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Useful Sites for Mobile Web

I remember a time where PDAs and smart phones were a sign of status- you were either a business man or a tech geek. Now smartphones and internet enabled phones are as ubiquitous as the air we breath (you like that?). As someone who spends a lot of time on the mobile web (or the web in general), I thought…

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Use Google Docs to convert MS Works to Word

A lot of people who use Windows have access to Microsoft Works, Microsoft’s free ‘solution’ to Office. Today my brother asked me how he would convert a Works word processing document (.wps) to a Word document (.doc), since he did his homework using Works but didn’t have access to that at school- they only have Office. I have Works and…

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Google + Other Services

As you might have guessed, I am a huge fan of all things Google. In the last week or so I have come across some great things that make Google easily integrate with other services I use, making it so much better. Remember the Milk in GMail I’ve written about Remember the Milk before, and how I thought it was…

AIM in GMail Chat

Yesterday while changing my status on GMail Chat I noticed something that I can only describe as ‘awesome’. Below my “busy” status messages I saw the AOL Instant Messenger icon accompanied by the text, “Sign into AIM.” Beginning yesterday, according to the Official GMail Blog, Firefox users and English IE7 users have the ability to sign into AIM using the…

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Using GMail for files

As a college student I am often bouncing around from PC to PC as I go through my day on campus. This often means when I want to work on a project in between classes, I end up emailing it to myself and keeping it in my inbox. GMail, of-course, lends itself to this quite nicely. With it’s search, star,…

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My ‘System’

Over at College V2, Sean has an ongoing series called What’s Your System, where various people talk about how they stay organized. I have already posted some things on Productivity, but I figure I can talk about what I do. I rely heavily on my Treo 650 Smartphone. It is a Palm based phone that comes with all the standard…