Productivity Tips
Top 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Students
New Year is a great time to start afresh, to unlearn bad habits and to learn new and productive ones. Here are Offcloud’s top three resolutions for those of you who are post-graduate students, university students or passionate learners for life. Study cloud computing and start using the cloud. You may not be an IT professional, [...]
Top 3 New Year’s Resolutions for Young Professionals
Christmas has passed. Now all of us are getting ready for the New Year. A new year means a new beginning. In awesome Offcloud fashion, we are doing one last blog post series to help you get set for another New Year adventure. Here are the top resolutions you can embrace for the year. Get a promotion, a raise, or a new job. Let’s [...]
Three Tips to Save Costs for Your New Startup
Entrepreneurs are lucky to have lived in an Internet era. Today, it’s so easy to start a company. And with a very low budget at that. Information is everywhere online and there are online tools as well that are either for free or at very minimal expense for a startup. Here are some helpful ways you could make your budget go a long [...]
How to Profit Through a Sharing Economy
The Internet age is the age of sharing. In its earliest days, it was used to share information across different institutions. Then as it developed, all sorts of information became widely shared among all types of users. Now, you can share almost anything through the Internet—from your unused room, your bike or your car, your free [...]
Move to the Cloud and Cut Your Costs
Cloud computing is not as novel as before. But it’s not that mainstream yet either. While some bigger companies are slowly migrating to the cloud, other smaller startups are starting directly from the cloud. If you and your company have not embraced the cloud just yet, here are some quick reasons why you should start considering [...]
Take Your Business to the Cloud—for Free!
Friends Skype you after an unforgettable weekend getaway. They beg you to share via DropBox those crazy videos you’ve taken! You contemplate of “accidentally” deleting them. Meanwhile, you hear the lyrics “Lie-la-lie…lie-la-lie, lie, lie–la-lie…” as Pandora streams a ‘70s folk song playlist. Skype, DropBox, Pandora. [...]
CAPTCHA 101: Intro for Beginners
Your palms are sweaty. You type at lightning speed. The deadline is just an hour away. You need quick access to several websites to do additional research and download some media content. You are already running out of time. To make matters worse, you always keep stumbling into some CAPTCHA tests. It gets frustrating. You may have [...]
How to Convert Any Web Content into PDF
We always want things nice and easy. With so much great content on the Internet and so many documents that need sharing, we are so thankful that we have the ever-reliable PDF format. Adobe’s PDF According to Adobe, the creator of this file format, PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It is a file format used to present and [...]
Tired of a Flooded Email Inbox? Use this Four-Way Floodgate!
Email is not yet going away for now. Whether for personal or business purposes, we still use emails to stay connected, stay informed, and be on top of our tasks and responsibilities. But with several electronic bills, subscription newsletters, email courses, unsolicited sales letters and whatnot, it is easy to drown in our Inbox [...]
Organize Files with The 5S Philosophy
Digital workspaces start to become an indispensable part of our lives. People are beginning to spend more collaborative work time on the computer and online rather than in the physical world. Businesses, whether large corporations or small and medium enterprises, have computerized and cloud-based systems. Unfortunately, our computers have [...]