Still using Dropbox and still loving it...
Linked up my Laptop and Desktop, vista 32 and 64, and everything is fine. Folders show up in explorer. Haven't worked on documents as of yet but I will.
I dragged and dropped well over 200 files from my laptop all at once and it uploaded just fine. was able to view the files on the web immediately. I'm sure with a limited closed beta, there's not much traffic so everything should work fast on the web...we'll see if that holds up once the beta goes public...
Ran into a problem with my Company's firewall and that's understandable...I can use the Web UI at work, no big deal...
That being said, there is more that can be done from the Web UI perspective as you can't delete or move files between folders, etc...Dropbox says they're going to beef up the Web UI soon so hopefully those features will be coming...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Dropbox Beta Invite!
Just got my Dropbox Beta in my email today and I can't wait to try it out! I'll blog from time to time about how it goes while I'm using it...
Gonna set it up on 3 machines. My laptop, home desktop, and work desktop...that should give me a good sense of what it can do...I'm even tempted to try to run a True Crypt file in it and see how well that works...
So far, set up was a snap and I was up and running in a few minutes...couldn't be simpler...
Impressive so far...
Gonna set it up on 3 machines. My laptop, home desktop, and work desktop...that should give me a good sense of what it can do...I'm even tempted to try to run a True Crypt file in it and see how well that works...
So far, set up was a snap and I was up and running in a few minutes...couldn't be simpler...
Impressive so far...
Twitter v FF
I like Twitter...but I love Friend Feed.
Twitter is like a 1st grade crush...Friend Feed is like your high school sweetheart.
Friend Feed is just as quick as Twitter but allows so much more in the way of media and comments...much more interactive and informative...
Yeah, it's not the prettiest or cleanest interface in the world but I imagine they'll improve on that...I'd like to see more 3rd party apps to make it better, ala twhirl, but I'm sure those will be coming soon, too...
I'm not going to stop Twittering but I can really see Friend Feed dominating in the near future...
Twitter is like a 1st grade crush...Friend Feed is like your high school sweetheart.
Friend Feed is just as quick as Twitter but allows so much more in the way of media and comments...much more interactive and informative...
Yeah, it's not the prettiest or cleanest interface in the world but I imagine they'll improve on that...I'd like to see more 3rd party apps to make it better, ala twhirl, but I'm sure those will be coming soon, too...
I'm not going to stop Twittering but I can really see Friend Feed dominating in the near future...
Friday, June 20, 2008
Shit-flix
Well, Netflix sure stepped into something brown and stinky when they announced they are eliminating separate profiles. I've never heard of a company in the day and age of social networks like Facebook, Digg, My Space, etc would decide "HEY, why don't we GO AWAY from what people like and go to something people loathe! Let's make everyone as homogeneous and vanilla as possible in the age of unique and individual...Brilliant!"
The ironic thing is that they HEAVILY advertise on Podcasts of the USERS that will be the most pissed off and most vocal as a result of this plan. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
Netflix will lose this customer on Sept 1 unless they change their mind or come up with a suitable alternative to what they're getting rid of...
The ironic thing is that they HEAVILY advertise on Podcasts of the USERS that will be the most pissed off and most vocal as a result of this plan. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
Netflix will lose this customer on Sept 1 unless they change their mind or come up with a suitable alternative to what they're getting rid of...
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Britain's Got Talent - Michael Jackson
Great clip...not usually one for these shows but this performance was off the hook...
A self-induced coma...
OK....I will be going into an information coma at around 11:00am Pacific Time in order to avoid any sniff of a Champion's League Score...I've put all my friends on notice...there will be no communication to and fro...
ManU - 2
Chelsea - 0
Ronoldo and Tevez score...
ManU - 2
Chelsea - 0
Ronoldo and Tevez score...
Monday, May 19, 2008
19-May-08: General Musings
Go ahead...call me a genius...it's true, I am...wrote the world's GREATEST blog post in the history of man last night and I forgot to save it and shut down my computer...now THAT'S genius...let me see if I can recreate it...
My Weekend: NICE. Why? No females in the house...wife at the sisters and daughter at friends houses all weekend...MAN LAND AHEAD, SIR! ALL HANDS ON DECK! Loved it...nothing but my shows and playing Crysis and GOW on the new gaming rig...and all without the disapproving looks and comments...the sister-in-law lives at the PERFECT distance...just close enough to drive to but just far enough away to be a pain to come home from!
Hoops: My Lakers put the miserable fans of the Jazz out of their, well, misery...couldn't happen to a bunch of nicer folks in Salt Lake City...absolute CRAP that they booed Fisher earlier in the year and for that, they deserve another season without a title and the tax exemption status revoked on the Mormon Church...that or the entire Tabernacle Choir should get a case of laryngitis for about 5 years...
Football(Soccer): Play up Pompey! Well, it took a run of playing nothing but crap English teams and a luck win against ManU along the way, but Portsmouth won the FA Cup for the first time in 70+ years...Fratton Park will have European Football next year...nice one...but the REAL biggie is on Wednesday...ManU v Chelsea...I still like ManU...2-0
Youth Soccer: Wanna get a real life education on politics without spending a small fortune on college? Put your kid in Youth PREMIER Sports...nothing more political that that! And I'm talking on a team, club, and state level! I'm ready to run for congress after being involved in Youth Soccer for 5 years...
Computer: Not much new here...Reinstalled my nvidia drivers cause Crysis kept crashing..solved the problem...but no thanks to the forums I sifted through...I read all kinds of shitty advice that if I had listened to them, I would have a brand new system as the "solution"...no, not really. Just need to reinstall the driver....problem solved...free of charge and took no time...so once that was solved, gamed like crazy for 2 nights...nothing wrong with that.
