Recently my friend and I launched a website called Gconnect.in. It is basically meant to be a community website for the officers of Government of India.
Incidentally, the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations were announced within a day or two of the launch of GConnect. As soon as it was announced, another friend of ours had prepared [...]

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Gmail has introduced a new feature - now you can open PowerPoint attachments as slideshows right within your browser, without having to download anything.
To open a Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) file without downloading it to your computer:

Open the message containing an attachment.
Click View as slideshow at the bottom of the message.

This will open your slides in [...]

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Zoho Quickread is a great plug-in for Firefox/IE that lets users open common online office files like documents, spreadsheets and presentations right in the web browser.

Let’s see how it works in Firefox. Once you install the plugin and restart Firefox, you will find the ‘Zoho Options’ menu item under the Tools menu where you can [...]

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Zoho is soon to launch Zoho notebook, a truly versatile online tool for storing various types of data.
In their announcement, Raju Vegesna, Chief Technical Architect, Zoho says:
Zoho Notebook is an interesting application that is similar to your spiral bound notebook where you can write, draw or doodle, but this being a web application, you can [...]

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