Fifteen years of data to store Fifteen years ago I became a serious investor. I didn’t want to pay the high commission costs that even discount brokers charged in those days and I wanted to make several very small purchases each month so that I could slowly build up a diversified portfolio of stocks. I [...]
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Storing Financial Records in the Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Storage, tagged Cloud Computing, financial, Google Docs, online storage on February 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Evernote
Posted in Notes, Online Storage on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Evernote is a free cloud computing program that lets you take notes on any subject using a large set of tools. The Evernote website describes its product’s capabilities as, “Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. “. That’s “step 1″. Step 2: [...]
Picnik
Posted in Photography, tagged photography on May 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’m beginning a series on free tools that are designed to edit photographs in the cloud. There is a surprisingly vast collection of free photo-ending applications in the cloud and I will cover many of them in the next several posts. These applications range from some very simple ones with limited features to one that [...]
Google Adds Drawing to Google Docs
Posted in Cloud Computing, Drawings, Presentation, Spreadsheets, Wordprocessing, tagged Drawing, Google Docs on April 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Google has recently added an entirely new type of document to their Office Cloud offerings (i.e., Google Docs). In addition to cloud software for wordprocessing, spreadsheets, and presentation (Powerpoint is the most well-know presentation software), Google has added drawing to its Google Docs suite. The Google Drawing software looks very much like a simple desktop [...]
Dropbox — Almost in the Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Storage, tagged Cloud Computing, online storage on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been told that “Dropbox” is a good place to store files in the cloud. Is that true? While I’m a big fan of Dropbox and use it all the time, technically speaking, it is not a cloud storage location. Here is a link to the Dropbox website: https://www.dropbox.com/ Dropbox is a wonderful online extension [...]
Retirement Planning in the Cloud
Posted in Cloud Computing, Online Storage, Spreadsheets, tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, financial, Google Docs, Microsoft Office on March 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A friend of mine is approaching retirement. She would like to get an overview of all her investments, both retirement assets and non-retirement assets. She would like to see how her actual asset allocation (percent is stocks, bonds, and cash) differs from her desired allocation. A spreadsheet would appear to be the best way to [...]
A Cloud Computing Example
Posted in Cloud Characteristics, Online Storage, Wordprocessing, tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, online storage on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Can you give me an example of the advantages of cloud computing over desktop computing? Why, for example, would I want to create a Google Doc file in the cloud rather than a Word Document on my computer? Suppose you had a Word Document on your computer and, just to play around, you uploaded that [...]
Is Cloud Computing the Same as the Internet?
Posted in Cloud Characteristics, Online Storage, Wordprocessing, tagged Cloud Computing, collaboration, CRM, Google Docs, Microsoft Office on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What’s all this cloud computing hype about? Isn’t cloud computing just another name for the internet? The answer is: NO. Cloud computing uses the internet — and in fact couldn’t exist without the internet — but cloud computing implies a lot more than just using the internet. What makes a cloud differ from an ordinary [...]
