Productivity Future Vision – Future Gazing (again)
It’s another one of those Microsoft crystal ball gazing videos of the world we all want to live in.
Posts from the ‘Tech’ Category
Oct 30
Sep 9
Do you trust your hotel room safe? Think again
I came across this video the other day on YouTube whilst actually sitting in my hotel room.
I did check it out and found that my hotel had a very different make of safe to the one shown in the video. I have however seen the shown model in hotels I have stayed in, but in the UK at least they are quite rare.
So the safe in my hotel room could not be opened by an all zero code but that does not say their isn’t a master code known by all the staff.
In any case however it is clearly a potential problem and one any traveller should be aware of. I did post the video on Facebook and a friend did come back and suggest one of these.
So be careful out there people.
ScanDrop :: Software Review [UPDATED 23rd Jan 2012]
[UPDATE – 2nd January 2012]
For the last few months, the ability of ScanDrop to upload directly into Google Docs has been broken and thus disabled.
The manufacturers keep telling us that they are working on a fix and that it will be with us soon however until that actually happens (and remember this has been broken for months), the functionality of this software is seriously limited.
The full review is still here in the hope they will one day fix it.
Apple Hasn’t Killed The Hard Drive Market Just Yet
There has been a lot of talk in the press this week about the new Apple iCloud announced at the Apple WWDC.
But it is this article in the Register that prompted me to comment.
Has Steve Jobs killed the consumer hard disk industry?
Now this article goes on about how if all your documents, music, contacts etc etc etc are in the iCloud, you won’t need terabytes of local storage thus the comment about the demise of the hard drive market. Read more
Apr 29
This is THE game changer for Google Docs
It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of Google Docs however I have to admit from time to time, it can be a little clunky. In my opinion, the one area it has always fallen short is the whole document or file upload capability.
Well today this changed and Google have introduced two game changing features to Docs.
Firstly you can now upload FOLDERS!
That’s right, you can select a folder and everything inside it (including sub folders) will be uploaded as is. Straight away, this makes moving your legacy file system to the online world sooooo much easier.
Secondly, assuming you are using a browser that supports HTML5 such as Chrome, Firefox or Safari, you can now drag and drop files straight into the browser window and they will upload. No dialogue boxes, no file explorer prompts, just select the collection you want to upload into and drag the file into the window. Job done.
For me this has now solved what was the only real failing within Docs and I suspect will see me moving to Docs as my PRIMARY personal document repository over the next few weeks. Even upgrading to 20GB of extra storage is only going to cost me $5 so it’s not as if space is an issue.
Full details can be found over on the Google Docs Blog
