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gDocsUploader is a nice little OS X application for easy bulk upload of office documents to Google Docs. gDocsUploader shines with some cool drag and drop options. I have the program icon setup on the Dock for easier access.

Windows Users have DocSyncer which supports syncing and mobile access. A Mac OS X version of DocSyncer is expected soon too.

Here is a list of applications which I’ve bought for the iMac running OS X. These are essential applications for me -used everyday- being milked for every penny spent. Given the amount of commercial and shareware applications available for OS X platform, it is very difficult to make a studied choice. I trial’d quite a large number of software before actually bought these applications. This adds to my previous list of favorite Leopard applications.

VMWare Fusion

I almost always have to connect to my Office VPN and work with Microsoft Outlook. Switching back and forth with the Fusion’s Unity feature is extremely productive. VMWare happily runs an instance of Ubuntu also for me. It is yet to crash or freeze on me. Fusion definitely falls under the essentials category for me.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac

The group photo merge tool is what created the initial interest on Photoshop elements 6. This program is so feature rich that I have made it a habit to learn a new trick every day!. PSE6 for Mac is Photoshop on essential steroids. My only gripe is the lack of the photo management tool as available on its Windows counterpart. But for now I have settled with iPhoto for Photo Management and use PSE6 as the external editor to edit the photos. The ‘Guided mode’ for carrying out main tasks are great for beginners like me. Read the rest …

When I Linux, I Ubuntu. My Organization does use CentOS and RedHat for running various servers too. Oracle Enterprise Linux is essentially RedHat Linux (CentOS claims a few pounds too!) with improvements and bug fixes. Oracle pledges to remain fully compatible with RHL. If are you tempted to try out, get your free DVD’s of Unbreakable Linux from Oracle through postal mail.

Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program delivers enterprise-class support for Linux with premier backports, lifetime support, comprehensive Linux server lifecycle management, full indemnification,extensive testing and more, all while significantly lowering the cost of support for users.

If you are JEE programmer and would love to try GlassFish, here is a deal from Sun. A Free iPhone to the lucky winner who enters the contest by entering the GlassFish registration id.  The contest will run for another three months. So give it a try. Even otherwise Glassfish is worth another thousand bucks!.

Thanks to Arun Gupta @ Sun for the tip.

If you are like me, you don’t like filing of emails too much. I just love the Google’s way of ‘Archiving’ the mails and keeping my Inbox Zero and clean. But without a proper Outlook Search tool, this method would be highly impractical. I have been using Microsoft Desktop Search all these while but it took my laptop’s XP to a crawling speed. My outlook data weighs multiple GB’s. So I was in the market for a better Outlook Search tool. Here is what I found:-

1) Google Desktop Search - is just a waste of time. The search results were pointless. More or less it always gave me some generic results. I must admit that before the Windows Desktop Search days, I was a GDS fan.

2) Copernic Desktop Search - Could not handle the size of my Outlook Data I guess. It just vanished in to thin air most of the time. I cannot trust something which crashes this often. CDS was much better in the earlier versions.

3) LookOut - Yeah.. The world has come to a full circle once again. Circa 2004 thingie. LookOut was lightning fast and my favorite. Microsoft took over this tiny tool to make the MSN Desktop Search. Since then, most of us forgot about LookOut. But in these days of bloated Desktop/Outlook search tools, to see something like LookOut - which just does its job - is a rarity. Fortunately MajorGeeks still have a copy of LookOut 1.3 for download. I installed, indexed and was ready to go in just half an hour. Fresh Air!

I also found a new tool - Lookeen - which is actively being developed. LookOut works well with my Outlook 2003 install and there are ways to make it even work with Outlook 2007.