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Zoho today announced support for Facebook Connect, which means you can now access its entire suite of applications using your Facebook account. If you don’t already have a Zoho account, then you can sign up with your Facebook ID. Read More »

Opera Software today released the beta of Opera 10.5 for Windows. The big improvement in this new release is a new JavaScript engine; Opera claims that it is eight times faster — and my tests show that claim is justified. Read More »

 
 

Dan Deming-Henes has released version 1.1 of Twitt, adding a host of useful features to his his lightweight Mac Twitter client, which Darrell reviewed back in November. Perhaps most importantly, and addressing one of Darrell’s complaints about version 1.0, is that it now supports multiple Twitter accounts. This new version also supports Twitter’s… Read More »

Google today announced that it’s to roll out the ability to store any type of file up to 250MB in size in your Google Docs account, providing a place to back up, store and share your files in the cloud. Users will have 1GB of free storage… Read More »

OpenGoo, the free self-hosted version of Feng Office (a suite of open-source online collaboration tools that Darrell liked when he reviewed it back in May) has been renamed as Feng Office Community Edition, neatly consolidating all of the products under one brand, and removing confusion between… Read More »

Anagram, a clever Windows app that can automatically parse text snippets for contacts, leads, appointments and tasks and capture them into your organizer or CRM software, has had its name changed to Copy2Contact. I liked the product very much when I reviewed it earlier… Read More »

Freelance jobs marketplace Elance has posted its Work Index (a kind of monthly “Hot 100″  that analyzes over 100,000 recent job postings and shows the skills that are most in demand) for December, together with some data for the year 2009 as a whole. Here’s the… Read More »

More Must Reads

Web Geek Advent Calendar 24ways Returns

24ways, an advent calendar for web designers and developers, returns today for its fifth year. Every day until Dec. 24, a new article — many of them penned by web luminaries such as Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer and Peter-Paul Koch — will be published on the… Read More »

Firefox 3.6b4 Fixes Facebook Chat, Other Bugs

Yesterday, while many WebWorkerDaily readers were taking a well-deserved day off and chowing down on Thanksgiving turkey, the team at Mozilla was busy pushing out beta 4 of Firefox 3.6. This new update includes over 140 bug fixes, but perhaps most importantly (to me, at least)… Read More »

Adobe Connect Pro Adds Universal Voice Support

Adobe has launched a new version of its web conferencing app, Connect Pro, that adds the ability to integrate existing telephony/VoIP solutions. (Adobe calls this “Universal Voice.“) This feature should make Connect Pro more attractive to organizations with existing telephony packages in place, as it won’t… Read More »

PBworks to Add Real-time Collaboration Tools

At the Enterprise 2.0 conference today in San Francisco, PBworks (formerly PBwiki, see our previous coverage here) announced that it is adding built-in, real-time collaboration tools to its wiki software. The new suite of tools will include in-app IM, Live Notifications of changes to an organization’s… Read More »

Microsoft Releases Free Windows 7 Deployment e-Book

With the official release of Windows 7 on deck for later this week, Microsoft Press has released a free, 332-page downloadable e-book, “Deploying Windows® 7 Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine.” The book — which reuses material from the Windows 7… Read More »

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