School Project

Most everyone uses Google to search for lost treasures on the Internet. But Google has a lot of other free programs available that are pretty darn good.

Picasa houses and organizes all my blog photos. In addition to being a photo sharing application, Picasa has a neat little package of editing tools. For the digital photo neophyte, the one-click "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature will improve all your shots.

Google Analytics keeps track of who visits my websites, how they got there, what they look at and how long they stay in the house of Moon. Presented in both numeric and graphical formats, my trend lines are pretty darn steady. I'm still an unknown.

But more and more I am enjoying the convenience of Gmail, Calendar and Google Docs. I have no idea how Microsoft is going to make a living in the future, but it won't be selling Office. While the Google equivalents aren't quite as powerful as the Microsoft versions, being free and hosted convinced me not to buy Office for my home computer. No regrets.

Google Docs allows you to publish your files to a website or blog. They have come out with a new min-presentation feature for embedding a slide show. Below is my homework project for the day. I put a few photos from the Pope's visit to NYC in a presentation. I don't think it runs on its own, so you'll have to click to change from slide to slide. Did I mention it was free?