What is Peepel and what does it do?

Chris Saad, "At its surface Peepel looks like the newest player in the Web office suite marketplace. What it actually is, is a realization that online environments need to be platforms. Just like Windows is a platform for other software on the client-side."

That is exactly what we have set out to achieve with our Peepel Framework. It is a platform on which you can run multiple applications at once within multiple, resizable windows all inside an internet browser window. We have more applications in the pipeline, some launching soon. There is a constant stream of ideas being thrown about the Peepel offices not just for our own suite, but for commercial and industrial applications as well. The possibilities of what can be done within the framework are virtually endless.

But why would you use Peepel now? Well, what Peepel is currently, is a free online office suite. This means that you can access your files from any computer with an internet connection. For example, you could share your staff roster with your employees so they can check what hours they are rostered on without having to phone in. Used in conjunction with our RSS feature, each employee can be notified instantly whenever the roster is updated.

There is no need to redo all your existing files when you start using Peepel. You can simply import all your Microsoft Office Word documents and Excel spreadsheets as well as Open Office Writer documents and Calc spreadsheets. Need to take your files elsewhere? No problem, you can export your Peepel files as the above formats as well.

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New Features!

The latest new features released this week are the ability to import MS Office & Open Office files, the event notifier bar and authenticated RSS support. This is great news for our users. I believe that the ability to import files is a must for any good online office suite. Click here for more info on importing files.

We have also added colour coded folders in the FileManager. This makes it easy to differentiate the special folders from your normal folders.

The green folder is for files that you have imported.

Blue is for other people's files shared with you.

Red is a special folder that contains all files.

Yellow folders are your folders.

You can move files from these folders into another folder of your choice however files moved from the All Files and Others' Files folders will be copied there instead of moved.