Google and AJAXAMP - making life easier.

After killing some time on the web I stumbled across 2 useful applications/free services offered-Google calendar and AjaxAMP v3.0. I played around with both and I recommend them.

Google calendar:

There’s no question about Google’s abilities to take over the web. Google calendar justifies that in all ways. It took sometime for calendar to finally make it’s appearance, but there is truth in the old saying – good things comes to those who wait.

It’s got all the standard features of all calendar apps out there and more:

Possibility to share the calendars, synchronization with Outlook, integration with Gmail and a clean interface.

AjaxAMP v3.0 - nifty Web 2.0 plugin for Winamp :

AjaxAMP allows you to access Winamp over the network using a web browser and control it or stream music to or from it.

Using AjaxAMP you can:

• Listen to your music from anywhere using a web browser.
• Control Winamp from anywhere using a web browser.
• Cause your music to play on a remote computer.
• Use one computer to stream music from a 2nd computer to a 3rd computer.
• Search and stream your entire music collection ridiculously fast.

Once installed, AjaxAMP runs silently as a lightweight web server inside Winamp. Using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques, it creates a web interface for Winamp which duplicates the actual Winamp interface inside a Web browser. Just point your browser to the computer's IP address at port 5151 and you can control Winamp! For example, install the plugin then point a web browser to http://127.0.0.1:5151 to begin controlling Winamp on your own computer. AjaxAMP has its own Media Library which allows you to browse, search, and sort through your music and to drag-and-drop folders or music files onto the play list.

Download links:

WIN2K / WIN XP installer.exe (445kb Direct download )
WIN2K / WIN XP installer zipped (410kb Direct download)
Overview of fixes and enhancements