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Dropbox Invites!

March 13th, 2008
168 Comments Written by Ryan

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One of our faithful readers, Alex, noticed our underlying plea for an invite to the Dropbox service that we wrote about earlier today. While Dropbox has no formal way to invite a friend they do let you share a folder with others, and if they don't have an account it will let them create one on-the-spot. So Alex shared a folder with us, and we were able to get an account!

Now we want

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Google Blogoscoped noticed that there was a presentation given by Google at KMWorld the other day, and while there they gave an inside look at some of the tools they use internally to stay productive. There's really no need to to say that a lot of what they had to show were their own products, such as Google Docs, Calendar, and Gmail, but they also showed off some things that aren't available to

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Guitar Hero Involved in Patent Dispute

March 13th, 2008
8 Comments Written by Ashley

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One topic that surprisingly hasn't been mentioned on CyberNet yet is Guitar Hero. There has been such a craze over the multi-platform game that it's hard to believe it's never come up! Not even once! So today's the day that Guitar Hero is mentioned but unfortunately, it's because the publishers of the popular game have found themselves involved in a

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Use Dropbox to Sync Your Files, Soon!

March 13th, 2008
5 Comments Written by Ashley

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Yesterday in the CyberNet Forum, Max mentioned a site that he recently saw which looked awesome called Dropbox.  We checked it out and sure enough, it is pretty awesome and I think you'll agree. It's currently in the private beta stage so you'll need an invitation to check it out, but they've got a video posted that does all of

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About the Downtime…

March 13th, 2008
2 Comments Written by Ryan

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Some of you may have noticed that we were down for about the last hour and a half. No, our server didn't crash. In fact it still hasn't been rebooted in 245 days. Without getting into too many details we'll just say that the hamster fell asleep at the wheel.

Actually our host's upstream provider was having some complications, and this is

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DeskScapes 2.0 Preview Now Available

March 13th, 2008
5 Comments Written by Ryan

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Stardock has started to deliver the DeskScapes 2.0 Preview yesterday to anyone that wants to give it a whirl. Previously DeskScapes was a way for Vista Ultimate users to extend the functionality of Dreamscene, but now it works on any version of Vista without needing Dreamscene. It's a great way to have an animated desktop background on your Vista machine, oh, and did I say that it's free?

DeskScapes 2.0 Preview is shipping

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HD DVD Causes Toshiba a $1 Billion Dollar Loss

March 13th, 2008
6 Comments Written by Ashley

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Toshiba has had a rough year as they've watched HD DVD rather quickly fall to the bottom and eventually get discontinued. February 9th was the day that they made the official announcement that they were going to stop development, manufacturing, and marketing of HD DVD players and recorders. It's been about a month and now we're learning what kind

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