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. 

Getting The Most From The SIG

Getting the most from the SIG Since many of the presentations are video please don’t interrupt during presentation but by all means ask questions after the videos. That is most important!

Online Tax Preparation

You can Prepare your tax returns with online services. They are all very similar. They use an interview process just like a tax properer would do if you visited them at their office. Here’s a little secret. It is exactly the same procedure.

Chrome Notebook

Google has a started a pilot program with the new CR-48 notebook computer.