Dec 24 2008
If You Must Work – Work From Anywhere This Holiday Season
Happy Holidays from Information Sells
Don’t be tethered to a desk. Give yourself a Christmas treat while indulging your geeky cloud computing cravings this holiday season.
LOG ME IN
Do you need remote access to your PC? Do you use LogMeIn? If you use anything except LogMeIn, you are paying too much. LogMeIn is free and it is safe, secure, and time tested.
I’ve been using it for at least 3 years, and I can recommend it unreservedly.
And here’s a great Christmas bonus to give yourself: if you have a free LogMeIn account, until Dec. 31, you can upgrade to LogMeIn Pro for half price. That’s an entire year for only $40.00
The Pro version adds remote printing (open a document on your PC in Timbuktu and print it on your printer in Katmandu) and file sync, file sharing, and a few other nice features.
The Pro features aren’t essential – but at $40.00 they are hard to pass up.
LIVE MESH
When it comes to online file storage and file sharing, Microsoft can’t make up its mind. First they bought FolderShare, then they renamed it LiveSync.
Somewhere along the line, they introduced Live Mesh.
I tried FolderShare in the past, but I’ve switched almost entirely to Mesh now. You get 5 GB of storage for your documents. You can use it to keep PCs, mobile phones, and even Macs all in sync. You can share and collaborate on documents in your mesh. And it gives you access to your remote desktop, so you can grab even documents you haven’t synchronized.
Like Log Me In, it’s free.
WINDOWS LIVE PHOTO GALLERY
If you are still using Windows XP, but you’ve cast a covetous eye on Vista’s Photo Gallery – you don’t need to upgrade to experience all those fine, new features. Live Photo Gallery is part of Windows Live Essentials. And it is free.
The downloader includes the entire Live Essentials family, so be sure you only install the parts you want.
If you want a photo organizer but would rather stick a fork in your eye than download a Microsoft product, try Picasa 3 from Google instead.
Both Live Photo Gallery and Picasa include simple photo editing and web albums for sharing your pictures online.
ENJOY YOUR MUSIC, TOO
It’s hard to imagine not having space for an iPod, but if you are netbook user, you might not have room for iTunes. Forget the iPod and tune in to Pandora, the internet radio station that only plays what you want to hear.
Pandora let’s you pick the songs and artists that you enjoy and, based on your selections, suggests other music you might like as well. Their predictions are, in my experience, quite good.
It’s not only a way to listen to your favorite music – it’s a great way to discover new music.
And it’s free and available on any computer connected to the internet.
Photo by Kevin Dooley Released under Creative Commons License
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