My first complain when I started using Google Docs as my primary Office Suite is the lack of an Auto Filter.
These are the options:
-There is the option to use a filter by changing to List View with Menu View>ListView but it’s quite limited.
-There is a built-in function to filter a range and return the results in a new range. That might be useful for certain situations, but not for my general usage.
-And the winner is:
Someone has already solved this problem programming a script that does the trick, is not the perfect solution, but is definitivelly the best. To use it, go to the Menu at Tool>Scripts>Insert… and then look for it in the business section.
The best part is that now I know that scripting is possible in Google Docs.
The rules have changed, now is completly posible to move from the desktop to the cloud, let’s do the leap:
A desktop or even a laptop is not competly needed for the daily average use today, let’s inspectmy daily activities:
-Emailing can be done from any of the excelent webmail services that exist today, I have been using Gmail for the last 4 months. It’s fun to see how the world is upsode down, I rememeber some years ago when we were trying to use webmail service like hotmail from the desktop email client like Outlook in Windows… Now I do the opposite, I fetch my messages from my domains to Gmail, and manage everything from the web.
-Productivity Suites: Lots of people uses Microsoft Office, many have moved to OpenOffice.org (LibreOffice), and some other use many other options, Now this huge applications are NO LONGER NEEDED, Most of the daily work can be done in the excelent Web Applications like http://www.zoho.com or of course Google Docs (http://docs.google.com).
-Photo Management can be hosted on free services like FLICKR or http://picasaweb.google.com
-Many Diffrent files can be hosted on free services like Dropbox or UbuntuOne.
There will be of course several caveats -that I’ll be bloggin here-, but the benefits are huge:
-I can relay on inexpensive -very light- hardware, In fact one of the resons for this movement is to prepera myself for the adoption of a tablet next year, now it does not matter wich one, because anyone will be compatible with what I need (maybe even the iPad).
Let’s move on.
Paul the Octopus
The on-line version of Paul the Octopus has arrived.
go to http://www.psychtopus.com and ask your own questions.
phpwebhosting.com
This site is hosted on the server of a very reliable hosting company: phpwebhosting.com I have used their service since long time ago for different projects, and I can tell that is very professional and inexpensive at the same time.
They have very fast connections on very reliable linux servers, with apache, PHP, MySql, phpMyAdmin, ImageMagick, etc you can have full control of your account via a ssh shell.
They have improved their service and now offer even several domains in the same account, I know they also have now virtual private servers although I haven’t tried them yet.
One thing I can tell this hosting company is the one I can really recommend.
movinex.com
Movinex.com is a site I have run since last year, it’s mainly a search engine specialized in online movies.
The sites crawls the internet focusing only on sites with free online movies.
Then it crawls those sites looking for the direct links to the movies.
mexlinux.com
mexlinux is my nickname then Mexlinux.com is my new site, intented to be my blog. The name comes from:
mex (Mexico) my country.
linux, my hobby.
Alothought in Mexico we speak spanish, I’m writing this in english for two main reasons:
- I want to practice and improve my english.
- English is really the current internet language.
