Zoho Office — New features

Those industrious Zoho guys kicked out another release today announced via a very interesting blog post. Some highlites include:

• Ability to open a document via a link, directly from your browser.
  One example offered is if your web search turns up a .doc, .xls or .ppt (word, excel or powerpoint traditionally) link, just right click the link and open it with the appropriate Zoho application. Don’t want to install the browser extensions for it? There’s also a way to do it via “URL APIs.” Nifty stuff. I’ll be honest and say this is not something I ever thought would be interesting (or ever thought of, period) but I think I can see where it has some interesting potential.
• Zoho Writer is improved as a blog client (remote editor) going up against others such as Performancing Firefox and Microsoft Live Writer for example. Now includes support for WordPress categories. The afore-mentioned blog post from Zoho was written that way. I may give it a shot and see what the markup looks like. Actually, I’m more curious to see how images are handled. MS Live Writer sure makes that a breeze. I’ve wrestled a bit with getting that setup in the past. I’ll have to make another run at it soon. Suppose it offers the ability to “post as a draft”? That would be nice.
• Tables, more context-sensitive right-clicking and bug fixes round out the changes.

I read earlier today a comment from one of the Zoho guys mentioning Zoho File System (sure wish I’d bookmarked that one). Curious to hear more on that. And we have the oft-mentioned “Single Sign On” to look forward to yet as well.  These guys definitely get points for being dynamic.

The recent “embedding” article is worth a look too.

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