Mullett's Corner

It's been a few months now, my Chromebook still goes with me to every single meeting at work. From keeping notes on & offline using Google Keep, to collaborating (Google Docs of course) on a discussion paper while sitting in the local Coffice with a colleague  +Aaron Burrell . My use of Google Apps has exploded and I now use a plethora of Googles tools and extensions to optimise and make my work effective and efficient. I guess there's almost a slight smugness about it. Mainly because all the things I worried about before no longer exist and everything I do use in my Google suite is so incredibly easy, it's almost laughable. But somethings wrong, I feel rather alone with it all, yes other members of my team BOTH (yes three people in the team) use Google Apps effectively, but that's it. It frustrates me, knowing that the rest the institution I work for still work using, certainly in my eyes, archaic technologies in their everyday work. Slow machines running ...

Dig Lit - David Mullett After my cloud epiphany, I've gradually bumped across most of my daily processes to Google, I've actually started to use Gmail as my personal/career email after years of having my own domain name and looking after my own mail accounts. All my personal, work documents and elements are in Drive and all my photos are in G+. It became quite clear recently that I didn't really use any proprietary software at all, not tied to any particular OS or hardware, ok apart from the exception of iMovie on my Mac Mini, however it was this clarity that made me realise maybe owning an iPad and iPhone wasn't particularly effective any more. A quick look back at the last 10 opened apps on both devices solidified my trail of thought, Google Drive, Picasaweb, Chrome, Messages, Phone, BBC News etc etc Nothing that was iOS centric. Would it not make more sense to use a Chromebook and Android phone instead? Yes, it would make more sense, a lot more sense. H...