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Sep 12

Dropbox: File Sync Across Multiple Machines

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As some of you may know I have quite a few computers that I use (at last count I had 1 x windows (desktop), 1 x windows (laptop), 1 x iMac, 1 x MacBook Pro and 1 x Asus eee running Linux). Depending on where I am I could be working on anyone of the machines at any time during the day. I quite often start working on a file on one machine before moving to another later in the day (i.e. start at work and finish at home). The hardest part of being mobile and migrating between computers like I do is making sure that each version of the file is kept upto date on all the machines. Obviously I could keep the files on a usb stick and just carry them around on that, but to be honest I don’t always remember to take my stick with me. Yesterday I posted about a free offer from File Savr a useful tool for transferring files to people. But that still relies onme remembering to upload the files before I leave. Late last night I got an email about a service I’ve been waiting to try for a while
Dropbox has been in private beta for a while now but yesterday I got an email telling me that it was open to the public.

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May 01

Open Source and Human Perception

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For a long time now I have always tended to use open source software where ever I can. I run my blog on wordpress, I use Firefox as my web browser, I use Open/Neo Office, I haven’t gone quite as far as running Linux on a PC I am using full time just yet but thats mainly because I am too lazy to set about learning another OS at the moment. One of the amazing things about the

http://www.speedy-b.com/open source movement is that for all the excellent solutions out there, the majority of mainstream IT is still done using paid for software. Be that the OS (Windows) or the other things (Microsoft Office) Continue reading »

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Feb 15

My growing collection of toys

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If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you might know that a few months back I gave into the dark side and bought myself an iMac. I’ve been playing around with, and yeah I like my Mac, I’m never gonna be one of the fanboys that rave on and on about how much better Mac OS than Windows because quite honestly I don’t think either of them are that much more oustanding than each (that’s Mac OS vs XP not vs Vista at the moment I would still take XP over Vista) Continue reading »

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