Microsoft Office is probably the most widely used application suite across the globe with special emphasis on learning and corporate environments. The emphasis is put on these environments due to the fact that they require intensive collaboration on documents of mutual interest. For example, you are the team lead of 10 individuals working on the same project with obviously varying skill sets. You assign various tasks to each individual and expect them to report using a document created by you. The simple outcome would be 10 emails of the same document edited by each individual and sent to you. This leads to time wastage on your end and inefficient resource utilization. The solution is to work in a collaborated manner using tools like Google Docs or even Microsoft Office 2013 and its cloud integration that allows you to access and edit documents, on the go. So, is the problem fixed? Not exactly! Now, you’re stuck with the tedious process of creating a new account, integrating it with the Office Suite and collaborating, online. What if you went offline? At this moment, the solution is clear: Use the Zoho Plugin (more on this after the jump).

Instant messaging, voice chatting and conferencing are slowly becoming more and more popular among the internet users as a means of bridging gaps between family, friends and peers especially with Skype in the computer and Whatsapp, Viber and the like on smart phones. The implications of these applications aren’t simply restricted to the casual part of our lives but are finding themselves extremely useful in the corporate and business sector by addressing the challenges of effective collaboration and team management. As the world gets more and more connected, the internet cloud is being used to bridge gaps and ensure communication round the clock. So, may it be interview-taking, international meetings, collective task management, live webinars and events, tools such as Voxeet are proving themselves essential. Voxeet is an easy to use conferencing and group management tool that allows you to make the most of your team and hit your targets on time. While doing this, it ensures security, reliability and privacy. It achieves this by working on high quality sound, high speaker recognition and high mobility while giving you the freedom to switch between your computer and the mobile phone for the better.

So you’re using a download manager to simplify and amplify file downloading? Still can’t download videos from flash based video streaming websites like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion and the like? Finding a converter to adjust the downloaded media files in accordance with the compatibility requirements of your handheld and mobile devices? Ultimate Downloader addresses all these concerns single-handedly by providing you with a fast and effective download manager enjoying applications across the web. Simply provide the video link from hundreds of supported websites and download videos directly to the manager, which allows you to pause, resume, delete and schedule downloads. Once downloaded, use the in-built converter to make your data relevant wherever you need. Use the file management feature to organize your documents, images, music and much more. In addition, the integrated preview and advanced usage settings allow you to suit this application according to your needs.

Health issues- you’re not the only one with them. Quite often we complain about the condition of our health and the level of inactivity that induces laziness and discomfort in our daily routine, not to mention the flabby outlook. The solution is to indulge in workouts and sports in order to burn those extra calories that result in an uneven weight distribution and health imbalance in your body. Even if you begin an extensive workout, you get more stressed than relieved as it feels you’re the only one working in the right direction. All your friends, coworkers, family and peers seem nowhere to be found to share your milestones and achievements until your efforts bear fruit. It is for such situations that Dailymile provides its services as a personal fitness and workout assistant. Apparently, this web service may seem like a comprehensive routine log and workout planner but in the very essence, it is a social website converging fitness, health and sports enthusiasts at a single platform where they can discuss, compete and collaborate in a manner that they achieve far greater than they could ever reach, alone. In this virtual environment of competition and sharing, working out can never be more fun!

Sooner or later, language does become an issue. If you know a language, building a good vocabulary is a point of major concern whether it be student life or professional. If you are travelling to another place, maybe shifting there or learning a new language for whatever reason, no matter how grammatically sound you become, the roadblock remains a simple point, vocabulary! Alas, when you think of vocabulary, what comes to mind is the act of memorizing words with their meanings by repeating the same information over and over again. On the internet, there are alternative ways available. Like the use of flash cards for TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, SAT (and the like) preparation or using dictionary tools to learn both the pronunciation and the actual meaning of frequently used words. You must agree, none of these methods are fun! Memrise presents a fun way of learning over 200 languages (including English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish and hundreds more) and building their vocabulary with a huge set of tools made specific to your needs. You can find the relevant language exam may it be SAT English or any other test in any other language, Memrise provides you with a solution in a social environment integrated with Facebook based on an interactive fun-loving learning community.

