Starting today, we're opening up this technology to all webmasters and blog owners with the Google Docs viewer. All you have to do is give the URL of a PDF, Powerpoint or TIFF document to us and we'll display it directly in your browser with no download required - like this. For complete documentation, and a form to generate code for embedded viewers (example below), check out our webpage.

This is a great tool, thanks Google. Since now it's always a problem that few visitor can't read your PDF files because they are missing the Adobe Reader or the installed version doesn't work. I remember me also some travel document attachment my mom tried to open in Outlook express, some Microsoft trouble has disabled that attachment. With this great tool those problems belong to the past.

In this recent post to PHPBuilder.com they spotlight a web-based tool you can use to write PHP code no matter where in the world you are - PHPanywhere.

PHP developers, just like most IT professionals, are often on the go, working from various locations. You could be working in your office one day, at a conference in a remote location the next day, and from a client's business office the next. [...] PHPanywhere is not just a stand-alone IDE, it's designed with project collaboration in mind. With a built-in FTP client and syntax editor built right in, it makes this tool uniquely appropriate for developer teams as well as individual programmers.

They look at how to get started with the tool and include a few screenshots to give you a preview of how the tool looks and feels. A short feature list is also included.

Just tried it and removed my account after a few minutes:

• I need to add a ftp server to add / edit files. That is okay but my ftp login/password is send via a non-secured connection (no SSL) 
• First trial to edit files was in Firefox (Ubuntu) and all windows needed to be resized and the code wasn't parsed in the window. Can't use Firefox 3.5 with phpanywhere 
• Next trial in Chrome was much better, but hitting the enter button took me into another location than the next line.

Sorry this is not a beta version, I like the idea but there has to be working version and of course the ability to edit files on some "local" server

Rating 2/5 for the nice interface