Spoon

Spoon virtualization lets you run desktop apps anywhere with no installs – at work, at home, or on the road.

There are a list of applications and games in various categories in Spoon website, where you can launch 7-Zip, VLC Media Player, Open Office, Google Talk, Paint.net, Picasa, uTorrent or Notepad++ directly from the web browser.

As you can see, these apps are run in a virtualized environment. Buffering may take a while, depending on the speed of the Internet connection, the application’s size and the current load of the Spoon servers. They looks exactly like the original though a bit slow as it is all in the cloud.

Spoon applications can be accessed from the Web at Spoon.net, on third-party websites via Spoon Feeds, and in private enterprise clouds using Spoon Server as long as you have installed the Spoon plug-in. It is compatible with the popular web browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari.

It is highly recommended for users who want to run or test applications without installing them first.

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Spoon – Free Cloud Hosting Service for Desktop Applications is a post from: TechieQuest

DiskInternals Linux Reader provides for read-only access and does not allow you to make records in Ext2/Ext3 file system partitions. This guarantees that the interference in an alterative file system will not affect the work of Linux later. Apart from this, it is necessary to note, that it gives you an opportunity to use common Windows Explorer for extracting data. A preview option for pictures is one more pleasant point, which is worth mentioning.

For read and write access to the Ext2/Ext3 file system, Paragon ExtBrowser (which we have previously mentioned) is the tool where you can read, write, modify, create, delete files and folders under Windows.

While saving, it ignores file security policies. It means that it is possible to access absolutely any file on a Linux disk from Windows. The program can create and open images of Ext2/Ext3 disks.

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DiskInternals Linux Reader – Get Access To Linux Files From Windows is a post from: TechieQuest

With Paragon ExtBrowser, you can work with a Linux native file system using Windows. Just plug in your hard disk with ExtFS partitions to your PC via eSATA or USB-to-SATA and you can instantly modify files on Linux partition without installing special drivers.

Paragon ExtBrowser Key Features:

• Easy to install
• Fast and transparent access to Ext2FS/Ext3FS under Windows
• Special unmapped folder in My Computer (Explorer) to open ExtFS partitions, where you can read, write, modify, create, delete files and folders under Windows.
• Better stability with less risk to your system because there is no need to install a separate kernel mode driver
• Import/Export files and folders from/to ExtFS partitions. For example, if the hard drive is taken from NAS storage and you need to open a Linux partition and copy from it or place a new file there, ExtBrowser eliminates the need to install the hard drive or configure it for network access. Simply connect a hard drive via the eSATA connector or USB-to-SATA adapter to the PC and access your files
• Open documents and multimedia directly from ExtFS partitions. If you want to watch movies or open large documents contained on a Linux partition, simply connect the drive directly to the PC to get instant access

Download Paragon ExtBrowser here. It works with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Paragon ExtBrowser – Enable Accessing Your Linux Partitions From Windows is a post from: TechieQuest

This program is written in c# with firebird database as persister media (for history of used images). The downloaded images are saved on Images folder, inside of the running folder of this application.

Bing on Desktop requires NET framework 2.0 to work and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.

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To get started, just sign in with your del.icio.us account and you’ll be able to instantly search through your content and get a list of relevant bookmarks. It is a fast and easy way of finding a bookmark that’s been misplaced.

For more info on Delizzy, visit http://www.delizzy.com.

Del.izzy – Search Through Del.icio.us Content is a post from: TechieQuest

WhoDoes 2.0 Introduces new instruments that makes managing of the projects activities and the sharing of information within the team even easier, a new graphical user interface more intuitive making it more usable and a new approach more collaborative to facilitate team work.

What’s new in WhoDoes 2.0:

• Fast Planning – is an instrument that allows you to plan projects in detail with milestones and their related tasks or activities in just a few minutes. It makes planning activities easier and managing of projects even more simpler.
• Teamwork – a new concept of teamwork, that allows you to invite users that take part of the WhoDoes Network. When a user registers an account, they can choose to be visible inside the Network of Whodoes, in this way they can easily be found from many companies that use this application. It makes collaboration between those who work in the same company easy without the invite procedure.
• Project E-mail – allows you to archive and share within the Repository all the project e-mail communication exchanged, allowing the whole team to remain updated with the communication relative to the project.

WhoDoes main characteristics:

• Web-based: web-based application developed in Ruby on Rails compatible with all common web browsers.
• Localization: WhoDoes 2. Is available in English, Italian and Spanish
• Simple design and easy to use: Using a simple and intuitive interface such as Fast Planning helps to noticeably reduce the time necessary for project planning.
• Time Management: thanks to an opposite calendar the team members can keep track of the hours spent on single activities, sharing this information directly with the project manager.
• Unlimited users: it does not matter how big the project team will be, WhoDoes foresees the management of an unlimited number of users active at the same time.
• More projects, only one account: only one WhoDoes account, which allows you to manage up to a 100 projects.
• Shared documents: inside the Repository it is possible to archive and share up to 10Gb of documents and thanks to the new functionality project E-mail, also the e-mails relative to the project.
• Subscription to iCal: WhoDoes 2.0 can interface with an agenda that is compatible with the protocol iCal, allowing the integration of the activities from the project with your personal agenda.

