On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > o1bigtenor writes: > >> Thanks Linda >> >> Looked at their website - - - - almost no information there. >> Is this an online only service? >> >> I live in the internet boonies so I've learned to hate 'online' services. >> They work well when you have big pipes but when you don't - - - >> well - - - they don't! > > What services haven't worked well for you? You have a > gmail account so I guess you are able to use that. Text based stuff usually works well. I have a couple services I've subscribed to that are web based. All too often when I want to work on that stuff throughput just is pathetic. As a rural internet customer I am expected to think that speeds that were OK in major urban areas 15 years ago are wonderful - - - - they're not! As most web designs today have subscribed to the massive pretty picture syndrome it becomes progressively more difficult to use an exploding band width product on a creeping (for improvement) band width product. > > Web/http based services are slower than binary based > services, but they are easier to develop than binary services. That would depend upon exactly what you are developing. As a so far non-programmer (working on changing that due to necessity) developing golly gee whiz stuff is easy but developing solid carefully crafted useful stuff is not easy but then I don't think it ever was! Regards Dee