1. The Portable Desktop Moving your Desktop Favorites into the Cloud UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA Paula L. Webb, Reference and Electronic Resources Government Documents Librarian pwebb@jaguar1.usouthal.edu August 11, 2010

2. What is a Portable desktop? A portable desktop is a way to make the functions on your desktop computer accessible anywhere. How is this possible? Let me show you…

3. The Typical Desktop What is on your desktop? Word processing Presentations Email Bookmarks File Storage PDF converter Communication tools

4. Personalized Home Page You first need to decide your “Home” page. iGoogle Netvibes Pageflakes Protopage Webwag

5. Personalized Home Page My personal Favorite is iGoogle.

6. Personalized Home Page Netvibes

7. Personalized Home Page Others… Pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/ Protopage: http://www.protopage.com/usagovdoc Webwag: http://www.webwag.com/

8. Applications Word processing Google Docs: http://docs.google.com Zoho Writer: http://writer.zoho.com Think Free: http://member.thinkfree.com

9. Applications Presentations Google Docs: www.google.com Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/

10. Applications Email Gmail: https://mail.google.com Hotmail: www.hotmail.com Yahoo Mail: https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.src=ym

11. Applications Bookmarks Delicious: http://delicious.com/ StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ Diigo: http://www.diigo.com/

12. Applications PDF Converter PrimoPDF: http://www.primopdf.com/online.aspx

13. Applications File Storage Google Docs: Store up to 10GB Zoho Docs: Store 1 GB Think Free: Store 1 GB Dropbox: Store 2 GB

14. Applications Calendars Remember the Milk: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ Google Calendar: www.google.com The Online CEO: http://www.theonlineceo.com/user/login

15. Conclusion