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Online Services & Cloudbased Apps – March 2012

Time for an update to this December 2011 version, to what online services & Apps I use from within the cloud or from Internet. Due to my Digital Diet of March 2012, the list has decreased considerably … meaning lower overhead to manage, and having more time for travel and ‘fun stuff’. Let’s start with:

Google Apps

I’m still a FREE user of Google’s Services, simply because the migration to Google Apps for Business still poses quite the challenge. However — opposed to the default version — I’m using 2-step verification for increased security. Apps I use frequently are:

  • Analytics | for all the necessary monitoring of traffic of 3rd parties the most
  • Blogger | you are here …
  • Calendar | absolutely essential for keeping track of all my appointments and event attending
  • Contacts | store all my contacts as explained here
  • Docs
  • Image Search | search for images to edit
  • goo.gl | Google’s URL shortener
  • Gmail + Google Labs
  • Maps
  • Profile | keeping track of all the communities and social media sites I’m involved + contact info
  • Search
  • Sync | sync from several devices & 3rd party apps with Google Calendar, Contacts and email
  • TransLate | for the occasional translations
  • YouTube

Google Chrome Extensions

One of the fantastic benefits of Google Chrome, is being able to synchronise your extensions with the Google Cloud. But again … extensions are very memory hungry. Plus the more you enable, the more ‘cluttered’ the interface gets. At this moment of writing I’ve only enabled:

Apps with a monthly-fee (but SO worth it!):

  • MoneyBird | Bookkeeping program for all my entrepreneurial undertakings | €11.90mo
  • Talk Fusion | a great low-cost 8-in-1 video toolbox that I use with my 100+ students for weekly conferences, presentations and recordings, but also for the video e-mail app at my iPod 4

Payment gateways:

  • PayPal | business account, so I’m able to receive creditcard payments as well
  • Mollie (NL) | International payment gateway for accepting iDeal payments, etc. Blends in great with MoneyBird book-keeping.

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