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 Comcast router and Internet connection. As soon as we unplugged Brian’s computer from the network, everything was cool. Plug it back
Read moreAs a small business owner, purchasing office productivity software from Microsoft can be painful. Luckily, there are free options available that work REALLY well. I will look at two here: Open Office and Google Docs. But first, here is a list of what I think the free options need to fulfill to be a viable option for the small business owner:
Read moreI have been using Google Docs for a couple of years now. I like it. Joleen Ruffin and I started a company (it failed) a couple of years ago. From our desks at AltamontCowork, we shared documents, saved documents, and even worked on documents in real time using Google Docs. Very cool. The only real issue I had with
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