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Archive the yearBetter strategyWhile you certainly should be archiving your data, it should be more for fear of loss than for saving space.Instead, just buy an external hard drive. Disc space is getting cheaper and cheaper, so get a nice 200-400Gb hard drive, and keep your music and...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Consumer electronics, DVD, Disc Space, hard drive, optical media, media, backup, brand

Discussion threads 2005-12-27

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What should we do with Tennessee and West Virginia when we're done?

I've blogged on the recent coal ash flood around a TVA power plant. No body died and a few homes got wrecked from waste after decades of cheap coal-fired electricity. So what's the big deal? Besides it was in Tennessee which is not your big media center...

Tags: Cement, Ash, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: Three Pioneer Blu-ray players due in April, one for $250 [day 2]

Pioneer has divulged that they will release three BD-Live Blu-ray players in April: The sub-$300 BDP-120, the sub-$400 BDP-320 and the $600 Elite BDP-23FD, according to Wilson Rothman at Gizmodo. The $250 BDP-120 player comes with BD-Live, a 1GB flash drive, fast disc loading, USB expandable memory...

Tags: Player, Video, Blu-ray, Adjustment, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: Sharp premieres Aquos LCD, Blu-ray HDTV combo [day 2]

Sharp today introduced their first AQUOS LCD TVs with built-in Blu-ray Disc players. All-in-one fans unite! The Full-HD 1080p AQUOS BD series, which includes the 52-inch LC-52BD80U, 46-inch LC-46BD80U, 42-inch class LC-42BD80U, 37-inch LC-37BD60U and 32-inch LC-32BD60U, combines HDTV with a side-loading multi-slot for...

Tags: HDTV, Video, Sharp Corp., Blu-ray, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

CES 2009: LG's 12 new HDTVs, 'Netcast,' Blu-ray, LED backlight tech [day 2]

As I mentioned yesterday at the underwhelming CES Unveiled, LG had some new models to announce, and specs have finally been released: nine new LCD HDTVs and three new plasma HDTVs from 19 to 60 inches, some using LED backlight technology for those HDTVs, and some using "Netcast," a way...

Tags: USB 2.0, HDMI, JPEG, Light-emitting Diode, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV, Photograph, MP3, Blu-ray, USB, LHX Slim Wireless LED Backlight HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Thousands of Israeli web sites under attack

In the wake of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas, it didn't take long before pro-Hamas supporters organized themselves and started to defacing thousands of pro-Israeli web sites in order to use them as vehicles for propaganda -- Israel is meanwhile hijacking TV signals. For the...

Tags: Web, DNS, Web Site, Israel, Web Site Defacement, Attack, TEAM-Evil, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Hacking, Security, Internet, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-06

The inevitable rise (and fall?) of 'twishing'

The phishing or "twishing" situation happening with Twitter is merely the tip of the iceberg. Rather than dig into the situation myself -- including the OAuth debate -- I've turned it over to one of  my more technical-brained friends. Damon Cortesi is a security consultant who has also authored a...

Tags: Network, Twitter, Damon Cortesi, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Live: Philip Schiller keynote at Macworld 2009

Live: Philip Schiller keynote at Macworld 2009no, actually....A) The battery is supposed to last the usual lifetime of the laptop. They are rated for 1000 charges. If it goes bad prematurely, then you would be covered by the warranty. Since the details have not been posted yet,...

Tags: Engineering, Philip Schiller, battery, Macworld 2009

Discussion threads 2009-01-06

Aml Pages 9.08 build 1998 Beta (Windows)

Aml Pages is a notes organizer, that allows you to keep all your notes in a tree structure, arranging them as you like. Aml Pages main features are: Flexible tree structure to keep all your notes in order. Plain and formatted text support within...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Beta, G&G Software, Aml Pages

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Quicksys RegDefrag 2.2 (Windows)

Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware utility to defrag registry. Improve whole performance and boost access to registry. Registry data is constantly being written to and removed during a normal Windows operation. Over time this data becomes fragmented. Quicksys RegDefrag optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows...

Tags: Registry, Freeware, Quicksys RegDefrag, Registry Data, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Mo-Search 3.1.0 Beta (Windows)

Each year hard drives become larger and provide more storage for data, such as more: photos, videos, music and documents. With human nature, increased storage space leads to more storage used. And as the number of files on your computer multiplies, information becomes difficult to locate and people find themselves...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Beta, Meauxsoft, Mo-Search, Storage, Productivity, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-01-06

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: What price?

Behind the scenes at Macworld Expo, developers have mostly good things to say about OS X 10.6, called "Snow Leopard." While details may emerge during Tuesday's keynote presentation, the biggest question mark is the cost of the update. One developer wondered about Snow...

Tags: Developer, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2009-01-05

HP's SaaS PPM solution

A Relevant and Robust Offering for today's IT organizations I had a chance to speak with Marc Olesen – VP SaaS for HP Software and Solutions recently. We discussed HP's offerings in the Project Portfolio Management PPM and IT Management spaces. Background: HP's software...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Project Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management Buyer, Project Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channel

Debunking myths about the SaaS partner channelSaaS business solutions have to be sold face-to-faceHow a particular solution is sold Saas or on premise has to do a lot with many factors not just whether it is Saas or On-Premise. I refer to these two modes of selling as low...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Saas, SaaS partnerships benefit, low touch

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Naivete: Web 2.0's biggest security threat

Last year, when I first started poking around in social media from my security high horse, people asked me what it was like to live in two totally different worlds. Keep in mind I'm no technology thought leader, hacker or researcher -- but I've been working in security for the...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Social Media, Twitter, Internet Threat, Phishing, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-01-05

The future of Blu-Ray? Watch porn

On the heels of the annual Consumer Electronics Show, the New York Times had a good read this morning about the fuzzy future of Blu-Ray. It kind of made me chuckle because The Times, much like most mainstream news outlets, didn't touch the one element of this story that really...

Tags: Video, Blu-ray, Adult Industry, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Soonr and Evernote sync documents to the cloud for iPhone access

Soonr and Evernote sync documents to the cloud for iPhone accessBe sure and get the PC and/or Mac agent!Matthew, great to see your post about us! I am with Soonr and I wanted to make sure that as you check out Soonr on your iPhone you get the desktop agent....

Tags: Real estate, Desktops, SoonR, Apple iPhone, agent

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Outsourcing email, opening communications

Outsourcing email, opening communicationsRe: ChristmasActually, Christmas isn't quite over, yet.For email on cell phone there is Funambol, tooAs per the subject, you can get your email pushed to your phones and in sync with your desktop using Funambol. Take a look at http://my.funambol.com. It works on most phones out there...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, e-mail search, e-mail, Google Gmail, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Outsourcing email, opening communications

OK, Christmas is over so put down the mince pie, fatty. It's time to get down to business, and this time I'm throwing myself in at the deep-end, in the salt-water connected to battery mains, swamped with sharks with lasers on their heads. At university, email can...

Tags: MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Mobile, Outsourcing, University Email, Google Gmail Gmail, Gmail Service, E-mail, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-05

At $99, Roku rulez with incredible future potential

Roku is a couch potato's delight, but there's so much unrealized potential. A couple of weeks ago I inquired with the folks over at Roku about their low-cost, $99, on-demand streaming content player, and asked if they could send me over an...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Roku Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-01-05