FriendFeed adds Personalized Recommendations
June 6, 2008
Friendfeed have a announced a new feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through you entire feed.
Nestled underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage you now have links to see the “best of” from either the past day, week or month according to the people you subscribe to.Nice to see that FriendFeed are adding new features to the service, still waiting for something that would give you the ability to import all your friends over from Twitter, at the moment the only way to do this is by a programme written by internetducktape.
eyeOS Integrates Zoho
May 6, 2008
eyeOS, the online desktop application has now integrated the Zoho suite of applications. Currently Writer and Sheet have made the move over however Show will be integrated once Zoho open up the API’s for creating presentations.
To use the Zoho Apps on eyeOS, you need to install eyeZohoSuite from eyeos-apps.org. Once you have it installed, you’ll be able to view your existing documents and spreadsheets from Zoho Writer and Zoho Sheet respectively. This also lets you create new documents and spreadsheets as well. eyeOS plans to support opening Open Office documents soon with Zoho Apps going forward.
eyeOS integrates Zoho from Raju Vegesna on Vimeo.
Convert your old VHS tapes to PC via USB
April 26, 2008
We’ve all seen these USB devices, from humping dogs, to Toasters, well now the people at Firebox have listed this new item, a USB Video recorder.
Simply plonk in a tape, press play and leave the rest to this USB-friendly machine. It doesn’t matter if you want to watch reinvigorated recordings on your computer, iPod, PSP or DVD because the included conversion software caters for stacks of formats. Just think, whilst smug commuters watch their latest downloads on the bus, you could be watching (through your fingers) Henry Kelly patronising the Belgian contestant on Going for Gold. Again. Brilliant!
As well as its incredible ability to amalgamate declining technology with cutting edge jiggery-pokery, the USB VHS Player can be used as a regular VCR. Just plug it into your telly’s scart socket. And when visiting friends snigger at that front-loading flap, you can fire up your iPod and show them a converted video of Bradley Walsh hanging tough on Celebrity Gladiators. Touché.
Once you’ve successfully archived your VHS library the only thing left to do is bin those cumbersome tapes. Just make sure you stomp on ‘em before heading to the dump. After all, you wouldn’t want anyone to find out you’d gone over the final episode of Eldorado with Mallet’s Mallet, would you?
Firebox say that this product is “Top Secret” at the moment so no final image on the player but they do say that it will be mac compatible, and stock is due in at the end of June. Nice idea but a bit pricy at £149.
Second Brain gets an update
March 14, 2008
Second Brain, the personal content manager that helps you collect, organise, search and share content from multiple online services in a single library has been given some new features
- Support For Twitter
- Invite your Gmail contacts
- Edit Second Brain bookmarks
- Improved bookmartlets
- Improved performance
- Several bug fixes
Twitter support
You can now add Twitter as a service. Just follow the same procedure as for the other services: go to +Add Content -> select Import content -> Select Twitter. By default you can import your tweets, but you can also select to post to Twitter from the “What’s on my mind” panel.
Invite your Gmail Contacts
If you’d like to see more of your contacts in Second Brain, we’ve created a simple way for you to invite your Gmail contacts. Just go to you personal page
Edit S|B bookmarks
Edit the title, description and tags of bookmarks that you’ve added directly to Second Brain. Just click on the bookmark to go to the bookmark page and select the field that you’d like to edit.
Improved bookmarklets
When you add a bookmark you can now put it directly into a collection. This makes it really easy to use collections to organise your content. You can also add a description to a bookmark automatically by selecting text on the page you’re bookmarking.
If you haven’t already signed up you can do so here
Zoho launch Zoho People
March 12, 2008
Zoho have announced the launch of Zoho People, a Human Resource management application for HR teams in an organisation. This new business application joins zoho’s other business applications - Zoho CRM, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Projects and Zoho DB.
Organisation Module:
This module is used to define the structure of your organisation including departments, designations/titles and also the Org Chart.
Recruitment Module:
The Recruitment module eases the hiring process in an organisation. It automates the steps involved between searching a candidate from resume database to hiring him an employee. This module also lets managers raise job requirements and admins post openings on the website.
Forms Module:
The Forms module has a set of pre-created forms (mini-applications) for common tasks in an organisation like filing expense reports, reporting leave etc. With Zoho Creator integration, this module lets admins create new forms or customise existing forms and make them available to all employees.
Checklist Module:
This module lets admin automate business processes and define the flow based on conditions. Tasks can automatically be assigned to users or groups based on defined flow.
