What is ZOHO?

What Applications  are available in Zoho?

• Email and Instant Messenger
• Contacts Manager, Task Manager and Calendar
• Word Processor (Writer), Spreadsheet (Sheet) and Presentation (Show)
• Application Notes, Links (Bookmarks, one can Import their existing bookmarks from FF or IE) and Documents Storage

Personal Groups
With Zoho Personal, one can create a wide number of Personal Groups and invite members from any organization to collaboratively share documents.

Business Applications
Apart from Zoho Personal, which is a suite of web-based applications for personal use, it also provides a suite of Business Applications. There are many tools in the Business Category as well.
CRM, Projects ( Like MS Project), Creator (a Database Application), Invoice, People (HR & Applicant Tracking system), Meeting, Business, Market Place.

Most of these Business Applications can be used free of cost to certain extent or one can purchase them for unlimited use. This is where Zoho makes some income.

Other Utilities

Zoho Viewer
This file upload utility lets you upload and share online Documents or files to others very easily. Just upload the document, grab the URL and share it with others. You can also set the expiry of the document being uploaded. It supports the following file formats.

Microsoft Office Formats – .doc .xls .ppt .pps
Open Document Formats – .odt .ods .odp
Open Office Formats – .sxw (Writer) .sxc (Calc) .sxi (Impress Presentation)
Other Formats – .pdf .rtf .html .txt .csv

If you are not able to find the type of file you want to upload, you can also submit a request to get it added.

Zoho Challenge is a wonderful utility which lets you create and conduct online examinations.

Zoho Polls lets you conduct and review polls.

Zoho Vs Google
Google has decided to stop further development of of it’s Google Notebook, which is used to clip notes from web pages. Zoho, immediately acted and brought the following utilities/tools to transfer your content from Google.

Transfer/Migrate your Google Notebook content to Zoho
There are two ways to import your content from Google Notebook.

Way 1 – Using Firefox plugin

1. Install this Firefox plugin for Zoho and restart your browser.
2. Login to both Zoho Notebook and Google Notebook.
3. Either in one of the existing tab or in a new tab copy this text in the address bar. DO NOT USE HTTP OR WWW while entering this URL in the address bar.

chrome://zoho-notebook/content/g2z.html

4. Follow the steps and all your content will be moved to Zoho.

Way 2 - Import from Google Notebook as Atom (.XML)

1. Login to Google Notebook.
2. Click Manage notebooks on the left hand side
3. Click export on which notebook you want to export.
4. Now click Browse or Choose file button provided below, to select the saved file. Save the file with .XML
5. Import the saved file here.

I’m sure you will have questions on Privay, Security and other kinds of questions related to your documents on Zoho. Do read this FAQ.

The former is seldom used to achieve the purpose than the later. This is mainly due to the fact that both the sender and the receiver is expected to be online for the file transfer to successfully take place.

The later is to email. Certainly there are some many limitations this way. Limitations to the file size that you can send is the major among such issues. Even if you consider popular emails like Gmail, it only allows up to 20 MB. This is great, but, what if you want to upload a much bigger file? What if the site doesn’t respond? What if you are disconnected from the server due to some reason?

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It’s been more than 4 years that I have been using Orbitfiles and since then, I have no complaint. It is always available when I need it the most. Very efficient and reliable. I’m not sure about the customer service. I never had to contact them. Moreover, I’m taking about their FREE File storage Plan.

Here are some of the reasons why you have to choose Orbitfiles over many other free file storage providers like Box, DriveHQ, Omnidrive, MyOtherDrive, and so on…

1. Storage Limit: 6 GB. No other free file storage provider offers a better limit than this. Most of them either provide 1 GB or at the most 2 GB (with many terms)
2. File Size: 50 MB
3. Monthly Bandwidth: 10 GB
4. File sharing: Yes
5. Public Page: Yes. All the files marked as Public will be available through a link which can be accessed by everyone.
6. Faster upload: Uploading files through web is a pain. Orbitfiles understands this and came up with a faster approach called Hercules Uploader. Install this, drag and drop the files to the server and uploading is never so easy.
7. Backup: Yes
8. Customer Support: Yes
9. Referral Program: Yes. You get $0.10 for every referral you make.

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