mobile. A video is presented below, demonstrating the functionalities …read more