Living In The Clouds – iPad Edition
It has been sometime since I wrote the last post in the Living In The Cloud Series. With iPad in my hand, I thought it is time to revisit this series and talk briefly about how iPad fits in a life on the clouds. When iPad was announced, I wrote a post about how iPad [...]
Living In The Clouds: Socialwok
In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to talk about Socialwok, a social networking layer on top of Google Apps for your domains. For someone like me who loves Google Apps because of my love for Gmail, I always wanted a social networking layer on top of Google Apps to [...]
Living In The Clouds: Eye-Fi Card
In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to discuss a hardware product, Eye-Fi Card, instead of a cloud based application. Even though it is not a cloud app, this piece of hardware plays a crucial role in people’s life in the clouds. Eye-Fi is a wifi enabled SD card which [...]
Living In The Clouds: Photoshop.com
In this edition of the Living In The Clouds Series, I am going to talk about the online photo editor by Adobe, Photoshop.com. In fact, my favorite web app for photo editing is still Picnik (one day, I will write about them here in this space) but I also use photoshop.com for some of its [...]
Living In The Clouds: Mapquest Navigator
In this edition of the Living In The Clouds Series, I am going to talk about the newly released Mapquest Navigator, the iPhone voice guided navigation system released by Mapquest. Actually, I should title the post as Driving with the Clouds but, anyhow, this deserves to belong to this series. I have been using it [...]
Living In The Clouds: Mindmeister
In this edition of the Living In The Clouds Series, I am going to talk about my favorite Mind Mapping tool, Mindmeister. The timing of the post is special because Mindmeister released an awesome iPhone application recently. There are many desktop mind mapping tools but there are not many SaaS versions. Of the few SaaS [...]
Living In The Clouds: Team Apart (50 Beta Invites)
In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to discuss online collaboration software, Team Apart. Touted by some bloggers as Webex killer (no, it is not webex killer at this point), this recently launched app has the potential to reshape the collaboration landscape. Another such startup, DimDim, with its extensive set [...]
Living In The Clouds – Manymoon
It has been quite some time since I wrote a post in the Living In The Clouds Series. In this edition, I am going to talk about a project management app, called ManyMoon, which is low profile compared to many others in this space. Of the larger SaaS players offering Office Productivity suite, Zoho (Disclaimer: [...]
Living In The Clouds – Streamincloud.com
Image via Wikipedia In this edition of Living in the Cloud Series, I am going to discuss a way in which video can be streamed using Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. We already have services like Youtube and Vimeo for streaming video on Clouds. However, they are more than streaming video and they also serve as [...]
Living in the Clouds – OpenDNS
Image via CrunchBase In this edition of Living in the Cloud series, instead of talking about a cloud based tool, I am going to talk about a solution that ensures your life in the Clouds safe. OpenDNS is a free DNS provider that also ensures the internet experience with some security tools like content filtering, [...]
Living in the Clouds – Animoto
Image via CrunchBase In this edition of Living in the Clouds Series, I am going to talk about a startup, created on a nerd out session by a bunch of techies and film/tv producers, that is creating quite a bit of buzz recently. This service can be considered as music video on the clouds or [...]
Living in the Clouds – S3 and Jungledisk
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown In this edition of Living in the Clouds Series, I am going to talk about two apps, one web app and a desktop app. The combination of these two apps is a very potent tool for anyone wanting to backup their data on the Clouds. Amazon S3 is the cloud [...]
Living in the Clouds – Twitter
Image by via CrunchBase In this week’s edition of Living in the Clouds Series, I am going to talk about Twitter. Some people might argue that Twitter is a Web 2.0 app and not a cloud app, etc.. Well, I am not disputing their arguments. We can go either way on whether we should push [...]
Living in the Clouds – Flickr
Image via CrunchBase This week’s post in the Living in the Cloud Series features Flickr, the most popular photo sharing site owned by Yahoo. Flickr is one of the few sites that defined the concept of Web 2.0 and changed the very idea of photo sharing upside down. With more than 3 billion images in [...]
Living in the Clouds – Diigo
Image via CrunchBase In this week’s post in the Living in the Cloud series, I am going to talk about bookmarks in the cloud. In my early days of Living in the Clouds, I was using Delicious as my cloud based bookmarking tool. It was my favorite Web 2.0 era tool. I loved it so [...]
