Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Now This: I Like!

New toy!

New useful toy!

Specifically, Google Docs and Zoho.

Since I have google accounts (this blog, my gmail) I expected to be happy about adding the on-line documents feature to the mix: No new passwords, no new user-interface, just new functionality. Yes, it's all that and a bag of chips. Best of all, the "file download" options let me dump it as a fully-functional word document onto whatever computer I'm using, so I can "share it" using those old-time-y e-mail attachments, print it using the Word features on my (several) computers and so forth. Very nice--!

Zoho surprised me: I think this is the one I'll be sharing with my library-customers who don't have discs and for whom the shared "P-drive" stands for "Painfully-inadequate-drive" (What happens to your documents accessibility when you "run out" of internet time on your card--? Uh huh...)

I'll probably be using the "poll-generator" feature right away, myself: both on my "real life" blog (rather sadly neglected for this student-driver-edition) and for some of my group projects. Here's the one I wrote for the Evergreen Nominating Team:

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