The Google Docs team is finally announcing that their Office apps now works offline too with the help of Google Gears! This is not revolutionary since Zoho beat them to the punch but let’s face it: Google is bigger.
This is very bad news for Microsoft’s $16 billion/year office business considering it’s free(or $50 for [...]
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Google Docs goes Offline….in a good way: What took so long?
WordPress 2.5 RC2 screencast posted
A new screencast of Wordpress’ 2.5 RC2 has been posted. The coolest things is the new Dashboard which shows the views to the blog widget(another analytic for my blog….apart from Mint and Google Analytics) and the new picture gallery. I can’t wait for the dev team to release the official one (I’ve had the RC1 [...]
No more 20% time at Google?
Let’s face it Google is not the startup it once was. 16,805 employees(according to wikipedia) sound more like an enterprise. Enterprises still need a pitch to recruit talented people. Their “20% of your time side project” pitch is a becoming a thing of the past according to some:
Google recruiters are out of touch. This 20% [...]
Twitterholics: following 19k
How can someone follow 19,000 people?
Windows 7 might be going modular?
As it stands, Microsoft’s next mayor OS release is targeted for 2010 and being called Windows 7. There has been a lot of speculation mounting on how they can reinvent the OS and take all the wrongs done by Vista(and still doing with SP1).
Ars Tecnica is reporting that Windows might be going modular:
But just imagine [...]
May-June Developer Conferences
Developers conference seem to pop up everywhere during the next couple of months. A multi-tech developer might want to go the the following hot conferences:
Start off on May 28-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West for Google’s Web Forward:
Two days full of in-depth breakout sessions on the latest web technologies, Fireside Chats with Google engineering teams, [...]
Wordpress 2.5 Closer than we think
The WordPress development blog has posted more pics and info on the revamped interface and development. So far it looks great and can’t wait to get in on my blog. Hopefully there won’t be any interoperability issues with the themes and plugins.
if you are a WordPress user, make sure you send some feedback so [...]
Apple, Please let me in!
Just got this:
Dear Registered iPhone Developer,
Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is available to a limited number of developers and we plan to expand during the beta period. We will contact you again regarding your [...]
Google Sky: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Gotta to hand it to the geeks at Google. They don’t understand women any better than men everywhere. That is why their new Google Sky shows just that. Women are Venus and Men are Mars.
Brought to you by the same guys that think the moon is made of cheese. What is this? Cheese!
For a [...]
Horray, No delay: Apple announces WWDC 08 dates
Apple is on track for WWDC 08 in June. No delays this year as had been perviously rumored.
(Via TUAW.)