The Daily Update...

25th of July 2021

10:22:29 CET Enjoying the coffee and the extended breakfast this Sunday morning. The thunderstorm yesterday night passed and is replaced by clear skies. The air was cleared. We are planning a day without any plans .

11:21:37 CET Free Office 365 If you have a Gmail account you'll also have free access to Google Drive and the Google suite. Everyone knows that. But the same goes for Microsoft Office 365 with Hotmail account etc - Microsoft account and the Office suite. Same as for Google and Google Drive you have Microsoft Onedrive for your cloud storage.

You simply log on to Office.com, activate the apps (Outlook, Excel, Word etc) you're interested in. It's as simple as that. Be aware of the limited version compared to the licensed Office version and that you have to be connected to the Internet.

I generally prefer the Google products to the somewhat bloated Microsoft counterparty. However, sometimes using Microsoft products might be better for compatibility reasons.

15:52:55 CET Free image hosting...does it exist? I have been checking free image hosting services. I skipped Dropbox, Google Photos, Flickr, Imgur 500px and those "fake free" services. I ended up with three alternatives. I have always been hesitant to free image hosting services. Since I am not interested getting high-resolution images hosted, only images for web pages, I focused more on stable hosting with documented recognition and those who've been around for a while.

The three are ImgBB, ImgBox and Freeimage.host. One goes out directly since I suspect it's the same backend provider as another in the list - namely Freeimage.host. That means we have ImgBB and ImgBox left. Both are totally free, you do not need to register and they have similar basic functionalities.

I found the clear winner to be ImgBox - it is just better at https://imgbox.com/The best real free image hosting service. I have even added it to the Bookmark page!

2021-07-01 13:24:25 CET "I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness." -Bill Watterson