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Gmail in iPhone and Android get new engine, offline feature and UI enhancement

Google yesterday introduced new mobile browser version of Gmail, that said to be faster when user performs any action on iPhone or Android powered devices, such as reading or archiving email. The foundation behind all this speed is  HTML5 and Google Gears which is known,  for it effectiveness managing the web cache.Google Gears also will keep your devices connected even on the flaky connection.

Beside the speed, mobile web browser version of Gmail also received enhancement on how it make even easier now for any user to manage their inbox. Now there is floaty bar appears near the top of the screen. There are options such as to archive, delete, and more. The floaty bar stays with you when you scroll down or up your inbox. This is time saver as user no longer needed to scroll up or down to press such buttons in order to delete or archive any email,  which available only at the top and bottom of the screen.

Final improvement is on the Label functionality. Gmail bring the Gmail’s labellings for desktop functionality to the mobile version, which mean now, it is even easier to use and looks more familiar with it.

Admin 8 April 2009 mobile app and web , , , , , , , No Comments

Offline version of Google Calendar available for all

After Google Calender on Google Aps goes offline last month, finally the offline version of Google Calender is made available for all users.

What you need to do to bring your Google Calendar offline:

To enable offline Calendar access, sign in to Google Calendar and look for the “Offline Beta” link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. We’ve released this early and are still ironing out some kinks, so if you encounter any issues, be sure to let us know. If you access Calendar through the Premier or Education Editions of Google Apps, your domain administrator will first have to elect to turn on new features from the Domain Settings page of the Google Apps control panel.

Admin 5 March 2009 internet tool , , , , , , 1 Comment

Google Calander (only on Google Apps) goes offline

Users of Google Calendar in Google Apps can now bring their Google Calendar offline. But unlike Offline Gmail than run with half functionality (you can star, label, compose and reply email) even when they disconnected from internet (it will be sent later once connected), Offline Calendar only let you view the existing schedule and events, but not edit them.

To enable this feature, sign in to your Google Apps’s Calendar, and click the ‘Offline Beta‘ link available on the upper right-hand corner of your account (screen shot below)

google calendar app offline Google Calander (only on Google Apps) goes offline

The feature availability depend on the version you use. Google Apps Standard Edition (free version that I use) users  has this feature available immediately.

But Premier and Education Edition users has to wait the domain administrators to first check the box next to ‘Turn on new features‘ in the ‘Domain Settings‘ page of the Google Apps control panel before they can enable this option.

Unfortunately, this feature has yet available for ordinary Google account’s Calendar. Maybe soon??

Admin 8 February 2009 internet tool , , , , , , 2 Comments

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.
zoho_personal

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.

Admin 25 November 2008 Software , 3 Comments
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