Robert McGarvey wrote a great article yesterday with 10 great reasons to use Google Docs. He even mentions me and the “Google’lize your Life” book! 1. It’s free 2. It’s easy 3. It does collaboration better 4. You don’t need the features Google Docs lacks 5. Free up IT to do higher-value work 6. What? [...]
This is a great development in the ebook world. One step closer to multimedia books.
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Google fiber is the latest in the great innovations of the search engine giant. It is the batch of ultra high-speed broadband networks, which the company announced earlier this year. The project aims to deliver one gigabit-per-second fiber connections for 50,000 to 5, 00,000 people. The consumers are expected to pay a “competitive price” for the [...]
Ryan Nichols had a great post today on Computerworld where he pointed out 5 reasons why Google is more than ready to take on Microsoft in the enterprise world. He bring up many of the points I am constantly repeating when people ask me if Google Apps is a viable alternative to Google. 1. Google [...]
I love this first line of this article: “There are main two reasons to grab new gadget, either to show off or to increase productivity.” That is awesome! CallingAllGeeks lists 5 great apps to help you increase productivity on your Blackberry. When I used to have a blackberry (pre-Android and iPhone) they didn’t have all [...]
I have been looking for a good extension that allows me to compose Gmail messages without having to open my inbox. I tried GmailThis! (http://contrapants.org/blog/2005/07/gmailthis.html), but it doesn’t keep my signatures. Not cool. Then I found Gmail Compose. “Gmail Compose is used to quickly create new email messages straight from your Chrome browser. There are [...]
Google announced the general availability of the Android App Inventor today. This is great news and pushing the envelope again. Remember the old days when we first all learned about making websites with WYSIWYG editors. Now a days very few people build entire sites in HTML any more. They all use content management systems like [...]
This is a fantastic productivity saver. Google recently added not only the ability to have a rich signature, but also the ability to have different signatures for each account you have added to Gmail. I have at least 8 different accounts set up in Gmail so this will save me tons of time! I have [...]
As Mozilla has recently announced the availability of Firefox 4 beta for download, the tech world has started comparing it with Google Chrome. They feel that Mozilla’s new browser has so many things in common with Chrome. It seems Mozilla has snatched some of the design ideas of the Google browser. Though the two browsers [...]
There was a REALLY great article posted today on online classes about how to use Google Scholar. There are 100 links off to articles divided into the following areas.
1. Understanding Scholar
2. Explaining the Basics
3. Search Tricks
4. Helpful Links
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