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Google+ finally for everyone!

There have been a lot of whining on Google from their Apps-users since the launch of  Google+  for everyone with a regular Google-account. The Apps-users have not been able to use  Google+ , until now! (actually  october 27 ) As usual I am impressed with most of the things Google accomplishes, but now when all of their services have gotten a visual and functional touchup I am getting really impressed. As someone at an early stage pointed out it is really sweet of Google to play naive and let me fill in my profile information when I create my profile (as if Google did not already know), but after a few clicks I am on the go. My albums from Picasa is automatically integrated and even the pictures I have uploaded to this blog is shown in  Google+ . But what happens next? Practically no one of my friends are on  Google+  so what do I use it for? I guess we will see. Hopefully there will be even more integration between the social networks in the...

Moving to the cloud - part 2

I would really like to recommend  Dropbox  to store your files. The free version offers 2 GB of storage and the software can run on all my computers and my phone. There are of course several services that do almost the same thing, but so far I have not found anyone that does it as good as  Dropbox . Moving the files to the cloud was easy. I just created an account, installed the software and moved my files to the designated directory. Since then my free account have been upgraded to 3 GB because I made some friends join Dropbox. The next step was to move my e-mail from my current service provider to Gmail . Wint  Google Apps  I get exactly the same functionality as a previously had, but also a better web user interface. The challenge in this move was to move all existing e-mails to my new  Google Apps  account. It turned out to be pretty easy by activating POP-mail in  Gmail  and get all the e-mails from the existing mail server. When...