Drawing Lines and Shapes In Google Maps

Make areas on a custom map stand out with lines and shapes. Change the color, line width, and transparency to organize and present information on your map.

Microsoft In The Cloud

Like Google, Microsoft has made a major investment in web applications.  Beyond “Outlook” its web-mail client they now have “Office” apps on the web. Office 365 is the online version of “MS Office”. 365 has all of the applications that enterprise users have grown to love including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 365 also includes;…

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Samsung ChromeBook

October 18th of last year Samsung released the “New Chromebook“. A Chromebook is a small notebook computer that runs the Chrome OS. Chrome OS is simply a version of  the Debian Linux that has no other function other than accessing the Internet using the Google Chrome web-browser. What good is a computer that only has…

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How To Use Paths

The “Paths Tool” is a great tool for making selections but you can’t really learn it on your own. Project File

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…

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Chromebook and Chromebox

The Chromebook and the Chromebox are computer that don’t do much more than web-applications. These computers are running the Chrome OS, not Windows. Chrome OS is a highly modified version of  Linux that most of it’s user interface is the chrome web-browser. there is no need for other programs because you use all web-applications.

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…

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