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Native. OAuth Playground. 17 Noteworthy Alternatives To Google Notebook. Google's decision to discontinue development of Google Notebook had some users petitioning to save it, while rival service Evernote is already offering Google Notebook imports. So for those left in the cold, and those not yet sold on Evernote, what are your options for alternatives? Whether it be notes for business meetings, in a classroom or trying to remember that last minute item before you go out for the evening, there are all sorts of note taking solutions out there to help you get things done. Here's our roundup of 20 of the best. Where will you be taking your notes now? Let us know in the comments. Notetaking for Business Jjot - An easy interface for taking notes during a meeting with a "post-it note"-inspired interface. Microsoft OneNote - While OneNote is a paid service, there is something comforting about staying in the Microsoft Office family of tools if that's what you know best.

Classroom Notetaking General Purpose Notetaking. Online Productivity Toolbox: 30+ Resources to Get Things Done. Being unproductive on the web is easy: click over to YouTube, surf Facebook profiles or go on a Wikipedia binge for a couple of hours. But thanks to the many free and useful new applications on the web, it's also getting easier to keep your life in order. For the next installment of our "toolbox" series, we take a look at the best services for staying in control of your life on the web. Word Processing Services Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers. Google Docs - A way to create your documents and share them too.Zoho Writer - Serious competition to Google Docs.

There are some options present that Google Docs lacks and of course vice-versa.ThinkFree - Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.Buzzword - A recently discovered service that is still in private beta. Web Portals Calendar Services Contact Management Services News Readers Communication Services. Java for Google AppEngine, finally! - O'Reilly Broadcast. At last after one year, Google announced the availability of the Java for AppEngine platform. When the AppEngine announced last year, the very first issue filed was - a request for Java . Since then lots of Java developers want to see their favorite language supported by the AppEngine. To put an end to that, tonight at the Google campfire event, AppEngine team announced Java support and many improvements. It is in early access and AppEninge team is still working on the final product. Though it may take some time to finalize the product, it is worthy to look at it right away.

My first impression - it is outstanding. Eclipse plugin for AppEngine makes development and deployment very easy for the developers. AppEngine supports both Java 5 and Java 6. App Engine Java SDK includes a development web server for testing your application on your computer. App Engine Java SDK includes a command for interacting with App Engine. JUnit support and you can unit test datastore too. Cron job support.