Zoho Office Suite

The Zoho Office Suite is a web office suite which includes tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM, project management, invoicing and other applications. Being web-native, all Zoho applications are operating system independent.

The applications can be used either to create content or to manipulate files created with other widely distributed office suites. Zoho can read and write file formats used in Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, and other systems. The programs in the suite can be used individually but offer additional integration benefits when used together. The data (document) files can be saved on Zoho’s servers as well as those of several integration partners like box.net or Omnidrive, which allows synchronization back to the local PC.

Although some applications, e.g. Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects, have Pro features available for a fee, Zoho has stated a commitment to maintaining a free tier of entry-level applications. A single registration grants access to all the Zoho products.

ADrive offers 50GB of free Online Storage & Backup

ADrive gives you up to 50GB of free online storage for all of your files: music, video, photos, documents, and other files.
The process is simple:
Sign Up: Register for a free secured account.
Upload: Once registered simply login and begin uploading your files.
Access: Gain access to your stored files from anywhere you have Internet access, at any time.
Share: Email your shared files to your friends, family, and colleagues.

Key Features:

ADrive is constantly looking for ways to simplify the management of your data-intensive lifestyle.

Avoid the Hassle, Avoid the Hardware.

With ADrive you’ll no longer have to worry about running out of storage space on your local hard drive. You can avoid the hassle of using external storage devices by using ADrive’s online storage and backup service.

Stop Worrying, Protect your Files.

Are you afraid of losing your valuable photos or entire collection of music if you get a virus or your computer crashes? By uploading and storing your files with ADrive, you are protecting your data from outside threats and computer failures.

Access Anywhere at Any Time, Centralized Storage.

Simply login to your ADrive account from any web browser to view, download, or upload your files. ADrive is your secure location for your valuable data.

File Sharing

Don’t worry about emailing large file attachments anymore with ADrive’s file sharing service. Just email your friends, family, and collagues the link to your ADrive shared file.
Complete Folder and Directory Upload *New*With this feature, you can now conveniently drag and drop your whole folders or directories for upload on ADrive.

Easy Search Tool *New*

Having trouble looking for a specific file? Use the search bar to find the exact file without the hassle of looking through each directory.

Remote URL File Transfer *New*

Now you can transfer files from external websites to your ADrive account via remote connection. Once stored in your account, the files will be accessible through the download or share functionality.

International Character Support *New*

Due to the demand and popularity of ADrive across the world, they have implemented the support of international characters in file names making it more convenient for their international users.

Edit Documents Online with Zoho® *New*

Their partnership with Zoho® provides you with another useful service. Without having to open up Word and Excel programs, you can easily edit your documents and spreadsheets on ADrive and save your changes instantly without the need of re-uploading the revised files

WikiMapia - Let’s describe the whole world!

WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information (in the form of a note) to any location on Earth.

Created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, the project was launched on May 24, 2006 and is aiming towards “describing the whole planet Earth”. WikiMapia is unrelated to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, but the website states that it was “inspired by Wikipedia.”

WikiMapia allows any contributor to add a “Hotspot” to any map by marking out a rectangle (with the maximum length of any one side being 20 kilometers) which is wiki-linked to a note providing information about the locality. The note may be in any of 64 languages currently supported, and may be modified by any contributor, as in a wiki. The link is activated by clicking within the rectangular “Hotspot”.

Skamu - Free Music Myspace Icons

To use the free Music Myspace Icons from skamu: Copy the HTML code from below the icon image and paste the code on your blog, MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, MyEeos, Xanga, Piczo, Orkut, Multiply, TagWorld or other social networking profile page. You can also post the Music icon code as a MySpace comment.

