Here I am sitting in my classroom about to teach a class at the local community college and I am on the college’s computer.  Yes, I can go access my docs on Google, but I recently added Google Chrome Frame to my personal computer so I can do all the neat Google Doc sharing on Internet Explorer rather than Chrome.  Even though I do have Chrome on my personal computer, I need to use Internet Explorer for certain sites and I don’t like switching between them.  So Google has Google Chrome for Internet Explorer which allows you to download an add-on.  Google also has another add-on called Google Cloud Connect  that allows you to open, work on, save, share  and download Micorosft  office documents in Google Docs.

This is all very cool, but these add-ons are on my local computer and I can’t load them onto the college’s computer because it is locked down.  So sometimes the cloud doesn’t quite work out.

I would imgine that eventually the browser will get smart enough so that we don’t have to keep loading add-ins, but right now, it seems a bit out of hand.

If we are truly mobile, it should mean full funtionality at all locations and all platforms.

 

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