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Category: Cloud

  • Backup The Information You Have Stored on the Cloud

    Backup The Information You Have Stored on the Cloud

    UPDATE 3/15/2019: I finally got back into my “disabled” account and was able to tighten up the account security! I decided to secure some long untouched, but still needed if only in the background, accounts on Google the other day. Note: These accounts would have both been long-gone had Google made it easy to move…

  • Music: Google Play and iTunes

    Music: Google Play and iTunes

    I realize that music CD’s are going the way of the dodo bird…..BUT…..we still have a great CD collection, and Lori keeps buying CD’s. As such, I have a TON of uploaded CD music on my Windows computer–in iTunes. But, I want to use Google Play as my cloud-based music storage location (I am Google-fied).…

  • Cloud Based Computing: Confessions of an Early Adopter

    Cloud Based Computing: Confessions of an Early Adopter

    A few years ago (mainly because I was broke and could no longer afford high-priced PC centric programs like Word, Excel, etc) I decided to start moving my PC-centric “stuff” off of my computer and into the cloud (I happened to choose Google, but, the choice is yours where you end up. Click here to…

  • Google Drive Upload & Download Speed Limits

    Google Drive Upload & Download Speed Limits

    Update Sept 2023: Consider this a history lesson in the proper design and testing of technology. 🙂 AltamontCowork member Brian needed to backup the contents of his computer to Google Drive. AltamontCowork’s network slowed to turtle speed. Investigating the cause, we found the culprit: Google Drive upload was sucking all the bandwidth available on our…

  • Adding an Audio Track to Your YouTube Video

    Adding an Audio Track to Your YouTube Video

    In the old days I took my chances adding country songs to my YouTube videos. And I always got caught. Fast forward a bunch of years and now you can add royalty free music / audio tracks to your videos. Here is how you do it: Once you upload the video, go to “Creator Studio” and…

  • Blue Jeans Changes Cloud Video Conferencing Again

    – – Hot off the heels of Enterprise Connect where the WebRTC Conference-within-a-Conference drew overflow crowds, Blue Jeans Network will announce it’s newest product: Sniff RTC.  On Monday, April 1, the cloud-based video conference service and unofficial work from home sponsor will unveil the newest feature enriching the video conferencing experience to better connect users around the world. The Sniff TRC patented olfactory technology…

  • Cloud Based Video Conferencing Adds Features

    Here is a VERY important announcement from the good folks at Blue Jeans Networks. ******Copy this URL and share it with ALL of your friends and colleagues **** This is TOO IMPORTANT to ignore!  Whooops!!!!   On the ADVICE of my LAWYER….. (Click here on Monday after 8 AM EST to read the announcement….my bad)  …

  • Blue Jeans announces bi-directional HD desktop sharing for Microsoft Lync users

    Update August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. Enjoy! 🙂 I love cloud-based multipoint videoconferencing, but, you already know that. Here is a SCOOP from Blue Jeans Network that I just got permission to post. I was told that Blue Jeans has been interoperating Skype and Lync since 2011 (even though the press…

  • WebRTC Video Conferencing Test via Vidtel

    – – Got an email from Vidtel a few weeks ago announcing the ability to connect to Vidtel video conferencing using WebRTC on my Chrome browser. I did a really quick test since I think this technology is awesome and will move video conferencing one step closer to ubiquity. What I Did Since my first…

  • Google Chat on Motorola Atrix Smartphone

    In the process of evaluating the ZTE ZXV10 T700 (I will post the entire product review by weeks end…I hope), I went ahead and made a three way video conferencing call using  our friends at cloud-based video conferencing service provider Vidtel. The picture above shows a Google Chat connection via my Toshiba Laptop computer (middle), the…