Cloud Computing

[Postbib Yeshuist]

In a couple of other threads, I've been mentioning Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) and Evernote (www.evernote.com) as indispensable software items for me. Since they're part of the whole cloud computing "craze," I wonder what other types of this supremely useful technology you all use. I'm always looking for new and clever ways to carry less and still have instant access to information/data.

[BrandNewName]

Dropbox is a lifesaver, I really love it -- I don't keep everything on there, but I back up my important documents and those that I like to reference spontaneously. It's also a great way to facilitate printing -- I don't have a printer at home and things that I come across that I would like to have a hard-copy of are saved in my Dropbox printing folder until I can print them out at work.

I don't know if these really count as cloud computing, but Zotero and XMarks are indispensable. While I don't really use Zotero (a Firefox plugin that serves a bibliographic function) to produce Works Cited pages (I do that myself in Word Mac), I find the ability to save webpages for offline access and to highlight/take notes on those pages wonderful. And I can access them anywhere I log in to my Zotero.

And, after much contemplation and a time-intensive reorganization/culling of my bookmarks, I just added XMarks to Firefox on my laptop and at work so that everything is synchronized.