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A fun way to teach reluctant people how to do basic tasks with computers.

Create a browser home page with easy large button for functions like email, search, weather, news, etc.  Set up custom buttons as well.  Set one up for yourself or someone else.  Cloud access.  Perhaps useful for school computers.

I ordered these discs to go along with Glo Premium so that I don't have to stream everything to my primary computer.  Three DVDs arrived in about 2 days.  Total cost with about $12 with shipping.  Install time says 1-3 hours!  18 GB

Web-based church management system from Concordia Technology Solutions - makers of Shepherd's Staff

Tons of file types supported, and you can have converted files sent directly to your Dropbox or Google Drive! #waycool

With cloud storage continuing to make progress as broadband continues to make inroads to more people and speeds increase, I hope features and transparency in using them grows. I have and use to various degrees iCloud, SkyDrive, DropBox, and Google Drive (used Insync for a while). My favorite is still DropBox and the space limitations are not an issue for most people. Speeds of Cloud storage will never be the same as LAN or WLAN speeds for large file storage, so frequent access to large files in the cloud is not a realistic possibility yet (ever?). While an argument could be made for backup, well I think CrashPlan, Mozy or Carbonite (as well as others) have that market covered. While I like the Arstechnica brief pros and cons (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers.ars), I would love to see more in depth pros and cons from long term usage. iCloud for instance while great for iOS backup for our families 2 iPhones and 1 iPad, there is no transparent way to mount the iCloud volume for direct or cached data storage. On the other hand, the Shared folder on the Dropbox volume is nice for my wife and I to share working files across our two or three computers for work. Awesome. SkyDrive has a hook in MS Office which I have tested and works nicely, but it is limited in device support. GoogleDrive is really new, so I am still working through using it. I suspect this will continue to evolve over time.

This little box comes highly recommended as a unit to power a digital display using Risevision server software. Looks promising...

I use this little trick to keep my Drive, SkyDrive, and Dropbox in sync with each other.  Works wonderfully.

Keepass2 with the KeeFox Firefox Add-on and Dropbox to make it available to all my computers and devices is wonderful. On my iOS devices I use MiniKeePass to have my passwords with me everywhere. It is all free too.

Chart of expected K-6 technology skills mastery

The Annual Church Management Software (ChMS) Overview Issue