Author: Mark

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…

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Backup To The Cloud

My first rule of computing is; “If you don’t have at least two copies of a file (the original and a backup) you may not have that file for long.” The second rule is; ” The best backup of your data is the one you have.”

CloudPrint

CloudPrint is a new service from Google that enables you to print to your printer at home or work from anywhere. Right now it only works on Windows computers but soon it will work on Macs and Linux.

What is RSS?

RSS is a family of web formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format.