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Box vs. Dropbox
Oct 28, 2008 23:33 - 2 Comments
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
Oct 27, 2008 10:57 - 0 Comments
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 [...]
18th October 2008
Oct 19, 2008 15:41 - 0 Comments
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 Friend? iTunes 8 Makes It [...]
Google Mail as Communications Hub
Oct 15, 2008 13:43 - 0 Comments
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 recently, [...]
12th October 2008
Oct 13, 2008 15:30 - 0 Comments
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 [...]
BlackBerry Storm
Oct 9, 2008 21:57 - 0 Comments
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
Oct 4, 2008 15:31 - 0 Comments
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” [...]
New Look – New Focus
Oct 3, 2008 11:36 - 0 Comments
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. [...]
Network Hard Drives
Oct 2, 2008 9:58 - 0 Comments
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. Within [...]
Stories that caught my eye this week – 27th September 2008
Sep 27, 2008 16:44 - 0 Comments
These are some of the stories I have been reading this week: Best of the Best: The Hive Five Winners [Hive Five] Understanding Online Photo Rights The 2009 Compact Calendar Now Available [Printables] Google Chrome as Future Operating System [Google Chrome] Find Out Where a Username is Already Registered [Identity] T-Mobile G1 launch day roundup [...]
