App Review Tags : "cloud-computing"

Transferring files from your PC or Mac to your phone can be a pain. It’s a case of physically connecting your handset of tablet or setting up Bluetooth, which can be time-consuming. Now if you’re on the move, your USB cable might not be be handy. So a web file transfer service is a good bet. But many of those need you to install the software on both your computer and your Android device, and set up an account. Which is where Awesome Drop comes in… read more

The premise of EverNote is that making notes should involve much more flexibility than simply typing, or worse, writing text and then worrying about how to access it later. At its simplest you can tap out a quick list on your Droid and it immediately be uploaded the Evernote online cloud.

You can then read this note on any device that runs a version of the Evernote software (it’s available for most platforms, mobile, or deskbound). Where this gets really interesting is that you can include photos taken on the phone or voice recordings and even add tags that associate, say, an image with a topic.

Everything is searchable, and EverNote says that voices or text within photos – a wine bottle label, say – are automatically converted to editable text. Sounds great in theory. read more

Repeat after me: ”Password’ is not a password.’ Of course, real security is about more than just not picking your cat’s birthday as a PIN. It’s about choosing passwords that are hard to guess and then keeping them safe from online miscreants – but not so safe that you can never remember them.

Keeper takes the hassle out of generating and safely storing all your passwords and access codes. read more

Why faff with cables, memory cards, or fiddly desktop-software to ensure your digital life remains readily accessible to you or, indeed, to share with friends and colleagues? Especially so when you can, instead, simply stash many of these files in one central repository in “the cloud” and then dip into it as necessary.

Dropbox for Android provides easy access to the respected Dropbox cloud-based storage service from an Android handset and also offers software for most computers or other smartphones. read more

Don’t despair if your laptop goes kaput just before you give a big presentation, or if you’re stuck on a train en route to one. With Mighty Meeting, you can run the whole thing from anywhere using your Droid by using the phone’s screen, or hooking it up to a projector or TV. Alternatively, you can hold a virtual meeting online, and control this from your phone.
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