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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

In the cloud computing Zoho writer and Google docs

In the cloud computing enables web applications for all sorts of things such as image editing word processing social networking and media creation. Users access software which is not on your own machine giving the advantage of not having to install and update software or scale up your computing grunt on your machine. The draw back is you normally can't back it up, you have to trust that it will be constantly available this is traded off against the ability to share and collaborate on documents enabling group work. Zoho writer and Google docs are two examples of in the cloud products which provide great alternatives for our customers using free internet computers. No need for extra hardware CDs and pen drives are redundant just upload from Microsoft to google docs or Zoho when your session is running low. They are also great for those who travel around with their tiny notebooks they don't have enough grunt to run Vista. It may not be economical to purchase wordprocessing software for small notebooks when their primary purpose is to access the internet and keep touch with those back home. I've briefly explore these before but didn't realise the full extent of applications that are available. I looked a word processing last time so I tried a slide show presentation. Google Docs takes a more spartan approach I found the background templates after I had started my presentation whereas Zoho's where right up front like in Microsoft. Both seem to do the job well enabling uploading and downloading to and from Microsoft office products. I managed to download presentations alright to powerpoint from each product and I then tried to upload them. I got Zoho show to upload to Google docs via a downloading to my computer and then uploading it.I've yet to have any luck getting the Zoho show presentation to upload to Google docs via the same route. Iuploaded a link from Zoho alright to my blog using the HTML gadget but its window a bit too small. The slideshow gadget didn't work even when I saved it as a slide show. No success yet in getting google docs test presentation onto the blog. I even managed to repeat this with Google docs must be getting the hang of this.
I've figured out how to add my Google docs presentation onto the blog, I had to publish it first. Apparently Zoho enables you to work offline on documents and spreadsheets and have these changes reflected directly in your Zoho account online which sounds great. Zoho and Google docs enable you to create things in Microsoft office nd save them directly into Zoho and to do the reverse.

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