Web technology
sporte | January 6, 2011About mid-morning, my 16yr old daughter called me from school and asked me to help her get an interview transcript that was on her computer.
Four years ago, when my older daughter was in high school, I would have printed that document and driven to the school to deliver it.
Not today.
Today, I found the document on YD's computer, opened a browser, logged in to Google Docs, uploaded her file to my Google Docs account, and set the sharing settings so that YD could log in from school and get the document, which she did.
No one had to drive to the high school. No child had to stand outside in…
sporte | November 15, 2008Poor PZ! Stranded without a working laptop in a strange town! This is the kind of situation that gives me nightmares, so I like to upload presentation materials to the web just in case.
Lately, I've been looking at different methods for doing this to see which ones l like the best.
A few days ago, I tested this with Scribd.
Today, I'm going to see what we can do with Google Docs.
TomJoe said that he started using Scribd because he couldn't share things with Google.
I use Google docs quite a bit, but I haven't tried to share any documents with more than a few people, so I took at look…
sporte | November 13, 2008Well, I had to test Scribd with something. Why not use a document on the Massachusetts Life Sciences Industry?
Scribd is sort of like the YouTube of electronic paper. I found Scribd from TomJoe's post about Life on Mars. His PowerPoint talk is really much more interesting than the life science document that I uploaded as a test, but since you're here anyway, you might as well take a look.
What does Scribd do?
It solves the "waiting for another application to open" problem that I find so frustrating when I want to quickly read (okay, skim) a pdf document that's linked from something on…