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Weekly Software / Website / Beta Launches: January 12 2008

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Every week there are lots of softwares that are released and made available for the users, though we are not always able to write about those this new weekly software launches section will summarize all the popular launches of softwares, websites and beta launches for the past week.

This bulletin will come out every Sunday so that we can cover the launches from Sunday to Saturday. Of course we will always try our best to review the softwares for you.

This week’s popular launches are

NewsGator Go!, NewsGator Inbox, FeedDemon and NetNewsWire

 

newsgator-logo Though these are not new launches, Newsgator has announced that FeedDemon, NewsGator Go! and NetNewsWire will now be available for free. This was a very good news for users since FeedDemon is one of the best Desktop RSS readers.

There are quite a few features in the newly released products;

  • Panic Button" – detects when you have a ton of unread items and offers to mark them (or a subset of them) as read
  • Significant performance improvements
  • Redesigned newspaper UI
  • Significant improvements to offline reading support, including redesigned "prefetching" of feeds
  • Inline page search
  • Attention reporting/APML export

    Downloads

    Windows: FeedDemon

    Mac: NetNewsWire

    Mobile: NewsGator Go

    Microsoft Outlook: NewsGator Inbox

    PDF Hammer

    pdfhammer-logo Just like there are PDF readers which help you read PDF documents online PDF Hammer is website which allows you to edit PDF files online fro free. Using PDF Hammer you can reorder pages, delete them, create a PDF by merging two documents and so on.

    The best part is that you do not have to install any additional softwares for editing PDF. PDF Hammers allows you to edit documents right from within the browser.

    Visit: PDF Hammer

    Xobni Insight – Microsoft Outlook  [Beta - Invite Only]

    xobni-logo If you are a Microsoft Outlook user this is one tool you should definitely try out. Xobni Insight is a Outlook addin that allows you to easily manage your Outlook emails and contacts showing you statistics on the number of emails you have sent or received from a person, threaded conversations, automatic phone number discover and the best of all a faster email search.

    Once you have installed Xobni you it will attach itself to the Outlook window and show you statistics of the email you are reading, you can easily navigate all the emails for a given contact or create a appointment with them using this nifty tool.

    Xobni is invite only, so if you are looking for invites leave a comment and I will share it with you, there are only 10 invites left currently.

    Request an Invite: Xobni Insight Beta

    Google Checkout Trends

     google-checkout-trends-logo The Checkout team has announced Google Checkout Trends which will help you see what popular goods are being sold and shows you a trend about goods. If you want to compare whether the Apple iPod is overselling the Microsoft Zune, simply visit the Google Checkout trend and search for ipod, zune which will show you the trends of sale of those products.

    Google anonymizes the data so that no personal information can be related to the goods. All in all seems like a good way to find out and buy products.

    Visit: Google Checkout Trends

    That’s it for this week, hope you enjoy the new launches of the past week and stay tuned for some more.

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    1. Mike King on January 13th, 2008 at 7:16 pm #

      Thanks for the tips and useful tools in your post. I’ve been hoping for an xobni invite for a while so would love one if you still have any. Thanks…

      • Keith Dsouza on January 15th, 2008 at 6:33 pm #

        Great you liked it Mike, your invite has been sent to your email address.

    2. K-IntheHouse on January 14th, 2008 at 5:17 pm #

      The most I am excited about is the FeedDemon made free this week! PDFHammer looks very interesting too. Nice list buddy!

      • Keith Dsouza on January 15th, 2008 at 6:31 pm #

        Me too but making the transition from Google Reader will be a bit hard :)

    3. Jim Edwards on February 12th, 2008 at 7:17 am #

      I would also love a xobni invite if you still have any, its getting to the point where i would lie, cheat steal, and possibly even sell my own mother for an invite, it just looks so cool. Please let me know if you’ve got any left, thanks a lot :)

    4. Richard on June 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm #

      Hi,

      Thanks for the recent mention of PDF Hammer. I just wanted to let you know that we’ve released version 2.0 (beta) of the free PDF editor. Users can now secure PDF files and add metadata to them, as well as edit and merge pages.

      I’d love to hear what you think about the latest version.

      http://www.pdfhammer.com

      BTW, there’s also now zoom functionality. Just double click on any page and you’ll get a larger view.