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Archive for the tag “cloud”

Sparks

Sparks brings you stories on the things you love from all across the Web. In other words, news feeds on any topics. You may find stores in Sparks that you may want to share in your stream. Read more…

Chat

Google+ Chat is the same as in the Google Talk client and the Gmail Chat client. Chat is located on the right side just like in Gmail. You can chat with anyone using Google Talk or Gmail.

Get Started with Chat

Photos

Upload and share photos with others easily. The drag and drop interface make share a truly seemless experience. You can post photos to your stream or share with a single Circle. You can also do a photo post directly from your phone.

More on photos

Google+ Bar

The Google+ bar, which appears at the top of Google products, is your connection to Google+. You can share what’s on your mind, view your Google+ notifications, access your profile, or jump to a variety of other Google products. For instance, to get to Google+, all you have to do is click +[your first name].

More about the Google+ Bar

Introducing Google+

Google+ is the new social networking tool from Google. Google+ actually is many products that are integrated with each other.

  • Circles – Cirles is the G+ contact manager, making it easy to control who sees your content.
  • Stream – The Stream is the place to have meaningful conversations. A space where people share there content. Read more…

Google Music

The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and logged in. After messing with it for a few minutes I found Google Music to be easier then Amazon because you can automatically add a lot of free songs so you can begin streaming right away. Read more…

Amazon Cloud Drive

Last month we talked about places on the Internet to store your files. One that was not included in this round-up was Amazon’s “Cloud Drive”. That’s because it just came out. “Amazon Cloud Drive” is just a front end for S3 the service we did discuss last month. Read more…

Backup To The Cloud

My first rule of computing is; “If you don’t have at least two copies of a file (the original and a backup) you may not have that file for long.” The second rule is; ” The best backup of your data is the one you have.” Read more…

CloudPrint

CloudPrint is a new service from Google that enables you to print to your printer at home or work from anywhere. Right now it only works on Windows computers but soon it will work on Macs and Linux. Read more…

7/12/10

WordPress Site of the Month: Mashable

We Purchased a domain from Godaddy and transfered WordPress name server information.

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