What on earth is cloud computing? Is it just another IT buzzword or something that you can use in your home and business?
On the November 20 ABC Weekends show, Paul and Lex Marinos discussed what cloud computing is and how it can help you.
We also helped out listeners with various computer and tech questions, including the following;
Malware
Sue was caught out by the DNS Changer Trojan that was recently busted by the FBI. Probably the best fix for this is downloading and running the free Malwarebytes software.
Our IT Queries site has instructions on the somewhat convoluted process for removing this Trojan and other viruses from your computer.
Synchronising an iPhone with iCloud and Google Calendars
One advantage we have with the cloud is that it means you can use devices anywhere, however there is a bug where iPhone calendar functions aren’t synchronising with Google Calendar.
Unfortunately the problem is the iCloud and Google services aren’t compatible on the iphone so one has to be turned off.
If your preference is to use the Google services, then you will have to turn off the iCloud services through the iPhone’s settings app and turning off all of the calendar and contact settings.
You may then want to check your Google services are being synchronised through the iTunes settings.
Sharing data between laptops.
One of the advantages with networking is that you can share data between computers. Sonya wanted to know how she can setup her windows 7 laptops to share data to an external drive.
The best option is to use a Windows 7 compatible Network Area Storage device that sits on the network.
For the setup to work, the network name has to be the same on all three devices, Microsoft has instructions for setting Windows7 network name and the hard drive will have the instructions included for setting it up correctly.
It’s also worthwhile using Microsoft’s Active Sync software to synchronise machines as well so you have files stored on your computer.
If you missed Sunday’s ABC program, there’s more details at Netsmarts’ Cloud Computing explained and The Networked Business, we’ll also be running a Demystifying the Cloud webinar on the Australian Businesswomen’s Network at the end of November.
That will probably be the last ABC 702 Weekends spot for 2011 unless there’s something else that comes up.
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