Example shown as below:

ICONlook ; icon search engine

When it comes to tracking down some icons for a project -- nothing real fancy, and preferably under some kind of open license -- image searching on Google doesn't always do the trick. ICONLook is a search site that you can try instead: it's specifically for icons, and it has some useful features that make it worth a peek if you're in a pinch. These are generally OS-type icons, for stuff like apps, documents and search buttons, so don't get your hopes up for anything too fanciful. Heck, we couldn't even find anything as wild and crazy as a cat icon on ICONLook.

Selection is not ICONLook's strong point. Even within the categories it's designed for, there's not a lot of variety. On the plus side, many of the icons are available in a number of different sizes, and there are links to the source and the license for each one. This puts to rest any worries that this might be some kind of hack job, or the work of nefarious icon pirates. Instead, what you get is a legitimate, middle of the road selection of licensed icons that will hopefully expand to become more useful.

Free Ebook - "Photoshop Anthology" is free for download for 30 days

The complete PDF of Corrie Haffly’s book “The Photoshop Anthology” is available to download for free for 30 days. The book teaches Photoshop for web design, and contains 101 problems and solutions.

Here’s the details to download your free copy of the book “The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques.”

You can download a high-res copy of the book in PDF format here:
http://photoshop.s3.sitepoint.com/photoshopLG.zip
File Size: 64Mb

Or for the bandwidth conscious, here’s the link for a low-res copy:
http://photoshop.s3.sitepoint.com/photoshopSM.zip
File Size: 23Mb

Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system (MCE)

MCE provides DVR and other multimedia features wrapped in an attractive 10-foot interface. Armed with a couch and a remote, you can record TV shows, pause live TV, view photo slideshows, listen to your music collection, tune in FM radio stations, and so on.

With these seven plugs-ins, most of which are free, you can trick out your MCE PC like never before.

MCE Customizer 2005 (Free)

Designed specifically for MCE 2005, MCE Customizer lets you tweak the OS to your heart's content. You can change the skip-forward and skip-back intervals; raise or lower TV-recording "padding"; choose different file names for recordings; hide or show Start Menu items; adjust the schedule for program-guide downloads; and much more.

MCE Portal Basic (Free)

Regular visitors to My MSN or My Yahoo know all about portals: They're sites that aggregate personalized news, weather, RSS feeds, and other information. MCE Portal brings this idea to MCE, giving you all that plus games, movie times, restaurant listings, even a daily horoscope. You have to use the developer's web site to add RSS feeds—kind of a hassle—but otherwise this is pure portal gold.

MSN Remote Record (Free)

Forgot to set up a recording before you left on vacation? No problem: Just head to any web-connected PC. With MSN Remote Record, you can schedule recordings from just about anywhere. You'll need a .NET Passport account, which you can get free if you don't already have one. Then head to your Media Center's Online Spotlight section and select MSN Remote Record Service. Follow the instructions to configure everything. When all that's done, find another PC and surf to MSN TV. Sign in and you'll be able to schedule recordings. I've even seen people do this from a Pocket PC!

mceWeather (Free)

Sure, you could just stick your head out the window, but then you'd have to get off the couch. Christoph Buenger's mceWeather adds real-time weather data to the MCE interface. Just install the plug-in, navigate to the More Programs screen, and select Weather. After you choose your city and preferences, you'll be able to view the current weather conditions (temperature, humidity, UV index, and so on), a 10-day forecast, and even satellite images.

My Movies 2 (Free)

Every time you insert a DVD movie, My Movies 2 indexes it. It downloads a description, cover art, actor info, MPAA rating, and all that good stuff. But even better than that, the plug-in can automatically rip movies to your hard drive (though you need a decrypter like AnyDVD or DVD43). This is outstanding for my kids, as they can pick any movie to watch just by sifting through the covers—and never actually have to touch (or scratch beyond repair) a DVD. Anyone who appreciated Adam's recent DVD-ripping tutorial will appreciate this MCE alternative.

TVTonic (Free)

With TVTonic, you can subscribe to nearly any video podcast. The plug-in comes with a wealth of preprogrammed "channels" to get you started, including some exclusive content. CartoonCow, for instance, plays classic cartoons, while AP-associated The News provides full-screen news clips.It's free!

