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2012 will be the year when most businesses will finally make the move to the cloud. Email, calendars, documents and other files will all reside in the cloud on services like Google Apps.

If you enjoy the sharing capabilities of Google Docs, but want to have a local copy of all the files try the newly released free service Insync.

Viewpoint Creative - Holiday Card from Viewpoint Creative on Vimeo.

Time is finite, but we act as if it were otherwise, assuming that longer hours always lead to increased productivity. But in reality our bodies are designed to pulse and pause - to expend energy and then renew it. In this revelatory talk, energy expert Tony Schwartz debunks common productivity myths and shows us how to regain control over our energy so we can produce great work.

The old dark grey Google bar is out and it will be soon replaced by a new thicker bar that is unified across all Google products.

If you work a lot in Photoshop with large files, be sure to read this article on Adobe about key steps to optimize Photoshop CS5 performance:

Most people don't realise how many of Google's services are available as apps for the iPhone and iPad. Using these apps you can get a snappier interface and usually more features compared to the browser based services. Here is a collection of the currently available apps in the iTunes App Store.

If you're like me and download files from the internet frequently from places that are positively safe you may want to disable the annoying "... is an application downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it?" warning message that appears when opening the files.

It's especially a hassle if you want to open multiple files because this warning message won't allow you to and you will have to open each file individually.

Olivier Lefebre environmental artist creates Steve Jobs tribute land art out of 3,500 apples of various colors.