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Work and play in The Cloud Services "in the cloud" make it much easier to access our files over the Internet any time we want from wherever we are. It means documents are no longer locked in the prison of a single computer.
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Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.Everybody is talking about The Cloud these days. But apart from those white fluffy things in the sky, what is the cloud?
Files in prison
A few years ago, if we created a word processing document, a spreadsheet, or a photo, we probably saved it on our own computer.
If we wanted to share that document with a friend or colleague we probably put it on a floppy disk. A colleague would put the floppy disk into their computer, cross their fingers that the file format would work and then open up the document.
More recently we might exchange files by putting them on a thumb drive or a CD, or perhaps by sending them by email.
But still the document would originally be locked away on our own computer.
If we were away from our computer for some reason it would be almost impossible to access that file.
For example, we might be visiting a friend and want to show them holiday photos. With the photos locked away on our computer back in the office we’d be out of luck.
Google cloud apps.
Files fly free
That was the old days though. These days we have more options for where to save and store files. There are many many services that let us save and use our files online, or “in the cloud”.
A good example is Flickr. If we upload our photos to Flickr we can share them with certain people or the whole world, and we can look at them from any computer that’s connected to the Internet.
If we make videos we could upload them to You Tube. And just like Flickr we can share them or look at them how ever we like.
It’s not just photos and videos though. We could use Google Docs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, or a service such as Xero for our accounts.
Software such as Evernote not only runs as an application on our Mac, Windows PC, Blackberry, iPhone or other devices, but we can also access the notes we create through a web page.
The Dropbox service lets us setup a folder on our computer whose files are automatically synchronised with any other computer we choose. Those same files are also available through a secure web page.
Dropbox also lets us go back to see older versions of our files. That’s very handy if we accidentally save changes we didn’t mean to make.
All of these services are “in the cloud”. All of them make it much easier to access our files over the Internet any time we want from wherever we are.
It means documents are no longer locked in the prison of a single computer.
Take a look at the services I’ve mentioned above, most of them are free, and see if they’d fit with your way of working.
Written by Miraz Jordan for, and reproduced from CommunityNet Aotearoa Panui, August 2010. This article has been modified for publication here.
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Jumping with the wind In a stiff Wellington breeze the kite surfers were out. I caught a small video of one having fun.
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Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.There was a stiff and chilly breeze at Lyall Bay beach this afternoon when I took the dogs for a walk. The kite surfers were out though — just one to start with, and 4 by the time I left.
Kite Surfer at Lyall Bay.
One surfer sped along towards the airport, then turned back and jumped high and long into the air.
That’s when I found my Flip mino video camera and kept an eye on him. After several recordings I managed to catch him again — first with some small jumps over the waves, and then high into the air again.
It’s not the world’s best video — I fumble in the middle, and there’s wind noise and a playful dog barking — but here it is in all its 30 second glory.
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Learn Keyboard Maestro at MacTips One of my favourite things is finding ways to make my computer work harder so I can work less. A recent series of MacTips showed how to use Keyboard Maestro, macro software that can save an awful lot of work.
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Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.I love work: I could watch it all day — at least when it’s my computer doing it and not me.
One of my favourite things is finding ways to make my computer work harder so I can work less. Sometimes that means Applescript, or using utilities like Launchbar or TextExpander.
Sometimes it means setting up macros in Keyboard Maestro, so that I click once or type a couple of characters and then a string of actions happens as if by magic.
That’s one reason why in August I wrote a series of MacTips about how to work with Keyboard Maestro:
Keyboard Maestro action sequence.
- Turn 100 steps into 1 with Keyboard Maestro
- Keyboard Maestro lets you set up sequences of actions, or macros, and then does them for you. Watch your computer do the work, instead of the other way round. Let me show you how it works.
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- Keyboard Maestro can operate programs and point and click for you. Here’s how to avoid mindless repetitive and annoying actions.
- Keyboard Maestro Triggers and Actions
- Use Keyboard Maestro to work your Mac for you. Here’s how to set up Triggers, select options in Actions and quickly record a macro.
- Keyboard Maestro Clipboard and Scripts
- Keyboard Maestro can do some very clever things with the clipboard and that’s great for anyone who writes. It’s also a good way to run Applescripts and Shell scripts. Here’s how to get even more work out of Keyboard Maestro.
Peter Lewis is the developer who makes this magic happen. He kindly offered a 20% discount to my readers. There’s information about the discount at all the Tips listed above, and you can download the software for free to try it out.
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Interesting tech for 23 to 27 August 2010 25 Tech links I found interesting in the last week. Highwire robot; solar house; night vision; probable computers; tweetup; 0.6 litres per 100 km; RFID tags; bird-proof glass; megapixels; DSLRs; mind maps.
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Tech universe: Monday 23 August 2010
Tech universe: Tuesday 24 August 2010
Tech universe: Wednesday 25 August 2010
Tech universe: Thursday 26 August 2010
Tech universe: Friday 27 August 2010
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Apple - Support - Most Recent - Mac OS
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Apple security updates This document outlines security updates for Apple products.This document outlines security updates for Apple products. |
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About the security content of iTunes 10 This document describes the security content of iTunes 10, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.
For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.
For information about the Apple Product Security PGP Key, see "How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key."
Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.
To learn about other Security Updates, see "Apple Security Updates".This document describes the security content of iTunes 10, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.
For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available. To learn more about Apple Product Security, see the Apple Product Security website.
For information about the Apple Product Security PGP Key, see "How to use the Apple Product Security PGP Key."
Where possible, CVE IDs are used to reference the vulnerabilities for further information.
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iLife '09: Music and Photos may not be accessible from your Media Browser If you installed the iLife Support 9.0.3 update, and subsequently used Migration Assistant to transfer your files to a new Mac, you may be unable to see your iPhoto images or iTunes music in the Media Browser of your iLife '09 applications.* Also related to this issue, your screen saver preference pane in System Preferences may become unresponsive.
* If this issue occurs in only one of your iLife '09 applications, this article does not apply and troubleshooting should be performed for that application, not the entire suite. See the following articles for more information:
How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
iPhoto 6 and later: Rebuilding the iPhoto libraryIf you installed the iLife Support 9.0.3 update, and subsequently used Migration Assistant to transfer your files to a new Mac, you may be unable to see your iPhoto images or iTunes music in the Media Browser of your iLife '09 applications.* Also related to this issue, your screen saver preference pane in System Preferences may become unresponsive.
* If this issue occurs in only one of your iLife '09 applications, this article does not apply and troubleshooting should be performed for that application, not the entire suite. See the following articles for more information:
How to re-create your iTunes library and playlists
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