To online Doc or not to online Doc? Both of these sites look great to me! Best yet, once again, they are FREE! Road Warrior Alert! -They are especially great if you travel. Also an easy way to save to PDF if you don't have Adobe Acrobat Writer.
For my exploring friends these are online document sharing/storing sites. You can upload, create, share, print, save to PDF, and access them from anywhere you can get to the internet including your media capable phone. Try them out. If you have a Google account you can also logon to Zoho.
docs.google.com
http://www.zoho.com/
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Search vs Navigation
A direct hit, a direct hit, my kingdom for a direct hit!
What do you REALLY want a search engine for? To find information the quickest way possible. I have used many. Some are far and away better than others. Also, be aware that some are topic specific, www.dictionary.com and www.quote.com for instance. The first is just what it sounds like, an online dictionary offering several dictionary versions of the word or phrase searched. The second is for stock quotes and futures. There are others of course.
My results for these sites from the lesson. I searched for "paralegal certification form florida" knowing it is usually a hard to find item.:
What do you REALLY want a search engine for? To find information the quickest way possible. I have used many. Some are far and away better than others. Also, be aware that some are topic specific, www.dictionary.com and www.quote.com for instance. The first is just what it sounds like, an online dictionary offering several dictionary versions of the word or phrase searched. The second is for stock quotes and futures. There are others of course.
My results for these sites from the lesson. I searched for "paralegal certification form florida" knowing it is usually a hard to find item.:
- taptu.com -for mobile devices
- www.lexxe.com - Not very helpful. Frustrating, missed the mark widely.
- www.hakia.com - Great! 2nd link down was it.
- www.quintura.com -Also great! 1st link was it.
- www.bing.com - 1st link after 4 "Sponsered" links.
Others:
- www.dogpile.com 9th link down after school links. (Searches several engines at once.)
- www.webcrawler.com -Still out there. 10 links down for the item.
- www.metacrawler.com - 9th link down. (Searches Google, Yahoo, Windows Live, Ask)
- www.lycos.com - 1st link after 3 "sponsored" links.
- www.ask.com -Item not even on the 1st page. I don't care for this one, never get what I want.
Mobile Web / Apps
Aaah the rush of iPhone and use of the internet on phones. Many phones offer this capability now not just iPhone and PDAs have been around for some time. My last 2 bosses twice removed were road warriors. As such, they had every mobile device known to man at the time (mid-90s to 2004). The PDA was very nice with mini apps for Word, Excel and Outlook and docs could be emailed or downloaded to the desktop or laptop. The new versions are basically a PDA/ mobile phone cross with more screen real estate. It is obviously the continued future wave constantly going more mobile and more internet access.
The "GOTCHA" here is the cost for connectivity. One has to have media added or "bundled" into their package of phone options or pay per use by the kilobyte downloaded. This can get pricey $$. Mine happens to be extra/ per use. Needless to say, I don't use it much. When I have used it, it is convenient, but the screen is small requiring me to put my glasses back on to peer at my screen. (Dating myself here.)
If you are curious as to how it looks before diving in, go to this Emulator posted on our learn lessons and try it out. Put in a web site to see how it would look on mobile device (phone etc.)
http://instantmobilizer.com/test-your-site.htm The on screen mobile can be clicked on just like the real thing.
The "GOTCHA" here is the cost for connectivity. One has to have media added or "bundled" into their package of phone options or pay per use by the kilobyte downloaded. This can get pricey $$. Mine happens to be extra/ per use. Needless to say, I don't use it much. When I have used it, it is convenient, but the screen is small requiring me to put my glasses back on to peer at my screen. (Dating myself here.)
If you are curious as to how it looks before diving in, go to this Emulator posted on our learn lessons and try it out. Put in a web site to see how it would look on mobile device (phone etc.)
http://instantmobilizer.com/test-your-site.htm The on screen mobile can be clicked on just like the real thing.
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