The Pinged Hobbit

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 »

Project management is a task encountered daily by the majority of people in their life. Be that in work or in their home life. There are always times when you require someone else to complete a task for you, it can be a bit hard to keep track of the various tasks you have people doing for you. You have to remember who is doing what, who has finished what and what else is left to do. You have all the hassle of remembering to check with them each day about how much they have done on the task as well. It can be a real annoyance. Thats where Please Notify Me comes into play Continue reading »

Anyone reading this probably uses the web to shop for items and do research just like me. One of the most annoying things of using the web in this way is that when it comes to clicking the print button, what you think is one page of A4 from looking at the screen actually turns out to be 4 or 5 when printed out and usually it is covered with ads which obscure or detract from what you are really interested in. In this age of environmental awareness where everyone is being encouraged to look for ways to save the planet, the amount of wasted paper this generates needs to be reduced. This is not only an environmental saving it is also a monetary saving as well (definitely a good thing with the rising cost of living!)

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