The Great Office War

I saw a lot of videos showing employees going crazy. But this is really funny video. The Great Office War by Runaway Box is really funny and nicely directed. Enjoy.

Add comment June 18th, 2008

Zoho Writer is REALLY the BEST

I know that earlier I have said that Buzzword is great and questioned why is Zoho and Google and others are so fixated on using AJAX and so on. I have used nearly all sort of online word processors like Google Docs and Zoho Writer and Buzzword and others, I also was invited to try some private betas of other services. All have their pros and cons, but today I found out that Zoho Writer is the best.

I was helping a friend editing an essay, so there was big number of documents going back and forth, some from MS Office and some from Open Office and so on.  On my Toshiba Qosmio G30 NoteBook I have not installed anything of this sort, I was depending on using an online application.

So when I started my browser Zoho Writer was not my first choice, a mistake I will never fall in again sure, anyway so after trying some of those web services, they were either slow or did not have all tools I wanted. So after all that horror and time wasting I “remembered” Zoho Writer, and you just do not know how thankful I am for doing so, Zoho Writer REALLY knows what you need in a word processor.

I was in a hurry so speed was an issue and Zoho was just amazing, fast and full of tools and the saving and exporting to many formats was so simple and hassle free. So If you are looking at doing some serious work USE ZOHO WRITER.

2 comments April 7th, 2008

Buzzword, now that’s what I call a "Word Processor"

Google Docs, Zoho Writer and now Adobe Buzzword. Since the start of the rise of online document editors, I always asked myself, why those websites do not use flash instead of Ajax and I still don’t really get it. I always thought "FLASH" would be better and faster. I know that "Live Documents" will also use the FLASH technology.

Adobe Buzzword although came a bit late to the game, but there are couple or more things that makes it better than the others. Obviously being in FLASH is the first that comes to mind, it really makes it super fast. Buzzword is far more simpler and easy on the eye’s too. It works on any operating system, your computer just needs to have Adobe Flash installed, which is available in most computers by default anyway.

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As soon as you finish your registration you are quickly switched to the main page. In the main page you can basically either create a new document, open a saved document in Buzzword or open a document from your harddisk.

The beauty of Buzzword, being in flash, the menus are smooth and fast. And nicely organized, and on your first look you would get the wrong impression that BUZZWORD lacks features and options.

But you will be very mistaken to think so, just click on any of the icons and it will slide revealing various features. The picture below shows some of them.

We shouldn’t forget the pull down menus too, which also hold a number of different kind of options.

The "History" feature keeps track of different changes that you make on a document so you can switch between them easily.

In Buzzword you can also insert Pictures and Comments.

Document sharing, you can make a document private or share it with others in a very simple way, setting a role for the person you are sharing the document with. There are three roles. Co-Author where he can do anything with the document, Reviewer where he can read and comment on the document, and Reader where he is only allowed to read the document.

There are other great features also, such as Zooming, using a slidebar you can zoom the document in and out which automatically resize everything in it.  You can also insert special characters, and Offcourse, the automatic word count is useful when you are limited to number of words.

Now that is all great stuff in BUZZWORD, but there are couple of things that I found negative in it, nothing is perfect in this world. Anyway, the first thing that bothered me is the limited number of fonts available, which are only seven fonts.

The second thing is what happens sometimes when you upload a picture, it took me three tries to upload an image, a message keeps coming up stating that "Buzzword could not contact the server to complete our action". I tried doing this using IE, Firefox, FLOCK which is Firefox anyway, and I tried it from my Toshiba G30 Notebook and My Desktop PC. Sometimes the image is uploaded from the first time, but the error window do appear quite often.

For a full help guide for Buzzword Click Here.

In the end I would like to say that Adobe Buzzword is a good, easy and fast Word Processor. Couple of enhancements here and there and it will defiantly become THE web REAL Word Processor.

Add comment December 4th, 2007

Stop killing people with your PowerPoint Presentations.

Here is a must-see slideshow created by presentation consultant Alexei Kapterev. The slideshow is called “Death by PowerPoint”, how many times did you have to go through a boring presentation, bad presentations are bad for everybody, the audience the presenter business in general. So here are some really amazing tips on how to make your presentation the right way. Enjoy, really interesting stuff.

[Via From Where I Sit]

1 comment November 19th, 2007

EverNote 2.2 : Get it for FREE only today…

EverNote is a great tool to organize all your notes, web articles,  images,  parts of office documents and all different kinds of notes. Google Desktop Search can be used for quickly finding your notes, share your notes via email and instant messengers, notes can be categorized manually or automatically and you can synchronize your snapshots from your mobile or PDA. This software is specially useful for Tablet PC users, because it has handwriting recognition.

Normally to get this software you would need to cough up 50 bucks, but only today, and within the next 16 hours from writing this post you can get it for free from Giveaway of the Day. After going to the website carefully follow the instructions to download the software.

Add comment November 15th, 2007