Welcome to the beginning of our fourteenth year together with the Double Click column. Every January we review the sites that we visited in the previous year. Today is no different. So as always, if the site addresses are too long to type I have shortened them using the "bit.ly" app so the links may not look quite right. Without further ado…here they are in their order of appearance with short descriptions of each.
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- Netflix, YouTube, Hulu and ABC – add ".com" to any of those to view TV shows, movies, video clips, etc.
- Chromecast.com – this Google device allows you to broadcast anything from your Android, iPhone or Windows phones and computers to your TV.
- Chromebook.com – Computers that run the Chrome OS (Google) and have everything you need in the Cloud.
- Google Drive/Docs, – Google’s Office substitute and a good one it is, with this you may not need to purchase Microsoft Office.
- McAfee – one of the many antivirus applications available for your computer’s protection.
- Libre Office and Open Office – the two leaders in the free Microsoft Office replacements. Both are good; however, fall short in some areas.
- Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, IxQuick and StartPage – add ".com" to any of these for search engines, the last three do not track your searches but the first three do.
- Google Location History – this site will show you where you have been in the recent past on Google Maps.
- Copy, bit.ly/roncopy – free online cloud storage, use the link shown and get 20 GB instead of 15 at Copy.com.
- Dropbox, bit.ly/use-DropBox, same as above; however, you get 2 GB, many people prefer this to all the other online storage options since it was one of the first.
- Google Drive and OneDrive, (by Microsoft) – Google’s and Microsoft’s cloud storage sites both at 15GB free.
- OneNote, Microsoft’s great note taking application, free online.
- MultCloud, put all of your cloud storage on one site (notice spelling, no "i").
Tune in next week for the last half of the sites we visited in 2014.
