Tag Archives: sharing

Google Docs Updates Document Interface

Posted on February 1, 2011 by robertmerrill

This week, Google Docs has rolled out a refresh to how it lists and shows you documents, files, images, videos and more in your docs pane. For a year or so, you could put any document, presentation, image or file … Continue reading →

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Wishlist: ‘Save As…’ Google Documents Into a Folder

Posted on December 22, 2010 by robertmerrill

Google Docs has come a long way. Now, with folders and folder-sharing and other great collaboration techniques, the experience has dramatically improved over last while. But one thing really hurts my productivity, and I have (sadly) learned to work around … Continue reading →

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Picasa Photos Need Easier Sharing #wishwed

Posted on December 15, 2010 by robertmerrill

Picasa is Google‘s great photo editing and sharing app.  It makes ridiculously quick work out of acquiring images from your camera, sorting them, letting you crop/edit/touch them up, and share them by email or post on-line or blog. But in … Continue reading →

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The 5 People I Wish Used Tungle Online Calendaring #wishwed

Posted on December 6, 2010 by robertmerrill

I have talked before about Tungle, the easy-as-email online calendaring application from a cool startup based out of Montreal.   My Tungle account goes everywhere with me, and is literally an integral part of my professional and personal life. Thanks to … Continue reading →

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KillerApp: Five uses of DropBox Plus One

Posted on October 12, 2010 by robertmerrill

Dropbox is clean, smooth and solves so many cross-computer/platform sync problems it’s almost a no-brainer to get/install and try out. It’s free, too so… duh. I have been using it for about a month across three Windows PCs of different … Continue reading →

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QR Code Generating Bookmarklet

Posted on May 10, 2010 by robertmerrill

Sometimes, it would be easy to get something from your computer over to your mobile. QR Codes are a simple way to do that, but often web-pages you’re viewing don’t have QR Codes readily available. A bookmarklet I found on … Continue reading →

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Insert, Collaborate on Drawings in Google Docs

Posted on April 13, 2010 by robertmerrill

Google announced that you can now add/edit/share drawings right online and embed them into your documents and presentations or share across the web. With this addition, the reasons for bulky, offline collaboration “office suites” is dropping like political approval ratings … Continue reading →

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Twitter = Conversations

Posted on August 19, 2008 by robertmerrill

Overhearing a few conversations yesterday drove home the point to me that Twitter (or identi.ca or pownce, plurk or even email) is really simply a way to have conversations. Kumbaya, and all that What you say is irrelevant. Who you … Continue reading →

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Flickr Uploadr Available for Blackberry Smartphones

Posted on June 6, 2008 by robertmerrill

Sharing the things you find as you journey through life is half the fun of being well-connected. And, of course, a picture is worth thousands and thousands of those words. Flickr, the popular online photo storage site, has published a … Continue reading →

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No Friends For You

Posted on April 22, 2008 by robertmerrill

The point is, corporate firewalls are there to keep baddies out. No malware, no spyware, no viruses or trojans or whatever else. But they also do a pretty good job of keeping people IN, too: No sharing of information Don’t … Continue reading →

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