January 2008
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Drobo - buy a robot to manage your storage space
Do you keep adding more hard drives to your computer, to keep up with all the music, photos, movies, projects or other large files you need to store? Do you worry about losing all those files when one of those hard drives fails? (As all hard drives inevitably do.) Yes, you intend to keep a backup copy of everything on a separate hard drive, or setup a backup utility; but are you too busy to...
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Spreadsheets on a Mac
If you want to do spreadsheets on a Mac, you should look at the Numbers application included in iWork. In fact, anyone receiving or sending Microsoft Office files with a Mac should probably own iWork ($80). I bet you’ll find it easier to use than any alternative.
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“The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers,...”
– Wikipedia
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Closet Space on your Computer
A computer hard drive should never be more than about 80% full. In other words, 1/5 of it’s total storage capacity should always remain empty. Think of it like a closet: while you could fill it 100% (floor to ceiling, wall to wall, side to side), you wouldn’t really want to. Finding, moving or replacing anything in such a closet would be a time consuming nightmare, because (on...
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“Facebook is AOL 2.0. It’s heavy and complicated and wants to run my life.”
– Doc Searls
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WatchMacBook Air ultra-thin notebook suitable for basic computing & entertainment
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Build-Your-Own Web Sites
Here are a few thoughts I shared with a client today, about the variety of web site building tools available online these days. Some are easier to use than others. Most of the “free” ones are template-based. It has been my observation that most template tools produce unremarkable, static, cookie-cutter, ’90s style web sites: better than nothing, but unlikely to make a...
“If you don’t have the time to do it right, there’s no way in the world you’ll...”
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LG Voyager reviews
This is the phone I ordered on the 1st, and wrote about in December: » LG Voyager - review – Is It Your Type? - by Phone Scoop » LG Voyager VX10000 - review – infoSync World – 11/2007 » LG Voyager VX10000 - review – Gizmodo 11/19/2007 » LG Voyager VX10000 - review – by Michael Caputo - Engadget Mobile - 11/19/2007 » LG Voyager VX10000 - review – CNET - November 2007...
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