So I have every single course and its contents and all my personal items in Google Docs and was only using 45% of my free space. Now (as of a few hours ago) I am using Google Drive and have an additional 5 gigabytes (with more coming soon) so I have TONS of space. But having said that there are plenty of other places where you can put your content such as Dropbox, Amazon (where Netflix stores all of its movies), the iCloud, Skydrive (Microsoft) and two other lesser known ones. Here is a very thorough account of all of them in today's WashPost.
The video above, from Dropbox, does a great job of explaining cloud computing.
- Cloud Storage
To continue Ken's blog about on line storage, you might check out Amit Argarval's blog in which he compares the three services and also does a price comparison of the three services (Dropbox, Google Drive and SkyDrive). He...
- Google Drive
Google just announced that you will soon be able to soon upload 30 different types of digital media into Google Docs. You will then be able to manipulate and share them with others. So, forget about having to e-mail large files as you can...
- Wevideo Editor
Ever since Jaycut was bought by Blackberry, I have been looking for a cloud based editor where one can edit videos in the cloud. Finally I have found it with WeVideo. Wevideo gives you two options (see video above) to either edit it in your...
- 100 Chromebook Tips
Okay, so perhaps not all of you are jumping to get the Chromebook by Google, but I just got mine in the mail yesterday. If you are into "the cloud," it is a cheap ($500 for the version that gives you 100 mgs of free access a month and it obviously...
- Google Docs
I had a student tell me today that he was so happy I had helped him with Google Docs and that not only does he use it in every class, he can't imagine how he existed without it. While this video is for Google Apps (the paid version), you can...