Last evening I was once again confronted with a friend’s request for a recommendation for an external hard drive. The question is a recurring event for me since my friends all know me as a Tek guy! I think my friend was a bit surprised when I told him my recommendation was to not buy another hard drive! After a bit of a pause he said, “but I am out of disk space and I need more room to store my pictures and music.” That is when I asked him if he was going to buy 2 hard drives?
“2 hard drives, I thought you just told me to not buy a another hard drive”, exclaimed my friend! Money talks and now I had my friends attention. After a brief round of questions about the value of his photographs, music, and other digital items that warranted saving on a hard drive, the reason for the 2nd hard drive was a little more obvious.
I am sure everyone has experienced the most recent round of Adobe Reader 8.x updates. Wow what a huge program! Check your install folder location and join me in shaking your head at the offensively large space footprint Adobe is taking with the release of the 8.0 reader. Of course Adobe reader has never been small but it is now starting to verge on being ridiculous.
Most of us simply need to read a PDF file every so often and Adobe 8 should not own a huge chunk of disk space simply for that occasional PDF read. Check out the FREE reader offered by CADKAS.com. Less than 1MG of total footprint impact on your hard drive. Size does matter and small is “big” when it comes to technology.
While most of the world knows Google because of their extremely powerful search engine, few people know that Google is an application company too. Given the enormous development resources as well as financial resources available to Google, it should come as no surprise that Google has been developing a host of Internet delivered web-based applications. What is a surprise is just how good those applications are and better still, how inexpensively Google has priced their applications. (A site change has been made and now there is an entire section devoted to Google Apps. Please find the full original article at this link!
If you are like any normal technology enabled person, you have a zillion passwords to remember. OK, maybe not a zillion but just a few short of a zillion. Luckily the ingenious folks at www.passpack.com have created a solution for anyone who has more than one password to remember: They have created a web based online password manager that allows one to store their passwords in an incredibly secure password manager application. Their web based password manager is military like in its secure management of passwords as well as note information about any particular password one is storing in their application. For full details of what is being offered through www.passpack.com read on! Read the rest of this entry »
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