Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone. There were lots of replies to her about the benefits of Apple's Time Capsule [...]
We hear about the 'Cloud' at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways. The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]
This morning there was a neat new toy in my web arsenal. First let me set the stage for you, you see, I use a lot of Google services; from Gmail, Google Calendar and the Google Documents suite, all the way to Picasa and even Goog411. From that last sentence [...]
Apple Goes Mobile With the recent announcement by Apple that the .Mac platform is morphing into the new MobileMe system, I think I am going to make a conscious choice to work at home from now on. MobileMe is a push technology that offers your email, calendar, contacts and files [...]
I like knowing stuff. I kind of make it my job to know stuff, I mean we all do in a way, that is why people pay us, to know stuff; but I take it to the extreme. I read a lot; magazines, books, blogs, sites, whatever, just reading... My [...]
I was talking to a new friend of mine, Louis Wing from BeyondROI, recently about email marketing trends and statistics. He was a founder at a company that dealt exclusively with email marketing from the application service provider standpoint. We spoke in detail about his views on email campaigns, technology [...]
I check my Gmail all day long. It's almost like gambling for me I guess, sometimes I just hit refresh and wonder why no one emailed me... I know, I need help. But this morning I was rewarded with a nice April Fool's gag from the Gmail team at Google. [...]
Microsoft Outlook is a good application. It combines my calendar, contacts, email, notes and even tasks; all in a friendly Microsoft tool. I mean how great is that, right? In fact compared to Lotus Notes, Outlook is amazing, but Outlook could be doomed anyway. You see, Outlook is not cool. [...]
GMail on the BlackBerry Grows Up I have been using Gmail on my berry for a long time now, but it was always lacking a few things to make it a replacement for the enterprise email most of us are accustomed to: notification, contacts, and calendar sync to name a [...]