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Top 10 Apps of 2007

It is a matter of fact that technologies , especially computer and Internet technologies , are swiftly developing offering us more and more opportunities to become professionals in computer sphere or , at least to make our communication with computer and Internet easier . The year of 2007 is marked by a number of significant improvements in computer interfaces and applications as new social features are added to prepare for the next great year . Actually , the top 10 apps of 2007 are the following

Google Maps are among the first

improvements as they added new street views for more than 20 cities in the United States , as well as specified public transit directions for smaller areas , changing routes . Google Maps used embedded maps and drag-and-drop maps . As a result , we are allowed to create personalized maps , to edit maps and to collaborate with friends and relatives . Further , Google Maps included geographic content from the web when searching for information . Maps launched a new feature which detected your location and this function is available for iPhones and Windows Mobile devices . It is possible to access local search simply by voice . However , the most interesting updating is opportunity to explore the sky and to predict weather conditions

Mint (Online money manager ) is an effective way to organize your finances as it is a teeth-clenching and hair-pulling task when you have to enter data , provide balance and perform accounting operations . As a result , you are left with 20 cent balance after a day of data entry Mint has changed the way of organizing finances as instead of spending hours on data entry and spending money on expensive desktop app , which will organize your finances , it is better to use free and easy Mint . All you need is to register , to enter bank details and the service will automatically download your credit information , transactions and operations . Mint is able to generate graphs and charts , as well as to warn about low balances and high charges . Mint is effective way to save money and to manage spending

Gmail has also improved offering us to sign up for an account . Gmail allows to store data up to 6Gb and to increase the attachment size of 20Mb . Moreover , it is possible to pay for more storage option Presentation viewer and IMAP are added as one of the most popular Internet features of 2007 . A new version is launched and AJAX backend is fully re-written offering new features as , for example , new contact managers , colored cables and groups chat . Despite the fact that Gmail had certain performance problems , they were removed within the first month

Microsoft Office 2007 has significantly improved Desktop office suite which is claimed to be a bumpy launch of 2007 . newly improved office suite aims at replacing familiar menus with new `ribbon ' interface However , from the first glance improvement may seem unnecessary and inconvenient as you are forced to hunt for necessary buttons without looking . But the chance was given and Microsoft launched...