If you (or someone you know) gives presentations now and then, listen up. PowerPoint (from Microsoft) and Keynote (from Apple) have been venerable old stand-bys for years now, but there are two new players that offer things you can’t get with your desktop preso suite. Read on!
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Google has recently announced their “Google Drive” service, and it looks like it’s pretty handy. It offers quick and easy backup of many of your important files, and being a cloud service you can get to them fro any internet-connected device. So how is Google Drive different from Dropbox? Let us count the ways! Read on.
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Put the internet to work for you. Actively doing things for you, notifying you, doing chores for you! Imagine these scenarios: …being able to have the weather forecast emailed to you — but only if the temperature is going to reach a certain point, or only when there is rain in the forecast …getting a text message whenever someone tweets your username …whenever you post a Facebook link, automatically tweet it to Twitter as well …download all Gmail attachments to your Dropbox account …get an instant message when there’s a new book in the “Top 100 Free Kindle Book” list [...]
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Are you one of the twisted folks who thinks that an iPad isn’t useful unless you can use it to edit Microsoft Office documents? Well you can un-twist, now that CloudOn is on the scene! CloudOn That’s right — you can edit your Word docs, Powerpoint slide decks, and Excel spreadsheets, directly from your iPad. Read on for more info.
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Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been working on a document for a few days, and you want to finish it up, or you have a spreadsheet of expenses to track — so you navigate to the folder so you can open it up to edit a few tweaks, only to find out… the file is GONE!? Someone deleted it! I just wanna hit “rewind”! Well… Here’s how DROPBOX can save your bacon:
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How clear is your in-box? If you’re a fan of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” approach (or GTD, for short) you know how important it is to keep clutter out of your in-box. And… If you use GMail’s “priority in-box” feature — it’s easier than you think.
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The Roche Group — a big player in the healthcare industry — has made the decision to take all of its 90,000 employees into Google’s cloud. These folks have an enormous IT budget, lots of talended people on staff, and still they had complications and glitches that got in their way. Collaboration and communication was problematic. To quote the original blog post: For the last two and a half years, our two different email and calendaring platforms have often been an obstacle for effective collaboration. To end these platform interoperability issues, the Roche Corporate Executive Committee made the decision that [...]
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Welcome to the EduCloudComputing nickel tour of the Google Calendar interface. Start by opening Google Calendar in your web browser, and follow along with our video. Feel free to pause and resume as needed!
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If you have your company’s domain handled by Google, you have not only GMail for your organization, but lots of other neat little goodies as well — including calendars! Here’s how you can share your calendars with other members of your team.
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Large organizations have typically been rather wary of adopting cloud services. The outsourcing of their data onto someone else’s servers makes them jumpy. But there are signs that more big teams are realizing the benefits of outsourcing chunks of their IT infrastructure to the low-cost, highly-scalable, on-demand services available in the cloud. Well — here’s story about a big security-sensitive organization adopting cloud services… In this case it’s the U.S.Army!
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