Category: Web

Online Office Suite

Pankaj Upadhyay

Remember the days, when MS Office was a must thing for any office job. I salute to Microsoft for this whole Office idea and the product suite. It definitely was one of the coolest tools of that era.

Office (but not Microsoft Office, yet) has shifted online now. Kudos to some great work by Google Docs, Zoho, Thinkfree, now you can create your Document, Spread Sheet and Presentation online and can share them with your friends. You along with your friends can simultaneously work on a document or a presentation. This is termed as ‘collaboration’.

This whole Online Office concept is actually SAAS (Software As A Service) because these SAAS vendors will let you use their software as a service with pay as you use model. You use them without even installing them on your machine so there is no prerequisite for your processor or disk space to run these softwares which actually is a service.

I use Google Docs and Zoho. Both tools are ultimate and easy to use.

There is also a news of Microsoft entering into this field with its Online MS Office. Adobe has also bought Buzzword which in an online Document creation utility.  Apple has also entered in this market with its iBook, which presently works for Apple users only.

So, is anyone left?? All biggies are competing here to provide an ultimate experience with their online office suite products.

Universal Profile

Pankaj Upadhyay

I always hate to fill a section which is popularly known as ‘About Me’. I didn’t understand how am I supposed to type those 1024 or some random number characters, every time I sign up to a new site. When they can come up with ‘Open Id’ thing, WHY NOT no one thought about ‘About Me’ section…. After all this section is the next important thing after your user id and password., if you’re signing up for a new website.

As if, Google was listening, they thought about it and they now allow a user to create a public profile which can be shared with all Google services. Presently, it supports Google Maps and Google Reader but hopefully, in future, they integrate ‘Google profile’ with all their services.

I have already created a Google Profile and love to use it wherever I can. At  least, now I can copy my  ‘About Me’  information from one single page and can paste it where ever it is required.

Create yours or see if you have already one 🙂