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Archive for May 1st, 2007


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Recently, a new content sharing service called Egnyte launched their public beta, and their file management system is great for personal or business use.

To use Egnyte, you’ll have to install an uploader first.  What’s nice about this is that it supports both Windows and Macs.  From there, you can select the folders (activate) on your computer that you will want to upload to your Egnyte workspace.

Anything that you upload is tagged so that it makes for

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I don’t think that anyone likes to hear about security-related bugs because they can get you all worked up. This new bug, however, is the very critical one found by Dino Dai Zovi at the recent Mac Hacking contest. It affects almost anyone that has QuickTime installed, on both Mac OS X and Windows, which is just about everyone with an iPod.

Secunia tracks vulnerabilities very closely, and according to

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The time has finally come for Joost to open its doors, well, kind of. The video sharing service is still in the Beta stage, but they have made the effort to launch their service and give all current users unlimited invites. So you still have to pester your cousin’s aunt’s nephew’s uncle to send you one of the invites!

We were pretty excited because we thought that we could

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The whole idea behind Google Earth is pretty amazing. The entire world is at your fingertips.  It originally started as a project called Earth Viewer and was developed by a company called Keyhole.  Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, and from there it became Google Earth.

I’m sure you’re aware by now that Google Earth is really a patchwork of images from a wide variety of sources. One way in particular that

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I don’t think anyone was really surprised when Dell and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) announced the choice of Linux distribution to ship on Dell computers later in May will be Ubuntu 7.04. It’s got to have one of the largest Linux communities and is updated every 6–months, so in my mind this was a no brainer. Then when we saw that Michael Dell started using Ubuntu

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Last night, Google announced that they have branded the Personalized Homepage as iGoogle. This shorthand has been used around the Googleplex for a while now. It’s definitely much easier to refer to it as iGoogle versus Google Personalized Homepage.

A little bit of history on the personalized homepage (source):

When the idea originally came up to have a personalized homepage, the original mockup showed the iGoogle logo back in 2004.  The URL

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Time Saving Tuesday

We have raved about the free PhraseExpress software before, and we are going to do it again! They recently released version 4 of their application, and the enhancements it has will make you so much more productive that you’ll be wondering how you got by without using it!

The concept behind PhraseExpress is extremely simple: you type some text in an application and PhraseExpress will

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