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Gmail Offers Google Spreadsheets for XLS Attachments

By Turker | Published: November 3, 2006

According to Google Blogoscoped Gmail just started offering to open XLS attachments in Google Spreadsheets. This is very convenient, indeed.

However, what is more interesting here is what the Blogoscoped points at: Google’s strength at locking in the users. It is obvious when you…

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New Gmail Mobile Application

By Turker | Published: November 2, 2006

Google announced a new mobile Java application which delivers Gmail to any J2ME-enabled mobile phone. There is already a mobile version of Gmail which is accessible via the browser on the mobile phone. However, this new application brings a richer experience and the…

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Lightweight PDF Reader from Adobe

By Turker | Published: October 31, 2006

Adobe Labs announced a lightweight PDF reader which they called Adobe Digital Editions (beta). A lightweight PDF reader is a very desired utility given the widespread use of the PDF format and the resource intensiveness of the Adobe Reader. I had…

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Alternative PDF Reader: Foxit Reader

By Turker | Published: September 19, 2006

I am surprised it took me that long to find a pretty decent alternative PDF reader to replace Adobe Acrobat Reader. I often find myself frustrated with the bloatness of the Adobe reader even on my decent laptop. As Adobe announced their…

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Google MP3 Player

By Turker | Published: August 24, 2006

Google has implemented an MP3 player into GMail which will lets users stream MP3/audio attachments right inside the GMail interface. This is a very useful feature, indeed. Digital Inspiration also found out that the player is a stripped down version of the…

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Performancing Extension Update

By Turker | Published: April 21, 2006

Performancing recently released an updated version of the Performancing for Firefox blogging extension. It was already working great but I am loving the new FTP Upload feature. It makes posting a lot faster. I cannot count the times where I didn’t attach…

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