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The Coca Cola Freestyle Jet : Amazing high-tech vending machine.

Photography: How to pick a camera.

• How do you want to use the camera? Snap shots? Quick “snaps?” or more professional? Sports? (indoor/night?)
• How much control do you want to have?
• Pay no attention to “gimmicks” like the “smile finder” features. Bah, we can do that!
• Shopping tip:
• Decide what category/type camera you want.
• Take your own memory card into the store
• Put your card each of the cameras you are considering.
• Take a series of pictures (close up, zoom across the store, people pictures) with each camera.
• Take the pictures home, and using your favorite photo viewer (I recommend Picasa) decide which pictures have the best clarity resolution and color balance.
• Look at the EXIF information for the photos you like, and see which camera(s) those were.
• THAT is your decision: The best camera for YOU
• Be sure to visit DPReview.com for additional information about the cameras you are interested in.

Back-up (online/offsite) solutions

Five best online backup tools.

• Carbonite – www.carbonite.com
• $55 per year per computer
• No Scheduling

• CrashPlan Central – www.crashplan.com ** Josh’s Pick
• $54 per year for 1 computer or $100 for all your computers
• Multiple Destinations – Online, Local to a NAS or similar or Peer to Peer (store at a friend encrypted)
• Seeding the initial backup : http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/feature/seed_service?redirect=1
• No Multiple Back up sets

• Jungle Disk – www.jungledisk.com
• $2 per months plus 15 cents per gb for storage
• Ability to select individual files and folders, multiple backup sets, can mount volumes

• Mozy Home – www.mozy.com
• More expensive if you have more than one computer, they don’t support network drives
• $60 per year per computer
• Nice initial backup set selections.
• Fine grained control

• DropBox – www.dropbox.com
• Free up to 2GB
• Ability to create public links for files
• Too easily to delete all your files
• 50GB for $120 a year , doesn’t seem to be any price between 2GB and 50GB

Our Picks:

Steve: Yubico key A really cool way of logging on securely to your websites and other things that require passwords.

Josh: Input Director A Keyboard and Video over IP program. 

Tony: Accu dial: automatically dial into conference calls and entire your conference code with one touch.

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Steve: scmprofessor@gmail.com twitter.com/scmprofessor

Josh: josh.finkelstein@gmail.com

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