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Why not google apps?

Everybody talks about financial crisis these days while very few been performing well. I was wondering how that is possible instead of blaming marketers, sales, managers, engineers and so on. So what I wanted to find out was something that can reduce the overheads, costs, or that can increase the productivity, profit without going for layoffs.

Even if its a small-scale non-profit organization, still we need to have an office suite, email client environment, contacts and calendar sharing etc with colleagues, and sometimes even with important clients, just to keep the ball going.

For all this, the only thing that comes into our mind is Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server. And the best part is we look for something cheap options as well. I'm not an “anti-microsoft” guy, but if I say that Microsoft doesn't come in “Cheap”, you all would agree with me.

Why not Google Apps as an alternative? Almost everybody who uses Yahoo, Hotmail have a Gmail account as well. Even when IE has a small textbox as the search box, still people compelled to type Google.com in the address bar to search things. So you can see how much you are addicted to Google products.

Try Google Apps, Its simple, its easy, and its surprising!

You can find more information about Google Apps in Business Page. Going forward, you can use all this with your Microsoft Outlook.

Some big big companies think about Microsoft and Google Apps. May be this will encourage you switching to either Microsoft or Google Apps or perhaps both ;)


CIOs speak up

Avago Technologies switched to Google Apps

File upload tutorials

I found several file upload sample codes, tutorials using jQuery, Ajax, JavaScript, ASP.NET, C# …

Ajax file upload using jQuery, ASP.NET & C#

jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)

JQuery Ajax File Upload and ASP.NET

I will keep updating the list when I find something interesting that relates to this topic :)

Rooler good for QA and UI Designing

Found this small application developed by Blend teammate. It can use to measure almost everything on your screen. Thot its good for QA, UI Designing etc.

Rooler

More on this can be found on;
MSDN Blogs > Expression Blend and Design > Check out Rooler – A free Screen Measurement Utility!

You can download this tool from the official site;
Rooler > Download

jQuery with Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008, still the #1 developer tool for .net (apart from the price you have to pay). However, Microsoft still keeps adding features and trying to enhance the IDE, making our life ez’err!

jQuery is one of the most popular scripting languages these days. But without IntelliSense and Documentation for the libraries, the language or the IDE will not get popular within communities.

I found few articles on how you make your Visual Studio 2008 IntelliSense supportive for jQuery both external scripting files (.js) and .aspx pages. More info in these links;

Setting up Visual Studio IntelliSense for jQuery
KB958502 - JScript Editor support for “-vsdoc.js” IntelliSense doc. files

I tried this and it works for me!