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The nice folks at Cloudflare have put a non-tracking DNS in place for free use. If you were not aware that most ISPs will sell your browsing history, for “marketing purposes”, you should be.
They make a nice, easy to use App for IOS devices.
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Leo Leporte reports that Facebook has added a new “Feature”. Automatically uploading your mobile device photos to Facebook.
That’s right, all your photos, straight to Facebook. If you were paying attention to the “user agreement”, Facebook reserves the right to use everything you load on it, including pictures, anyway they see fit.
That Facebook gets the right to use your stuff is nothing new. Been that way since just about Day One, if not before.
Here is a basic rule of the Internet you Coppertops need to understand.
If you aren’t paying for the service, you are the product.
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According to the Google blog, they have a lot of company now. I see this sort of outsourcing of a basic IT function as a win for both the students and the colleges. The students are probably already used to the interface, so less of a learning curve for them and reduced training and support costs for the campus IT staff.
It also frees up the IT staff to focus on providing new services. Then there is the plus of less people using Exchange and Outlook. I’ve supported Exchange servers and Outlook lusers. Saving other IT people from that fate is a good thing IMNSHO.
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I setup remote PC access on a family member’s computer using gotomypc, and I have to say that it really was as easy as advertised. I tested it using my laptop and was able to connect, and transfer files, right off the bat. The interface is clean and simple to use.
One thing I’ve learned in my years in high tech, making things simple is hard work.
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Urbin Technology is now on Twitter.
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Ok, it’s a little thicker, but still way cool. Tiny web server aren’t that new. I remember seeing webservers that fit in a matchbox years ago.
The fact that you can etch this board yourself and that it uses a SD card instead of eeprom is slick.
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Via slashdot comes this story about Google’s just-published application for a patent on the Water-Based Data Center. The story says that water based data centers can use wave based energy and use the water for cooling.
Interesting and certainly will play well in many circles. There are also a couple of other interesting data points about the proposal. One, having your data centers off shore, espcially if Internet commerce is involved, provides a possible tax haven.
There is also the issue of avoiding having governments demand access to your data by having it in International waters. That is until a couple of warships show up and demand access in the interest of “national security.”
Update: The Times Online caught up with this story finally. They provide some more detail, including that Google is looking at barges, not ships, to be anchored about 7 miles (11 Km) offshore. The Times is also quick to pick up on the same tax angle as I did. Being offshore means no property taxes.
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Google has come out with an open source browser. It’s called Chrome.
Of course, being the geek I am, I am writing this post using Chrome.
It’s a fairly straightforward, clean, Google like interface, based on tabs. From what I’ve read, the special sauce is under the hood, specifically the tabs.
From what I’ve read, the tabs are supposed to be fairly seperate entities. If a process goes south in one tab, it only takes out that tab, not the entire browser.
Currently only available on XP/Vista. No Mac or LINUX support.
I’ll report more about it after I have banged on it some more.
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