Need a Database for Your Characters, Settings, Etc.? Check out Zoho Creator and Zoho DB.

With the free Zoho Creator, setting up a database is as easy as Click & Drag. It literally will take you moments to get up and running.

If you've already got data in Excel spreadsheets, etc., Zoho Creator's easy import functionality will let you add it in seconds.

It's really designed for ease-of-use. Seriously, anybody can do it.

If you get started with Zoho Creator and decide you need a more flexible and robust solution, then you can easily graduate to the free Zoho DB & Reports.

While you're there, check out all the other Zoho offerings at the Zoho Main Page. It might save you from spending money on software to do things you could have done for free with Zoho.

Zoho offers a full line of office capabilities pulled together with one-stop access. And free. Does it get any better than this?

-Originally posted on October 27, 2008, at rascaleriter.com.

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Dora : Thanks for writing about Zoho and recommending it to your readers

Get Organized With Tabbery

UPDATE: As of March 20, 2010, tabbery.com redirects to slideband.com, a tool for creating interactive rich multimedia presentations. Looks pretty cool.

You might want to take a look at a new tool called Tabbery if any of the following describes you:

• you hate having to constantly move desktop windows out of the way to see other ones;


• you sometimes wish you could save your current set-up of files, webpages, etc. for easy access;


• you ever want to share your current desktop files or webpages with someone else.

Tabbery lets you do all that and more. Here's a snippet from the Tabbery website:

Tabbery lets you organize your work into virtual desktop tabs, which can be saved, shared with others, or posted online. Each desktop tab is saved as one small file, capable of re-launching the entire desktop and its contents - on any computer! Best of all... it's free!

In its current form, Tabbery is one of those tools I think individual users will either love or hate. It likes to sit at the top of your screen, where it hides until you move the cursor into its area. Then up it pops. As an alternative, you can run it undocked, but then other things jump in front of it so you lose its primary benefit - convenient access to all your stuff.

I liked it a lot better once I edited Personalize -> Behavior and chose the option to have it simply appear rather than slide down. It got even better after I verified I could left-click at the bottom of it and drag upward, reducing the amount of space it took on my screen.

It looks like they're still taking requirements for further development, so maybe future iterations will offer even more customization options.

There's a short video on the Tabbery website that will give you enough information to decide whether you want to give it a closer look.

-Originally posted on October 26, 2008, at rascaleriter.com.

KallOut: A Handy Little Search Gadget

KallOut lets you search the web from any web page, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel or Powerpoint) document or Adobe PDF. It's easy to use and extremely helpful. It's free, too!

Basically, when you highlight a word or set of words, KallOut adds a little icon above the highlighting. You click on that and it gives you a menu of available places to search. It comes with a menu of search locations already included but, if you want, you can use KallOut Options to set up your own KallOut and specify the search location you want to add to the menu.

Visit KallOut.com for more details. There's a short product tour that's well worth the time.

Okay, I'm done. Now, go get KallOut!

-Originally posted on October 25, 2008, at rascaleriter.com.

TWINE Goes Public

For the last few months, I've participated in the beta testing of a site called TWINE. As of today, it's open to the public. If you get a chance, check it out.

TWINE's a great way to pull together research material from various sources. It's both a social networking and a web content bookmarking capability. Even better, it's powered by semantic (relating to the meaning of words) technologies, which makes it great for discovering information you might miss in a standard Google search.

Below's some more information, taken from the TWINE "About Us" page.

People use Twine to keep track of their interests. Twine is a new way for you to collect online content – videos, photos, articles, Web pages, products - and bring it all together by topic, so you can have it in one place and share it with anyone you want.

That is the beauty of Twine. It helps you collect information in a new, highly personalized, convenient way. You can use Twine alone, with friends, groups and communities, or even in your company.

And Twine is smart. It’s powered by semantic understanding, which means Twine gets to know you. It automatically learns about your interests and makes connections and recommendations tailored to you. The best part: The more you use Twine, the more useful it becomes.

I've had fun with TWINE and I've learned some things along the way. Whatever your interests, you're bound to connect with others who share them.

-Originally posted October 23, 2008, at rascaleriter.com.