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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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Josh: josh.finkelstein@gmail.com
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Google Stepping Up Attack on MS Office.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10397215-92.html
Is a Boxee set top box coming?
http://hothardware.com/News/Boxee-SetTop-Box-Is-On-The-Way-Watch-Out-Cable-Companies
Is BING a bust? Or is 10% share a solid win?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/16/bing-10-percent-search-shar/
PICKS OF THE WEEK (software/hardware?):
Steve’s Pick: Kodak Zi8 Kodak Zi8 digital HD video recorder
- Friend bought it
- GREAT video and when combined with an external mic (it has a jack) a powerful combo.
- So nice his daughter wanted to take it–instead of a Flip that she had access to.
- Weakness? Digital zoom (always a weakness)
- small memory card comes with it, but it is SD so buy a big one!
Josh’s Pick : Connectify
- This allows you to make your Windows 7 PC into a hotspot
- The technology was originally slated to be included in the GA version of Win 7 but Microsoft scrapped it but left the code still in.. Someone finished it off
Tony’s Pick: SendOutCards.com
- Friend sent me a card using it
- I often forget to buy cards for holidays/occasions
- SOC allows you to go online and send physical cards easily.
- You can even send them your handwriting, and it becomes a font.
- Also opportunity to make $ if you choose to go that route.