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Alex Lederer, Blog Post #6

I’m familiar with the suite of Google applications, but I hadn’t used Google docs seriously since 12th grade in high school.  It’s Google Drive now, which I guess lets it store your documents in the browser cache so you can access it when you’re offline, which is pretty neat.  With all the “cloud computing” going on I figured a tech savvy company like Google would just make the assumption that all users would be connected to the internet 24/7, so this change is really nice.

My first impression way back when for Google Docs was that it was a really useful tool for working with a lot of people.  I’m surprised I don’t use it more, because you get to see other people editing the same article the same time as you are, and in group discussions it’s so useful to have everyone work on it and talk about the project at once.  I feel regret in a bug way right now, all these group projects I could have done in Google Docs when I only did one throughout my entire college career… to make matters worse the times I used it in high school I mostly did it so I could be working on a paper with someone and also chat at the same time, or insert pictures or something.  Looking deeper I see that the GMU student senate uses Google documents when making resolutions.  Really wondering how popular Google Docs is, and why more people don’t use it.  Why don’t I use it.  If I could launch it instead of Word or something that would be great, like a non in browser version.  Gotta check to see all the features of Google drive because Word is so ugly and slow, I would love to uninstall it.

Lots of people familiar with Google Maps, but my experience has only made me search around in Street View or for directions.  Some people are tagging themselves in this, I don;t know if it’s something I would ever do but I should probably know how.  Looking through all these programs and I’m kind of amazed at how many free programs Google is pushing out.  This is kind of ridiculous.

~ by aledere1 on October 15, 2012 .



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