Are you too busy for meetings? Need to manage tens of appointments in advance but still can’t find the exact amount of time to productively go through them all? Tired of telling others about your schedule and what time suits you? If you think coolly, you’ll realize that much of your valuable time is spent planning rather than acting. It is in such situations that online tools like ScheduleOnce come in handy. Free of cost and dead precise to the level you direly require, it manages your scheduling by maintaining a MeetMe link where all your appointments and commitments are organized according to the daily calender. This link can then be shared anywhere and everywhere you need, for example, your official signature. Your fellow colleagues, counter parts, associates and other corporate individuals of interest can go through your schedule (without knowing the details of your entries), while choosing from the available or bookable time slots to alert you for confirmation. If you approve, an appointment is set in a manner that you can easily go through your schedule anywhere you need, wherever you go!

It was only yesterday when Google announced an exciting new extension for Chrome: the Chrome Remote Desktop Utility. The name isn’t new for sure as this useful tool had made its presence felt ever since its beta launch, a year ago. Finally, the full version is out in public, free for your welfare. What exactly does this mean for you? Well, imagine controlling computers far away from your physical reach and using them to do useful operations like copying, modifying, downloading data or remotely configuring the system according to your needs. Are you troubleshooting an issue and are unable to get your hands on the system? Well, this utility allows you to remotely access computers on multiple operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Chrome OS using Google Chrome installed in them. Unlike the in-built Windows Remote Desktop feature, this does not require a ‘Pro’ version to unlock the ability to host sessions. Stephen Konig, Chrome Product Manager, mentions the new features by highlighting “the addition of a real time audio feed (on Windows). This can be handy if you want to listen to that MP3 music collection you have stored on a computer at home. Now you can also copy-and-paste between your local and remote computers.”

Managing thousands of images can often become too hot to handle. As technology progresses, people have started to use photos in order to crystallize and document their memories for good. With an extensive gallery of photos, the biggest challenge is to organize the files in a manner that it becomes easy to manage, sort and view them in the least amount of time. Phototheca is an amazing photo managing software that takes the real meaning behind images by interpreting them as events overlaid in time while being composed of real characters (keywords) and the moment (date and time). It is in such a context, that it provides new and innovative ways of searching for the relevant photos by using keywords, albums, events, and timestamp while encouraging you to view them in the usual gallery format or Calender (albums tagged with dates) or Timeline (photos related to events). In addition, it comes with a useful duplicate file finder as well as an in-built encryption feature that protects sensitive memories from prying eyes.

The use of web browsers have surely become a necessity in order to effectively access the information world via the internet. Along with speed, the safety, privacy and smoothness of the experience is a common concern to both novice and advanced users. Usually, you may battle these challenges by using Ad, Pop Up blockers and other tools to eliminate tracking through cookies and information exchange to untrusted third-party websites. On the other hand, developers rely on HTML editors to aid development in synchronization with web surfing. Cheetah, is a modern browser that addresses these concerns in an appropriate manner leading to a secure and fruitful web navigation and development experience. It comes with an integrated HTML editor (Praken Note), pop-up blocker, drag & drop feature, memory & CPU analyzer and the flexibility to modify the appearance using aero and metro-style forms. Overall, Cheetah is based on the Chromium engine while relying on the OpenWebKitSharp structure. To top it all, it makes best use of the latest technology like HTML 5 and CSS3 for the better.

Ever felt the need to convert your media files to formats relevant to your requirements like size, compatibility and quality? With tens of device out there, you must be aware of the suitable formats supported by the latest gadgets to yield maximum user experience. The traditional way is to check the supported formats and convert your music and video files, accordingly. Smart Converter is a useful application that brings intelligence to the process in order to furnish outputs through automatic need-relevant conversions in record time. Just select your need or relevance from the available options like Apple TV, iPad, iPod, Android Tablet, Android Phone, Music and Other. After that, simply drop your music and video files to the selection space and the program will convert it to the most suitable format ready to be used. It supports hundreds of popular formats including XBox 360, PS Vita, PSP, PS3, Windows, DivX, and many more.