Yougle (Free)

Yougle brings not only YouTube videos to the couch, but also Google Video, Grouper, and DivX Stage 6. It is free, try it out!

Make your phone call you at a particular time

Have you ever asked your coworker or your friend to call you to help you escape an interminable meeting or end a bad date? Now a simple website- phonemyphone can do a favor for you, what you need is just enter your own phone number to the site, and choose a date and time.
The site will then ring you (for free) at the time you specify. You could also have it call you immediately, which could be useful if you want to find your cell phone and don’t have another phone handy, as killerstartups points out.

Sounds deviously useful, and when I tried it just now. The message showed :”can’t call! Calls between 10PM and 6AM PST (1AM and 9AM EST) are disabled. Please email David if you would like a paid account that removes these restrictions”.

After i changed the timer to make another try, The message showed :”Can’t call! Invalid phone number. We can only call valid US phone numbers”. You’re in luck if you are in US.

Free online PDF conversion

Web site PDF Online lets you convert a bevy of document types to PDF online, sending the resulting PDF to your email address as an attachment.

While PDF Online doesn't convert everything, it does handle a lot of file types (see screenshot), and might come in handy if you need a quick PDF on-the-go. In fact, even if you "Print to PDF" a lot on your desktop, PDF Online might be a nice tool to keep in mind, especially if you email the file to yourself anyway.

Supported Formats:
-MS Word (DOC)	-MS Publisher (PUB)	JPG, PNG
-MS Word (RTF)	-MS Excel (XLS)	BMP, TIFF
-MS PowerPoint (PPT)	-HTML (MHT)	WMF, EMF, GIF
-MS PowerPoint (PPS)	-Text (TXT)

Step 1:
Select a document or image to convert to PDF
Step 2:
Key in output file name
Step 3:
Key in your email address, Your PDF will be sent to your Email Address

Meebo - all your IM accounts in one place

Meebo is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to www.meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free!

A free social networking - Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook. It is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Woopra- a live analytics tool

Woopra is the world's most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. And it's free! It provides exciting, LIVE data about your visitors as they explore your site. Web site stats might be interesting to those of us who have Web sites, but Woopra makes stats addictive and quite frankly, entertaining. It’s sticky, and if you own a Web site, you’re going to want to have it running on a screen, the same way a day trader keeps a stock ticker and CNBC running non-stop.

Woopra is available to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users as a “limited” beta at the moment. And only system requirement absolutely vital to the application’s operation is Java SE 1.6. As a commenter on GeekBrief’s post on the launch noted, some Mac users may not have the latest Java install. Version 1.6 can be found at this page.

Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express

Adobe Systems is launching Photoshop Express today, its long-anticipated Web-based image editor aimed at the millions of consumers that want a simple way to touch up, share, and store photos.
Photoshop Express, available for free with 2 gigabytes of storage at www.photoshop.com/express, is a significant departure from Adobe's desktop software business and a big bet that it can make money offering Web services directly to consumers.

The application, which needs Flash Player 9 to run, pushes the limits of browser-based applications and will likely ratchet up the competition on the dozens of free and online photo-editing products available now (see our full review of Photoshop Express and gallery of screen shots of the application).

Free Online Tool Converts Sites to PDF

This site is a service to convert your webpages to pdfs that can quickly turn a Web page into a downloadable PDF. It looks to be a useful tool if you need a snapshot of a page that might change frequently, or if you want a record of a site's appearance at a particular point in time. The service is dead-simple. You paste or type a URL into the site and click a button, and end up with a link to a PDF. You can also add a bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar that will convert the page you're currently viewing, or cut and paste html code directly into the site.The PDF will include a Web page's full length if it scrolls down for multiple screens. All told, it's a nice free step up from taking a screen shot of a Web site Htm2pdf.co.uk.