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Make Technology Work for You

要享受科技帶來生活上的種種便利，無論是在家中或是工作上Use some of these cloud-based web tools to make your life easier!但千萬別變成科技的奴隸！讓職場達人Robert介紹你有那些好用工具喔！
 

We all want to make our lives to be convenient. We all want to find ways of making tasks easier, both at home and at work. There’s one thing that we all have at our fingertips: technology. More specifically, cloud-based web services. Cloud servicessync across all of your devices, so you can access them from anywhere—at home, at work, and on the go.

Every day, there are more and more tools that we can use on the Internet. Some require a monthly fee, but there are also so many things you can do for free.

Dropbox is an example of a great cloud service. On one hand, it’s simply data storage in the cloud. On the other hand, it’s a convenient shared folder on your computer, where you can drag and drop files, just like in your other folders. 

Need a great reminder service for your to-do lists? You can use software services like Wunderlist or Evernote for keeping track of your day-to-day tasks. If you want to share documents and do collaborative work with others, try using Evernote, Google Drive or Hackpad. 

Another really useful web service is IFTTT (If This Then That). You start by connecting IFTTT to other services you use, such as social media sites, email, weather sites, reminder apps, reader apps, stock market sources, etc. From there, you can create “recipes”, which are like cause-and-effect actions. One recipe I set up tells IFTTT to send me an email when it’s going to rain the next day in Taipei.

Do you like to stay up-to-date on local, world, or industry news? How about your favorite blogs? Feedly is a service that gathers news stories and blog posts into a single dashboard. It collects updates from any sources you like. Just search for and add RSS feeds. Then, from your Feedly dashboard, you can share updates to your social media sites, or save them to other “read later” cloud services like Pocket or Instapaper.

Use some of these cloud-based web tools to make your life easier!
 

Vocabulary

cloud  adj.
sync  vi.
collaborative  adj.
update  n.
dashboard  n.
 

活用片語

at our fingertips
on the go