Thursday, September 6, 2012

Is it Bad to Shutdown My Computer Regularly or Leave It On All the Time?

Shutting Down Regularly
Is it Bad to Shutdown My Computer Regularly or Leave It On All the Time?Shutting down regularly is the practical option, but it's not without its downsides. Let's take a look at the pros, cons, and what you can do to remedy the disadvantages.

Pros

  • Lower energy costs - Computers can draw a large amount of power, especially if you're running a high-end desktop. Shutting your machine down when it isn't in use will prevent excessive and unnecessary use of power, wasting less energy and saving you money on your electric bill.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

RightInbox Adds Reminders to Gmail and Notifies You When Email You Sent Is Read

Firefox/Chrome: RightInbox is an awesome tool for boosting Gmail's capabilities. The extension when it first launched was designed to schedule email for sending later, but RightInbox since then has added even more useful features: email tracking, link click tracking, and email reminders.
Once you connect the add-on to your Gmail account, you'll find new buttons in Gmail for scheduling an email to be sent later, tracking an email you compose, and adding reminders to an email.

Install Mountain Lion on As Many Macs As You Want Without Purchasing Additional Copies

One of the upsides of OS X Mountain Lion's already low purchase price of $20 is that one copy can be re-downloaded and installed on any other Macs that you own for free. The downside, of course, is that if another Mac in the household doesn't share the same Apple ID as you, the buyer, you have to get another copy. As it turns out, there's a very simple solution so you can just reinstall from the same copy as many times as you need to.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth

Facebook File Sharing

Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like Dropbox, iCloud, and Google Drive. Music and any copyright files aren’t allowed and file size is capped at 25mb, as Mashable first reported. But this is just the first version, and you can be sure Facebook will keep hacking away at it.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Samsung Galaxy S III owners to get 50GB of free Dropbox storage

10HTC One customers aren't the only people getting free Dropbox space to sweeten their smartphone purchase. Samsung has announced that anyone who buys and registers a Galaxy S III will have their Dropbox accounts expanded to 50GB for two years.


We're not sure whether buyers will see any special deals after that, but it's a good offer at least for the length of the standard smartphone contract.
What does make this slightly odd is that with Google Drive out, one of the best-known new Android phones is essentially coming bundled with a competitor's service. If the free storage trend keeps up, we'll have to see if Dropbox continues to be the tool of choice.

Source: theverge

Samsung Reveals Galaxy S III




We’ve been hearing the rumors for months, and now Samsung has gotten official with the newest member of its Galaxy line of smartphones, the Galaxy S III.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Amazon rolls out nifty Cloud Drive desktop apps for Windows and Mac


Amazon is making its Cloud Drive service, which is primarily for storing media and document files that live on your hard drive, easier to use.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Otixo Is a Convenient File Manager for Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, and All Your Other Cloud Services

If you're using more than one cloud storage service (hard not to, with all the free space being thrown around), managing your files between them can be tricky. Otixo gives you a centralized view of all your online files for easy copying and pasting between accounts from the web interface or through a mapped drive on your desktop. Otixo currently connects to Dropbox, Google Docs, Box, SkyDrive, SugarSync, Picasa, MobileMe, and Amazon S3. You can also add your own FTP or WebDav servers to connect to. Otixo doesn't store your files on its servers or save your login credentials—in most cases, that is (the SugarSync API seems to work differently than Dropbox, Google, and SkyDrive, but you can choose not to have your password saved in the service).
Once you connect your accounts, you've got an Explorer- or Finder-like view of all your files and can drag-and-drop them at will, as well as rename files, download to disk, share, and, for PDFs and images, preview the files online.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Drag-and-Drop To Automatically Encrypt Files in Google Drive Using Automator on Mac

OS X: Google Drive is finally here, promising awesome Dropbox-like online storage and file syncing, but also the same security and privacy caveats that come with storing information on cloud servers. Macworld offers this handy file encryption tool that works with Google Drive for drag-and-drop encrypting on your desktop.


Saturday, April 28, 2012

Google Drive Launches - For Real!


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After weeks of speculation, Google Drive launched today. As if trying to quell the disbelievers, Google's announcement blog post read "...yes, really" in the title. The long-rumored "cloud" based storage officially launched this afternoon, touting the ability to keep all your stuff in one place.