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I had a discussion with someone tonight that told me about his Google Desktop experience, In a word "unbelievable" but he did have some comments. He travels a great deal and has 2 computers that he keeps synchronized. He does this synchronization both ways and he updates the PST files on his static machine from his travel machine. He wonders
Apparently their are a few people that are praising X1 as a significantly better Google Desktop tool. I will be trying it out and letting you know. [X1] [thejasoncalacanisweblog]
I knew the discussion would start sooner our later. The early discussion is healthy in nature and hopefully someone with some legal knowledge will weigh in. I am using copyrighted music in my podcast but I am cutting the recording levels by 30db and it is compressed into the track. In my layman's initial interpretation of the law and rulings
Show 3 is in the can. The end goal is to get the program produced in 45 minutes, so I really roll through the topics. Here are the links for the discussion points. Movable Type Enclosure Plugin Orangeware Radio@Netscape 1 GB USB ThumbDrive Optimising Windows XP Business Software Alliance Funky Fresh BSA Counter Article TeamSpeak David Sifry Geek News Central
Belkin continues to lead the industry in Apple iPod accessories 2 new cool tools. [Designtechnica]
For about 3 years I used Overture to drive traffic to another website I used. The long term analysis was that the net gain was minimal. I know that the money we spent on advertising was like flushing it down the toilet. I have vowed to never buy keyword ads every again. But it seems Overture has a new plan
Seems privacy advocates are really worried that Google's desktop will be open people up for privacy invasion. It is true if your PC is compromised a hacker could get into your system and load a webpage and search for financial, images etc with relative ease. I hope that Google will implement some security features to assure users that their indexed
I am sure many of you have wired up a switch so it is beyond me how NASA could have screwed this one up and wired the switch backwards. I guess they don't run their systems thru a full system checkout. [SpaceToday]
The recorded sessions of Gnomedex are up on IT Conversations. Lots of Audio for your listening pleasure. [IT Conversations Gnomedex Recordings]
I just had to laugh when I read comments over at asmallvictory.net on the Google desktop search program. [asmallvictory.net]
Internet via your power company could be directly around the corner as the FCC gave the thumbs up. But in a setback to competitors the incumbent telco's do not have to share their fiber they have are laying to homes. [Lockergnome]
I am not a big fan of Walmart as I think they destroy small business's but they want to sell CD's for under $10.00 and still make money. The RIAA is not happy but they want to calm the giant as they supposedly account for 20% of the music sales in the US. I am pretty amazed by this statistic
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