Comment Re:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters (Score 1) 97
you can do this already - use the "friend lists" feature within facebook
Comment Simplicity (+backup) (Score 1) 366
I try to keep stuff simple and make it a natural part of my routine (that way its gets done). Plus I try and have a backup system, just in case.
- Gmail for notes to myself and digital emphemera
- delicious for bookmarks, internet links, recipes, articles (the feed of my links is backed up via email to my gmail)
- 2x hard drives for photos & music (don 't worry about movies, since I only watch them once). Flickr also for photos.
- Dropbox for all recent documents (the type of stuff you would find in PC's "my documents" folder) - this syncs across my pc, netbook, and allows access to my documents via my phone.
- a big drawer for all hard copy receipts & documents. once a year at tax time it gets sorted and the stuff I want to keep gets put into a folder for that year.
They key is that all electronic stuff is searchable, so need to worry about tags, folder structures or databases (with the exception of folders for mp3 albums).
Everything is backed up (with the exception of hard copy stuff - too lazy to scan it)
I like the idea of evernote - but what happens if evernote goes down? Everything will be lost. That said I am a little reliant on Gmail. But if google goes down, then the internet has imploded anyway.
Comment Re:Videos vs Text (Score 2, Insightful) 240
totally agree. plus a video usually takes two minutes to tell me something I could read in 20 seconds.
Comment Re:This will never see the light of day (Score 1) 311
In an ideal world, the US would have a department which would independently assess the CEO's proposals and see if they stack up.
Comment Re:Oh and by the way (Score 1) 311
Have you been advising my wife at shoe store sales?
Submission + - TechCrunch sold to AOL for $40m (latimes.com)
Phurge writes: AOL Inc. is buying TechCrunch for as much as $40 million in a high-profile partnership that weds the struggling Internet giant trying to reclaim its former glory with one of the more influential blogs in the technology industry.
AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong joined TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington onstage Tuesday to make the announcement at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Arrington, 40, an outspoken entrepreneur who built a hobby chronicling the rise and fall of young companies into a Silicon Valley powerhouse, said San Francisco-based TechCrunch would operate as a subsidiary and retain its distinctive editorial direction.
AOL's Armstrong, who is hiring hundreds of writers to create original news content and snapping up content companies to capture more users and advertisers, said the TechCrunch purchase would give AOL "a much larger tech presence." AOL already operates Engadget, a TechCrunch competitor, which it bought in 2005.
See also: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/why-we-sold-techcrunch-to-aol-and-where-we-go-from-here/
AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong joined TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington onstage Tuesday to make the announcement at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Arrington, 40, an outspoken entrepreneur who built a hobby chronicling the rise and fall of young companies into a Silicon Valley powerhouse, said San Francisco-based TechCrunch would operate as a subsidiary and retain its distinctive editorial direction.
AOL's Armstrong, who is hiring hundreds of writers to create original news content and snapping up content companies to capture more users and advertisers, said the TechCrunch purchase would give AOL "a much larger tech presence." AOL already operates Engadget, a TechCrunch competitor, which it bought in 2005.
See also: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/why-we-sold-techcrunch-to-aol-and-where-we-go-from-here/
Submission + - Sony Ericsson preps micro display for Android (goodgearguide.com.au)
angry tapir writes: "Sony Ericsson has unveiled a remote control with a 1.3-inch screen that will allow Android smartphone users to view Facebook and Twitter updates and control their phone's music player. The LiveView connects to the phone over Bluetooth, and can also be used to see missed calls and incoming text messages, and view RSS feeds."
Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats 225
krulgar writes "On January 10, 2011, Xmarks will be closing their doors. A free service being replaced by free software. It would still be nice to have a single way to keep my bookmarks from my work machine in sync with my home machines and my mobile devices without exerting much effort. Xmarks seemed to be the only ones with that clear vision, maybe the replacement tools can grow into this space, but it's still a little sad to see a useful tool wave goodbye."
Comment Re:500% growth in e-book sales in 3 years!! (Score 1) 437
great tip!! I'll buy some of that stock too!!
Comment Re:So sad, but it's time (Score 1) 390
I'm tired of hearing crocodile tears for the steam powered "mom 'n pop" stores. As Blockbuster is being taken down by services that better provide what the customer wants, so the "mom 'n pop" stores were taken down by Blockbuster.
fair point - but there are no crocodile tears for a soulless corporate like blockbuster, in fact, there's more than a little Schadenfreude
Comment 2c on ebooks (Score 1) 437
Contrary to some other opinions around here - I have to say I love the convenience of reading ebooks on my phone. I catch the train to work and the volume of my reading has increased massively. Previously books were too bulky to slip into my suit pocket and I used to read a book once a month or so, now I'm finishing books once every couple of days.
Comment 500% growth in e-book sales in 3 years!! (Score 2, Interesting) 437
3 years ago, ebooks were less than 1%. Now they're 6%. That's a phenomenal growth rate of 500%. The ebook market is exploding!! Buy some Amazon shares now while they're cheap!!
Comment Harold Scruby is a known nut-job (Score 4, Funny) 450
I just googled "harold scruby wiki" http://www.google.com.au/search?num=100&hl=en&q=harold+scruby+wiki&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
first result I got was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanker !!!
first result I got was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanker !!!
Comment Re:Only seems to effect the USA (Score 3, Funny) 522
If you'd bothered to read the article
You must be new here...
Submission + - Gun buy back in Aust --stunning fall in suicides (smh.com.au) 6
Phurge writes: TEN years of suicide data after John Howard's decision to ban and then buy back 600,000 semi-automatic rifles and shotguns has had a stunning effect.
The buyback cut firearm suicides by 74 per cent, saving 200 lives a year, according to research to be published in The American Law and Economics Review.
A former Australian Treasury economist, Christine Neill, now with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said she found the research result so surprising she tried to redo her calculations on the off chance the total could have been smaller.
''I fully expected to find no effect at all,'' she told the Herald. ''That we found such a big effect and that it meshed with a range of other data was just shocking, completely unexpected.''
The buyback cut firearm suicides by 74 per cent, saving 200 lives a year, according to research to be published in The American Law and Economics Review.
A former Australian Treasury economist, Christine Neill, now with Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, said she found the research result so surprising she tried to redo her calculations on the off chance the total could have been smaller.
''I fully expected to find no effect at all,'' she told the Herald. ''That we found such a big effect and that it meshed with a range of other data was just shocking, completely unexpected.''
