Stop the Google Drive Terms of Service Bogeyman hunt
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Stop-the-Google-Drive-Terms-of-Service-Bogey…
Everyone loves to stir the pot and engage in some solid fear-mongering whenever it comes to privacy on the Internet, especially when it comes to Google products and services, but it needs to stop, because all we’re getting are biased voices…
Free Software Directory
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page
What is free software? Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
What Happens in an Internet Minute?
http://scoop.intel.com/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/
Posted By on Do you know what happens in one minute on the Internet? In just one minute, more than 204 million emails are sent. Amazon rings up about $83,000 in sales. Around 20 million photos are viewed and 3,000 uploaded on Flickr. At least 6 million Facebook pages are viewed around the world.
Did you know you can get a free wordpress blog at wordpress.com ?
An account at WordPress.com is also helpful for your standalone wordpress page as it permits you to install the Plugin Jetpack and connect it to your wordpress.com account and retrieve additional features and statistics for your stand alone site.
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing – Boing Boing
Interesting article !
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
By Cory Doctorow – Share this article This article is based on a keynote speech to the Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin, Dec. 2011. General-purpose computers are astounding. They’re so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they’re for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them.
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Like anything in the world nothing is really new. However I think that Cloud marks the final move of IT into its late stage maturity. Gone are the heady days of bleeding edge immature market. Virtual infrastructure, servers and applications available with “provide credit card here” means ICT is almost totally available as a commodity. We once had General purpose computers now we can have General Purpose Data centers, almost everything can be “Done in Software”.
DropBox is a fantastic service to share and exchange files on line. You can access your files from any browser of set up a client for your desktop computer, there is also an iPhone application (though I have not used this much yet).
DropBox starts with a free 2GB of space (Up from 1GB) and recommending new users gives you additional free credit. Follow this link and we can share the credit. The reality is if you keep media such as videos, and high quality audio and photos elsewhere 2GB goes a long way. It is also easy to share files with others but one word of warning the files you share comes of your quota and the other shares quota at the same time.
I use DropBox for my TiddlyWiki’s and KeyPass files – which I will document at a later date. I no longer carry a USB sick or portable hard drive with me everywhere.
I think one of the best features is the local client which creates a folder on each of the places you install it. DropBox synchronises the files on each computer with the web dropbox however once the automatic sync has occurred you can just treat the files as if in another folder on your PC. – Create a new folder add a file and it gets synchronised if you have an internet connection. this feature give a great perfomance. Just check the sync has occured before you open files or close your computer – but this is very simple and is usualy only if you have made lots of changes.
Although not a total substitute for backups this comes close because each of you computers (Say Work/Home/Partners) has a full copy of DropBox on it since the last synchronisation. So if Drop box disappeared you would have local copies and if you delete something from Drop box (Online there is a view deleted option). Because the files are local you can use your normal tools on the fires including Explored, command prompt, and JDisk Report I will tell you about in the future.
Make sure you send me your email and I will invite you and we both get extra free space.
One tip, careful when you are in a hurry. Give DropBox a little time after turning on or before you turn off your computer to allow the synchronisation process. You wont loose anything because dropbox will handle conflicts, it may just prove inconvenient.
Is Collaboration worth it ?
An important perspective to consider is discussed in this post
Is Collaboration Worth it?
http://blog.mindjet.com/2012/04/is-collaboration-worth-it?utm_source=rss&ut…
With more and more talk around the benefits of collaboration and how to get more out of collaborative efforts, it begs the question is collaboration worth it? Achieving a productive collaborative culture takes time, effort and well, overall it can be a pretty daunting task.