Image via WikipediaA couple of tweets today highlighted how moving to the cloud might be a little confusing at first. I saw someone comment that the CR-48 wasn't useful because they couldn't open all types of files. Questioning this, I found out that the problem was with a Microsoft .doc file. The poster needed to work on this file and clicking on it in the content browser after downloading it off the web resulted in an "Unknown file type" error.
The fix? Upload it to Google Docs, and be sure to select the "Convert to Google Docs format" option when specifying the upload file. After the upload is complete, you can open the file within Google Docs and edit to your hearts content. And then when you get to work, you open Google Docs, and download the file in .doc format, and all of your changes are there. It's like magic. No matter what computer you go to, the latest changes are there. And, if you've set up Google Cloud Print, you can print the document from your CR-48, or your Android phone (anyone know off-hand if google docs works on iPhones?).
Living and working in the Cloud. It doesn't get any easier (or more convenient).
No comments:
Post a Comment