Showing posts with label cloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloud. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Tips and ideas for using Evernote

Sejak punya akses terhadap smartphone yang memang smart, saya kembali mencoba menggunakan Evernote, cloud based document storing/sharing platform. Hal itu dilakukan karena task-list plus note-taking tools yang terakhir saya gunakan, Trello, tidak memiliki app khusus di WP8, hanya sebuah optimized mobile site (which is actually good, even have features that their iOS app didn't had). Sayangnya, mobile site tersebut tidak bisa diakses offline, alias butuh constant internet access to function.

Sejauh ini, Evernote for WP8 terasa cukup bagus buat saya, selain saya gunakan untuk mencatat hal-hal yang melintas di pikiran saya, Evernote juga saya gunakan untuk menyimpan berbagai artikel untuk dibaca di rumah (yang kebetulan belum terpasang internet :| ). Evernote Webclipper berguna kalau kita butuh akses offline (misalnya sering keluar jangkauan wifi gratis atau sekedar tidak punya internet).

Hanya satu saja kekurangan yang saya temui dari Evernote ini, untuk free user, ada kuota bulanan untuk penggunaan note sebanyak 60MB, dan saya hari ini tanpa sengaja menghabiskan lebih dari setengah kuota bulan ini =/ It all happens when I clipped several pages full of images for my reference...

Pro tip: jangan menggunakan evernote web clipper untuk menyimpan berbagai gambar menarik di internet, simpan linknya saja. Optimalkan kuota gratis yang dimiliki untuk sinkronisasi berbagai teks yang bermanfaat :)

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Free Storage #2: Yes, again please.

Today I receive the email I have been waiting for, the "Welcome to Google Drive" email. :D The day after my post about SkyDrive, Google release it's own version of cloud storage, Google Drive, which is basically an upgraded Google Docs.

Unfortunately, there is some bad news spreading in the internet that a fine print on the term  of usage of Google Drive says that Google can do anything they want with the files we uploaded, at least as a derivative (such as translation etc). http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57420551-93/who-owns-your-files-on-google-drive/

Anyway, I still encounter the same problem with the SkyDrive last time, how will I use the 5GB space on Google Drive, expecially with the rumor spreading like that. The only thing that I can think of now though, is to store images of cats there, a lot of cats...


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Free Cloud Storage? Yes, please. :D

Earlier today, I found that Skydrive has release their version of desktop syncing app. And what's great is that they give a quite large space, 7 GB (that we can upgrade to 25GB for free). In contrast to Dropbox's 2GB and the rumored Google Drive's 5GB.
Will this enough to make people change their cloud storage from Dropbox to SkyDrive? I don't think so. At least not me :D I will use all three of them.



The question is, how to optimize the cloud storage we have :D For starter, I think I will use the SkyDrive for personal use, like writings or programming research. Or maybe just for storing my old online document. :D