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A desktop wiki like tool for keeping track of notes, phone numbers, and even has built in tools to use as your GTD system. It is cross platform running on Linux and Windows. With Dropbox you can keep your notes synced between all of your computers. You can even attach documents, files, and insert pictures too to keep all of your information in one place. Each note page is saved in plain text making it possible to edit the files with a normal text editor if you do not have Zim Wiki installed on a computer but have access to the files.

I sometimes want to copy and paste some text from a PDF that wasn't scanned with OCR (e.g. some essays in the Seminary Essay File). I take a screenshot of the paragraph and upload the screenshot file here. (Screenshot-selection-to-file shortcut on a Mac is CMD + SHIFT + 4.)

pdfonline.com/ How to convert (for free!) a variety of document formats to PDF including and not restricted to MS Publisher .pub files.

Use Dropbox? This tool is AWESOME! Drop files into your dropbox from any user with an Internet connection. Password protection means that only files you want people to upload make it into your box. Super cool! (can you tell I'm excited?)

The CW PowerPoint product provides presentation slides for the public domain hymns in Christian Worship. One PowerPoint file is provided for each hymn. Each file contains a title slide, multiple slides containing the lyrics of the hymn stanzas (including repeated refrains), and an ending credits.

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

Convert TONS of different file formats.

Sync cloud based files from Google Docs, Drop Box, SugarSync, Picassa and FTP

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.

Temporary file sharing in the cloud - 1 GB limit

Potential pick of the week.

Useful for Google Apps as well.

Bought a book today in epub and mobi formats, but not from Amazon, so it didn't sync to all my kindle-app devices. Found this. I'm guessing there's a version for Windows too.

Bought a book today in epub and mobi formats, but not from Amazon, so it didn't sync to all my kindle-app devices. Found this. I'm guessing there's a version for Windows too. Bonus!: Send documents from other applications to your Kindle via the Print menu, or right-clicking in a Finder/Explorer window.

Bought a book today in epub and mobi formats, but not from Amazon, so it didn't sync to all my kindle-app devices. Found this. I'm guessing there's a version for Windows too. Bonus!: Send documents from other applications to your Kindle via the Print menu, or right-clicking in a Finder/Explorer window. The only downside is that the file has to be 50 MB or smaller. :(

We're using a GoogleDoc Spreadsheet to plan our singing/ensemble schedule for 2012-13. If you're interested in customizing it for yourself, just open the doc, go to File > Make a copy, and name your copy.

I use these symbolic links to automatically sync various web services together. For example, with these links in place, I can edit a file in my Dropbox, and then have the updated file automatically uploaded to Box, Skydrive, and Google Drive. I can also use the online editing tools for anything in my skydrive... and you get the usefulness of this.