SolidWorks:HEARD! - Episode 435 - Engineering Via The Web
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Engineering Via The Web:
This podcast covers various tools that I have used or am paying attention to as the next frontier to engineering product management. Online storage, web-based collaboration tools, project management, notes and tasks are just a few categories of tools I use daily. Topics covered:
Online 3D Collaboration:
- Teamplatform
- Sunglass
Notes and Tasks:
- Evernote / SimpleNote / OneNote
- Trello (lists, simple project management)
- Google Tasks (iOS, Android, Web)
- gTasks (My pic on iOS)
- Tasks (My pic on Android)
- Google Keep (new, simple)
Productivity Suites:
- Google Apps (Docs, Sheets, Presentations...more)
- Microsoft Office 365
Project Management:
- Podio (By Citrix, the GoToMeeting folks)
- Basecamp (By 37 signals)
- Teamplatform (new Gantt chart functions)
- Gantter (for Google Drive)
Storage and Sharing:
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Microsoft SkyDrive
- Box.net
About once a quarter I like to do a web tools discovery show to shed some light on updates and new players on the market of 3D online collaboration and project management. Since web-based tools are hosted and live, the tend to evolve on a much shorter update schedule and constantly rolling out new features and functionality. Ship and iterate it the motto so if you don't pay attention, you'll miss the updates!
As an avid Google Chromebook user for the past 4 years, I am moving much of my tool sets to the web for centralization and backup of my must-have apps. Web-based has become my number 1 criteria for almost anything since I use so many devices and am never in the same place so the confinement to a single, desktop installed app is restrictive.
The goal of this show is to rattle out a number of online solutions, some of which I use daily, and bring some awareness of this collaborative movement with tools that are deployed in the browser. As someone who does video, audio and code development in addition to run all the SolidWorks suite of tools, a traditional PC and OS are probably going to be in my workflow for some time to come but the rest I do on the Web! ~Lou
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