Demo Girl

Tafiti is a new research tool from Microsoft that uses Silverlight and Live Search to give you a really cool way to find and store research on any subject. You can try it out without signing up but in order to save any of your research you need to log in with your Windows Live ID.  If you’re wondering about the title to my post, it’s because Tafiti means “do research” in Swahili.  Here’s my screencast tour of Tafiti:

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(If you don’t like my screencast, check out the one on the Tafiti site here.)

Zoho has again improved on one of their great products.  Zoho Writer, the online word processor, has now added an “offline” feature.  When you’re logged into Zoho Writer you can simply click on “go offline” and your documents will automatically be downloaded and ready to view in in offline mode.  Whenever you log into writer.zoho.com/offline you’ll be able to access your documents.  As of now you can only view your docs but they plan on adding editing features in the coming weeks.  I had the chance to work with Zoho again and create a screencast showing off the new offline Writer so if you want to check it out first then you can view it here.