slideshow… collaboration style

Keeping in line with the several collaboration tools we have already mentioned… we are adding one more to the collection… and this collaboration tool can be used for collaborative slideshows…

Slidelive.com features:

• Instant sharing of Microsoft PowerPoint™ presentations
• Lightweight, browser based meeting solution
• Login and start your meeting right immediately
• Absolutely free

Visit Slidelive at www.slidelive.com

Sync google and outlook calendars…

Confused between using google calendar for all it’s features and outlook for it’s accessibility? You can now use both, the way is to sync them…

Sync your Google Calendar with your Microsoft Outlook™ calendar. Access your calendar however and whenever you want. Check your Microsoft Outlook events on the go with Google Calendar. View your Google Calendar information offline through Microsoft Outlook calendar.

Google Calendar Sync: Getting Started

Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You’ll be able to determine the direction of information flow, as well as the sync frequency. Staying on top of your Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar events has never been easier!

Keep in mind that it’s not possible to sync events on secondary calendars at this time. Google Calendar Sync will only sync events from your primary Google Calendar and your default Microsoft Outlook calendar.

Get started

To begin syncing, follow the steps below:

1. To download Google Calendar Sync, visit Google calender sync Installer
2. Once a dialog box appears, click “Save File.” The download should open automatically. If it doesn’t, manually open the download from your browser’s download window.
3. Click “OK” to confirm that you’re aware this is an executable file.
4. Read through the Google Calendar Sync Terms of Service, and click “I Agree.”
5. Continue to follow through the Installation Options and click “Install” to finish the set-up process.

Once Google Calendar Sync is installed on your computer, the Google Calendar Sync Settings window will appear:

In the Settings window, enter your email address and password and select the Sync Option you prefer. For more information on each Sync Option, please visit Google Calendar Sync: Options

You’ll also be able to set the time interval for syncing to occur. Please keep in mind that 10 minutes is the minimum time interval allowed.

After the initial set-up, you can access the Google Calendar Sync Settings window again by double-clicking on the calendar icon in your Windows System Tray.

Mobile Secretary who is intelligent!!!

Some times when you are traveling for business meetings, you wish to have your secretary with you (don’t take it otherwise, I am talking about professional help). Taking a secretary along with you on business meetings is not always feasible.

Now it’s possible to have a secretary in your pocket while traveling; you just need to have a smart phone and small software called the Sapie. Sapie is artificial intelligence based secretary software for your smart phone. Sapie has got voice recognition and artificial intelligence making her faster and easier to use. You can do various tasks using Sapie like voice-activated emailing, dialing and note taking etc. Isn’t it cool to have a mobile secretary in your pocket with artificial intelligence?

Sapie Features:

• Sapie, You can use it as a regular mobile phone!
• Now you can enter in a new contact faster than ever!
• Talk to your Device. Leave yourself Voice Comments.
• Set up a reminder - quicker than others!
• Voice Comments. Delete and re-record or just add up?
• Send E-mails from Smartphone or PPC fast & easy! No other mailing program compares to Sapie’s.
• No more graphic interface, talk to Artificial Intelligence, which listens, speaks and you can even see its face!

You can download Sapie here

real-time collaboration…

Due to busy schedule, sometimes it is very difficult to get all your team members or your team of consultants to sit down together to discuss a project in a meeting. Let’s understand that people will be busy, late, or more often than not reluctant to attend the meeting

Say goodbye to scheduling meetings, sitting in traffic jams and waiting in boardrooms. With Cozimo you can collaborate and review images and videos — together in real-time or on your own time. Get feedback from clients and colleagues instantly. Cozimo is the faster, better, simpler way to work.

Features:

• Draw and annotate onto images, videos, PDFs from any web browser, anytime, anywhere.
• Get to ‘yes’ faster with live online interactive meetings, review and collaboration sessions.
• Stay organized with a complete, easy-to-find record of all project-related communications.
• Compete more effectively by supporting your clients with the latest design technology.

fring, fring…

Do you have tons of contacts, friends, and family members in your instant messaging (IM) chat clients like google talk, skype, icq to name a few? But how do you stay connected with them if you are on the move and all you have is just a mobile phone? fring provides a simple mobile solution. fring is a mobile Internet service and community that enables users to access and interact with their social networks on-the-go, make free calls and live chat with all fring, Skype, MSN (Windows Live) Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM contacts and friends. In other word, fring is another multi-protocol instant messenger or softphone that supports voice talk or chat similar to Trillian, but for Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone, Symbian and UIQ handsets device.

fring uses handset’s Internet connection available such as GPRS, EDGE or WiFi data plan to connect to instant messaging servers, and thus bypassing the expensive and costly traditional GSM mobile call network airtime minutes.

Features of fring:

1. Connect to all IM buddies from Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo! and more into mobile phone and view them from one, integrated contact list.
2. Place voice call to local and international calls over the Internet, which can be as cheap as free, rather than costly airtime minutes.
3. Live free chat instead of SMS.
4. Know who’s online before dialing, with presence or availability status or indicators for all of your contacts.
5. Invite friends to fring.
6. Ability to send and receive files on Windows Mobile device such as videos, music, games, ringtones, docs with fring file transfer feature.
7. Choose incoming call and message tones.
8. Auto-roam in and out of WiFi hotspots.
9. Engage in multiple conversations simultaneously.
10. Calling is simple with just pick a contact and hit the green button.
11. Usage of fring application is free.

fring require a Symbian 8 or 9, Windows Mobile 5 or 6 and UIQ handsets with 3G, GPRS, Wi-Fi network coverage. Preferably users should subscribe to unlimited usage data plan which can surf the Internet. Also requires is 200-375kb of available space on memory card or phone.

fring can be downloaded directly into your PDA phone. To download click on the download now link…

they mystery of rss readers…

What problem does RSS solve?

