Google Music

I have received my Google Voice invite and I have been uploading music ever since.  I like how it allows me to have my music collection stored in the cloud.  The web and Android clients have an online and offline mode setting so that you can stream or cache files locally. I have finally uploaded almost all of my music. I have close to 200 files (out of 5278) that would not upload for some reason. It took about 3 days to complete. Now I can get my music from any web browser or my Android devices. Pretty cool stuff!

Leaving the PC behind

So I am into day 3 of living off of a laptop. I can gladly say it has been great!  I was very nervous about not bringing any computer with me but the tablet has held up well.  I have had signal and connectivity that I would have also needed with a traditional PC. The battery has also been great. I am typing notes, checking schedules and reading/posting to Twitter. The battery is taking it in stride. I will be pushing it today but this is one of my busier days. I have had several people ask me about the tablet. I just looked up and the guy in front of me also has a Galaxy Tab! Only other android tablet I have seen. 

I think this was a great test. I haven't regretted my decision at all. In fact I love traveling this light. No heavy laptop for me! :D Evernote has also worked great for taking notes. The best part will be having the ability to find my notes later from anywhere.  I have seen several Evernote users here this week.

Until next time...

Follow up - Sunday May 15

To followup on the last post about living in the cloud, I wanted to clarify a few things.  I still use a desktop computer at work. Since I mostly rdp onto servers for my day to day job it is still needed for those tasks.  I do have a running netbook at home that I remote into for testing things from outside the work network.  It also currently houses my music collection. I hope that I will get a Google Music invite to fix that. 

Living in the cloud

This week I will be going to Tech Ed in Atlanta.  It will be a week of learning that I am looking forward to.  In addition, it will also be a real test of an experiment that started about a year ago.  I was tired of moving my data files from computer to computer and I wanted to move my files to some type of storage where I could always access them. I didn't want to have to copy gigs of data around.

I first moved my documents to Microsoft's Skydrive. This allowed me to use the mesh app to get my files on all of my computers even offline.  I was concerned about outages so for redundancy I also moved my files to Google Docs.  This also allowed me to use those apps to edit the documents from a web browser.

This has worked very well for my normal home/work routine. This week I will try only using my tablet and my phone.  In theory, I should be able to do everything I need to do even without a laptop and out of town. I will keep posting to let everyone know how it goes.