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Gmail goes desktop

Got a hands on experience with Gmail gadget in Google Desktop after released a week ago. My impression is, this is a lite version of Gmail, accessible from your desktop with Google Desktop.

All basic email features are available (forward, reply, compose, except delete) as well as ’star’ feature. Emails still can be viewed via ‘email thread’, but there is no ‘label’ feature available. Meaning that you can’t label emails and view all emails grouped by label.

Keep in mind that Google Desktop requires internet connection to work, so that your Gmail on desktop won’t be disconnected.

I still prefer using IMAP over this gadget, as I’m not a heavy Google Desktop user, and rarely got it switched on.

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zaki 6 December 2008 Promotion, Software , , 1 Comment

Experimenting Zoho

So far, Google Doc is the only web office suite that I’ve used. I don’t like the idea of signing in to different websites. I prefer all in one suite such as Windows Live but with greater web experience.

Zoho is not a new name and is among the pioneers in office suite, and in fact the first that allows editing offline by utilizing Google Gear, even before Google doc used it on its Google Doc.

Zoho allows signing in using Google ID, and that is the reason why I really want to use it. And it offers more than what Google Doc has.

Borrowing Zoho’s sentence, Zoho is a collection of collaboration & productivity tools for personal and business purposes, applicable for everybody’s usage. Screen shot below is a part of what Zoho offers.

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1. Sign Up - Accept your Google or Yahoo ID. By default, this is your main menu. You’re allocated @zoho email account.
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There are 2 versions available :

a. Zoho Personal (personal free edition, consisting of 10 free applications) - Is the default menu, where you access your personal applications.

  • Calendar
  • Documents - It is like my document
  • Desktop
  • Writer - doc
  • Sheet - excel
  • Show - power point
  • Wiki - Creating you own wiki
  • Tasks
  • Notes - It is not, but not too sure what it is, it is like what we want to be reminded of
  • Links - Bookmark tool
  • Contacts

b. Zoho Creator (business pack) - Consists of applications for business. There are bunches of applications for selection.

On the free account, you can install up to 10 applications which give you full functionality, but with limited number of projects. Go for paid version for unlimited applications and projects.

zoho_creator

3. Zoho Marketplace - Part of business suites. Here you can browse other business apps, what’s popular and what’s recent applications. Apart from that, if you need a new solution not in the marketplace, you can submit the request and Zoho team will help find the solution.

4. Zoho Plugin - Plugin for web browser, iPhone, Outlook, windows mobile and etc.

5. Zoho Utilities -Besides the applications and plugins mentioned above, there are also utilities which require separate registration.

  • Site 24×7 - Website monitoring tool. There is a free version.
  • Zoho Polls - To create polls.
  • Zoho Viewer - Sharing documents with your friends. Upload many types of files and share it with others with an option of setting the expiry date.
  • Zoho Challenge - Online testing tool.

My cent: Foooh!! I can’t go through each applications in detail, too much!! I’ll use Zoho Personal and few applications from Zoho Creator such as project management and customer support.

zaki 25 November 2008 Software , 1 Comment

Picasaweb 3 is out

Barely 2.5 months in Beta, Picasa 3 is officially released. There are bunches of new features and enhancement in the new release. For a start, you’ll be amazed with how Picasa automatically assembled photos, images and other media in your local hard drive.

To lite photo editors like me, the enhancement of red eye fixes which took only 2 steps is extremely easy, as well photo editing to remove minor blemishes and distraction from the photos.

There are also more ways to organize photos now. You can create photo collages, create wall paper, make video slide shows, short movies, video presentations and etc.

Sharing the photos ias  breeze. You can email, send to Youtube, or upload it to Picasaweb. There is alo ‘Sync’ function in which if enabled, will automatically sync photos in your computer to your Picasaweb account on the net seamlessly.

There is also screen capture function which save the screen shot automatically to your Picasa. Not that it can match to SnagIt, but it is better than to do it 2 steps in a traditional way (usual print screen).

More curious?? Head to picasa or watch video below for details.. Already familiar? Download it.

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zaki 21 November 2008 Software , , , , , , No Comments

how to prevent sending email from MS outlook without subject in place

A friend of mine forward me this useful tips for MS Outlook user. This works in MS Outlook 2003, but the steps may different on Outlook 2007

Steps: -

1. Open your Microsoft outlook
2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor and then Press Ctrl+R which in turn opens Project-Project 1 (left side).
3. On the Left Pane, one can see “Microsoft Outlook Objects” or “Project1″, expand this. Now one can see the “ThisOutLookSession”.
4. Double click on “ThisOutLookSession”. It will open up a code pane.
5. Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane. (Code Pane)  and save it.

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim strSubject As String
strSubject = Item.Subject
If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then
Prompt$ = “Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?”
If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, “Check for Subject”) = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
End If
End If
End Sub

Keep in mind, to be able to run this script(message box) everyday, please enable your outlook macros.

To do so, go to Tools > Macro > Security.
Set the Security Level to medium.

zaki 6 July 2008 Software , 2 Comments
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