Tag: APPLICATIONS

The wait is over, DocSyncer is out of beta and open for all to use. This downloadable application allows PC based users of Microsoft Office and Google Docs to seamlessly sync documents. DocSyncer is a downloadable application that sits on your computer and automatically finds and syncs all of your document files to your Google Docs account. When it's running, it checks all of your documents and ...

Yahoo! has launched an updated version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine and gallery. Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5 has the same look and feel on your desktop as version 4.0, but there are some changes in the way widgets are created and organized. First, Yahoo! has retooled its online widget gallery to give you more information about what each widget does. Users now also have a quick view of the most ...

With more and more users building documents in web based applications, we were starting to think the market belonged to a handful of new companies like Zoho, ThinkFree, and a little upstart called Google. But it looks like there's another serious contender in the online Office space. Live Documents has a strong pedigree. The service comes from the guy who created Hotmail before Microsoft purchased ...

Here at Download Squad HQ, we install and uninstall a lot of applications, tweak a lot of settings, and do a whole bunch of other things that generally makes Windows unhappy with us. When I brought home my shiny new laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium earlier this year, I didn't know how lucky I was. My new PC shut down when I asked it to, slept when I closed the lid, and didn't cause ...

OutTwit OutTwit makes it possible to read Twitters through Outlook. Your Twitter status can be updated straight from Outlook and you can set certain intervals at which your Twitter account is checked for new messages. ...

Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen says within 10 years, the company will be offering all of its applications online. His remarks come at a time when we see more and more companies offering online applications as an alternative to desktop products. Google Docs, Zoho, Picnik, SnapLayout, Zude, just a few of the many successful online applications that can be accessed anywhere without the large cost of boxed ...

Get ready for iPhone and iPod Touch applications to roll out of the pipes early next year, an SDK is coming! We heard a rumor yesterday, but our friends over at TUAW have let us in on some exciting news from the Apple front. Apple has said that the much anticipated iPhone SDK will be released to developers by February 2008. This Software Developer Kit will allow developers to create applications ...

If you are a corporate Gmail user, get ready for double the email storage capacity and some new security tools. Google has reworked some components to their online business application suite and doubling email is hot on the list. The current business users, hundreds of thousands of them in the public and private sectors, will see their 10 GB of space jump to 25 GB. The next exciting addition is ...

Stocks.us This site filters, aggregates and sorts financial news to get a quick look at the US stock market. 20 stocks are shown from the Dow Jones, Nasdaq 100, and S&P 500 on the front page as deemed important by Stocks.us. The best part of the service is that information refreshes every 15 minutes for fresh news and quotes. One wish, let users pick their own stocks, make it a custom ...

By now we realize that some of us really cannot live without social networks. Great places like Facebook keep us in touch with friends and contacts, even though those little applications might distract us from work for an hour or two, its all good. Stanford University has jumped into the Facebook game and opened up a course for students to learn how to build Facebook Applications. Given that there ...

If you are a freelancer working on a Mac, there are plenty of application options available for you. No matter what you freelance, whether its design, writing or web development, FreelanceSwitch can help. Ivan from FreelanceSwitch has put together a great list of 35 small Mac applications that are even more useful than the standard Mac applications like Aperature and iCal. The list covers ...

Buy.com is jumping on the social network bandwagon with their launch of Garage Sale. This new shopping service allows users to steer around auctions and sell items directly from a social profile page. Could it steal page views from eBay? It sure could. Who would you buy from first, a friend or stranger? Garage Sale handles the transactions including credit card billing, and PayPal depositing or ...

Google has added in Mapplets to Google Maps today. It was previously offered in a preview mode. Mapplets are like mini applications that can be embedded into the Google Maps site. Google currently has standard Mapplets available including Real Estate Search, Photos, Gas Prices, Distance Measurement tool, Earth as Art, and Crop Circles. Mapplets are essentially Google Gadgets that can work with ...

A lot of companies, like Zoho, had to build their iPhone specific web applications without even testing on the iPhone. There was a lot of guessing games and sheer luck that had to go into building these applications and getting them ready for a semi final release before Apple's latest invention hit the streets. Now that the iPhone is out, Apple wants to ensure that web applications and content ...

Developers are jumping on the new Facebook API, creating sometimes 'useless' add-ons for the social network. Zoho has stepped in and added the ability to GTD while peddling through Facebook. Zoho tries its best to stay on top of wherever their users might be, they were the first online office productivity toolset to announce they had an iPhone compatible application ready to go for Apple's newest ...