Box vs. Dropbox

A while back I wrote about Microsoft’s Skydrive service which provides some storage in the cloud that allows you to access your files from anywhere. There are plenty of others (Lifehacker has a good overview of some of the main players) but I was taken by both Box and Dropbox as they provide access from [...]

25th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 25th October 2008:

Do you have 16 boxes?
Create No Download Screencasts In Seconds With ScreenToaster
Planzone: A Collaborative Tool that Makes Juggling Easy
Please Fix The iPhone: A To-Do List For Steve Jobs
Five great things about being CEO in a tech recession
Sun PDF Import Adds PDF Editing to OpenOffice.org [...]

18th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 18th October 2008:

The Myth of All Day Computing
Quicken Online Drops Subscription Fee, Now Free [Quicken]
Who Links to Non-Existing Pages from Your Site?
Internet use ‘good for the brain’
Ah, the irony! SAP freezes internal IT purchases
Whom Should You [...]

Google Mail as Communications Hub

When I am away from the office or home I still want to be able to communicate from anywhere and these days that means from a browser. A while ago I moved both my home and work emails over to Google Mail which has allowed me to get my email from anywhere but, until [...]

12th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 12th October 2008:

The Steps to Read Gmail Mouselessly
Google Spreadsheets Redesign
Picasa 3 Beta’s New Features
Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image
Windows XP downgrade deadline extended to July 31, 2009
Gmail Labs Adds Advanced IMAP Controls
Startup Delayer Beats Boot Time Frustration
Is Microsoft finally close to snatching up RIM?

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BlackBerry Storm

Visiting Vodafone’s UK HQ today I had the opportunity to try out the new BlackBerry Storm – the first with a touchscreen and touted iPhone killer. As ever it was a well put together device with a bright screen and felt good to hold in the hand.
The real surprise though came when using the [...]

4th October 2008

Stories that caught my eye this week – 4th October 2008:

Songreference Turns Your MP3 Playlist Into A Video Playlist
Technology – is the party over?
Facebook for iPhone clicks over to version 2.0
Cloud + Client
Which way to the mobile web?
Fast forward for mobile broadband
Google Launches Its Own Memetracker
“Windows Cloud” Operating System to Be Released Within a [...]

New Look – New Focus

You may have noticed a new look to the site today (still tweaking so expect some more subtle changes). I decided that not only did it need a refresh but also a slight change of emphasis.
Since spinning the site out of my personal blog I have covered anything technology based that has taken my fancy. However, [...]

Network Hard Drives

A while ago I bought this hard drive enclosure from Maplin. What I wanted was some storage that I could access across the network rather than locally via a USB cable and this seemed to fit the bill at £35. I slotted in a spare 80gb hard drive and plugged it into the router. [...]