OH! Also got around to watching the Costas Now show where he goes into Sports and the Media...I generally like Costas and he's entertaining but that show was 90 minutes of gar-bauge...I mean he's always gone on and on with talk radio and tv but his hatchet job on Sports Blogs was pure doo-doo...talk about someone who just doesn't get it...besides the lunatic rantings of Buzz Bissinger in the segment, sounding somewhere in between a drunk dock worker and a lobotomized crack addict, Costas was so one sided in his hate of blogging, it was laughable. But when he read the COMMENTS from a blog post as an example of how horrible blogs are, I about fell off my chair! The comments? Really? That's why sports blogs suck? Talk about "NOT GETTING IT"...How about we trash the NY Times or Washington Post due to the quality of the "Letters to the Editor"?
The segment on Race was the most interesting segment. Wilbon and Whitlock were amazing...
The most entertaining segment by a MILE was the TV and Sports segment where Joe Buck said he would like to be referred to by his on-line name of "Ballz_Deep" and Dan Patrick soliciting work to get back on TV!
But Costas' tone was so one sided throughout the show, it was painful to listen to. Tone of the questions, his emotions when in his face when he would ask them, and his almost sickening nostalgia and love for newspaper writers was just too much. He acted like the sleaze and hype of sports was INVENTED in the last 15 years with ESPN and most recently, blogging. NONSENSE...can anyone question the venom that was spewed at Roger Marris when he chased 61? How about the treatment of Ali when he refused the draft?
Blogs are no different than print in that you can find blogs that are all commentary and you can find blogs that are all news...but to paint all blogs or blogging as a cauldron of hate and filth would be like saying all print is filth because Juggs magazine is printed on paper, therefore we should question all media printed on paper. At SOME POINT, there has to be common sense brought into the equation, yes?
That's it...go home
My Weekend: NICE. Why? No females in the house...wife at the sisters and daughter at friends houses all weekend...MAN LAND AHEAD, SIR! ALL HANDS ON DECK! Loved it...nothing but my shows and playing Crysis and GOW on the new gaming rig...and all without the disapproving looks and comments...the sister-in-law lives at the PERFECT distance...just close enough to drive to but just far enough away to be a pain to come home from!
Hoops: My Lakers put the miserable fans of the Jazz out of their, well, misery...couldn't happen to a bunch of nicer folks in Salt Lake City...absolute CRAP that they booed Fisher earlier in the year and for that, they deserve another season without a title and the tax exemption status revoked on the Mormon Church...that or the entire Tabernacle Choir should get a case of laryngitis for about 5 years...
Football(Soccer): Play up Pompey! Well, it took a run of playing nothing but crap English teams and a luck win against ManU along the way, but Portsmouth won the FA Cup for the first time in 70+ years...Fratton Park will have European Football next year...nice one...but the REAL biggie is on Wednesday...ManU v Chelsea...I still like ManU...2-0
Youth Soccer: Wanna get a real life education on politics without spending a small fortune on college? Put your kid in Youth PREMIER Sports...nothing more political that that! And I'm talking on a team, club, and state level! I'm ready to run for congress after being involved in Youth Soccer for 5 years...
Computer: Not much new here...Reinstalled my nvidia drivers cause Crysis kept crashing..solved the problem...but no thanks to the forums I sifted through...I read all kinds of shitty advice that if I had listened to them, I would have a brand new system as the "solution"...no, not really. Just need to reinstall the driver....problem solved...free of charge and took no time...so once that was solved, gamed like crazy for 2 nights...nothing wrong with that.
TV: Got mostly caught up on Earl, Office, and 30 Rock...Got to the Season Finale of 30 Rock...amazing writing and a hell of a cast...Not yet made it to the last Earl and Office shows...still on the DVR...
OH! Also got around to watching the Costas Now show where he goes into Sports and the Media...I generally like Costas and he's entertaining but that show was 90 minutes of gar-bauge...I mean he's always gone on and on with talk radio and tv but his hatchet job on Sports Blogs was pure doo-doo...talk about someone who just doesn't get it...besides the lunatic rantings of Buzz Bissinger in the segment, sounding somewhere in between a drunk dock worker and a lobotomized crack addict, Costas was so one sided in his hate of blogging, it was laughable. But when he read the COMMENTS from a blog post as an example of how horrible blogs are, I about fell off my chair! The comments? Really? That's why sports blogs suck? Talk about "NOT GETTING IT"...How about we trash the NY Times or Washington Post due to the quality of the "Letters to the Editor"?
The segment on Race was the most interesting segment. Wilbon and Whitlock were amazing...
The most entertaining segment by a MILE was the TV and Sports segment where Joe Buck said he would like to be referred to by his on-line name of "Ballz_Deep" and Dan Patrick soliciting work to get back on TV!
But Costas' tone was so one sided throughout the show, it was painful to listen to. Tone of the questions, his emotions when in his face when he would ask them, and his almost sickening nostalgia and love for newspaper writers was just too much. He acted like the sleaze and hype of sports was INVENTED in the last 15 years with ESPN and most recently, blogging. NONSENSE...can anyone question the venom that was spewed at Roger Marris when he chased 61? How about the treatment of Ali when he refused the draft?
Blogs are no different than print in that you can find blogs that are all commentary and you can find blogs that are all news...but to paint all blogs or blogging as a cauldron of hate and filth would be like saying all print is filth because Juggs magazine is printed on paper, therefore we should question all media printed on paper. At SOME POINT, there has to be common sense brought into the equation, yes?
That's it...go home
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