I Recommend Investigating Google's Web Applications

First we were offered a desktop PC to create and store our date. Then along came laptops. For many a more mobile and convenient way to create and store data.

Today we are well on our way to using any computer, anywhere, anytime as nothing more than a conduit to the Web where our documents pictures, videos, presentations and e-mails are securely stored.

Although it’ll be a while before most of us are totally involved in Web computing, there are a few Web applications that I recommend Good Booters investigate.

Google’s free Calendar in my opinion is definitely an application everyone should consider. Like all Web applications it’s available anywhere, anytime on any computer. It offers an opportunity to create multiple calendars to include:
* Personal calendars available only to you via a password.
* Public calendars available via a Google search.
* Public calendars available only to those whose e-mail address you provide.
* Calendars for a specific purpose that can be posted as a public calendar or perhaps attached to a blog. I have a Google calendar of community events included on my www.goodboot.net blog.

There’s really no limit to the number or types of calendars you can have. All of them available
in a novice friendly presentation with in-depth help on Google’s calendar Web site.

A features I believe you’ll find extraordinarily useful and one you can find on my blog is "Agenda". When you click on it all the calendar event agendas are listed by date.

For those who use Outlook as their personal information manager, Google offers "Google Calender Sync". As you enter calendar dates in Outlook, Google syncs them to your Google calendar.

Another free Google feature is Google Docs. You can create or upload documents to Google Docs that like your Google calendar they’re available anytime, anywhere via the Web. And because they’re password protected, they’re secure.

Although you must have Microsoft Office installed on your computer, Microsoft does offer free data storage on the Web. Office Live Workspace allows you to open and save Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well as synchronize Outlook contacts, tasks and event lists.

Storing data on the Web is not only a convenient way to access or share data, it’s one more way to secure your data should you experience a catastrophic computer crash.

Note: our consulting technicians will offer a presentation of Web computing at our February 2009 User Group meeting.

Here’s wishing you a Good Boot.