General

Finally, a place to call home

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Welcome to my new website! I've spent a lot of time working on it and I'm happy it's finally online. Please contact me if you find bugs or have suggestions. Expect some blog posts soon! I'm working on a HTC Magic Review post so subscribe to my RSS feed and stay tuned.

Google Apps for Students

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During my entire four years of university, I was always recommending Google Apps to my friends. I was so sick of students living in the past and doing things like:

• Asking me me when/where our meeting is because they don't use a calendar
• Not being timely with email replies because they forgot to check one of their several email accounts
• Emailing Word documents back and forth in group projects

So I've decided to help my peers by writing this blog post and recording some video to show how you can become a more effective group member using Google Apps. This is meant for students, but anyone can benefit from this.

Gmail

Features:

• Conversations
• Labels
• Filters
• Email account consolidation
• Voice and video chat
• Phone
• Google's 10 reasons to use Gmail

Screencast:

• Get off Hotmail!
• How to consolidate all your email addresses to Gmail
• Go through all the features listed above

Google Contacts

Screencast:

• How to make a new contact
• How to make a contact group
• How to put a contact into that group
• How to email the group
• How to make a filter for group labels

Google Docs

Screencast:

• How to share an individual file
• How to make a shared folder
• How to view a shared folder
• How to upload into a shared folder

Google Calendar

Screencast:

• Add group meetings into your calendar
• Have different calendars for personal and school