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If you need to send a lot of files to your friends and email attachments ain’t cutting it, try dropbox.com. It’s fast, easy, free and even lets you share files with several friends. And now that you’ve got Road Runner Broadband with double the speed, you can move big files faster than ever before.
Whether you love or hate Apple, you simply can’t deny the incredible accomplishment of Steve Jobs as CEO. Apple was on life support at a $3billion valuation when starting in 2000 Steve became its permanent CEO. Eleven years later, Apple is worth > $350 billion. That’s a nice 100x return on your money, meaning that had you bought $10k in stock in ’99, you’d be worth over a million today.
When Apple acquired NeXT, and Jobs, for $400 million in December, 1996, Apple’s market cap was $3 …
When I first bought my Sprint EVO 4G I naturally assumed the front facing video camera would immediately work with Skype. Oh how wrong I was. Until now. I just tested the new Skype 2.1 and did a quick video call with my daughter. Worked like a charm! Until she “accidently” hung up on me. Oh well, 1 out of 2 ain’t bad :) but seriously, if you’ve got an Android phone and you use Skype, your app has arrived. My only not-happy comment at this …
In what might be the most predicted announcement of the year, Facebook now integrates with Skype. You can click on the link below for more details and or just get started right now. What I want to think about is what this means in terms of the Facebook vs. Google battle. Skype is now owned Microsoft. Facebook surely could have bought a lesser-known video chat company and launched its own service. Why partner with Microsoft? Perhaps “The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend” …
Aside from the bus routes you might have already memorized, there’s really no easy way, when you’re out in the open, to figure out what bus you need to catch to get to where you’re going. Google’s recent addition of transit navigation should make life that much easier to get around using public transportation. On our last vacation I used Google Maps on my Sprint EVO 4G phone so extensively the only thing I missed was sufficient battery power. I better start looking for an external battery to …
I’ve got a few Joomla sites and after several years, I’ve decided to move them all to WordPress. One of the reasons is that WordPress updates have become so drop-dead simple. The latest 3.2 went about as fast and easy as any, which on one hand doesn’t say a lot (because they are all so fast and easy) but then again, speaks volumes. Get your update now.
via wordpress.org
Going through Google’s youtubes describing their Google+ service. I was particularly struck by the Hangout feature. Basically Google’s Hangouts let you start a spontaneous multi-person video chat. From the buzz around the web, this looks like it’s going to be a big hit. Will be fun to see how Facebook responds. More interesting still will be to see how many patents that Google filed on all their new social network goodies.
via gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com
The Clash of the Titans: Google is finally going after the social network space with “Google+”. It’s about time. Facebook has been quickly emerging as a serious threat to Google with its eventual takeover of the web. As an avid Google ecosystem subscriber myself, I will be looking into this with great interest. You should too.
via googleblog.blogspot.com
I’ll state my bias up front: I was a 110% Microsoft guy until about 2 years go and since then I’m about 90% Google and 10% Microsoft (not counting the O/S). Microsoft is the world’s PC software company. The problem is that we live in a post-PC world. Today I use my Android phone more than I use my desktop. And when I’m using my desktop, I’m usually in a Google-based application. I only use Microsoft for the rare moments when I need extensive Word or …
If you’re like me, the original 2.3 Gingerbread update for the EVO 4G was OK except that it was a disaster for Netflix lovers (like me). Today I found out that there’s a patch for the update which is getting rolled out. You can try forcing the update like I did. I’m happy to report that Netflix works like a charm. The update took a while to update and at one point it seems like my Sprint EVO 4G was stuck with a giant 4G on the screen. …
