Tag: WEB APPLICATIONS

It's a bit early to start claiming that Flash's days are numbered, but there are a few of us that are frustrated with Flash's performance (and crashiness). If you're starting to get frustrated about dealing with Flash, but are still craving full-featured web applications, there's some good news on the horizon. New apps are starting to get developed with comparable functionality to Flash, but with ...

I've been using Fluid for a couple of years now to create site-specific browsers on my Mac for certain very useful web applications like Gmail, and Jay points out 10 web apps you should be running on your mac with Fluid. Though the current version of Fluid still works well, it hasn't updated in awhile and that got me curious as to what the developer behind Fuild, Todd Ditchendorf, was currently up ...

John Watson, the man behind the many fun photo-related web applications at BigHugeLabs was feeling a little down last week, and in response he produced yet another web app. But this one is a little different; while his other web apps often provide inspiration as a by-product of other actions, Watson's latest site, dubbed Ideas, is intended as a source of inspiration as a primary focus. When you ...

Couldn't make it to Future of Web Apps in Miami? No problem, we've got you covered. Wordpress.com's Matt Mullenweg just left the stage after dropping mad science on what it takes to scale a major league web application. There's no way we could summarize everything Matt said on the how and why behind scaling Wordpress.com but, here are a few (rough) notes: Do the easy things first. For ...

Need to find an image hosting service, online spreadsheet, or task management solution? Simple Spark can help. Simple Spark aims to be for web applications what Google is for pretty much everything else online. The site has an index of more than 3000 web applications, covering everything from online travel services to accounting and investing web sites. Each web app includes a brief description, a ...

Would you like to get into the minds of some of Google's leading software engineers and creators of some of the applications you use? Developer Day is coming! Google will hold Google Developer Day around the globe starting May 31. It will consist of workshops, keynotes, and breakout discussions on Google API's and developer tools. The theme of the event will be "Building Blocks for Better Web ...

Adobe's just-launched Apollo platform could be the ticket to a whole new world of applications according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. He writes of the announcement, "I honestly believe that entirely new classes of companies can be built on this platform, which takes Flash, HTML and javascript completely outside of the browser and interacts with the file system on a PC." You can pick up ...

In this issue of Googleholic we cover: Google Map Search gadget Grannies and Google Coupons Google Music Trends Brazil sues Google Google Anniversary Writely is open for business China.com teams with Google Welcome to Friday's Googleholic edition... ...

Zoho offers a complete line of powerful office suite and productivity tools, all through the use of a browser. The Zoho toolset includes: Zoho Show - online presentation Zoho Writer - word processor Zoho Sheet - spreadsheet application Zoho Virtual Office - email, document and calendar Zoho CRM - CRM Zoho Creator - create web applications Zoho Planner - Online organizer Zoho ...