A life online
This is what I am trying to do at the mo, put all of my content on-line and not have it sitting on a PC at all. Gives me complete freedom with my information.
An excellent article about how you might at A life online: living decentralised (Mercurytide)
They talk through how you can switch to on-line versions of - the links are to the free tools I'm using (trialing):
They say the biggest drawback is that if you're not on-line you can't get your data. In todays connected society (and becoming more each day here inNZ) that's not one I really worry about. What I have an issue is that the differing solutions are all stand-alone - RSS is helping a great deal with that.
Oh, and the initial migration up from the PC to the on-line place is a pain and can take ages!
An excellent article about how you might at A life online: living decentralised (Mercurytide)
They talk through how you can switch to on-line versions of - the links are to the free tools I'm using (trialing):
- Desktop: My Yahoo! | Netvibes | Google Personalised
- A pen (word processing): Writely
- An in-tray (email): Gmail
- Bookmarks: del.icio.us
- A spreadsheet: Num Sum
- A photo album: Flickr
- A briefcase (to store files): openomy
- An organiser (to do, etc): Backpack
- Calendar: CalendarHub | Yahoo! Calendar
- A newspaper: loads ...
They say the biggest drawback is that if you're not on-line you can't get your data. In todays connected society (and becoming more each day here inNZ) that's not one I really worry about. What I have an issue is that the differing solutions are all stand-alone - RSS is helping a great deal with that.
Oh, and the initial migration up from the PC to the on-line place is a pain and can take ages!
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