If you use Skype you probably know all about the Skype In service. You pay a monthly fee and get a phone number you can give out to people which they can call from any phone and you received the call on your computer via Skype. Continue reading »
Cloud Computing is the new buzz word. It’s all over the place as people believe that in the future desktop apps will be replaced by web apps. Instead of having Word and Excel installed on your local system, you will use something like Google Docs to create and edit your files. Instead of using Oulook you will keep all your emails in a web based email solution like Gmail.
For mobile workers like me this is ideal. No matter where I am working I would be able to access the apps I usually use and the data I need to work with. But putting my other hat on, that of IT admin and data security ‘expert’ it’s a bad thing. With cloud computing you lose control of your data and your what your users are actually doing with it because the apps and the data are no longer on your server. You cant track who is doing what and you cant effectively back up your data because it is stored on somebody else’s server. Continue reading »
Most people are quite comfortable buying goods online these days. They will happily use sites like Dabs and Amazon to purchase the goods they need. One of the things I have always disliked about shopping online is knowing exactly how big something is before I buy it. Just about every item ever has its size listed in it’s description. This is great but sometimes it’s very hard to actually work out how that looks in real life. Well enter Sizeasy. Sizeasy is a nice site with a simple concept, you give it the dimensions of the item you are looking at and a real life objectand sizeasy then shows you a diagram with the two objects draw to scale side by side. Can be quite useful for working out just how big that phone you are ordering is!
Sometimes a bad photo can be saved by adding an effect to it. Now not everbody has the skills to use a program like Photoshop or can afford to buy it (and a lot of people don’t trust open source so wont use Gimp. If you want to add some simple drawing style effects to your photos you can look at a tool very much like the Be Funky Photo App.
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Sometimes it’s nice to be able to save a web page to your local computer for offline browsing (or you want to view a restricted website at college/work). Continue reading »
| As some of you may know I have quite a few computers that I use (at last count I had 1 x windows (desktop), 1 x windows (laptop), 1 x iMac, 1 x MacBook Pro and 1 x Asus eee running Linux). Depending on where I am I could be working on anyone of the machines at any time during the day. I quite often start working on a file on one machine before moving to another later in the day (i.e. start at work and finish at home). The hardest part of being mobile and migrating between computers like I do is making sure that each version of the file is kept upto date on all the machines. Obviously I could keep the files on a usb stick and just carry them around on that, but to be honest I don’t always remember to take my stick with me. Yesterday I posted about a free offer from File Savr a useful tool for transferring files to people. But that still relies onme remembering to upload the files before I leave. Late last night I got an email about a service I’ve been waiting to try for a while |
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Dropbox has been in private beta for a while now but yesterday I got an email telling me that it was open to the public. |
