I get quite a lot of email – not as much as someone like Bill Gates, but enough to make Gmail inbox management a painful, time-consuming chore. In the old days, I filtered. I still do, but things are much less work thanks to a new tools and applications. This is by no means an exhaustive list, just a few things that anybody out there who is not actively managing their inbox can do to [...]
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We did a brief write-up on BitTorrent Sync yesterday, which only really touched on some of its potential. After pondering things a little longer, I came up with a couple of usage scenarios that might be both useful and fun to put into place. Within 30 minutes of finding BitTorrent Sync yesterday, I realized that I had a permanent solution to my DropBox space problems. Given that I work in an academic institution, I am [...]
BitTorrent Labs has just lifted the lid on a new torrent-based cross-platform file syncing application dubbed BitTorrent Sync. It is currently only an Alpha release, but if it keeps heading in the right direction then it should have a bright future. How it Works If you’ve ever used Box or DropBox then you have a pretty good idea of how BitTorrent Sync works – the key difference is that there is no cloud-based server. This [...]
Mozilla has just marked its 15th birthday by releasing the latest incarnation of its popular web browser, Firefox 20. The major update offers a number of key improvements including the ability to run private and non-private browsing simultaneously in separate windows and a massively revamped download manager. Private Browsing It would seem fair to say that Private Browsing has, for most people, been underutilized. The trouble has always been that a good deal of convenience [...]
If you own a computer and have a brain, you have probably showroomed at least once or twice in your time on this planet. Let’s say you want to buy a new television: you do your research, find the model that you like, check it out IRL at a bricks and mortar store and then order it online from somewhere cheaper that will deliver it to your house for free. Stores don’t like it, but [...]
When a recent article on DigitalRev pitted the GoPro Hero 3 against the Sony HDR-AS15, GoPro seemed to take things to heart and got nasty in almost the nastiest way imaginable – by sending them a DMCA takedown notice via their server host. We are providing you this letter of notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 17 USC??512(c) to make Softlayer.com aware of material on its network or system that infringes the exclusive [...]
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Google’s big announcement that Reader’s days are numbered prompted a mass exodus from the Internet’s most popular RSS reader. People scrambled to back up their precious subscription lists and jumped ship to one or another of a handful of Google Reader alternatives. Sadly, the vast majority of alternatives failed to cope with the strain – thus far Netvibes has barely skipped a beat. I have used a bunch of different readers in the past, but [...]
I have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Google Reader for as long as I can remember. I have messed around with a bunch of other services but with Google’s announcement that it will cut Reader off from July of this year. It is not the first service that Google has axed and it won’t be the last… and that is a problem. We should have seen the writing on the wall when Reader became a [...]
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For all of the conveniences that it offers, there are aspects to the iPhone that Apple has simply not thought through – case in point: email attachment handling. I made the switch from Android to iOS a little over six months ago and half of the fun has been figuring out how to do things that I took for granted on my old phone. You would think that downloading and resending an attachment would be [...]
A few days ago your author had over 1,000 emails sitting unread in his inbox, in amongst 30,000 or so that he had read but not processed… now he has less than 20. It was a bloated stress-inducing mess and that was with an elaborate system of filters and forwarding protocols designed to make sure that important mail gets noticed. Then I heard an interview in which author, technology aficionado and serial investor Tim Ferriss [...]
Copyright law is one of those flaky things that seems to change every minute, from country to country. For example if you’re in Canada and want to watch a US TV show live on television, the Canadian equivalent of the FCC, an entity called CRTC which is designed more to protect big businesses than to protect any Canadian culture that might exist, forces you to watch it on a Canadian channel. Why? Some might ask. [...]
In the wake of the terrible events in Connecticut, the folks at the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have decided to rear their vile heads and picket the Sandy Hook Elementary School where 26 children and teachers just had their lives cut short. Their announcement prompted Anonymous to take action, which they did by publishing personal information on WBC members, including their phone numbers and home addresses. On top of that, Anonymous also took the legal [...]
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