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Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
Spending FaceTime with clients and family
21, Oct 2011One of the more brilliant features included with the iPhone 4, and now the iPhone 4S, is something Apple calls FaceTime. It’s a video chat service that is dead simple to setup and use. For other iPhone users, it uses your phone number to identify you (no additional account needed) and for other Macs and [...]
The future is all about (cloud) apps
29, Sep 2011After having a month to reflect on the organized chaos that was VMworld 2011, one message still stands out to me most of anything we heard during that week. VMware conveyed loud and clear that apps, and more specifically the frameworks and middleware to enable cloud apps, are the big area of innovation for the [...]
Surprise, its a Chrome Notebook…
11, Feb 2011I came home Tuesday to find a surprise waiting next to my door. There was a generic UPS package delivered and I could not figure out what I had ordered. I certainly wasn’t waiting or expecting a package. I opened up the box to find another generic box inside, still wondering, “What is this?” in [...]
I have relied on Mozy backup for a few years now. I really like their online backup service. I’ve been a proponent of Mozy for a long time and I’ve written about their service several times on my blog. But this morning, I found out that they had changed the rules of the game and [...]
- In: Backup Technology|Cloud Computing
- Tags: Apple, Backup Technology, Internet, iTunes, Mac, Mozy, Online Backup
Preserving and protecting old (and new) photos
6, Jan 2011Quite a while ago, I began trying to scan old family photos and preserve them. Some were in pretty rough shape and took a while to restore and fill in blemishes to the prints. Most were in very good shape, though, so I was able to go through some of my family’s oldest photos and [...]
What are your mobile apps telling about you?
20, Dec 2010I found a very interesting article today linked from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal did a set of tests on popular iPhone and Android apps to find out what personal information is being collected and sent back to the developer or third party companies about you, sometimes without your consent. The info-graphic is pretty [...]
Followup on IPTV; plus I bought a Mac Mini
10, Sep 2010Ok, strike another thing off of my wishlist. As a followup to my IPTV thoughts post, I have purchased one of the new Mac Mini’s with an HDMI port over the weekend. I even got the pleasure of buying it, atwhat I believe is the original Apple Store, in Tysons Corner,Virginia while visiting my in-laws.
IP to the TV: a random collection of thoughts
11, Aug 2010Its a very interesting time for the ole’ television. For the majority of my life, and probably the lives of many older than me, TV has not changed much. Sure, there was that big transition from black and white to color, but since then, TV has been largely the same. In recent years, a big [...]
- In: Apple|Cloud Computing|Google
- Tags: Advertising, Apple, Innovation, Internet, iTunes, Mac, Microsoft, TV, Windows
WordPress for musicians
16, Jun 2010I have had the privilege of working with close friends updating their website as they were working on a new album. The husband approached me, asking my opinion about a couple different hosted website solutions. After talking with him about what they’d like to do, I found that their biggest desire was getting a good-looking website together [...]
- In: My Projects|Personal|Web Development
- Tags: Internet, My Projects, Web, websites, Wordpress
Finally bought a Drobo for home
14, Jun 2010Last week, I found a deal I could not pass up. B&H Photo has a deal on a Drobo for $299 though 6/30/2010. If you’ve never heard of a Drobo, it is an external storage enclosure from Data Robotics that offers some enterprise-class, automated mirroring/striping for your data across multiple hard drives. Data Robotics calls [...]