Zoho Writer goes offline (in a good way)

by Brad Linder Nov 26th 2007

Back in August Zoho added offline reading to Zoho Writer. While it's pretty cool that you can save online documents for reading when you're away from an internet connection, there was no way to edit those documents at the time.

Now Zoho is filling in the blanks by launching a full read/write capable version of Zoho Writer. That means when you mark a document for download you'll be able to read it, edit it, and synchronize it with your online documents when you go back online.

Of course, you could also just use a free word processor like OpenOffice Writer or AbiWord if you really just wanted to be able to edit documents offline. What makes online office suites cool is the ability to collaborate with other users. And Zoho Writer has that covered. Several different people can download the same document for editing and then synchronize their changes with the online version. Because Zoho lets you see the editing history of a document, it should be easy to see who made which changes.

[via VentureBeat]

Tags: google-gears, offline, zoho, zoho-writer

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

View more Time Wasters