Online Services
A lot of people ask me how I manage to do so many things - where do I find the time? Well, here are some of my secrets that help me organise my work and personal life. I hope you will find some of them helpful too. (Ramesh Mehay)
| CARBONITE |
Are you worried about losing all that data on your PC or lappy as a result of theft or computer failure? Why not back it all up online. Simply store all your files or folders under one big folder on your hard drive and then set that to backup to an ONLINE hard disk drive (=a webserver). You can back up as much as you want. I've got 24Gb worth of stuff backed up. It will back up new files automatically as they are put on your hard drive. It costs around £25 a year - a bargain for the peace of mind it ensures. |
| DROPBOX |
I love this site too. An absolute must for those of us who work on more than one computer (eg laptop, PC) and therefore have files and folders scattered all over the place and end up losing track of them and having to use USB sticks to transfer them over. This free 2Gb online service basically sets up an folder (called 'my dropbox') where you save/dump your files. These are then synchronised (automatically) to an online cyberspace folder which in turn synchronises to my dropboxes set up on other computers. It's dead easy to install - full step by step guidance given. You will LOVE it! |
| ONSPEED |
Speed up your internet connection upto five times, even if you've got broadband. This is a clever piece of software that shrinks data packages as they travel to and from the net making things go a lot faster. And it wont break the bank either (once a year charge of around £25). You can even download it to your mobile. |
| MISTER POLL |
With MisterPoll you can create your own online polls on any subject with an unlimited number of questions. Email them to friends, plug them into your web site, submit them to MisterPoll's public directory, and more. Really useful site when you want to do a "quick and dirty" survey of what people are doing. |
| SURVEY MONKEY |
Another great survey/online poll creating website. It's becoming more popular that Mister Poll. |
REMEMBER THE MILK |
What can I say other than I love this site and consider it a MUST HAVE. If you have lots of tasks to do and have many fingers in different pots and struggle to keep on top of them, then this website is for you. It's an online task list which means you can access it from anywhere and even have it on certain mobile devices like BlackBerrys. |