Google+ is the new social networking tool from Google. Google+ actually is many products that are integrated with each other. Circles – Cirles is the G+ contact manager, making it easy to control who sees your content. Stream – The Stream is the place to have meaningful conversations. A space where people share there content.
Author: Mark
Google Music
The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and…
Teamviewer
Teamviewer is a free remote access program. There are other remote access programs and some even work better than Teamviewer but the two best things about Teamviewer is it works cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and many mobile devices) and Teamviewer is free. Like all remote access, controlling the remote computer is a little slow.
Gmail
Gmail is the core of the Google applications. This web based mail application is easy to use yet very powerful. This month we will learn the secrets of this powerful tool.
Kahn Academy
The Khan Academy is an non-profit organization who’s mission is to changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. There are over 2100 videos with subjects ranging from first grade Arithmetic to Differential Equations
Digital Media
Back in January we looked at how to use RSS. What we did not cover was where to find media to put in your RSS aggregator. This month that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to learn how to find digital media.
Dropbox
Dropbox is the one of the greatest web apps ever. Store your files on the cloud and sync them on multiple computers at once. Dropbox is for Windows, Mac and Linux. Dropbox also has
Amazon Cloud Drive
Last month we talked about places on the Internet to store your files. One that was not included in this round-up was Amazon’s “Cloud Drive”. That’s because it just came out. “Amazon Cloud Drive” is just a front end for S3 the service we did discuss last month.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a freemium office suite from Google. There is a word processor, spreadsheet, forms and drawing. Did a mention it’s free? You can create, collaborate and share these documents online.
Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 What is it?
In the early days of the Internet it was all email and text chat. Even the games were text. An early website Then came the World Wide Web and a whole new world open up. You could go to pages read the text look at pictures from far away lands. Later they gave use silly…