Self Service Module:
This module acts as a self-service module for Employees and Managers. All the employees have access to this module. Managers can define job openings and organise their team structure. Employees can submit information to the HR department using the forms defined by the HR team (like submitting an Expense Report or informing about a leave etc).
Roles and Permissions :
This module is used by admin to define fine grained access for different roles based on permissions - which drill down to field level, action level and form level.
See this video for a more detailed look
Zoho People from Raju Vegesna on Vimeo.
PhotoBucket Launched Intigrated image editing
March 7, 2008
Photobucket the image hosting site has launched integrated image editing on Photobucket. Now you can crop, rotate, and flip, remove blemishes, smooth out wrinkles, add shapes, play with colour effects or you can add your face to a celebrity and much more.
To edit your images in your album, zoom into full view and you will see the new edit feature.
For more examples of the new editing features click here.
[Source: photobucket blog]
Flock gets an Update
March 7, 2008
Flock, the social web browser has announced the latest release of it’s web browser. Flock 1.1 includes new features such as integration of Gmail and Yahoo, as well as letting you know when you have new messages waiting.
The new version includes key enhancements to Flocks MyWorld page, you can now rename it to make it yours and they have also added a friends activity feed so that you can keep up to speed with the latest actions of your friends from the the people services supported by Flock.
Zoho Writer gets an Update
February 27, 2008
Zoho Writer, the online word processor has today announced a few new features following up on the last batch of new stuff which included Pagination, Headers & Footers and Offline Support.
Some of the new features include
DocX Support:
Zoho Writer now supports exporting to DocX, the new Microsoft OOXML file format for Word. Ofcourse, we already support ODF Export/Import in Zoho Writer. Currently you can export any of your documents in Zoho Writer as a DocX file. This is added in addition to the already available export options - DOC, TXT, HTML, PDF, ODF, SXW and RTF. We will soon be supporting DocX import as well.
Thesaurus:
We now added Thesaurus option (in 10 languages). Right-click on a word, choose the ‘Thesaurus’ option from the contextual menu to view the synonyms and related words. The current version of Thesaurus is used more for lookup purposes. We plan to enhance this functionality further to replace the words with selected ones from thesaurus in the next version.
Languages supported in Thesaurus: English, Czech, German, Greek, French, Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian & Slovak. We will keep adding more language options in future updates.
Sharing with Groups:
You can now share documents with groups. This makes it a lot easier to share documents with multiple people avoiding entering of multiple email addresses each time you share a document. To share a document with a group, click on ‘Share’ and select the ‘Share with Groups’ tab. You can create new groups in your ‘My Account‘ section. These groups will be visible across all Zoho Applications.
Enhanced support for Endnotes/Footnotes:
As you may know, we recently added Endnotes & Footnotes capabilities in Zoho Writer. This updates enhances this functionality further. All your Zoho Writer documents when exported to DocX, ODF, SXW & RTF will retain the endnotes/footnotes correctly. We now also import endnotes/footnotes from DOC, ODF, SXW, RTF files.
Enhanced support for Headers/Footers:
Headers/Footers support is further enhanced in this latest update. Full support is available when you export documents to DocX, ODF, SXW & RTF.
[Via Zoho Blog]
eBay Desktop 1.0 is now available
February 27, 2008
eBay Desktop 1.0 is now available for download. This free application has been made as an alternative to the website. You can use it to search, browse, bid and keep track of your auctions.
The 1.0 release contains lots of bug fixes and performance enhancements and from user feedback some new features. eBay desktop takes advantage of the Adobe AIR platform which was recently released.
We have worked on the project for nearly 2 years, and I am very pleased with the end result. We have lots more enhancements planned for the coming weeks and months, but this the most important milestone so far. The eBay Desktop team from Effective UI has worked incredibly hard on this, and I’d like to thank them all: Sean, Greg O., Greg C. Jason, and all the project alumni: thank you! And thanks to all the eBay members who have provided great suggestions, ideas, bug reports, and words of praise. I hope that we can continue to provide great user experiences that make the eBay marketplace more fun and dynamic, and help connect more individuals through the simple act of commerce.
You can download the destop client here
[Via eBay Desktop Blog]
Yahoo Buzz Launches
February 26, 2008
Yahoo have today launched Yahoo buzz the Internet news and trends tracker. The service tracks content from around the internet and a story is ranked based on its Buzz Score. The score is derived from search term popularity, the number of times a story is emailed from Buzz, and the number of votes a story receives. Stories with the highest Buzz Scores may be published on the Yahoo! home page - you can impact what millions will see on Yahoo!
Check it out at buzz.yahoo.com
