Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Google Docs

Google docs is a relatively new website for storing files and different materials online. It allows the user to edit the file online without having to make more than one copy of it. It is a free website that can manage files of different types including text documents, spreadsheets and other basic file formats. Not only are these files accessible to the person who uploaded them, but the person can also invite other people to work on the project as well. Google docs can be helpful for business, school, and other uses. Many times when a company is working on a project, employees are sending different files in email attachments each time something is changed on the project. Now they don't have to because now they can use google docs. Instead of email attachments from everyone, one person can start the project on google docs. Once it is started, they can invite whoever else they need to work on it as well, all in the same document. This makes everything more organized because instead of having so many copies of such a similar things. Now, instead of caring around usb drives and other portable hard drives, you can just save files to google docs. From there, you can use the file from any computer over the internet and finish or complete whatever it was you were working on. The only problem is that if the internet is down, it is not possible to get to your file at the time. Because google docs is more of a file storage website, then a social networking site, there are no real social, news, or entertainment functions.

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