WhoDoes 2.0 is available in a free version, and also in five diverse subscription plans starting from only 5,99 $ a month. For more information, read the Release Notes.

WhoDoes 2.0 – Online Project Management Services to Plan and Manage Activities is a post from: TechieQuest

The webnode system is a free tool that completely manages your entire web project. Anyone, without any technical know-how, can create and manage advanced web presentations, easily. There is no need to install anything on your computer or server. Everything is made available through your web browser.

Webnode makes website creation easy. You can easily create website with click of few buttons, select the design, add content and simply hit publish button. It cannot get simpler than this! With Webnode, you can create website without any technical know-how.

Webnode features:

• Real-time interactive editing – You can see your changes in real-time as you make them on your page.
• Drag-and-drop technology – There are dozens of drag-and-drop objects that you can build anything you want. Just drag it from the toolbar and drop it in the place you want it displayed on the page.
• Gadgets and widgets – You can easily add any third party gadgets such as Tags, Google Maps, Live Maps, Yahoo! Maps, YouTube, Google Video, Soapbox, Flickr, Photobucket, Box.net, Windows Live SkyDrive, PollDaddy, Google Gadgets, YourMinis, SpringWidgets, PayPal and Google.
• Multiple file upload – Easily transfer multiple file and folder with Webnode’s file management.
• On-line document editing – You can editing your documents online without having to install any software.
• Free hosting
• Use your own domain – You can run webnode website on your own domain free of charge.
• More than 40 free templates – There are more than 40 free website design templates that you can customize. Webnode allows you to edit CSS and HTML code through your browser.
• Import a custom template – If you want to have a very original design, you can create and import your own template.
• Photo Gallery – Webnode has an advanced photo gallery manager with image manipulation tools for quick editing, cropping, resizing, rotating and management.
• Publish all changes at once – Manage your content, preview, make changes and then in one click produce all your changes on-line for the public.

Webnode is free, sign up for a free account and start to create your own website right away.

Webnode – Makes Website Creation Easy without Programming Skills is a post from: TechieQuest

To assign one website to Fast Dial, right-click a thumbnail, and choose “Fast Dial > Set URL” from the context menu. Choose an URL and click “OK”. In a second or two the thumbnail image appears, later open sites just clicking the thumbnails.

You can change the thumbnails position by drag-n-drop. If you move mouse over thumbnail’s top-right corner, a panel of graphic buttons appears for you to zoom, refresh, clear or set the URL for the thumbnail.

Mouse-click and Keyboard shortcuts:

• Left click on a thumbnail title opens “Set URL” dialog.
• Middle click on thumbnail title runs thumbnail refresh.
• Left click on a thumbnail opens the website in current page.
• Middle click on thumbnail opens the website in a new tabs.
• Alt+number keyboard shortcut opens assigned site.
• When viewing zoomed image right-click to exit zoom mode, or left-click to open selected site.

You can customize the appearance of your Fast Dial page in Preferences.

You can download the latest Fast Dial Firefox extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721.

Fast Dial – Add Shortcuts to your Firefox is a post from: TechieQuest

Webinaria is a useful tool for demonstrating software features and e-learning purposes. It helps software developers or salesperson to demonstrate their work that are hard to explain in word and also reduces the amount of technical support required.

Webinaria Recorder features:

• create Flash (AVI to FLV) recordings of your desktop and publish online
• record voice commentary with your presentation or demo
• show a “picture in picture” video via webcam of you presenting
• Record desktop presentations, video and audio
• Share your sales presentations and training demos

To create a screencast, you need to download the Webinaria Recorder, go to http://www.webinaria.com/record.php and click on the download link. You also need your microphone and webcam to start recording your desktop presentation demo or screencast.

To learn how to use Webinaria, watch the demo video below.

To publish your screencast on Webinaria, you need to sign up for a free account and upload your Flash videos.

Webinaria – Create, Publish and Share Screencasts is a post from: TechieQuest

You can change the translation mode to display translation in address bar, display translation in pop-up window, or disable the translation.

To translate a word just select it with your mouse, the translation will appear in Firefox address bar or in a pop-up window. With the pop-up window, you can copy the selected word to the clipboard or search it in one of the search engines by clicking one of the icons such as Google, Yahoo, Answer.com, Flickr, YouTube or Wikipedia.

You can download the latest version of Quick TransLation from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5641.

Quick TransLation – Firefox Add-Ons is a post from: TechieQuest