Rethink those passwords. Someone wants your data.
We are in the internet era. Passwords are unavoidable and chances are you juggle dozens of them. If you haven’t already happened upon you, it should have: the password dilemma. Do you create a password that is convenient and easy to remember? Or do you create a password that is complex, doesn’t conform to any pattern and would be impossible for Ethan Hunt to break? Well, finely tuning...
Read MorePlainText + DropBox = Pure Love
I signed up for a DropBox account so long ago that any sign of it drifted into the land of forgotten and uninstalled software. I didn’t see a use for DropBox. There are so many file sharing options one more didn’t seem particularly appealing. I got suckered into a MobileMe account back in the days when it was called iTools and ran on Mac OS 9 for free. When I compared the 20 GB of...
Read MoreYoutube.com Fix: We’re sorry, this video is no longer available
For months now I’ve dealt with not being able to view videos from youtube.com. Every time I attempted to view a video, whether embedded in a neutral site or on youtube.com. In the past, at least for me, this would not have been an issue; I rarely have time to peruse random videos uploaded by random people I don’t know. Now, however, sites take advantage of Google’s free...
Read MoreNo one likes your dumb ginormous URLs; So shrink ’em!
Send or display an html link (via email, texting, twittering, etc.) and you can wind up taking a good amount of valuable visual space. They’re functional; they send your reader to the right place, but the freakish things can be a nuisance. Example: take the following URL I created in Google Maps of one of my favorite little cafes in San Francisco to share with a...
Read MoreComprehensive File-sharing Site list (Updated)
Email is a terrible way to exchange large files; the technology was never meant to be a file exchange service. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is. But FTP is not always as convenient or accessible as using a simple browser interface. I was recently asked by a client to recommend a simple, fast way to share files. Over the past year or two, many file-sharing sites have popped up. They allow you to...
Read MoreWashington D.C. shoots Goo over the bow of Microsoft
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget by $3.5 million in software licensing fees alone. That looks good for taxpayers; not for Microsoft. Of course this doesn’t necessarily spell doom for Redmond, but it doesn’t necessarily look fab...
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