I’ve been using Google Hangouts to conduct meetings for up to 10 people and it is simply the best thing I’ve come across for teleconferencing. You must try it.
Google just kicked it up a notch now where we can broadcast these hangouts to a YouTube Channel. I think this opens up countless opportunities for creating an entirely new class of programming. Think live Talk Show meets Internet meets YouTube and you can start to get an idea of the possibilities. Try it!
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Long-rumored “Google Drive” finally launches and you get 5GB of data synchronization free. I’m diving into this one although I must say now that I’m and iPad fan I’m disappointed that the iPad version is “coming soon”. But I’m also an Android user so the counterbalance is that I’m happy that it’s immediately available on Android devices! Please post your experiences here

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My universal advice on buying new hardware is simple: keep what you have until it falls apart and then buy either the fastest, or 2nd fastest processor/configuration available. This assures you the longest possible life.
So if your laptop has broken apart (as mine did last year), go ahead and get one now, but otherwise you should wait until this fall. If you can’t wait and feel you must buy one now (even though your existing laptop hasn’t fallen apart) then read this article where Mossberg spells out …

Those of us in the Google ecosystem will be happy when this product launches and apparently its going to launch next week. All I know now is that it will come with 5GB of free online storage. Stay tuned!

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You’ve just got to love stories like this. Instagram has only 13 employees but their super-popular app got enough attention and traction that Facebook felt it would be better to buy them for one billion than to build their own. Congratulations!

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Make sure you update your Mac asap. For the longest time, Mac users thought that they were immune to viruses. The truth is that until recently, there just weren’t enough Macs in the market to make economic sense for virus authors to go after. This trojan horse now marks the beginning of Macs joining mainstream PC users as virus targets. The party is over! Please get your Mac updated.

Apple released a Java 1.6.0_31 update for OS X on Tuesday that claims to deliver …

This thing is going viral and it’s pretty cool

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For those of us raised in the era of books and paper, this is really a watershed moment. What does it say when an icon of knowledge is overrun by a free, open, essentially volunteer system called Wikipedia?
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses
By JULIE BOSMAN

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It’s been a wild month for WordPress users;  there has been a rash of WordPress sites getting hacked.  If you haven’t checked your own site lately, you should.    The symptom of the hack is that visitors to your site get redirected to a malicious site, typically ending in .ru (Russia). It’s pretty easy to test: go to your site :(.
You can also go to sucuri.net to do a free scan on your WordPress site.
The fix is complicated and different for each user.  If you’re not technically-minded, get some professional …

This one is good.