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More Ways to Get Files into Your Dropbox

By Tom Mighell On April 18, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Technology, Useful Web Sites

Back in December 2010, I mentioned a few services that would you or others to send files to your Dropbox files, without actually having access to Dropbox. Since that time, a couple of other services have come out that I thought were worth mentioning – several times in the past few months I [...]

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Cool Tips for Using Google Docs

By Tom Mighell On April 11, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Useful Web Sites

I still use Google Docs, but not as much lately as I did the past few years. I recently started to work with Google Docs again, and found some really cool new features that have been added. Here are a few you might find worthwhile:

Improved File Upload - it’s a lot easier to [...]

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Evernote’s Cool Sharing Features

By Tom Mighell On September 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Useful Web Sites

All right, I’m a bit behind on talking about this, but there’s a reason for it. As I was planning for a vacation last month, I decided to throw restaurant ideas into an Evernote folder, so I could come back later and make a decision. It turns out there were too many [...]

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Google Docs Charts Get More Interesting

By Tom Mighell On December 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing, Collaboration

Okay, so Google Docs still can’t match the power of any part of the Microsoft Office suite, but they sure keep getting closer and closer. Recently, they debuted a great new chart creation tool that makes some significant advances. You’ll find annotated timelines, organizational charts, gauges, a motion chart, and many more chart [...]

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New Ways to Use Dropbox

By Tom Mighell On December 13, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Cloud Computing, Collaboration

Anyone who reads this blog knows by now (and perhaps is tiredof knowing) that I’m a huge fan of Dropbox - I keep all of my files there now, so I can access my work files on my home computer, and my home files on my work computer when I’m on the road. I’ve [...]

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Keeping Up with Google

By Tom Mighell On December 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing, Useful Web Sites

Google continues to offer some pretty terrific technology tools, many of which are useful to lawyers: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, and Google Translate or only a few of the great tools that lawyers can use in their practice. It can be someone daunting, however, trying to keep up with all of the new stuff [...]

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Working with Images in Google Docs

By Tom Mighell On September 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing

My Google tip of the week deals with images in Google Docs. It used to be that inserting images in Google Docs was a primitive affair, but the service has steadily improved its functionality in this area. True, it’s still not as sophisticated as Word or WordPerfect, or Pages, but it gets the job done. [...]

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Best Places for Free Online Storage

By Tom Mighell On September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing

If you have read this blog and/or have a pulse, you know how much I love Dropbox as an online file storage and syncing tool. But the free version of Dropbox only offers 2GB of storage – what if you want to store more files online? Well then, check out these 4 [...]

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New features from Google Docs

By Tom Mighell On August 31, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing

Want to grab the text from a PDF and throw it into a Google Doc? Well, now you can. When you upload PDF files to Google Docs, you’ll now have the ability to convert text from PDFs or even images and store the text in a Google Docs document. It’s not a perfect [...]

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When You Really Need to Send Me a Terabyte of Information

By Tom Mighell On January 19, 2005 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud Computing, Useful Web Sites

Getting big files to people through e-mail is a problem; most ISPs have size limits on e-mail, and so files bigger than 3-5MB frequently don’t get through. A number of services have popped up to address this issue — companies like YouSendIt and FileCourier provide for safe and secure file transfer. Now

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