October 2009

Portable Applications in the Cloud - Powered by Folders

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Today I will show you how to use Oxygen with portable applications like KeePass, Firefox, Thunderbird or VLC. The beauty of portable apps is that you don’t have to install them on the computer.  These portable apps will boost productivity by providing quick and easy access from any PC. For example, with Firefox, you can sync all your passwords and bookmarks on multiple computers.

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How to Avoid the Pains of Setting up Network Drives and VPNs

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I got a call from my friend yesterday evening and he said he needed some help with a task assigned to him at work. He works for a company that uses traditional approach to file sharing. So the task was to allocate network share to 20 new hires across different locations. Some folders required full access and some only read and write but not delete privileges.

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How the US Government could have avoided the perils of lost data with remote wipe capability

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It's been recently reported that the personal information of some 70 million U.S. military personnel was lost last November.  It's unknown whether the data has been actually breached, but an investigation is under way.

IT 2.0 - LeapFILE as the marriage counselor between Users & IT

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When we attended DEMO Fall 2009 last month as one of the companies presenting on stage, I was impressed with all the cool apps being showcased that helped people do things better, faster, or in a more collaborative way.  There were tools that made your emails into a task manager, a social video chat service, and an application that lets you connect your various spreadsheets into an integrated model.  Good stuff…and I will probably try a few of these out myself.  How