As the use of the internet and the information space grows, an inherent challenge is file management, storage and retrieval. With the dawn of cloud computing, both individuals and organizations at large are considering the use of the internet to overcome the physical storage limitations. Moreover, with devices like smart phones, tablets and more, the issue of mobile access has reached critical importance especially for professionals in the information world. Thus, to address the issues of online storage, privacy, security and mobile access of documents wherever you go, Twindocs presents a simple and effective solution. Simply drag and drop files to the respective space, and let the application do the rest. It quickly uploads the data to your online storage with specialized algorithms to manage batch files using digital staplers and accessible in a Dropbox-like way. In addition, the support for multiple platforms like iOS, Android, Mac OS X and Windows, makes Twindocs relevant wherever you go.

To measure the response of the market of your products, services or even a problem or an issue, surveys are an easy way to derive statistics based on information that matters most to you. With the rising popularity of smart phones and tablets, applications like SurveyMonkey or other services are struggling to keep pace with the mobility of surveys. Similarly, it is a common practice to use Google Docs to make surveys that are easily accessible both for the surveyor and the audience. Survey Anyplace is an easy-to-use web application that allows you to create amazing surveys for mobile devices like tablets and smart phones using a step-by-step process. Just upload your company logo, and let this intelligent application define a suitable theme for your survey. After creating a survey, invite respondents, collect responses and analyze them as per your requirements. Achieve all this, without any need for technical or design expertise, instantly and on the go.

Running low on money? Spending too much and confused with huge bills and low balance? Heard of cloud computing? In order to handle finances in the best manner possible, we tend to use concepts and applications relevant to invoicing and billing so as to keep track of the flow of money in and out of our pockets whether it be personal, small-scale, medium-scale or large-scale organizations. To organize your financial resources, BillFaster is a powerful web application that automates your financial tasks by first creating a record of all the constituents of your finances with focus on money in (invoices, payments, credit, estimates, order, delivery), money out (bills, payments, paid expenses), accounting (accounts, bank transfers, journals), and administration (contacts, time, projects, inventory control and items) in light of the internet cloud connectivity. Using a useful online interface and transaction integrated with PayPal, you can keep effectively control all major aspects, on the go.

Quite often we are faced by a warning sign in the floating window originating from the system tray, exclaiming ‘Low Disk Space’. Apart from the fact that you are storing too much data in your meager drives, there are many other hidden or ignored files that consume space in a manner undesirable to you. Duplicate files use up disk space and reduce disk performance leading to slow defragmentation rates and inefficient utilization of limited disk resources. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is a life-saver in this regard, as it presents a step-wise easy-to-handle approach that searches for files with similar content or file names. It further optimizes disk performance while allowing you to organize media files, effectively. From setting thresholds or constraints for better search results to specifying the action to be taken on duplicate files and cleaning up junk files, Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is a promising and fairly popular system tweaking utility.

There was a time when people would record memories using words but now as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Managing, editing and sharing pictures are a common chore that consumes a significant portion of our times. Yes, Picasa, Facebook, Flickr and other online image sharing websites have simplified image conversion, compression and sharing with the best possible resolution so as to retain the experience. Batch compression is one of the oldest ways to save time while sending pictures, online either via email clients, browsers or instant messengers. On the other hand, content on your webpage should be of a size that facilitates page loading times to a minimum. In this regard, image converters and resizers are effective tools in optimizing images, effectively. Robosizer is an easy-to-use image resizing application with built-in sizes relevant to your use. All you need to do is select the picture and choose the respective use (email, Facebook, Instant Messenger, Flickr, iPhone or iPod, Online Forums or simply a compressed form of the original image) while it applies the respective size to the image, accordingly.