Tag Archives: Google
Google Chromebooks–nowhere…
There has been some focus on Google’s failures of last year and they included the Google Chromebook in that. I am not going to argue that they are wrong – they are very right. The Chromebooks are not capturing the public imagination and are making their way into the niche arenas of people who have [...]
Full Featured Laptops or Cloudbook
There are a lot of different and new machines out there for the Chromebook to compete with in the portable/ultralight arena. Considering the high price of these machines though, they are certainly priced out of the market in which they would be ideal – the below £200 market. In the £350 to £400 market, they [...]
Most Useless 25GB Online Storage Gets Useful
Cloud is the key word on the Internet these days. Everyone gets excited about Google, Amazon and Apple for what they give you for quite small amounts of money. However there is something smaller – free. Who gives Cloud for free? Well Microsoft does, as they offer 25GB of storage with SkyDrive. So why are [...]
Perfect Traveller Mobile
After a poor discussion with mobile phone operator regarding upgrades to iPhone4 (no I will not pay £290 AND a 2 year contract for an upgrade), I decided to go elsewhere for a new mobile phone. I had to get a new one primarily because my iPhone3′s battery life was degrading at such a rate [...]
Modern Times in Email
Virgin Media is drawing attention to an anachronism of today’s world – the restrictions in files sizes in emails. UK ISP Virgin Media Business has revealed that 69% of office workers cannot send or receive emails larger than 10MB MegaBytes in size, which rises to 89% for messages larger than 15MB. These restrictions mean that [...]
The Answer to Secure Mobile Computing?
Well Google spilled the beans on their Google ChromeOS NOTEBOOK (interesting that they do not call them netbooks, but then at 12.1inches it is certainly more light notebook than netbook. Here is the promo video. It certainly has some very interesting features such as full encrypted file system, full separation between customer accounts, single sign [...]
Web Workflow
A long important requirement for me has been the ability to have the perfect web working environment on whatever machine I happen to be using – the netbook, the ultralight laptop and the clunky desktop replacement at home. I have long been using Mozilla Firefox with initially Google Bookmarks, but have since moved on to [...]
Experiments with Social Networking
Visitors to the site will notice that an awkward little widget has appeared just off to the left. This is part of the Google Friend Connect system which allows you to login and show your membership of this site, pretty much in the same way as the MyBlogLog service operates. It seems to offer so [...]
News Clipping Service
Recently I was contacted by a company who wanted to sell me access to a news clipping service. I have no idea why or how they selected me, but they did the hard sell and in response to my rejections threw a free trial at me and they promised to call me after a week [...]
Google Alerts: Tracking Reputation and Events
The Internet is a big place and there are times when you want to know about something as quickly as it has happened. This can be news about a specific company, a person or a technology. You want to know everything as it happens. How can you do that? Well apart from scouring the Internet [...]