Category Archives: Web Apps

What’s Up With YouTube?

I recently uploaded a recording of one of my home-made tunes, and was frustrated to see that Google did not properly sync the audio and video. I’ve had this happen with a few other videos, and it is really getting … Continue reading

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Before Blaming Google …

For the past couple of years, the most popular page on this site has been iPod Touch as a PDA and Entertainer. Part of the reason for its popularity is that I have updated it whenever Apple improved the Touch … Continue reading

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A Balanced View of Google

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article that was pretty critical of Google: Is Google more controlling than Apple? I have to admit that it was not as balanced in perspective as I like articles to be. I … Continue reading

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Facebook Security

Facebook now has about 400 million users worldwide, and doesn’t seem to be slowing down in its quest to gain control of the internet. Is this scary? Well, that depends, in part, on how closely you control your privacy settings … Continue reading

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In Case You Haven’t Heard: Don’t Let Facebook Screw You

Most of you have probably heard by now that the new Facebook privacy settings default to making much of your information public. That’s right: a lot of information that you would like to be private and to be shared only … Continue reading

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Okay Twitter: Which Cloud Has My 3,000 Tweets?

A couple of weeks ago, my Twitter “tweet count” went from over 3100 to under 100. That was one of those periods when Twitter “was having some problems,” so I did not pay that much attention to it. I figured … Continue reading

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Google Doing Goodle

In yesterday’s post on the Apple, AT&T, and Google Voice controversy, I did not come right out and say that Apple and AT&T like to make it difficult for their competitors to gain any ground on them. I didn’t say … Continue reading

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Dropbox: Sync Files Between Your Computers

My consulting activities generally involve working with lots and lots of files. Most of the time I work with those files on my iMac or with the Mac’s Windows XP partition, courtesy of VMware Fusion. (I have file-sharing enabled for … Continue reading

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Google and Microsoft Competition is Already Benefitting Us

Last week I noted that Google Apps now sync with Outlook Calendar, Contacts, and Mail and that Microsoft Office 2010 will have online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, thereby competing head-on with Google Apps. Those are great examples … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office 2010 Rollout Has Rough Start, But Be Patient

The web site for the Microsoft Office rollout is apparently getting hammered with requests and is not always loading properly: As you can see from the snapshot, the video on the right did not load when I first tried the … Continue reading

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