I’ve been Google Drive for over a week and I truly think it is a great service. Gdrive integrates your “Google Docs” and your desktop computer. Sort of like “DropBox” except all of the documents you created in “Google Docs” are there also; not as actual files but as links to those files in the cloud. Read More→
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The US is not even among the top 10 nations when it comes to broadband speed. The reasons, greed and fear. Greed because it is more profitable for the big telecoms to spend less money on infrastructure. They can refrain from improving the network and stick the savings in their pockets. Fear because the telecoms don’t want you to download your movies instead of paying for premium channels on cable. Read More→
Google has just announced the new Chromebooks to being made by Samsung and Acer. They’ll be sold by Amazon and Best Buy beginning June 15th.
The idea behind these computers is everything on the web. Use Gmail instead of Outlook, use Google Docs or Windows Live Office. Watch video on YouTube or Vimeo. Even watch TV with Netflix and Hulu. I just found these today! Do 3D modeling with TinkerCad. Read More→
I just moved this blog to Wordpess.com form my Godaddy hosting on WordPress software. WordPress.com is like the Energizer bunny. It keeps going and going with little effort by the user. WordPress.com takes care of the software and the network. You take care of the content. No administrating of the software or the database. Read More→
I just found out that Delicious my favorite social bookmarks site has been purchase from Yahoo by the founders of YouTube Chad Hurley and Stave Chen. Yahoo annouced the acquasition by Hurley and Chen’s new company AVOS. Read More→
The Roku players are settop boxes the brings all of your favorite content from the Internet to your television. Simple setup; I didn’t even look at the instructions. Roku players have built in wireless but I used the ethernet. After I connected the player to my home theater system and plugged in the ethernet I connected the power. I selected the connection type ethernet. You select the media source with the remote. If you have a Netflix, Flickr or Pandora account it will give you a codes to enter into those accounts via Internet. Don’t worry the Roku player walks you true it. You can now play unlimited online content from Netflix or Amazon Video with a payed account. Play podcast and other programing for free from Mediafly, blip.tv, Revision3, TWIT and many others. You can hear great music from Pandora. View your photos on Flickr and much more. Being a big podcast consumer I haven’t enjoyed a gadget this much in a very long time. I love TWIT.TV, Revision3 and others on the Roku very much. I am having a ball!
The Roku SD (Standard Definition) is $79.99.
The Roku HD (Hi Definition) is $99.99.
The Roku HD XR ( Hi Def with Wireless N) $129.99.
Here’s a video to that tries to explain what Net Neutrality is but it is just one scenario.
To find out more learn how to help the cause go to SaveTheInternet.Com to see what action you can take. Also check put EFF.Org to see what other scary things The Man is doing.
I mentioned in the post Cloud Storage Overview that there are some services where you can store your precious files via cloud based storage (on the Internet). Here are a couple of options that will create a virtual drive on your computer as if it was an actual drive.
Dropbox is a service that gives you 2 gigabytes free with an option to pay a small amount for up to 100 gigabytes. For Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
Microsoft’s Skydrive gives you 25 gigabytes absolutely free but you need a third party program to make it a virtual drive. “Skydrive Explorer” is a free program that does this. It is really easy to setup.
Download and install Dropbox and Skydrive Explorer now.
This is an archive of the first site on the “World Wide Web”. It is instructions to use the “WWW”. Lookout folks, it has links!
