Google REALLY cares about your information and security
In: Online
25 Feb 2010I just want to let this quote sink in. This is from one of Google’s engineers talking about their email system Gmail
"Gmail was a beta app for a while in itself and that kind of let us as a company not be too afraid about getting something out that may screw up once in a while."
Wow.
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Dropbox Shopping List Hack
In: Random
24 Feb 2010The other day my wife and I were doing the “don’t forget to pick up X at the store” routine. She then came back with, “if you go, don’t forget Y.”
Just the a little brilliant hack came to me. I quickly opened up TextEdit on the Mac (notepad for you Windows folks) and write down [...]
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The Apple TV is not a hobby, the Apple TV is a victim
In: Technology
24 Feb 2010 Being an owner of an AppleTV, I have a few points to make in response to Tim Cook’s comment about the Apple TV being a hobby for Apple.
Apple is pretty good at making good software. Apple is also pretty good at making deals with media companies. The only problem is that Apple is really [...]
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What should an e-book cost?
In: Technology
8 Feb 2010When you take a look at the best-seller list, there are some interesting things to be seen as we are on the brink of an all out e-book price war. Let’s take the 5 top sellers and compare the price of the physical book and the price of the Kindle edition.
Title
Book*
Kindle
Diff.
A Patriot’s History of the [...]
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- Tags: e-Book, eBook, iPad, Kindle
File Insurance or Offsite Backup
In: Technology
8 Feb 2010You don’t think of it, you don’t want to. I have hundreds of gigs of data on my network at home. I am double and triple backed up with most things, but only among computers that are here. I would rather not even jinx myself by saying “What if I had a house fire?” So [...]
I have officially dumped Live Mesh for Dropbox
In: Technology
7 Feb 2010Friday we had a nice lunch in the Office building at the Redmond Microsoft campus and afterwards we checked out some competitive demos. One of the products we were shown was Dropbox. I have been an animated supporter of Windows Live Mesh for quite awhile, but while I loved the functionality, and the freeness, [...]
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- Google REALLY cares about your information and security
- Dropbox Shopping List Hack
- The Apple TV is not a hobby, the Apple TV is a victim
- What should an e-book cost?
- File Insurance or Offsite Backup
- I have officially dumped Live Mesh for Dropbox
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