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A cool presentation will always earn you extra brownie points whether from your boss, your teacher, your client or from anybody you would want to impress. With Zoho Show, you can now create, edit, publish and show presentations online. Think PowerPoint but then you do it online. Owned by network management software company, AdventNet, Zoho Show is an easy-to-use application that lets you access, edit and share your presentations from anywhere and anytime. All you need is a browser and an internet connection to edit and share your presentations with anyone you want. You can also choose to embed your presentations in your blog or website for your readers. With Zoho Show, you won’t have to worry again how to show that well-prepared presentation of yours.

NewsGator Online is a free web-based RSS newsreader service and is the latest product from NewsGator, an RSS company which offers products and services that lets users to synchronize data streams and news feeds across multiple websites. NewsGator Online users can browse a whole host of news feeds or subscribe manually to their favorite feeds by copying and pasting and RSS link from their favorite sites. Since NewsGator Online is a web-based newsreader, users can view all their favorite news and media feeds from anywhere with internet access. Registration only requires your name, a username and e-mail and you don’t even have to verify your e-mail before trying out this great web application.

Everybody knows that the world evolves around some major search engines, either Bing, Google or Yahoo (and some other minor ones) but there is growing competition on the internet when it comes to real-time searches. These aggregators present you up-to-date information regarding the social net, Twitter being one of the best examples of the social internet is one of th sites indexed and searched in real time to present you with the latest social event that is happening anywhere on Twitter. Twitter has it’s own search engine but experts call it quite “dumb” and with a chronological search method, it really is quite primitive for it to be called a full-fledged search engine. Read the rest of this entry »

Love seeing those nifty paper stick-on notes you have all over your desk at the office or at home. Ever want to get it onto your smart-phone to give it a more homey feel, then steeky notes is for you, a virtual Post-it of sorts that has notes stuck in the background of your iPhone.With a million 3GS iPhones out already, and add to that the previous two versions, they are a lot of phones and you just can’t seem to have enough apps for use and just about any purpose for your gadget. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft seems to be catching up on the apps market but with one very unexciting aftertaste, it still costs a lot of money. At $15 per month for business apps or enterprise apps, or a $3 for each app it still costs an arm and a leg to get. That may be something really business oriented people and organizations may be willing to pay for, the bad part is that after they announced the release of their apps store, they released a tech bulletin that for stuff to work out right, you need to get some compatibility issues that was more or less loosely tied to VISTA, their failure of an operating system that has been the scourge of many a desktops the world over. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s good about Meebo is really the integration of all the popular chat and instant messaging platforms like Yahoo Messenger, Facebook and MySpace chat, AIM, MSN, GTalk, and the like. This is ideal for people who need to IM, whether for business or personal purposes, to have access to their preferred IM platform anywhere.

What’s even better is that users do not need to download any software or register (except for the IM they’re using) to be able to use Meebo. What’s more, it’s completely free of charge to use, so anyone is able to enjoy the benefits.

Meebo users also have their own online community where they communicate and keep in touch with each other. You will have to register for this though, although the feature itself is free.

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The Structured Query Language (SQL) contains one of the basic building blocks of contemporary database architecture. SQL defines the methods used to make and manipulate relational databases on all major platforms. At first glance, the language may seem threatening and complex but it’s really not all that bad. In a series of articles over the next few weeks we’ll explore the inner workings of SQL jointly. By the time we’re through, you’ll have the primary knowledge you need to go out there and begin working with databases!

By the way, the correct articulation of SQL is a controversial issue within the database community. In their SQL criterion, the American National Standards Institute declared that the official pronunciation is “es queue el.” However, many database professionals have taken to the slang pronunciation “sequel.” The option is yours.

Mindomo–a Web-based mind mapping tool, so versatile. It delivers the capabilities of mind mapping and desktop software in a Web browser. There are no complex software that have to be installed or maintained. Anyone can access if, for free, anywhere, and anytime.

BlinkGe–a new community-driven web site that is for use by the Geospatial community. It is used to share important information that are related to different categories and user groups. This includes GPS, GIS, Google Earth, Map Mashups, and more.

MixPanel–a user driven community that is free and lets users with the same interest to come together and favorite the best articles that will fit their interest. One of is features is Sense, it will grab aumatically all of the articles that are based on your reading habits and based on your interest.

Meebo is a free online application which offers instant messaging service to its users through multiple instant messaging platforms. Launched in September 2005, Meebo can be accessed anywhere either from a public computer or on a mobile phone. Users can connect from Meebo.com to AOL’s AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, and MSN Messenger. One distinct feature of Meebo is that it automatically saves all your message history so that you can still check your previous conversations even logging after a week. Meebo has a sleek interface and uses separate pop-up windows for chats. Other cool touches include a typing indicator and a time stamp. Though Meebo doesn’t require registration, being a registered user will get you some added functionality such as having single sign-on for all of your IM accounts, saving chat logs, storing conversations and adding personalized touches such as icons and skins to the application.

Amie Street is a social network service and, at the same time, an indie online music store created by Elliott Breece, Elias Roman, and Joshua Boltuch in 2006. Artists can upload tracks on the site for other users to purchase (although many of the songs on the website are also for free). Popularity sets the price of the song. The price of a track starts at zero upon upload but then increases based on demand and popularity (the maximum price any song will rise to is 98¢ and artists get 70% of the revenue Amie Street makes). In terms of social networking, users can connect with fellow users through the “friend” feature wherein “friends” are categorized according to musical interests.