Research in Motion has just launched Blackberry Application World, an interface designed to help Blackberry users find apps for their handsets. It is a lot similar to Apple’s App World concept, so this article will review Application World to see if it is a worthy contender.
At its relatively young age, being launched merely weeks ago, BlackBerry Application World is showing great developments. There is no doubt that it can be a serious contender for Apple’s App Store, because the amount of applications being made available for free — or with a one-time charge — within this platform is growing rapidly.
There are different categories of applications such as business, entertainment, finance, games, health, IM and social networking, productivity, news, weather, travel, even news and books. You can easily find compatible applications for your BlackBerry handsets using BlackBerry Application World, and have them downloaded and installed in no time at all.
If you are just browsing around to look for interesting apps, you can also see the latest applications added as well as popular free and paid applications. Believe me when I say the number of applications being made available at the BlackBerry Application World is growing rapidly, and it can soon rival Apple’s App Store for sure. This is because developers are diving into the growing market of BlackBerry users worldwide and see BlackBerry Application World as a great opportunity to reach their potential customer.
If browsing for apps via your BlackBerry handsets seems like too much of a trouble, you can visit BlackBerry Application World from your PC as well.
Is it an attempt to rival Apple’s App Store? Maybe. Is it a good attempt, does it has the chances of winning? Absolutely yes.
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The idea of a web conference is to provide the users involved, with a seamless interactive atmosphere and share data with multiple individuals based at different geo locations. There are many online conferencing solutions in the market today, we will compare are review the three most popular ones DimDim, WebEx and GoToMeeting.
All three services provide a good interface to work on for the potential customers. They allow for an interaction between the concerned individuals by virtue of their product model which enables people to share their desktop workspace, presentations and even make changes to the presentations in full view of the people involved in the conference. They allow registered users to create and invite people to a conference by just including their email addresses. The recipients on their part have to just click on the link provided in the email they receive to join a particular conference. Once a conference is started, the organizer along with the attendees can share files, desktops and even work on a particular document dynamically. The control of the conference can be shifted to one of the attendees, such that they could continue the presentation. With just a click of a button, desktops can be shared and unshared at will.
Here is a closer look on these service providers:
Webex:
Webex is a popular tool for web conferencing which has been acquired by CISCO. It can be used for a wide range of purposes such as web meetings, conducting training sessions, for IT support among others. It also provides various features such as recording of the conferences. Webex provides these services at a cost of $59 per month wherein the client can arrange such net meetings with up to 25 people at a time. The payment plans also involve cheaper annual plans and prepaid plans as well. They also have a “anytime commitment cancel” system which enables users to cancel the services.
GoToMeeting:
GoToMeeting is another popular web conferencing tool. It also provides a secure way to share desktops and workspaces between the organizer and the attendees. Apart from the basic version, GoToMeeting has more advanced versions which include Webinar services which allows the organizer to conduct Webinar sessions with up to 1,000 attendees. The basic version of GoToMeeting is priced at $49 per month with options to save up to 20% on annual payment schemes.
DimDim:
DimDim is a popular, open source alternative to WebEx and GoToMeeting. Since DimDim is open source, it is free to use for up to 20 members. DimDim’s impressive list of features includes the ability to create a whiteboard where ideas can be shared among the attendees. DimDim has an option to buy a Pro version which is priced at $19 per month which enables unlimited meetings and other pro features for up to 50 people. The pro features include Webinar widget which allows the organizer to share meetings over popular third party websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
My Favorite:
Effectively, all three service providers cater to the needs of the customers and provide similar features. Having worked on all, I would say GoToMeeting is the best of the three. The user interface is quite intuitive and there is no learning involved at all. DimDim, is cost effective as compared to the others as it is an open source initiative, you might want to go with it in case of budget constraints. Though DimDim also offers a slick UI but the constraint of putting PPT over their servers before presentation is quite restrictive. As far as WebEx goes, I didn’t really find any point why a small-medium business would go with WebEx when GoToMeeting provides all the features at a comparatively lower price.
Want to create a mobile version of your website or blog? Now you can do that with xfruits. After a 2 min sign up process, here is how you can generate the mobile version. 
- After login. Click on RSS to mobile.
- On the next page enter the title of the mobile version (of your choice) and tags with which your site should be identified with. Also enter the feed URL of your blog. Click on Publish.
- On the next page right click on “RSS to mobile” box and copy the URL of your mobile site.
- Done. Your site’s mobile version is ready to be displayed and shared on mobiles.
Among other, xfruits can also be used for combining multiple feeds into one or for converting RSS input to a voice output.
Sometimes an unformatted JavaScript code becomes nearly unreadable and difficult to understand. If you are in the habit of using such JavaScript codes, this little free web tool could be a boon for you.
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It comes with other features like indent with tab character OR 2, 4 or 8 spaces. Also it provides you with an option to preserve existing line breaks.
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Picture this- Your mom has complained about a virus warning being displayed on her computer. You have the solution for it and you know it won’t take more than a minute for you to solve the issue if you have the infected machine infront of you.. The only problem is that you are in another city. What will you do? 
Welcome LogMeIn – A simple and secure access to a computer from anywhere using a omnipresent web browser.
After a quick registration, you need to install the software ON the machine (target machine) that you want to control. [In the case above, provide your credentials to login to the site and ask your mom to click on the download link to install the software]. Installation is not required on the computer FROM which you want to control other machines.
Once software is installed on the target machine, simply log into LogMeIn.com. Click on the machine name and you will be connected to the target computer. Once connected to the Target PC, Click on Remote Sharing and start controlling your Mom’s PC.
This app comes in two flavors free version and pro version. The pro version comes with these additional features:
- Mini Meeting: Permit a remote third party to access your PC temporarily
- File Manager: Move files between computers and synchronize entire folders
- File Sharing: Share large files directly from your PC – eliminate email file-size limits
- Local Printing: Print files from a remote computer to your local printer
Though, I think the free-version should be sufficient for a normal home user.
Gozar!
