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Untethered: Managing Tasks With Toodledo
Posted by: dgoldring on Aug 17 2008 - 351 views
I first learned of Toodledo about a year ago, when I was looking for a better way to manage my tasks. Until then, I had been using MS Outlook. That worked fine, but had a significant disadvantage. There was no way to modify your tasks when away from your main computer. Everything was stored locally. The more mobile I was becoming, the more of a problem this single computer approach was going to be. So, off I set to find a solution in the sky…well, really in the Cloud. What I found was one of the finest task managers I had ever used: Toodledo.
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Untethered: How We Learned To Love The Cloud
Posted by: danc on Aug 08 2008 - 90 views
One of the great technological advances of the past few years is the growing presence of “Cloud Computing” aka Web 2.0 in the mainstream. The basic concept behind Cloud Computing is this, rather than a particular application sitting resident on a device (ie. being run on the device itself), be it a computer or a smartphone, the application, and all related data sits on an outside server and is accessed through a web browser. In the simplest sense, the server (which can be anywhere in the world) becomes both the brains and the storage space for everything associated with it and the device simply becomes the doorway through which it is reached.
This is where both the power and the Achilles Heel of Web 2.0 can be seen. Read more »
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