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My only daily reads under the "tech" category:
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. It even has a name for that future service: Live Drive. With Live Drive, all your information - movies, music, tax information, a high-definition videoconference you had with your grandmother, whatever - could be accessible from anywhere, on any device.
Google apparently has similar plans. An internal memo accidentally posted online in March spoke of company efforts to "store 100 percent of user data" and mentions an unannounced Net-storage system called GDrive.
FYI: I have an Epson RX500 printer/scanner combo unit. It has six individual ink cartridges. If you run out of magenta ink you can no longer print or scan anything until you've replaced that ink cartridge. You can't even print a black text document! Brilliant concept Epson, make your product stop functioning entirely until customer spends more money on your overpriced and ridiculously over packaged ink cartridges. Here's an idea, try not pissing me off so much that I tell the 1500-2000 citizens of the inkernets who pass by my blog every day to NOT buy your products.
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You can now choose the reply-to address in Gmail for your various email accounts. My public email account (the one I use to sign up for stuff etc) forwards all email to my private account. This new feature now allows me to choose what the reply to address will be for all my email accounts. So if someone sends an email to [email protected] and I respond to that email from my private account I can choose what the reply-to address will be. If you forward other email accounts to your Gmail you'll want to use this.
If you're using OSX Tiger and Flickr you might be interested in the ability to send images to Flickr by right clicking and hitting send. This is useful if you use Flickr for image hosting for your blog or you just want a really quick way to upload images to Flickr.
This automator action can be used in a number of interesting ways. For example I made a timelapse with it. You can combine it with other automator actions to do whatever you need. You could use Automator to crop 100 images and then upload to them all to Flickr at the end. If you want to loop your automator actions you can use this.
If you want to take some screenshots and upload them to Flickr use these shortcuts:
Images are then saved to your desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2... Now its as easy as right clicking them to upload to Flickr...
MercuryNews.com | 01/19/2006 | Feds after Google data:
"The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases."
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The geeks at Bloglines updated their hardware last night and its much zippier this morning. I just wish they'd update their crappy interface as well.
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