How to: Get a digitized image on Google Docs

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Wes Johnson

UploadSizeErrYou have paper letter of recommendation.  You or your techie friend used a scanner or one of those multi-function printer/FAX/Copier/Scanner machines to scan the dcoument to a jpeg file on your USB Flash drive.  You wanted to upload the image file to Google Docs, so you go through the steps to upload the file and press the upload button.  Google Docs churns for a little while then throws up a message that your file is too big.  What went wrong & how can you fix it? Continue reading →

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How to: Publish your resumé using Google Docs

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Wes Johnson

We’ve been talking about online storage as a place to store important documents.  Did you know that you can actually publish your GoogleDocs so they’ll be public.  In this post, I’m going to cover the steps to get your résumé uploaded to GoogleDocs, then publish it.
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Online storage provider race finished at the starting gate

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Wes Johnson

In my last post “Free online storage showdown“, I had narrowed the list of online storage provider contenders from eight to seven.  It looked like it was going to be an interesting race until the firewall got involved and handicapped all the participants except one.  One provider has spent years developing a reputation of trust and reliability. Continue reading →

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Free online storage showdown

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Wes Johnson

Last week I posted two articles “No more USB access to public computers” and “More reasons for online storage“.  In the first article I listed 8 online storage service providers that had a free storage option.   I didn’t receive any other suggestions so I will be reviewing the options in that list. Continue reading →

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More reasons for online storage

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Wes Johnson

While preparing for another post related to my online storage article, No more USB access to public computer,  a friend’s data file became corrupted.  In addition to that incident, a shared computer came down with a virus about the same time.  The corruption cause is unknown, but the file contained data that represented many man-hours of work and there was no backup.  He had a deadline and asked for my help with reconstruction of the data.  Continue reading →

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