Google has just announced the new Chromebooks to being made by Samsung and Acer. They’ll be sold by Amazon and Best Buy beginning June 15th. The idea behind these computers is everything on the web. Use Gmail instead of Outlook, use Google Docs or Windows Live Office. Watch video on YouTube or Vimeo. Even watch TV [...]
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Everything On The Web
Posted: May 13, 2011 in GoogleTags: cloud, cloud-computing, Internet, web, web 2.0, web apps
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Chromebooks Coming
Posted: May 13, 2011 in GoogleTags: Chrome, Chromebook, cloud, cloud-computing, Google
The new notebook computers with the Chrome OS will be available for purchase June 15th. Last year we started talking about the new toy that Google was giving away the CR48 notebook computer. It looked pretty much like a regular computer but when you took a closer look you found it only have one program. That’s [...]
Google Makes Computers Disposable
Posted: December 13, 2010 in GoogleTags: Chrome, cloud, cloud-computing, CR-48, Google, notebook
By now you’ve heard about the Google Chrome notebook. I thought it sounded intriguing and quickly went to their site to check it out. It would be nice to have a notebook that is lite, starts quickly and has great battery life. I tried a dell net-book the Mini 10. I didn’t like it at [...]
Jungle Disk
Posted: February 20, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: Amazon, backup, cloud, cloud-computing, Jungle Disk, S3, Software, storage
Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 ™ Storage Service. S3 does not have an application So Jungle Disk provides you with one. Jungle Disk creates a network drive in your computer and you just drag folder and files over or you can setup an [...]
Carbonite
Posted: February 12, 2010 in SoftwareTags: backup, Carbonite, cloud, cloud-computing, storage
Carbonite is an online data backup solution. I’ve been using Carbonite to backup the data on my desktop for a years because of the price and all the data you want for $54.95 per year per computer. I have a lot of MP3s and photos to back and the all you can eat pricing is [...]
Backup Your Cloud
Posted: December 30, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: backup, cloud, cloud-computing, tip, web 2.0
Backupify is one of the coolest services that I have seen. Backup all of your online life in one place. Enter all of your cloud accounts (Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress sites, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogger, Hotmail and coming soon Youtube, Xmarks and Tumblr) and Backupify will backup your data on [...]
Alternatives In The Cloud
Posted: November 14, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: alternetives, cloud, cloud-computing, we 2.0, web
I just told you in the two previous post about alternative software but increasingly I am turning to the Cloud (or Internet) for many of my applications. Here are just some of my favorites: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Live Mail – alternatives for your traditional ISPs email with an email program like Outlook Express. Google Docs, [...]
Virtual Drives
Posted: November 6, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, drive, Internet, storage, web, web 2.0
I mentioned in the post Cloud Storage Overview that there are some services where you can store your precious files via cloud based storage (on the Internet). Here are a couple of options that will create a virtual drive on your computer as if it was an actual drive. Dropbox is a service that gives [...]
Mint News
Posted: September 28, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, financial, Mint, PFM, web, web 2.0
On August 8th I made a post Free Personal Finance Managers. Since August 8th a lot has changed. Mint has now been purchased by Intuit (makers of Quicken and Quicken Online). So where does that leave us? For now I’m continuing to use Mint because it is the best personal finance manager. Better than Quicken [...]
New Podcast At TWIT
Posted: August 4, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, Gina Trapani, Google, Leo Laporte, TWiT
Leo Laporte over at TWIT has a new podcast. Called TWIg (This Week In Google). The co-host are Leo of course, Gina Trapani founder of Lifehacker and Jeff Jarvis author of “What Would Google Do“. I watched the first episode. It was a little dry and newsy because the big story this week was the [...]
