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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
Everything On The Web
Posted: May 13, 2011 in GoogleTags: cloud, cloud-computing, Internet, web, web 2.0, web apps
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gmail Uploader
Posted: February 8, 2010 in GoogleTags: backup, cloud, Gmail, storage, web, web 2.0, web apps
Have you recently moved to Gmail but still have a most of your contacts and all of your Email still in a program like Outlook on your Windows computer. The Google Email Uploader is what you need. The Gmail Uploader will take those contacts and messages preserving your folder structure and import them right into [...]
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 [...]
Roku Player Easy And Awesome
Posted: December 19, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, Internet, intertainment, Roku, Roku Player, television, TV, web, web 2.0
The Roku players are settop boxes the brings all of your favorite content from the Internet to your television. Simple setup; I didn’t even look at the instructions. Roku players have built in wireless but I used the ethernet. After I connected the player to my home theater system and plugged in the ethernet I [...]
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, [...]
