Category Archives: Technology

Products, Technology

FolderShare downgrade…

There are a number of articles like this around at the moment…

FolderShare vs. Dropbox – GigaOM

I’ve been a Foldershare user for years, on the whole it’s been very good except when they had “server issues”.

However, the new version is awful. The old version listed the synced directories, the number of files they contained and how they were synced. In a single page you could see the complete status.

Now Microsoft has got their developers on the case. It looks prettier but the summary view has gone. This simple change makes it much harder to use. At least they were sensible enough to keep the Mac version.

Technology, US

The Space-Shuttle Quandary…

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Should you film a once in a lifetime experience or just experience it…

The Space-Shuttle Quandary – Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog

Probably both. Set up the camera before with a timer to shoot every couple of seconds and then forget about it. Of course, it could film the wrong thing but who cares? You could loose the camera on the way home anyway!!!

Technology, US

Scoble and company goals…

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From Scoble…

“What is his goal? To beat CNET.

But does a great business or movement EVER get built on top of a goal like that?”

Mike Arrington’s dream team has wrong goal « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger

Correct me if I’m wrong but Nike for years had the slogan of “be number one”. They just aimed for the number one in each market and went out to beat them.

And while I’m thinking about it. Isn’t that what Microsoft did for years? And didn’t Scoble work for them?

I’m confused!

Technology, UK

25 years ago…

In 1983 I went into a new room in my comprehensive school in England and sat at a BBC computer for the first time.

It looked exactly like this…

BBC Micro creators reunion tonight at London Science Museum – Boing Boing

Same machine, same screen (a cub) and the same dust!!!

It’s like looking back in time.

Technology

Google Gears Mobile…

This is an enormous bit of news. Steve Gillmor will talk about it for the next 9 months; “Microsoft is dead, again!”

Google Code Blog

Seriously this means that I’ll spend even more time in Google’s applications.

France, Technology

Time to correct Arrington…

To anyone who lives in France this description of the APEC is interesting…

“Most English speakers won’t know much about France’s Apec, a non profit organization that offers job listings and job resources in France.”

Big Win For LinkedIn As They Hook Up With France’s Apec

APEC is a non-profit because it’s a government department. “Offers job listings” is also slightly wrong; if you’re recruiting in France you MUST register the opening with the APEC.

All the details aside, this is a massive deal for LinkedIn. Congratulations!

Products, Technology

Scoble changes his mind…

“Gmail is faster. Easier to use. Has better spam blocking. A nicer interface. Is better integrated into Google Calendar, which I’ve also switched to. Is far more productive.”Switching to Gmail… « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger

So this morning I read a Scoble link to an article about how Office was the best application because of the additional functionality. This evening he’s changed his mind.

It’s funny the way that we’ve separated email from the rest of Office but in fact they’re the same; to the point that Word is the email editor in Outlook.

If Google Docs isn’t good enough because you can’t paste an image into it. Why isn’t that an issue in Gmail?

Technology

1000 years ahead of their time…

This is the stuff of science fiction; they were a 1000 years ahead of their time; or for a thousand years after them the world didn’t live up to their high standards!

“One of the remaining mysteries is why the Greek technology invented for the machine seemed to disappear. No other civilisation is believed to have created anything as complex for another 1,000 years.”

Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved | Science | The Guardian

Products, Technology

Google Docs vs. Office…

“The irony is you could go out right now, and get a whole Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote) for $120 at Newegg, and you can install it on three different computers. And it works great and has tons more features than Google Docs. And it has no ads. Imagine that!”

 

Comment of the Day: “Google Docs is Chock Full of Fail” – ReadWriteWeb

 

 This is very right, but yet so wrong… 

  • Sharing documents in Office is a pain and yet so easy in Docs. 
  • This calculation only works if you’ve three PCs on the same OS to install it on.
  • Why can’t I pay Microsoft the dollar a month to avoid the up front investment?
  • All this to keep a list of CDs or write the shopping list? 

Does Docs need to improve? Yes, massively. Especially in for large data sets and with graphics but they’re out of the gate and it’s the right price.

Technology

Google Earth Virtual World…

Whenever I talk to someone about Virtual Worlds, something that happens far too often because of some experiences I had last year, they ask when Google is going to launch a virtual world.

Then the question moves to, is Google Earth a virtual world in the making? I think no simply because it’s not very good when you get to the human scale. If we all wandered around it like Godzilla it could work!!!

Anyway, everyone’s been expecting a Google virtual world and here it is…

Google Earth Hacks blog » Google Earth MMO coming soon – want to beta test it?

Nope it’s no what I was expecting either (it’s not even done by Google) but a fantastic effort all the same.