Printed greeting cards may no longer be as fashionable as they were a few decades ago, but thankfully; e-cards have made it possible for people to be more thoughtful – or witty at the very least – on the most special of occasions, especially this New Year. Here is our list of websites that offer [...]
The attachment limit on Gmail used to be 25MB until very recently, but now Gmail users may attach up to 10GB of Google Drive files in their emails. Gmail Product Manager Phil Sharp posted an update on their blog on the new Gmail feature which increases file size attachment per email by as much as [...]
Online storage company Dropbox, which allows its users to save their files wherever they may be and from any device, recently hit 100 million users. This latest piece of update by Dropbox was announced by the company’s CEO and co- founder Drew Houston over at their blog. With a higher number of consumers and small [...]
According to The Verge, pretty soon Microsoft will no longer be offering Windows Live Messenger, as it plans to replace its chat service with Skype. The plan, however, involves moving the backend of Messenger to Skype client so that users will still technically be using their Messenger accounts through Skype. As a matter of fact, [...]
In consonance with their continued efforts at making Gmail more efficient and seamless to use, the Gmail team has introduced several new features in composing an email. It’s already working in some account (mine!^^) and it will be deployed for everybody in the next months. First off, the new compose windows pop ups very similarly [...]
TextMaster, a service provider specializing in copywriting, proofreading and translation, has taken one step forward in working with developers and their applications. The text services company has unveiled its technology stack this week that will facilitate and assist third-party developers in all of their content requirements. Recently launched at just six months, TextMaster promotes itself [...]
Google has made announcements on their blog about their newest acquisition: Quickoffice. A mobile app, Quickoffice, provides Microsoft Office access to its users through their iOs and Android smartphones. This acquisition is viewed by tech analysts as a well thought-out strategy by Google to actively compete with Microsoft, as the latter is prepping for the [...]
With the new Google Drive, the whole industry of online storage/backup and synchronization services is watching. Some of them already made some updates for their offers. Here are 2 comparison charts. But remember that Free, popular and easy-to-use does not mean the most Secure. If you want more security with encrypted data on client side, [...]
Written on 25 April 2012 by Vincent AbryMicrosoft has just taken cloud computing to a whole new level with Skydrive, a file hosting service that allows you the convenience of easy file access, simple sharing, and even mobile access. With Microsoft Skydrive, getting all your files neatly in one place is easy – and you don’t even have to bring all of [...]
While Google just launched Drive, its free sync storage service in the cloud (with 5GB of free space), they also just increased storage to 10 GB for Free (instead of 7 GB). This update will be effective for all accounts in the next coming hours. Gmail launched in 2004 and at this Google’s webmail was [...]
Written on 25 April 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle Drive finally launched today and as anticipated with the update of Google Docs to 5 GB of storage, Google Drive will fully integrate Google Docs inside. Drive will allow users to create, share, and collaborate with their documents online (photos, videos, Docs, PDF, etc..). The service will offer 5GB of free storage and will [...]
Written on 24 April 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle has just increased the storage capacity of Google Documents from 1 GB to 5 GB. No official announcement has been made and the update is done silently in some users accounts, according to CNET. This update comes at the same time when Google is going to launch Drive, an online storage & synchronization tool, just like Dropbox or Skydrive. Drive should also be [...]
Written on 24 April 2012 by Vincent AbryDropbox just announced on their blog that users can now share their content with friends using a single URL, even if recipients don’t have a dropbox account. So far nothing revolutionary since Box.net already provides this type of sharing via an URL. But here what is really interesting and different is that the recipient does [...]
Written on 23 April 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle Drive is coming very soon : free online storage tool from Google will be launched by early next week, probably on Tuesday. I hope this is true this time, because I hear rumors about Drive since 2007! Just an URL to remember: drive.google.com According to The Next Web, Google’s service will offer 5 GB of free storage and will be available for Windows, Mac, Android and IOS. “What’s [...]
Written on 16 April 2012 by Vincent AbryFor those who use Google Reader every day to read and find top posts among thousands news, you must know PostRank. This is an app that sort top posts with assigning a rating between 1 and 10 to each item from RSS feeds. This is very useful to sort items by selecting those whose score is greater than 2.7 +, 5.4 + or 7.6 + (see image below). Well guys, Google just [...]
Written on 04 April 2012 by Vincent AbryIt appears that Google is not done battling Facebook in the social media world. Not resigned to being a second-rate social media platform, Google now seeks to compete across the internet with their brand new commenting system. True to Google’s nature, the third party commenting system will be tied in with the user’s Google accounts [...]
Google just launched “Account Activity“, a new online service with email alerts that allows you to receive monthly reports about your full activity on signed-in use of Google services. These reports will allow you to track everything you do while signed-in in your Google account : -the number of searches on Google -the number of emails sent [...]
Written on 28 March 2012 by Vincent AbryAndroid Market is now called the Play Store and will be part of the new Google Play, a platform including ebooks, movies, music and apps. A new codename which will contain both the old Android Market (mobile apps), Google Music (now Play Music), Google eBooks (now Play Books) and Google Movies (now Play Movies). A single address to access 4 Google services combined on a single platform, from the perspective of globalization but also the goal of competing with the Apple Store or Amazon. On [...]
Written on 06 March 2012 by Vincent AbryYou might have heard about Facebook’s new messenger, for some it is old news. In December, a tester of the Facebook messenger leaked a link to download the app. Facebook responded, in turn, by making the client available to the public. For those of you who did not know about the app, you should see [...]
Those who are familiar with Google products – Gmail, Docs, Calendar – will be excited to hear that Google may be finally releasing their online storage device. The storage service will be appropriately named Google Drive – or GDrive for short. The company is rumored to have had this device in the works since 2007, [...]
