Applicaction Comparison

1. 21 Excellent Web Apps For College Students

Another great idea a site with a list of sites. For me the list was a totally new experience, I had not heard of the majority of them. Of the twenty-one sites on the list I have heard of and used Wikipedia, however believe that while it is a great site with an excellent idea of drawing colleboration of people to one place to post their "expert" opinion or theories, the problem is that you can not always count on validity of the information for the same reason. When conducting research I will usually run a query through Wikipedia just to get some ideas, then hit the books and sites dedicated to the particular topic for hard factual data.

I have been using Gmail for about a year now, I love it, and until something better comes along will continue to use it. I have several accounts set up all for different purposes, I enjoy that this e-mail system has a built in junk-mail filter this way I never (or at least seldom) have to dig through pages of emails looking for real emails sent to me by someone I want to hear from.




While working through the list of twenty-one websites I came accross Zoho, and almost could not believe that a site with this much online applications existed. As the state supervisor for my job, I spend an enormous amount of time updating data fed to me through spreadsheets, well low and behold, using Zoho sheet each of my eight workers can input data straight to the worksheet, this will eliminate more that 4 hours of my time per week.

Along the same thought process as noted above, the document manager is an excellent place to collaborate and house documents and policies that need to be accessed by many. All this without having to set up and maintain your own data storage system.

This site has a multitude of operational services that can be implemented in a large number of organizations, communities, and groups. Educators collaborating on instruction ideas and materials, study groups placing resources for themselves or other group members to use, town hall minutes. The list of facets that a site like this can be used is surely endless.




















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My digg

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Are you being watched?

I just recently became aware of Google's street view map and I have to say I am somewhat appauled at the lengths we as a society will go to dig into the average persons life. In my opinion this just opens the door to what could be a much more invasion of the average persons privacy, today Google is just capturing passer by, what is it tomorrow just happen to catch an open set of drapes to someones bedroom? Well it was open, it must be ok, right? I do not think so, this sounds more like a police stake-out as apposed to just allowing people to view their street for kicks.

Is this invasion of privacy, absolutely. Is it stopable at this point, absolutely not, if Google were to quit today another immoral person would pick up where they left off. Society thrives on digging into lives of others, just as long as it is not them. Be prepared for the onslaught of followers in what Google has started.

My Spybot experience

My first experience with Spybot was not unlike most anti-virus software I have been associated with, the look and feel was much the same which is not a bad thing. I did run the program and was take somewhat aback when it found a spyware lurking around my system that my paid for program AVAST did not. One thing that caught my attention when deciding between Spybot and Ad-Ware 2008 was that the free version of Ad-Ware did not allow you to set up daily auto-scans, a feature that I hold in high regard.

I believe that I will use Spybot in conjunction with other anti-virus software, it certainly made a believer out of me that two heads are better than one.

I implement the basic features available for protecting my computer system, I now after this test use several anti-virus software scheduled to run daily, my firewall is always up and running at the highest level that will allow for functional use. In my household I am not the only one who uses my computer and thus I maintain the system setting myself, keeping them under password protection as not to allow anyone to tamper with the configuration of the protocols that are in place to secure the computer. I implement somwhat difficult passwords not assciated with who I am, my hobbies, or names associated with me or my family.