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Kohive is a web app that provides shared collaborative workspaces for teams. In use, the app looks very much like a computer desktop — down the left-hand side of the screen is a series of icons that provides access to different “apps,” while each workspace (called a “Hive” by the app) is accessed via a tabbed interface at the bottom of the screen.

Out of the box, Kohive makes a number of different “apps” available for collaborative tasks:

• Overview: Provides a list of recent activity on the Hive.
• Messages: Allows users to send messages to individuals and groups
• Bookmarks: A bookmarking facility, including tagging.
• Stickies: Online sticky notes.
• Tasks: A fairly powerful task management tool, with tags, assignments, due dates, milestone and file links.
• Notepad: Online notes, with tagging.
• Status updates: A microblogging tool, which can be linked to Twitter.
• File cabinet: A place to store files.
• Gallery: A photo gallery. You can upload images, or get them from URLs or Flickr.
• Videos: A video gallery that’s somewhat limited in that you can’t upload videos — they must be hosted elsewhere.
• Doodle: Online drawing tool.
• Chat room: An IRC-style chat room.

Continuing the desktop metaphor, each app opens in its own window that can be dragged around the desktop and resized as required. Content is updated in real-time, so users can see changes from other team members instantly.

The Kohive interface looks very slick and its functionality is impressive for a web app. However, while I like the idea of a comprehensive online space that can be used as a repository and workspace for everything related to a project, it’s not particularly snappy. On my machine, page elements take a while to load, and submissions were slow, which would probably make for a frustrating experience if it were to be used for a real project.

Kohive is currently in beta, so hopefully the performance issues will be addressed, and is free.

Let us know what you think of Kohive in the comments.

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iOS/Windows/Mac/Linux: Free service Notifo is a kitchen sink of push notifications for your iPhone or desktop, pushing Twitter updates, your favorite RSS feeds, Google Voice alerts, and more straight to your iPhone or desktop notification utility. And it’s extremely hackable.

Notifo is pretty similar to previously mentioned Boxcar (inasmuch as it makes it simple to set up push notifications for a lot of popular services), but the big difference is that it’s very hackable. So in addition to supporting the popular services mentioned above, Notifo can also send notifications from your desktop to your iPhone (supporting Growl and Growl for Windows), from the command line to your iPhone (great for command line scripters), from Chrome to your iPhone (see the Chrome to Notifo extension), and a whole lot more.

On top of all of that, Notifo also has a built-in messaging app that allows you to chat back and forth with other users who've installed Notifo—with lightning-fast push notifications between devices.

In short, Notifo is a great little app with all sorts of potential. My only criticism is that it’s a a touch amorphous; I’m not quite sure if it’s a powerful notification app or a messaging tool (it’s both, but the connection between the two is a little tenuous). Still, the app’s developed by a very smart friend of Lifehacker, Paul Stamatiou, and we can only expect that it’ll get better and better.

Notifo is a free download for iOS.

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You want to transfer a file to a friend but IM transfer has failed, it’s too big for email, or somebody is behind a firewall. Head over to Dushare where you can transfer peer-to-peer via browser, as fast as you can upload. More »

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Windows only: If your primary hard drive just isn't large enough to hold all the software you need on a day-to-day basis, then Steam Mover is the perfect tool for the job—assuming you have another storage drive handy.

Steam Mover was originally designed to help hardcore gamers move their downloaded games to other drives, in order to free up space on their primary hard drive. Cheap, huge drives came along and made this less necessary, but more recently the emerging popularity of Solid State Drives (SSDs), this needs become commonplace again.

Steam Mover works amazingly well on games downloaded through the Steam client (which it was designed for), but as it turns out, it works well with other applications, too. The program’s target directory defaults to the applications folder for Steam, but simply change this to the folder containing the applications you wish to move. Once the folder is selected, all of the associated programs will be listed. Steam Mover works by moving all the data in the associated folder to your secondary drive; it then simply makes a link to the new folder you designate for the alternative folder. This means it should work on most applications.

Once you’ve got the target and destination folder selected, simply select the program(s) you would like to move. Click the right arrow at the bottom of the application, and soon the selected applications will be on the other drive. You can always move the application back to the original drive by clicking the left arrow.

It is important to note that this software is an initial release. The developer makes no guarantee that it will work flawlessly outside of transporting Steam games. In my testing, however, it worked very well, except for a small hiccup when transferring Illustrator and Flash Builder. The issue was easily resolved by copying everything in my new folder back into the original folder, however.

Steam Mover is a free download for Windows 7 and Vista. XP is not supported.

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Greplin indexes data you store in the cloud and provides a quick and simple search to let you find what you’re looking for.

You can index a lot of popular services, such as Gmail, Facebook, Dropbox, and LinkedIn. While most services are free, a pro account is required for services like Basecamp, Evernote, and SalesForce.

Once you start adding services, Greplin gets to work on indexing all your content and sends you an email when it’s finished. You can always add more sources to Greplin later on, and can remove indexes you decide you don’t want anymore. When Greplin finishes indexing for the first time, you’ll be able to search through all your stuff from a really simple search box. By default it will provide results from all services, but a little drop-down on the left of the search bar will let you filter your results.

Greplin is a free tool for most of what it indexes, but you can upgrade to a pro account and add anything for $5 per month (or $45 per year).

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