BetaNews | Google Treads Further on Microsoft's Turf

BetaNews Google Treads Further on Microsoft's Turf

For some time now, many have speculated that Google will release its own online version of Microsoft Office. Today, rumor has become reality as Google released its Google Apps Premier Edition. Google Premier Edition is a fee based version of Google Docs and Spreadsheets for business. In addition to a word processor an spreadsheet, it also provides access to APIs, conference room scheduling for calendar, 10GB of e-mail storage, extended phone support, and mobile access to e-mail on BlackBerry devices. Granted, Google Apps Premier Edition is not on par with Microsoft Office yet, but who is to say what will be the case a year from now.

faxZERO

faxZERO send a fax for free

An almost completely free online fax service. Users can send up to 2 faxes/day and each fax can have up to 3 pages. Documents can be in either .pdf or .doc files. FaxZero will include an ad on the cover sheet but not on any of the other fax pages. The cover sheet does not count towards the 3 page limit.

Download Messages From Yahoo! Mail For Free

As many of you know, the free version of Yahoo! Mail does not provide POP3 access. In layman's terms, you can't download messages from Yahoo! Mail to your desktop e-mail client. In order to receive POP3 access you need to upgrade to Yahoo! Mail Plus, which will cost you $19.99/ year. However, there is a poor man's alternative to gain POP3 access to Yahoo! Mail and it won't cost you a dime.

YPOP is a free open source application which allows users to access their messages from Yahoo! Mail. Currently, it supports the following OS: Windows, Mac, Solaris and Linux. It supports several popular desktop e-mail clients, such as: Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Eudora. Use of YPOP's in no way violates your license agreement with Yahoo! Mail. How does it work? Here is what the developers' had to say:

""How do we do it you ask? Well, this application is more like a gateway. It provides a POP3 server interface at one end to talk to email clients and an HTTP client (browser) interface at the other which allows it to talk to Yahoo!"

You can download YPOPs at SourceForge.net. For instructions on how to install and configure it for your desktop e-mail client, see the following links:

1. Outlook (Windows XP)
2. Outlook 2003
3. Outlook Express
4. Mozilla Thunderbird
5. Eudora

For the complete list of desktop clients supported, go to Email Clients.

YPOPs developers provide YPOPs for free but welcome any donation to continue developing YPOPs.

Writely Blog

Writely Blog

Writely is one of the most popular online word processor. Earlier this year, Goolge acquired Writely. After being acquired, Writely stop accepting any new users and remained that way until today. Writely has a lot to offer. Writely sports many features found in Microsoft Word - it's almost a Microsoft Word clone. In addition, it allows collaboration and instant posting to a blog.