Collaboration Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

MediaFire updates design and features of its Mac and iOS friendly collaboration software

by Mel Martin (Feb 27th, 2013)

MediaFire has added some interesting features to its Mac- and iOS-friendly cloud storage and collaboration platform. A new file manager home screen and an online document editor with full support of Microsoft Office Word and Excel documents has been added to the available tools for users. For ...

Kickoff for Mac adds planning to group chat

by Erica Sadun (Dec 12th, 2012)

Imagine iChat, Messages or IRC merged with your favorite to-do system like Things, Clear or Taskpaper. You get Kickoff. Now available in a public beta, this OS X Mountain Lion app helps groups coordinate and plan together. It's superficially similar to the 37 Signals web chat tool Campfire, but ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Producteev

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 29th, 2011)

Task management is something most loathe but have to do to keep productive. Producteev, a previously web and iPhone app focused task management service has just launched a Mac app. Producteev focuses on creating and managing tasks with the ability to connect those tasks with other people, ...

Box.net's iPad project at D7 Consulting: How the iPad works at work

by Mike Schramm (Aug 24th, 2010)

Here's another update from the folks at Box.net on how the iPad deployment at D7 Consulting is going. Through TUAW, Box.net found a company to give 20 free iPads to. Box.net helped D7 set up a workflow that's built and run around Apple's tablet and their service. The first fruits of that ...

37signals buys Ember, kindles an official Campfire iPhone app

by Steven Sande (Jul 27th, 2010)

Campfire, from 37signals, is a web-based group chat tool that uses secure chat rooms to allow groups to collaborate from wherever they are. A little over a year ago, the developers at Overcommitted came out with an iPhone client for Campfire. That app, Ember, cost $9.99, and was an excellent tool ...

What could your business do with 20 iPads? Box.net & TUAW want to find out

by Michael Rose (Apr 22nd, 2010)

The application period for the Box.net iPad offer has ended. Stay tuned for more on the progress of the experiment soon! There are plenty of cloud storage and collaboration services that sound good in an elevator pitch or seem promising when sketched on the back of a napkin; precious few ever ...

Macworld 2010: Microsoft's MacBU talks Office for Mac 2011

by Steven Sande (Feb 12th, 2010)

The next version of Microsoft's Office suite, slated for arrival during the fourth quarter of 2010, has a new name, enhanced functionality, and even a more streamlined look. TUAW met with members of the Microsoft Mac Business Unit (MacBU) on Thursday to hear how the developers of Office for Mac are ...

Zimbra and VMWare get married, cloud-shaped kids expected

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2010)

In the world of Mac email and collaboration servers, there are some big names -- Apple (of course, with Mac OS X Server's mail and calendaring features), Kerio, and Zimbra. Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a popular and powerful email server and shared calendar for Linux and Mac OS X. The features of ...

MindMeister for iPhone, mind map in the cloud!

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 20th, 2009)

I've mentioned some options for iPhone-based mind mapping before, but I'm pretty excited to let everyone know about the release of MindMeister for iPhone (iTunes Link). MindMeister is a web-based mind mapping application with excellent import and export features for most major formats. They've ...

Kerio MailServer 6.6 takes another swing at Exchange

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 21st, 2008)

Kerio has released version 6.6 of Kerio MailServer, another push forward in their campaign to take a bite out of the Microsoft Exchange market. We mentioned the ActiveSync capabilities of Kerio MailServer in July, and have noted the expanding capabilities of the 6.x releases as an increasingly ...

Egnyte 1.5, cross-platform file collaboration

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 6th, 2008)

Egnyte, another entry in the list of "cloud storage" applications, has updated to version 1.5 with some valuable new features. Geared toward organizations and businesses needing centralized document storage, it provides a cross-platform solution for uploading, storing, sharing and collaborating on ...

Kerio MailServer provides Leopard-compatible groupware

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 2nd, 2008)

When I posted about the Zimbra collaboration suite a little while ago, it was noted in the comments that, while the Zimbra client is now working in Safari 3, the server isn't yet Leopard-compatible. Kerio MailServer offers a Safari 3 and Leopard-compatible alternative with a lot of groupware ...

Zimbra offers Safari 3 support

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 18th, 2008)

I'm not ashamed to admit that I love Safari. Unfortunately, not all web developers are hip to it, especially when it comes to Ajax-based web apps. In fact, I'd have trouble naming very many web-based, "WYSIWYG" editors, let alone full collaboration suites, that work well with Safari. That's why I ...

QuarkXPpress 7 released, but not as a Universal

by David Chartier (May 23rd, 2006)

QuarkXPress 7 has hit the streets, but it oddly isn't a Universal Binary (Steve Jobs, if you remember, announced at January's Macworld event that Quark had a beta UB version available). A UB update to version 7 is reportedly going to be made available later this summer (I guess Adobe isn't the only ...