Posts Tagged ‘web apps’

New Google+ Features

Posted: September 25, 2011 in Google
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This week we saw some great new features in Google+. Most of what’s new is to Hangouts. Search – First is the one everyone has been waiting for and that’s search. When Plus first came everyone said, “Are you kidding me no search? It’s Google for Christ sake!” Now it’s here. It is very well [...]

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 [...]

CloudPrint

Posted: February 7, 2011 in Google
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CloudPrint is a new service from Google that enables you to print via your home printer form anywhere in the world. You don’t even need to have a printer-driver installed. Google takes care of that.

Yahoo Selling Delicious

Posted: December 21, 2010 in Web 2.0
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“We’re selling Delicious not, not closing it!”, is what’s being reported today. Yahoo said it is not being shutdown at all. They’re just hoping someone will take it off their hands.

Edit Video Online

Posted: September 3, 2010 in Web 2.0
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JayCut is a an online video editor. You may ask, “Why would you use an online video editor?” The answer is for power. I have a relatively slow computer. Editing video does not require a powerful machine but rendering the video after editing requires an awful lot of computer (both CPU and RAM).

Google Wave, We Hardly Knew It

Posted: August 20, 2010 in Google
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There was sad news this week. Google Wave is to be terminated. Google Wave is an online software application formerly developed by Google. It was described as “a new web application for real-time communication and collaboration”.

If your like many of my friends your running a small business, organization or school. You know you  can’t afford to through money away on your IT management. You need a file server, MS Exchange server  and lots of complicated software.

LastPass

Posted: March 9, 2010 in Security
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I’m always saying use good passwords. Use upper and lower case letters and numbers. I do all of this but one has to have an algorithm to remember ones passwords. The problem is in order to use the password algorithm it has to be easy. Something you can do in your head. My algorithm is [...]

Evernote

Posted: February 26, 2010 in Web 2.0
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I known about and have used Evernote a little. Evernote is a web application that saves your text notes, photos, audio note and webpage clips in the cloud to use as reminders and help keep your life organized. I’ve got the phone application on my Nexus One. I’m going to use it more often.

Delicious

Posted: February 14, 2010 in Web 2.0
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Delicious – Organize, manage and tag your bookmarks (favorites in Internet Explorer) online. Share with others and search bookmarks of others. The best thing about Delicious is the Firefox plugin. I use it as my personal bookmarks manager on my computer.