Zoho Adds More Access Control

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Feature: Controlled Access in Zoho Business: "
One of the advantages of using online applications is mobility. You can access applications and your data from any location, operating system, browser or a device. In some specific cases, this 'access anywhere' may not be a good thing. Some companies requested us to provide a way to restrict user access to a pre-defined set of IP Addresses - typically their offices. We now have this feature in Zoho Business.


In Zoho Business' Control Panel, the 'Allowed IPs' option lets you configure the IP Range to which you want to provide access to your users. To configure it, enter the range of IP Addresses to which you want to provide access and save it.

While we expect a small percentage of businesses to use this option, it is important that we offer this flexibility. One of the sub-options available in this section is the ability to restrict Admin access to a certain set of IP addresses. This means, you can restrict the IP Addresses from which the administrator can configure the system. It's basically saying something like - you have to be in the office to make any changes to the system.
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Aviary Integrates with Haiku Learning

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Aviary for Education: Exciting Integration with Haiku Learning: "We are very excited to announce our new integration with Haiku Learning Management System (LMS). Haiku is a learning management system designed to bring the advantages of the web to students and teachers. We couldn't be happier seeing Aviary's powerful tools embedded right into Haiku classes.



Check out this great video that shows you how you can edit images in a Haiku Class using Aviary.



According to Brian Falcon Executive Vice President of Haiku, 'with Aviary, we take one step closer to our end goal of a download-free world. Teachers and students will now be able to create, edit, submit, and assess images and drawings without ever uploading a file from their desktop. This is exciting stuff!'

Committed to educating young people through design, media, and technology, Sweat Equity Enterprises (SEE) is the first organization to take advantage of this exciting integration.

'By embedding the Aviary suite into the Haiku LMS, Sweat Equity can now offer schools and after-school programs an eLearning environment where students learn 21st century skills,' said Leonardo Bullaro Director of Sweat Equity Enterprises. 'Haiku and Aviary have been vital in scaling our project-based learning and professional development offerings.'

We look forward to more integrations of this kind, and can't wait to see Aviary tools being used in classes around the world.

Let us know how you are using Aviary in your classes. How are you using it? How is it working? How can we make it easier for you? We want to make Aviary awesome for education!!!

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Google Calendar Improves Re-scheduling

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Looking for a good time? New scheduling tool in Calendar: "Scheduling meetings is tough, but rescheduling is even harder. We all know how frustrating it can be to try to find just the right time that accommodates everyone's availability and preferred working hours. Throw in different time zones and conference rooms and it goes from painful to excruciating. We'd rather schedule dental appointments.

On the Google Calendar team, we've noticed that when people talk about scheduling they say things like 'I'm trying to find a time' or 'let's search for a new date.' We wondered what would happen if we treated calendaring more like a search problem. Just as Google search applies ranking algorithms to return the most relevant results from the web, we hoped we could rank meeting times based on criteria important to the person scheduling the meeting.


Today we're launching the result of that experiment, a gadget called Smart Rescheduler, in Google Calendar Labs. Once you enable the Lab, you can find a new time for an event simply by clicking on a link. Our schedule search algorithm will return a ranked set of the best candidate dates and times based on the calendars others have shared with you. You can read more about it on the Gmail Blog.

So next time your boss says 'We need to reschedule,' just smile and say 'I'm feeling lucky.'

Posted by Ken Norton, Product Manager

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Meebo Puts Out iPhone App

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the iphone app is here: "
Our Meebo iPhone App Valentine’s Day Poem

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Go get your iPhone app

and leave us a review!

– from Meebo, with love

It’s official… our Meebo iPhone app went live at 9:45 pm on Valentine’s Day. Some of its features include:

• Access to all your buddies (AIM, Gmail, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, etc)
  
• Receive push notifications when you get a new IM, even when the app is closed
  
• Flick between multiple conversation windows
  
• Type in landscape and portrait mode
  
• Manage your chat sessions as you switch back and forth between the Meebo iPhone app and meebo.com
  
• Synchronized chat history between your iPhone and meebo.com
  

This is our first Meebo iPhone app. We’ve been working on the application for many, many months and though we’ve tested it again and again, it’s incredibly difficult for us to predict the languages, time zones, account configurations, and international network connections that all of you might encounter.

We’ve been watching the feedback roll in through the iPhone reviews and on our own internal crash report page. Thanks to a few keen observers (especially Gary from iPhoneInCanada.com ) who helped us fix one of our earliest reported bugs. As always, we listen closely to your feedback following a product launch to determine what we should prioritize next. Please don’t hesitate to leave us a suggestion or comment. We’re watching every word.

Take care!

-Elaine

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Zoho Adds Advanced Summarizing Options in Pivot Tables

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Zoho Reports: Advanced Summarizing Options in Pivot Tables: "

Spreadsheet users know the importance of pivot tables and the role they play in easy summarizing and visualization of data. With Zoho Reports, you can make pivots by drag-and-drop. There are many summary functions available - Sum, Maximum, Minimum, Average and Count - when constructing pivots. And now, further options are available for each of these functions as shown in the below screenshot.

The options available are

• Normal: Applies the chosen summary function over the data as is
  
• % of Row: Displays the data as a percentage of the total for each row
  
• % of Column: Displays the data as a percentage of the total for each column
  
• % of Total: Displays the chosen summary function as a percentage of the grand total of all data present in the report
  
• Running Total: Displays data in successive cells as a running (cumulative) total of a selected field
  
• Difference From: Displays data in each cell as the difference from value in the previous cell, based on the base field provided
  
• % of: Displays data in each cell as a % of value in the previous cell, based on the base field provided
• % of Difference From: Displays data in each cell as a % of difference from the value in the previous cell, based on the base field provided

In the featured 'Super Store Sales' database, we now have some pivots to demonstrate the new enhanced functions. For example, you can use the Running Total option to see the cumulative total over quarters (or months) in 2009-10.






Like Running Total, you can use the other options as well. For example, the embedded report below shows how much each product category in each quarter has contributed (as percentage) to the overall profit.

Do try these new pivot functions in Zoho Reports & let us know your views.

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The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

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Welcome to the first comprehensive user guide to Google Wave, written by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash.

Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn the ins and outs of how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. This entire book is available to read for free online, with an electronic and upcoming print version available for purchase.

Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave, and follow us on Twitterfor updates and Wave tips.

Scroll down to the bottom to read the on-line version of the book (or support the authors and buy a PDF!)

Failed Zoho

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If you couldn't tell by my failure to get past the first week, Zoho didn't make the cut for me. I was fine working around anything I had trouble with, but I couldn't stand losing work. My presentation failed to load in class twice, and they were both irreparably damaged during saves and had to be reworked.

I'm OK with limited functionality. There's no reason to be "cloudy" if the major benefit of ubiquitous access isn't there.