Most people are interested in multiple websites whose content changes on an unpredictable schedule. For example this weblog, you would not know if there will be two posts in the same day or one post a week but to know that you would have to keep checking the blog repeatedly. Repeatedly checking each website/weblog to see if there is any new content can be very tedious.

Email notification of changes was an early solution to this problem, which was quite widely used. Unfortunately, when you receive email notifications from multiple websites/weblogs they are usually disorganized and can get overwhelming, and are often mistaken for spam.

RSS is a better way to be notified of new and changed content. Notifications of changes to multiple websites are handled easily, and the results are presented to you well organized and distinct from email.

What are RSS readers?

To handle the RSS ‘feed’ as it is called, you would need an RSS reader… Basically, it’s a way to clump all your RSS feeds from various websites into one handy interface. Here are my picks for the top three RSS, or feed, readers on the Web:

• Google Reader: Hands down, in my personal opinion the best feed reader out there. Great organization, super fast, and hardly ever in for maintenance. You don’t need to register if you have a Gmail account.
• Bloglines: A great rss reader too. Uncluttered and simple.
• Newsgator: I’ve heard a lot of good things about NewsGator; the best thing about it is that feeds can be delivered right to your Microsoft Outlook in an organized fashion.

You can subscribe to our RSS here

Here’s How:

1. First, find a Web site that you’d like to stay updated on. Let’s pick takeonlogyk for example…
2. An orange feed icon (displayed on the right, oh and it’s black in our case) is pretty much becoming the standard for feed subscription. If you happen across this symbol on the Web site that you wish to subscribe to, click on it and you’ll be subscribed to that particular site’s RSS feed; it will then start showing up in your feed reader of choice (a feed reader is simply an aggregator of RSS feeds; makes it easy to read them all in one place).
3. Subscribe to this feed. Plenty of sites nowadays will give you a variety of options in order to get you subscribed via RSS to their site. You’ll either see it written out (“subscribe to this site”, for example) or you’ll see a list of feeder chiclet icons all mooched together for easy access. Clicking on any of these links will enable you to be subscribed to that feed’s content.
4. Subscribe via a feed reader button. Most feed readers have made it possible for you to do a “one-click” subscribe: you find a site you’re interested in, you notice that your chosen feed reader has an icon displayed, and you click on that icon. The process differs from reader to reader, but overall, the process is the same and pretty simple – you just click and you’re subscribed.
5. Once you’ve subscribed to a site’s feed, you can view updated content in your feed reader, which is basically a way to aggregate all your feeds in one handy place. It’s super convenient, and once you realize how much time you’re saving, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without RSS feeds.

Best of luck!

mobile fusion…

MoFuse - an online mobile site creation app which lets you use your blog’s RSS feed as a basis of your mobile website - just launched their MoFuse Grow beta app today and it’s really nice. In just one step, you can enter the address of your blog, and instantly get a mobile website and unique URL created from your site’s feed, and then if you want you can continue to optimize it from there using the rest of MoFuse’s tools. It looks gorgeous, and works super simply. Definitely go check it out.

MoFuse Features:

• Custom domain name* - Use your own domain name or sub domain. (paid membership feature)
• SMS Widget - Place MoFuse SMS Widget onto your blog so your readers can get your mobile link via SMS message.
• Automatic Redirect - Use Automatic Redirect code to detect and redirect your mobile visitors to your mobile site.
• Brand your mobile site* - Upload your own image header/logo, grow your brands presence. (paid membership feature)
• Generate revenue - Enroll in revenue sharing program and earn 50% of all advertising profits using Google AdSense Mobile and AdMob!
• Automatic Image Resizing - Got images? Too big for a mobile screen? No problem, they’ll shrink them down for you!
• It’s affordable - By affordable we mean free. Yes we have a Professional level account, but all of their core features are available to everyone free of charge.
• Fully Compliant - Your mobile site will render perfect on your visitors mobile devices as they’re 100% .mobi compliant!
• Fully Hosted - No need to download anything! Just create your mobile site and they’ll do the rest!

Become a member here

collaboration… google style

Google Docs (where you share your docs with your friends across the globe) is a thing of past now we are not as much fascinated by it… the next big thing is EC [Enterprise wide collaboration]. Guess who is behind all this… yes, it’s google all the way…

Businesses, schools and organizations can now get powerful communication, productivity, collaboration and security tools right from the browser, leaving more time and money to focus on core objectives.

• No hardware or software to buy, install or maintain, even as you grow
• Access from anywhere, even from mobile devices
• Quick access to Google’s innnovation, like more efficient ways to collaborate
• Improved security and compliance

With Google Apps, you can get…

Applications including Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Docs. Learn more.

Services to make your existing messaging solution more secure and compliant. Learn more.

I have done this for my organization and I think it adds a lot of value… you can register here…

If you have already tried this out pls. share your experience…