February 14, 2012

Online page creators

There are some options appearing now for people who want to create web pages online and have them hosted for free. The first I came across was Google Page Creator. It adds another feature to the Google suite. A more recent entry to this market is Weebly, which I think has the edge over Google’s [...]

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Zoho virtual office

I’m typing this in ZohoWriter, a web-based word processor. It’s similar to Writely, but offers a complete suite with online equivalents of desktop programs for spreadhseets and presentations. Funnily enough, I’m writing this on the day that Google formally integrated its online spreadsheet application with Writely to create Google Docs. I like the look and [...]

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GoPC virtual operating system

I discovered an intriguing new technology gadget tonight thanks to the Google ads on my own site. It’s called GoPC and it’s a virtual operating system that provides a free service for accessing programs and data storage online. It uses Suse Linux and provides a limited number of programs with the free service. These include [...]

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A morbid thought

Michael Gorey

I don’t think I’ve ever written it here before, but my middle name is John. My full name is the same as my grandfather and uncle. My uncle was sadly killed in Victoria’s Black Friday bushfire of 1939. I searched for my name on Google tonight and a reference to the Tanjil Bren bushfire tragedy [...]

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Saving bandwidth

I’ve made some minor changes to this site to conserve bandwidth. I don’t have to worry about bandwidth that much on my hosting account, but in principle I don’t like huge amounts of data being transferred for no purpose and potentially at my expense. The main offenders were search robots and spam. I’ve tried to [...]

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