Google I/O 2016

Android Apps on Chrome OS Soon you will be able to  run Android apps on your Chromebook. Google Home Google Home is Google’s answer to the Amazon Echo a voice activated device that answers questions and orders products from Amazon. Google Home is a voice-activated home product that allows you and your family to get answers from…

Best Software for Linux

Frequently the free programs that are available for Windows are not are not for Linux. Thankfully on the Linux platform there are a myriad of good choices. Of course Firefox, Google Chrome, Teamviewer, Skype, Pidgin, Thunderbird, VLC, Audacity, 7-Zip, GIMP and LibreOffice are all available on Linux. These are my choices of other programs for Linux……

MS Office Alternatives

If you create documents and spreadsheets for home or school there is hardly any reason to purchase an expensive product like Microsoft Office. There are perfectly good alternatives online. Google Drive The first is the old standby Google Drive. You can view and edit MS Word documents. you can create documents and export them as Docx…

Apps Offline

One difficult problem with living in the cloud is what do you do when you when you have no Internet connection. Many of the application today can be used offline. Gmail – You can use Gmail offline by using a Chrome app call “Gmail Offline” of course. This does not look like Gmail but more…

Chrome Webstore

The Chrome Web Store is a website where you can find web applications for the Google Chrome web-browser. Sometimes these are just  links to webpage that work maybe just as well in IE or Firefox and other times they are plugins for the Chrome browser. There are a variety of applications from business tool, educational…