Monday, July 23, 2007

Week 8 Online applications - Google docs

I just spent a week in Carova, North Carolina at a house only accessible by 4 wheel drive by driving on the beach. While that in itself was an adventure, it was just as exciting to see the wild horses which live on that beach. It is believed that these horses ( http://www.mycurrituck.com/pictures/horses/CurrituckHorses04.jpg) arrived around 400 years ago with Spanish or Portugese explorers. They were either left there, or swam there after a ship wreck. Isolated on the Outer Banks barrier islands, they became wild and have lived there ever since.

The above is a document I created on Google docs (the image is from Google Images - http://www.mycurrituck.com/pictures/horses/CurrituckHorses04.jpg). It was very easy to do, and even easier to post it to my blog! I think these web-based productivity applications are great! They work very much like microsoft's programs, but they are free and they and the documents you create on them are then available on any computer which has internet access. You can send the documents to anyone without them having to download, and as long as that person has internet access, they can access the documents - for free! No more worrying about whether the recipients have the application on their computer in order to open the document! I love having access to this software for free, as most of the programs by Microsoft cost hundreds of dollar.

1 comment:

MDNewbie said...

Cool picture, Nancy!