Cloud Computing, Social Media And Much More

New Look Springpad, New Guide-Thank You Daniel Gold

April 12, 2012

There are some cloud based services that just don’t click when you first look at them. You sit there, the eyes glaze over and you may even start trembling and dribbling as the waves of incomprehension wash over you. There’s no logical reason. Trillions of people are probably using that service without a care in [...]

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Microsoft Finds SMBs Cloud Ready

April 11, 2012

If you believed that Microsoft was after the big bucks from the major clue chip companies and cared little or less for the small to medium sized sector then you would be mistaken. In developing Office 365 MS has an eye on cloud empowering the big boys but SMBs can also join in the fun [...]

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Chill And Learn Extra:A Strategic Look at True Business Value, Risks, and Rewards

April 9, 2012

In this neck of the global village it’s a bank holiday and I am chilling on the Scottish island of Arran so there’s an extra Chill and Learn video tutorial for you today. Here we look at that key factor in cloud computing – how it can cut your IT costs by as much as a half. [...]

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Chill And Learn Weekend:Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook

April 7, 2012

Online collaboration has to bear in mind that not everyone is using the same “stuff” out there on the Net so it is vital for a service to become truly useful it has to interact with other brands and packages. In this short video tutorial we see how Google Apps can sync with Outlook.

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HyperOffice Boosts Mobile Collaboration

April 6, 2012

Online collaboration tool HyperOffice has launched communication and collaboration tools for iPad and Android tablets which allow business users to share documents, manage projects and sync with corporate email, calendars, contacts and tasks. “The growing success of tablets is no surprise. They combine the portability of mobile phones with the richness of desktops making them [...]

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Google Docs Spreadsheet-An Introduction

April 4, 2012

Unless you are a power user the Google Doc’s spreadsheet module is more than man enough to match your daily needs. Starting with the spreadsheet is identifical to the word processing tool where and you can upload existing desktop based spreadsheets to Gdocs. There are some limitations in that the format has to be either [...]

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Google Drive-My 10 Point Wish List

April 2, 2012

Cyberspace has been throbbing to the sounds of jungle drums as rumours abound that Google will be launching its Drive cloud storage service in April. GDrive has been the subject of scandal, gossip and rumour for around 18 months or so so no-one can accuse the Big G of rushing into things. Maybe they have [...]

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World Backup Day-Sweeten The Task With SugarSync

March 31, 2012

Today – Saturday, March 31 – is World Back Up Day and while there is a steady but growing number of backup options, including the launch of the rumoured Google Drive, there is just one that I endorse as the most complete backup option and that is SugarSync. Why? Read on…

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Book Review: To The Cloud–Cloud Powering An Enterprise

March 30, 2012

Let’s get the only criticism of this book out of the way first. It is billed on the inside front sleeve as “essential for IT professionals” and the foreword by Microsoft’s CIO Tony Scott describes it as “written for CIOs and IT professionals.” In narrowing down the target audience I feel does this great read [...]

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Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics

March 28, 2012

Regular readers will know that I do not profess to be a techie. I have no wish to code my own social media site, write Android apps or anything of that nature. I write about cloud computing and social media because I can see the huge benefits that they can bring to small to medium [...]

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