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The post-PC era has arrived. Really?

Steve Jobs, CEO AppleMid June last year, Steve Jobs stated that the post-PC era has arrived. He predicts that the tablet will become a replacement for the PC for many users. Others seem to think that tablets are to become extra devices, next to laptops or desktops.

For certain tasks, such as editing photos or movies, you need a lot of processing power (read: PC/laptop power). Apparently the faster processors now available in the iPad 2, make this type of work finally possible on a tablet.

Which made me think. Can I work exclusively on a tablet?

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Webstock, collaborative note taking with Google Docs

Webstock New Zealand site screenshotAccording to Wikipedia Webstock is one of the leading conferences on web design from our antipodes  in New-Zealand. I hear you think… a bit far away for us, right?

One of the participants, friend and Google Apps-colleague Mike Riversdale of Waveadept, thought of a neat and  innovative way to allow conference participants to share notes: collaborative note taking with Google Docs!

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Fastest moving entry in 2011 hit parade: the tablet

Fast moving entry in 2011 hit parade : the tabletApple is getting rather good at creating new markets out of nothing. A few years ago they did exactly that with the iPod and last year with the launch of the iPad.

It is rumored that Apple will soon announce the launch of the iPad version 2. What new goodies it will bring remains to be seen.

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Switching to Google Apps? New habits can take up to 66 days.

Learning new habitsGoogle has started to mention the necessity of dealing with change management when migrating to Google Apps in their communication. As we have repeatedly stated, switching to Apps only for cost savings is not advisable. You can find out more about why and how to switch in our e-book “How to successfully deploy Google Apps“.

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Web meetings, an alternative for being stuck in traffic

WebmeetingsThe past weeks I was really annoyed (again) with traffic jams. The pinnacle for me was calling a customer in Brussels and telling him that, according to my GPS, I was only five kilometers away from his office and showing up an hour later. In some cases a web meeting can be an attractive alternative to travel. But where and how do you start?

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Five tips to deal more efficiently with mail in Gmail

Gmail logoHow the majority of mail users deal with their congested Inbox I sometimes have a tough time understanding. Because having an empty Inbox at the end of a (working) day gives you a fantastic feeling. A real “I am done with this” feeling.

And yet, over and over during training sessions or after migrations I notice so many users that have an Inbox with sometimes literally thousands of mails. Apparently Michael Arrington of Techcrunch wrote that he has a backlog of more than 20,000 messages to catch up with.

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Why cloud apps allow more innovation

Priority InboxIt is fair to say that probably the biggest advantage of using cloud applications in a browser is the fact that changes and new features become immediately available without software updates. With a minimal effort a cloud service provider can roll out new features and/or improvements of existing features to to thousands or millions of users.

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Co-working: little known but compelling

For knowledge workers, and there are plenty of them these days, the daily commute to the office is not a lot of fun due to traffic congestion. Working from home can be an alternative. Often, however, you are not really well organized for it. Temptations like the Soccer World Cup, washing your car, mowing the lawn or picking up the kids ‘..because you’re at home anyway…’ do not really improve your productivity.

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Google Voice is still limited to everyone in the U.S. … for now

After being in ‘preview’ mode for over a year Google Voice is now publicly available in the US… for now. So what is the big deal with Google Voice?

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Google Sites: faster solutions to resolve business problems – part 1

All cloud vendors say that their applications allow businesses to address business issues much faster. True?

As real world examples are much convincing than lengthy presentations or product descriptions, I hope to do so by explaining this real world example from our own company.

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