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Comment Re:Ok, uhmmmm duh? (Score 1) 95

by NealokNYU on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @02:45PM (#22932988) Attached to: Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live

As long as you actually enter all calendar data on Google Calendar, this is a top-notch solution, thanks to Google's support for ICS. My iCal, Outlook, my Verizon phone (using Verizon Wireless Access by Intellisync), and Lightning* all check the Google homebase for calendar updates. Depending on the service, the clients go haywire when I try to update calendars from the non-Google application, but it's pretty amazing that my calendar gets pushed to a bunch of devices, such that any one of them can be my calendar, to say nothing of any internet-enabled terminal. Gotta love 2008!

Now, if we could just stop raping the planet, technology would be so super-rad!

Journal Journal: Tool to sync up bookmarks/etc across multiple machines 6

Journal by nizo on Thursday February 15, 2007 @01:20PM

This looks to be the best thing ever for tracking my bookmarks across multiple machines (firefox only, though I think there is an exploder version too):
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/

It can also sync cookies, history, passwords, etc. Pretty nifty.

Submission + - Has open-source lost its halo?

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @12:49PM

PetManimal writes: "Open-source software development once had a reputation as a grassroots movement, but it is increasingly a mainstream IT profit center, and according to Computerworld, some in the industry are asking whether "open source" has become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior. Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., the article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in the open-source community. The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials:

[InfoWorld columnist Dave] Rosenberg is more disturbed by the bandwagon jumpers: the companies, mostly startups, belatedly going open-source in order to "ride a trend," while paying only lip service to the community and its values. Take Aras Corp., a provider of Windows-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that in January decided to go open-source. Rosenberg depicted the firm in his blog as an opportunistic Johnny-Come-Lately. "I'm not impressed when a company whose software is totally built on Microsoft technologies goes open-source," said Rosenberg, who even suspects that the company is being promoted by Microsoft "as a shill" to burnish Redmond's image in open-source circles.
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