I wanted to pump up my Safari browser today, so I went shopping for plug-ins. Since the recent Safari 4 release, I thought I might try to see if it could keep up with Firefox in my daily browsing chores. So in order for this to work, there were some critical functionality that needed to [...]
One of the biggest areas of office productivity is in scheduling your day, tracking your tasks and taking notes. Google has supplied a calendar system to keep your dates online and recently they have added a task list function. The integration of these into GMail is limited but works.
Calendar
In Calendar, you can do all the [...]
Before we get more into web applications in the cloud, I want to go through my recommended Firefox extensions. Since we use FF for our single all purpose tool for computing in the cloud, we need a few plug-in enhancements to Firefox called Add-Ons.
Adobe Tools:
First you can add the Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player [...]
With Google Docs you can replace your Microsoft Office applications and do everything on Google! That’s what Google wants you to believe. And in most cases you could perform almost all of your office tasks with Google Docs. While I’m sure there are still features in Word, Excel and Powerpoint that Google Docs (documents, spreadsheets, [...]
Next in our venture for a single platform for office computing is our search for an E-Mail program. Simply put we need a web-based email client. And many ISPs offer a web interface to their email servers. So if you are already connecting through a permanent connection, you most likely have an email address with [...]
This first installment of our Mission: Impossible series starts out with selecting our single tool, the browser. One of my objectives is to run on most any computer, and since I own PCs and Macs, loaded with Windows, Linux and OS-X, the browser needs to run on all of them. I don’t think I’ll get [...]
Your mission should you decide to accept it, is to operate all of your computer activities within a single browser application using nothing more than Internet accessible resources. You can use any operating system and any browser. You may save and load files from your local file system but only as your browser of choice [...]