Elixir productivity: the case Google First
summarize the recipe, then study the chunk in terms of productivity
what Google .
In general, we can say that all Google services and tools are well designed and relatively easy to use. Add to this the fact that most of these applications are web applications and not applications to install on his machine, and you get two immediate benefits and substantial:
- Moving from one computer to another by recovering its information
- Saving power machine by reducing the number of applications running in the background (eg email).
course, the absence of these qualities is that your information is in the Google cloud! You choose
Still, I made my choice, and here they are now indispensable to me:
- Google Chrome: Google's web browser simple, fast, reliable and scalable. I can not understand why it is not already the first used and why changes are so slow (but they do)
- Gmail: Mail by Google, again is intuitive and you can consolidate all your accounts on your mail-box Letters (BAL for short) associated with your google account all through a web browser.
- Google Reader: If you are familiar with RSS is ideal feed reader. Otherwise, roughly speaking, almost all sites now offer RSS address to disseminate their contents, you centralize all in an aggregator flow (eg Google Reader) and through a single interface to access all your content from your favorite sites. Thus, you can receive hundreds of information you can quickly sort and select only what interests you
Little more, I discovered there Not long
Helvetireader2 réhabille that the reader interface for better readability.
- iGoogle : When you create a google account, you can continue to use Google to your usual but there is the possibility of using the iGoogle page (top right of the screen). This page is completely customizable, thousands of gadgets are available to be added to your page (the more useful than zero of course) any RSS feed can also be added. For example, here is a piece of my current page, where you can see a nice theme, my mail, latest news, Google calendar (very nice too), and the weather ... going a little pub:) ... boulatin the gadget which displays a Zoli drawing on your page!
- Google Wave: and the last one but still experimental so it is special. Google's stated ambition is to revolutionize the way we communicate, the results of their research is this tool. For my part, what I understood is that with it you can chat, join all types of files (images, videos) from publicly or privately, and many other things. Where this is really different is that when you open a channel (one said a wave) it remains open. You associate your contacts who might be interested in this wave and go from there, everyone communicates in his own way happily. Rather skeptical at first, I am increasingly convinced ... you can always try anyway (I have some invitations to join just ask me).
That's how quick overview of Google applications I use most, but there are many others:
Also, many of these applications are available at Mobile, and if you're lucky enough to have a Google Phone (with a phone operating system Google Android
) you still have something fun!
A small anecdote, when my last phone me to come loose, I did nothing that all of my contacts is retrieved and updated since it was all done by a sync from contacts GMail. A single directory and day I searched a long time ...
Well, I stop right there, after I become painful) + +
