Monday 22 March 2010
Week 10, Google Docs and Think Free
Having heard a lot about cloud computing, it has been interesting to dabble on the edges of this entity. I found Google Docs to be very straight-forward to use, albeit fairly basic in the tools it offers. As a means of accessing basic documents from anywhere in the world, I think it is a great tool. Mind you, I'm not convinced of quite how secure it might be as with all the cloud computing. As for Think Free, it gives a much wider list of options, and is more like a normal Word document. So far so good, but I did find it to be pretty slow, with delays between typing something and it appearing on the screen So as a serious tool for professional work I'm not sure if it would be ideal. But, if you can live with the slower speed, again, the ability to access it from any where is a pretty useful thing.
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Google Docs is great for content creation purposes. That is where you need to work with others to create the 'perfect' document content-wise.
ReplyDeleteOther tools like Office/OpenOffice are great to enhance the formatting of the documents.
My advice: use both. Docs for creation, Office/OpenOffice for formatting (if needed).
Philippe Creytens
www.romneya.com